3-Star Elite Trader Funding Reviews

Haven't used it long enough to have an opinion yet.

too many stipulations

Waiting for payout

Dash board is very basic.

Payout schedules seen extremely arduous to achieve.

Too many fees and annoying rules to get paid

(Update: I love how ETF responds to my comment as if I didn’t read how the payout structure worked… to be clear. I know that there’s been traders paid out. I’m saying they have rules that make it very annoying to get your payout and that is my feedback or review on the firm.

Good price and fast activación

Like the help from the team

I waited a long time before writing this review—long enough to give ETF every possible chance and long enough to completely exhaust my patience before moving on.

The question most people care about: Do they pay?
Yes. I received a payout of $1,250. But that was after opening 51 total evaluations/resets/accounts.

In fairness, their evaluations are cheap, and that payout did cover more than I spent with them.

However, their rules are extremely strict and very difficult to pass. Passing an evaluation is already tough, but trading their funded SIM accounts is even harder. The rules don’t reflect real trading conditions—they’re designed to protect the firm from having to pay out while maximizing the number of traders who pay for evaluations and ultimately fail.

I genuinely gave the firm a real chance. I wanted to make it work. But the difficulty level of their rules just isn't worth it.

Support, to their credit, is very good. Emails were answered quickly and clearly.

I’m giving them 3 stars because I’m being generous. Realistically, they deserve 1–2.

If you're looking for a real chance to actually earn payouts, look at firms with better track records on Payout Junction known for consistent payouts.

Esta empresa tiene actualmente una excelente promocion en todas sus cuentas, pero al consultar Truspilot veo que su calificación es de 4.0 un tanto distante de otras que alcanzan unas calificaciones muy superiores, casi que excelentes, algún tema no debe andar del todo bien, esperare a que su calificación sea mejor.

Platform is great, great customer service with fast response.
But the trailing drawdown moving with the highest profit, kills everybody, you can´t let your operation run with time.

I have been with Elite Trader funding for a few months now attempting to qualify for my $300,000 evaluation account. I cannot qualify my full experience until I pass my evaluation, but everything with them is better than expected and the answer all my questions and requests very quickly.

Affordable challenges, but I think there needs to be more of a comprehensive guide on what instruments to trade on Elite

The 23% rule is the worst feature of this prop firm. No one else does that. If you have an extremely good day (say, netting $10k profit), you account is essentially dead because you will have to trade another 9 days and produce at least 23% of that amount (i.e., $2,300) on every one of those 9 days.

Their customer support responds relatively quickly but don't hope for very meaningful and helpful answers. They are short, unhelpful answers that require a lot of going back and forth to finally get a answer to your question.

Elite Trader Funding has some of the best deals out there.. I'll give them that. Their Beat the Beast promo and sales are hard to pass up, and the evaluations are reasonably priced. But once you're funded, the consistency rules are brutal.

Having to hit 10 green days with each one being at least 23% of your highest profit day.. that setup doesn’t reward real trading discipline, it punishes it. I had days where I traded well, followed my plan, and made money, but they didn’t even count toward payout. It’s mentally draining and feels like you're set up to fail just trying to withdraw what you earned.

If you’re just looking to test your strategy cheap, this might work for you. But if you’re aiming for actual payouts and longevity, be ready for a frustrating experience.

nice firm but my trades did not update on my dashbord and dindt get the pass on it, but yesterday i passed it still no email or i just dosent understand something

Everything is good but need some payout rule changes . Make and keep it simple

No he superado una evaluación aún, por lo tanto no puedo opinar sobre los pagos. Lo que si creo es que deberían mejorar el soporte. En muchos casos la demora en la respuesta es demasiada. Por otro lado, considerando que son una empresa global, creo que deberían ofrecer soporte en varios idiomas. Los traductores web no son buenos en general, y eso puede generar confusiones.
Las reglas y las asistencias deben ser claras.
Por lo demás, todo bien.

Beat the beast challenge was fun and allowed me to gain an account and 1 month freebies

Despite having a fast reponse from the support team, my50% promo code for my first PA account was denied.

Look up their reviews on Prop Firm Match, they tell a different story.

Have cleared 3 accounts with ETF for a total of $300k. There are bugs in the platform that can be overcome via order automation with NinjaTrader, don't expect Tradovate to be perfect.

Their support team responds quickly but not to everything. Questions remain about how standardized the reset fee for funded accounts is, which is one question they have not answered. ETF does not publicly display that fee structure but they do for everything else.

ETF removes the trailing drawdown after the safety-net is hit, others do not. Their evals are also slower. ETF allows funded accounts to be reset once, many do not. ETF is also more expensive than competitors with the monthly account fees after qualification.

No prop trading firm is perfect, but I will do the right thing and increase the rating if they are honest when I reach payout. Too many one star reviews to have blind faith.

I like the Beast Challenge but I do not like your 10days active days rule.

There are consistent issues with either the Data Feed or the ETF Platform. When I reach out to Rithmic they say that because I am in an evaluation, I have to address all issues to ETF; ETF says that it is a Tradovate issue. I have failed two Accounts to, at least, due to either the Platform or the Data Feed ADDING to my Position when it should have closed the Position. Tonight being one of those instances while trading ZB.
The Company SEEMS to be legit, by that I mean they are not in the News for questionable practices like other Prop Firms. Perhaps that is because they don't have the Market share other companies do; in any event, my concern is the consistent issues with either the Platform or the Datafeed. I don't care which is causing these issues, my concern is my waste of time and money attempting to abide by the Rules of the Evaluation and it seeming that there are unseen obstacles placed in order to assist with failure.

