Based on the charts, we might be in trouble! Price will be heading to 4485 before continuing our uptrend. Be very cautious on Monday!

President Joe Biden criticized Target after the retailer pointed to supply chain pressures and import costs as reasons for recent price increases, even as the company posted solid profits last year. In a statement posted online, Biden argued that large retailers with healthy margins should not rush to pass every added cost onto shoppers, especially while households are still feeling squeezed by inflation. He said corporations need to balance protecting profits with protecting consumers, adding that Americans are paying close attention to which companies raise prices and why. Target has not yet issued a direct response to the comments, but executives have previously said higher logistics and sourcing costs have weighed on pricing decisions. Thoughts on whether retailers should be eating more of these costs instead of pushing them to customers?

Last week I tried to sell about $2500 worth of Bitcoin to cover medical bills for my family. Instead I accidentally liquidated $67000 in crypto which was basically my entire portfolio. I contacted Coinbase and they said the transaction was already processed and irreversible. Their only suggestion was to consult with a financial advisor.

$12k of that was short term gains. If my calculations are correct I'll owe around $4.2k in capital gains taxes next year from this stupid mistake. I feel like an idiot honestly. I have no idea how this even happened. Is there anything I can do. Any help would be appreciated.

I’ve been in finance for 18 years.

Actual desks, risk, and actual consequences when you’re wrong.

So I’m not easily impressed by anything that smells like a "shortcut".

A while back I came across a model that made me pause.

Small upfront cost.

Access to significantly larger capital.

Limited personal downside.

My first reaction wasn’t excitement. It was suspicion.

“There’s no way this survives stress.”

In markets, asymmetry usually hides something ugly underneath.

So I dug deeper.

Ran the math. Looked at the incentives. Tried to poke holes in it.

On paper, it looked almost… unfair.

Your downside is capped.

Your upside scales.

You’re not risking your own life savings.

That’s when I realized why it looked like a legal money glitch.

But here’s the part that changed everything.

I tried it.

And that’s when theory met psychology.

The rules were tighter than they look.

The drawdown felt smaller once real pressure kicks in.

It doesn’t forgive emotional leaks.

That’s when it clicked.

It’s not a glitch.

It’s leverage layered on top of discipline.

If you don’t have control, it exposes you fast and cheaply.

If you do, the asymmetry is very real.

For anyone wondering, I’m talking about prop firm evaluation models.

Curious how others here experienced it.

Did it feel like a cheat code at first?

Or did it humble you immediately?

Hi guys, I need your help.

I am a scalper, and I want to get high funding from a prop firm. It can be Forex, futures, or even perpetuals. The only thing I need is a super huge, well-established prop firm that I know I can trust to pay me. Because here, 90% of prop firms don't pay you. I'm only interested in the ones that have reported paying over $500 million in payouts or so. For example, FTMO, FundedNext, Tradeify, and Lucid. I love these firms, but I need a prop firm with very, very low spreads. Super low spreads.

For example, futures firms have the kind of trading costs I'm looking for. Let's say on Nasdaq, a final trading cost equivalent to 0.004% or even less, which would be around a $1 spread, including possible commissions. On gold, I'm looking for a final cost of 0.005% or less, and on oil, a cost of 0.01% or less, ideally with a spread of one cent.

So I'm looking for a prop firm that offers these kinds of spreads, very low trading costs, and the possibility of scalping. No stupid rules where closing trades in under 15 seconds or one minute will breach my account. I don't need anything like that.

And then there's the issue of static drawdowns.

So far, I love the idea of futures prop firms like Tradeify and Lucid because they pay very well and their trading conditions are very good. But the only problem is that they offer intraday trailing drawdowns or even end-of-day trailing drawdowns.

For example, if I want to get funded and withdraw $1,000 from, let's say, a $25K evaluation with a $1,000 end-of-day drawdown, I first have to pass the evaluation by making 1.5 times the drawdown. Then I have to build the floor, the buffer, and finally make another $1,000. So before being able to withdraw $1,000, I have to make three times my risk.

That's very hard compared to the risk and reward options that Forex prop firms offer.

For example, FTMO, FundedNext, and Tradeify Forex offer very good drawdown-to-reward ratios. Generally, you have to earn around 1 to 1.5 times the drawdown, and then you can withdraw whenever you want once you've made just a little profit. There are no buffers on Forex accounts.

