I used to give this company 4 stars…
I used to give this company 4 stars pending my payout. The reason I gave them 4 stars because they were very nice and provided me quick responses for every question I had. Now I should give this company -10000 if possible. After spending thousands of dollars on EVAL and ELITE account and more than 6 months trading, I made almost $7000.00 and requested for payout. They refused to pay and closed my account saying that I use VPN. When I got the response, I informed them that "I am just an unsophisticated PC user, I don't even know what VPN was. I just bought a laptop from BestBuy and used it for trading, without knowing anything about how it functions internally". But they said because I violated their rule, and they must close my account. If they detected that I used VPN, they must inform me when I traded the Evaluation account and also they can provide information how to check and fix the problems similar to how to install Ninja Trader. But they waited until I traded almost 60 accounts to tell me. I will never trade with this company again, because until now I still don't know if I am on VPN or not. I don't recommend any normal PC user to trade with them because finally you will waste your money and time with them.
Response from Elite Trader Funding
On Tuesday April 22nd we sent the following email and notice to our customers:
Regarding our enforcement of IP Masking technology, we did our best to lock things down to protect ourselves, but we inadvertently created an environment that is neither friendly nor enjoyable for you, and we apologize.
From our point of view, we thought it was easy not to use these technologies and did not realize how common they are in the trading world. Although we would not recommend continuing use as it can introduce new problems, effective April 22nd we have decided to allow the use of VPN or VPS when trading ETF accounts. Our stance regarding using TOR and other proxy services remain unchanged; we will continue to monitor accounts for abuse of these services.
As a gesture of good faith, we will be emailing traders who were denied in the past 30 days for VPN/VPS use and will be offering them one of two options: take a payout or allow us to reinstate your account along with the payout so that you can continue killing it in the markets.
Again, we apologize for the strictness but want you to know that we as a company are nothing without you. Our goal has been to move traders to live markets and we have been doing a great job at that. Our staff, each and every single one of them has gone above and beyond their call of duty to ensure the success of ETF and management has done their best to make everyones lives easy by making things black & white but we understand that not everything can depend on a simple yes or no. Going forward, we will do better. We will continue providing you great service but we are going to take it a step further. We are going to give you, the trader, exactly what you want. More details to come on this point and rest assured that you will appreciate it when you see it. We can't reveal too much at this time as it will steal the thunder from our marketing team!
As hard as it may seem to believe, we do listen and we do adjust and we believe that this two way street is what makes our community special. Continue providing your feedback, we’re here to support you!
If you have questions about your specific situation or would like to follow up, please feel free to reach out to our support team at support@elitetraderfunding.com. We’re happy to take a second look and see what can be done.
ETF Team
Regarding our enforcement of IP Masking technology, we did our best to lock things down to protect ourselves, but we inadvertently created an environment that is neither friendly nor enjoyable for you, and we apologize.
From our point of view, we thought it was easy not to use these technologies and did not realize how common they are in the trading world. Although we would not recommend continuing use as it can introduce new problems, effective April 22nd we have decided to allow the use of VPN or VPS when trading ETF accounts. Our stance regarding using TOR and other proxy services remain unchanged; we will continue to monitor accounts for abuse of these services.
As a gesture of good faith, we will be emailing traders who were denied in the past 30 days for VPN/VPS use and will be offering them one of two options: take a payout or allow us to reinstate your account along with the payout so that you can continue killing it in the markets.
Again, we apologize for the strictness but want you to know that we as a company are nothing without you. Our goal has been to move traders to live markets and we have been doing a great job at that. Our staff, each and every single one of them has gone above and beyond their call of duty to ensure the success of ETF and management has done their best to make everyones lives easy by making things black & white but we understand that not everything can depend on a simple yes or no. Going forward, we will do better. We will continue providing you great service but we are going to take it a step further. We are going to give you, the trader, exactly what you want. More details to come on this point and rest assured that you will appreciate it when you see it. We can't reveal too much at this time as it will steal the thunder from our marketing team!
As hard as it may seem to believe, we do listen and we do adjust and we believe that this two way street is what makes our community special. Continue providing your feedback, we’re here to support you!
If you have questions about your specific situation or would like to follow up, please feel free to reach out to our support team at support@elitetraderfunding.com. We’re happy to take a second look and see what can be done.
ETF Team