The firm always hands discounts to its users though they always delay you getting a payout. The firm is great and always offers support if you are in need.

I was looking forward for my account to renew on the 12th that’s what it says on my Dashboard. that’s a whole day of me not trading now I have to wait for 24 hours after Market is open.

I like the offers the company has but sometimes the response from the customer service seems slow.

UNIMPRESSED WITH THIS COMPANY

Scam scam!!! This is my worst experience with prop firms. They would end up blowing your account or find a reason not to approve your payouts when your make a request. Avoid them like a plaque and do not buy any accounts from them.Never had any losses on others like-Morewins. 24/7 payiing.

Good service

Im still in a challenge and my impression is that there is a bad overview and transparency about the rules that just give me a bad impression. Each rule is found in a different place of the information available and sometimes very confusing. I dont know if it is because they are very unorganized with how they display their information or it is on purpose. For example the audit of trades is a very subjective way to make someone fail and there is no clear explanation of what is not accepted. I can imagine they use any excuse to make you fail through this. The Trailstop Drawdown for example can only be checked in Tradeovate through the activation of an additional tool. But on their website there is no overview. The way this TSL moves its very suspicious, as I end days in Plus but still losing over 1k of TSL, even though I try to follow myself a TSL for my positions that do not go above 1k and crash. So this is all very suspicious. The account in general works well and I believe I will pass the challenge but I am expecting to have troubles because of the rules.

Easy to use, comes with a good set of indicators, as well as reminders. Okay to use for beginner traders, but what you need to do

Not bad, everything went well.
-A stupid rule is when daily limit loss gets hit and this results in losing the account. Scammy.

-bring the 10k accounts back.

Prices are too high for the good accounts which are any that does intraday trail stops you.

Im putting 3 stars because the price for any accounts is really affordable for everyones but one thing I didn’t really enjoy is the dashboard when i wanted to see my stats, if you guys could upgrade the Dashboard in a way were we could saw more details about our journey it’ll be perfect

Jice Ryland h

I started trading in June 2022, since then I have been using ninja trader, his 02 years of experience as a trader does not allow me to say that I am experienced, on the contrary I am still trying to find out more about trading, experience the most important thing I can say is that trading is a discipline, you need to be disciplined especially in terms of risk management. Thank you for welcoming me to ATF, I'm still new.

Very good prices and sales on evaluations but the continued trailing draw down is a setup for failure. All evaluation trailing drawdown should end at starting balance not trail into profit

Honest review, for account set up 5stars for prices of evaluation with promotional discounts 5stars but for failing account because of failure to closed a position(s) before market closed is really bad, what is the excess of drawdown if it is an issues to the company then why not implement auto Close mistake do happen one can easily forget or you are not around to close your position. I hope the company will look into it. With so many unnecessary rules it becomes so difficult for traders and causes so many mental brake down.

So far ETF has been good with its customer service support where at times they have helped with payment problems as well as account errors that have happened in the time i have done evaluations. at this current moment i have passed an evaluation and have done a few days worth of trades in a simulated funded account. I have made sure to rate this a 3/5 until i can confirm whether this prop firm can payout. If they confirm that the bad reviews on this site is true and they start making excuses/making false accusations or refuse payouts then this will immediately become a 1/5 rating otherwise they will earn the 5/5 rating

I have had several days of no response from EFT support on tickets I submitted for multiple issues. Not sure what was going on, as of today I finally got a response and that was only through going to discord were I was able to connect. I have never had this kind of issues before with them it has been very challenging. We were able to communicate with another email hopefully going forward, I hoping to never have this issue again.

I read Firm's reply to one client who says he made 600k profit but it was denied by firm for payout, Reason : Martingale strategy.
I am new to your firm, not yet signed up. But want to sign up.
Your 50k account says, I can hold 8 minis or 80 micros at a time.

Will i be allowed dollar cost averaging ?

Will I be allowed to add trade mini / micro to add on to loosing position ?

I am writing this because, the rule for 50k account says i can hold 8 minis or 80 micros at a time.

Please clarify. Thanks

I OVERLOOKED the obvious RED FLAGS and now I'm paying the PRICE. For more THAN TWO WEEKS, I've been STRUGGLING to WITHDRAW MY PROFIT SHARE. They cited a SYSTEM ERROR, falsely claimed I didn't MAKE any PROFIT, and then went SILENT after sUbmitting all the REQUIRED INFORMATION. These SCAMMERS took ADVANTAGE of me when I could have been FLOURISHING and reaping SUBSTANTIAL RETURNS using tender offers where PAYOUTS are made PROMPTLY. Their live chat SUPPORT are always AVAILABLE to HELP.

I bought an account worth 100k and I can't log in to my account and no one cares about it.

I received a payment without any notice it was coming or that I had a

Great customer service with very fast replies. It’s also very good to have TradingView integration. With cheaper challenges compared to other prop firms the trade off seems to lie within the trailing drawdown evaluation rule relative to the maximal profit even when the trade is running. It’s hard to monitor this by eye and is what I would suspect as the main reason for failed challenges including myself - you simply can’t logically say the challenge is reflective of a real trading environment because of this rule. Partials are also not permitted which is a bit cheeky to be honest. Just something very important to note which ETF do make you aware of however; overall a good experience and a prop firm to look out for nonetheless.