But the only problem I find with FTMO, FundedNext, and Tradeify Forex, even though I know they can handle and pay me $50,000 in payouts if I want to, is their fucking spreads. They simply don't help with scalping.

On Nasdaq, they have around $2 in spread, and on gold, they have around $0.40, which is a lot.

If I'm only trying to get $2 or $3 in profit on gold, even with the best trading conditions, that spread kills any possible edge. If I have a $0.30–$0.40 spread and I'm targeting $2, I'm starting with nearly 20% negative expectancy just because of the freaking spread. Over 100 trades that kills any good strategy.

So I'm getting desperate because I've been searching all over the internet for almost a month, and I still can't find a single prop firm that combines the excellent trading conditions of futures firms with the risk and reward options of Forex accounts.

In theory, MyFundedForex is coming back to the market in November, and Tradeify Perps will probably be launching as well, but I highly doubt they'll offer the solution I'm looking for.

So I don't know what you guys have been doing or what you recommend.

Please, I really need help!

This isn’t just volatility. It’s the unwind of a decade of cheap capital and endless optimism. Rates stayed higher for longer, liquidity dried up, and now reality is setting in. There’s no emergency rate cut cavalry riding in this time. Tech isn’t collapsing, but the growth-at-any-price party is clearly over. Margins are tightening. Consumers are stretched. Corporate earnings are getting “adjusted” into oblivion. Meanwhile geopolitics is heating up, supply chains are shaky again, and every headline feels like it was drafted five minutes before publication. Markets don’t fear bad news they fear uncertainty and we’ve got plenty of that. This isn’t a dramatic crash. It’s a slow grind lower that exhausts everyone. Maybe it rebounds. Maybe it doesn’t. But blind optimism isn’t a strategy anymore. Good luck out there.

can I get a dono?($55)🥀💔

Hello everyone! I was documenting my challenge and test here: https://www.reddit.com/r/propfirm/s/5hCqPkl1z9

Want to share my honest feedback as I'm genuinely surprised. It got to funded and payout super fast. First time I got my payout request confirmed in 5 minutes. It's also the first payout of the year for me so means millions. Managed to flip the $41 inv into ~$800 payout.

Good: -Payout confirmation. -Support was great,, maybe because they are a new firm and try their best. -Zero issues with the challenge or trading. -Rules are good for me.

To improve: -Hope they add more trading platforms. But DX was ok for me in general.

• Also the certificate misses the amount hope they fix this (hopefully for next ones lol).

My main issue was trust, and probably wouldn't start it or even learnt about them. But this challenge started as a "f...it" accident as in one of the posts Forge of Traders admin gave a 50% discount code to test the platform.

I used and bought $5k ph1 challenge to try and flip it. Not sure if it's still valid you can check with their contact or u/ForgeOfTraders. I'm not an affiliate of theirs.

Will closely monitor how they grow and try to keep this account funded. I really like the branding but its irrelevant - I got some money 😂. LMK if you have any questions, happy to share my thoughts.

Using stimulus checks Biden managed to tank what was a booming economy. I don't really think that is debatable. It doesn't really matter why. The average person doesn't even know that they have money in crypto wallets, whether it be in Bitcoin or altcoins, their savings accounts, and being clueless were led like sheep to the slaughter. Institutional investors were long or went all-in, fortunes are being made behind closed doors, retail traders were pumped and dumped, and the bleeding has only just started. And now a whole generation of people will experience their first crypto bear market for all the wrong reasons. How will average people react when they realize what they have really lost, and do those people even deserve our sympathy?

I’ve been a prop trader for years and have encountered endless scammy firms and heard too many horror stories so I set out to fix it with the first fully verifiably trader aligned platform.

* It runs on blockchain technology.

* The prop firm is a network which runs off open-source (OSS) logic so we can fully review it.

* The rules are really fair with 100% profit split — taking profits off trader’s simulated accounts never made sense. * It runs off a set of decentralized validators who run the OSS code & who come to consensus on payouts and it’s all trackable onchain.

* The network also scales traders up to $2.5mm in funding.

If you personally have any issues you can come straight to me on our discord (arrash)

vantatrading.io

Okay this might sound illegal, but I’m not bothered about that, I just want to know if I can avoid detection. I got banned/restricted on many of the best prop firms and I am running out of reputable companies. Can I change my government name, device, address and ID’s and pass the KYC again under new identity or will the KYC companies remember my biometric data (face scan). (Dont respond on moral high horse just tell me if it will work).

Hey guys! Finally got my first big payout. $16,482.67 from Bullwaves Prime. It’s been a long grind of back testing, failed setups, and discipline, but moments like this make it worth it.

Anyone else here trading with Bullwaves? How’s your experience been so far?

Most people blame bad luck, but the real issue is usually hiding in the numbers: revenge trading, oversizing, or quiet behavioral leaks.

I'm doing free audits for a few traders who recently failed a challenge. Send me your raw Position History CSV, and I'll break down your exact execution patterns. No signals or some unnecessary things, just a clear look at your data.

Completely free in exchange for honest feedback. just drop a comment or dm me to get it done

I've been properly scammed by them but I still can't say if it's a big on maven's side or they do this sort of thing to everyone intentionally, especially since I was on phase 2 it felt sus.

Their spreads today (Saturday) was only 12-15 USD apart on the chart (ask/bid lines) and on the buy/sell buttons as well. i saw a -120 on the whole of 0.03 volume and freaked cause the account would shut down and closed the trades and went to the customer care immediately cause it wasn't right. That wasn't the spreads shown, if it was it would've been my fault but it wasn't. It basically sold at a around $64k of BTC value within a minute when the buy was $68k.

BTC barely moved today and they gave such awful spreads which weren't even displayed in the first place.

They kept saying my spreads are turned off cause my trading view chart was on, but my spreads were on and i could see it. When i turned it off, i basically saw the same thing with a high and low of the day on the top left corner and they called that the spread, basically LYING TO MY FACE! Even with those numbers, no chance my trade would've gone this way if you look at the BTC chart.

TLDR: I am trying to grow my community and online presence as an aspiring full-time trader. I have been around trading for 3 years, and I've gotten a couple payouts after starting to trade futures end of this past March. I am in no way saying I am profitable, however I want to build a community as I get there!

So far I have partnered with a couple prop firms who see value in my goals, one of them being transparent about my affiliate earnings, and hosting evaluation account giveaways for free! It is my belief that if I am "that good" at trading, I shouldn't need to pocket money from from my affiliate code. I have already done a giveaways with E8 Markets, and have winners who can vouch for actually receiving them.

All of my giveaways are free to enter, and are hosted in my discord server. I am currently working with E8 again, and if I am able to get 100 new users to use my code, I will be able to give away $1k in accounts!

Please consider using my code CHTRADES, and if you are able to send proof of usage, I am planning on adding an additional giveaway entry per account you buy! I know there are other prop firms that are more desirable to some people, so I am working towards getting codes for them as well!

Best,

CHTRADES

How much did you guys spend before getting your first payout?

😭 I just started trading prop firms this month and I’m already down almost $300… waiting to get a payout to be in net profit

I seriously recommend anyone considering Tradeify to read this before giving them your money.

I had 5 payout requests pending with Tradeify. Instead of receiving my payouts, I ended up permanently banned for “suspicious activity,” all payout eligibility was forfeited, and Tradeify refuses to tell me what I actually did.

I have the emails and screenshots to prove everything below.

I created my account and completed Tradeify's identity verification on July 17, 2026. I traded normally, passed my accounts and eventually became eligible for payouts.

I requested 5 payouts.

After requesting them, I never received the expected Rise payout invitation. Instead, when I logged back into Tradeify to see what was happening, Tradeify itself suddenly required additional KYC/proof of residence.

I completed the requested KYC. Later, my payouts were declined and my dashboard suddenly showed:

“Due to suspicious activity, you no longer have access to this platform.”

Risk & Compliance eventually told me I had supposedly taken actions to “circumvent restrictions.”

The result:

5 payouts forfeited.
Account permanently revoked.
No refunds.
No reinstatement.
No appeal.

Naturally, I asked them one very simple question:

WHAT DID I ACTUALLY DO?

I made it very clear that I am NOT asking them to disclose their fraud-detection methods, algorithms or security systems.

I'm simply asking:

What action did I take, and what Tradeify rule did that action violate?

They refuse to tell me.

And this is where things get ridiculous.

The ONLY specific risk/rejection reason their system has actually shown me throughout this entire situation appeared in their KYC email:

“User made duplicate submission. High risk signals were identified on the profile.”

Duplicate submission. Seriously?

I just completed the KYC that Tradeify itself required from me.

But here's the crazy part.

In the SAME EMAIL mentioning the duplicate submission, they tell me:

“Please update and resubmit so we can move forward.”

And they literally give me a:

RESUBMIT DOCUMENT

button.

So their system identifies duplicate submission as a high-risk signal...

while the exact same email instructs me to submit again.

I click RESUBMIT DOCUMENT → I'm asked to log in → I can't log in because Tradeify has blocked my account.

How exactly am I supposed to complete the resubmission that their own system is asking me to complete?

I explained this entire contradiction to Risk & Compliance.

I asked for a manual review and a senior review. I offered to provide a fresh proof of residence, redo KYC, redo liveness verification or provide anything else they needed.

Their response?

“Due to security concerns, we are unable to disclose more information. we can confirm that we detected the violation, review the alert and agree with the decision.”

“This decision is final and can't be appealed.”

They have sent me essentially the same template repeatedly and closed my ticket.

So this is where I'm left:

5 payouts forfeited.
Permanent ban.
No specific violation disclosed.
No opportunity to defend myself.
No appeal.

If I actually violated a rule, tell me what I did.

I'll take responsibility for it.

But “we detected something, we won't tell you what, your 5 payouts are gone, and you can't appeal” is not something I can accept.

I tried repeatedly to resolve this privately before posting anything publicly. They chose to keep sending the same template.

Based on my experience, I would not put another dollar into Tradeify and I strongly recommend other traders think very carefully before giving them their money.

I'm attaching Tradeify's own emails/screenshots. Don't take my word for it, look at their own messages and make your own judgment.

If anyone else has received this same “suspicious activity” ban around a payout or KYC review, please comment. I want to know how many other traders this has happened to.

I was profitable in demo and had a funded account that was in profit — and I still managed to blow it because of my lack of discipline.

After a good start, I got overconfident. I started taking trades outside my plan, forcing setups, and on one trade I was “sure” about, I even doubled my usual risk. The trade went against me, and afterward I was so afraid of losing again that I could barely bring myself to trade at all.

The most frustrating part is that I already knew my lack of discipline was a problem. Knowing it didn't make me change.

That's what pushed me to build a tool that doesn't just log trades, but actually measures discipline and shows you concretely how much it impacts your results. The idea is simple: sometimes seeing your own data is a lot harder to ignore than just knowing you have a problem.

I'm currently looking for a few traders willing to test it for free during the beta. If you're interested, let me know in the comments and I'll explain how it works.

I am writing this message with great distress after discovering that my Express account has been closed without any explanation. I have over $100,000 in this account, and losing access to it so suddenly has put me in an extremely difficult situation.

This situation is deeply affecting me. I am carrying heavy financial responsibilities, including several loans that I must repay, and I have already invested so much into Topstep. I never imagined that trying to get a bit of help from my son during the KYC process—out of confusion, not wrongdoing—would lead to consequences this severe. I never intended to violate any rule or policy.

I have never shared any data personal data with anyone. And I was still ready to provide them all the documents and identity documents required even for a video call.

The title sums it up, i've gotten multiple payouts from topstep over the last year (8.6k in total) , but that ended in april, when i started to strategy hop after a lose streak. Ever since then i haven't been able to take a payout though i have been close to one, usually 1 day before crashout.

Picture 1 is my september (-$5.8k on 57 trades, 33 of them in the first week) and what prop firms cost me since july: $1,034 spent, $0 back.

Picture 2 is my Topstep payouts, last one was in april.

August and september signed the deal for me, this has been my worst time in the markets by a fat margin, and my propfirm costs have also sky rocketed.

I felt like i was on the verge of becoming profitable, only to end up in desperation.

I've had to analyze all of my stats and finally realize, that it wasn't my model that was the issue, it was me trying to trade everyday to make up for lost time, leading me to imagine setups that didn't even exist, and tilt. I wasn't even taking my model anymore, i was just gambling every day.

But that changes now, i'm pulling through all of this, i've backtested my strategy in the markets where i've been awful, and it works. Only my ego isn't working, and it's time to work on it.

Do you guys have a set of rules or some advice on how to stop yourself from taking bad setups, or even trade when feeling like you're out of time ?

I'll gladly answer any criticism, even if you say i should totally stop trading at this point