Risk warning
This is a translation. In the event of any discrepancy, the French version prevails.
Trading leveraged products (CFDs, forex, futures) carries a high risk of losing money rapidly. Prop firm challenges are paid evaluations: most participants fail and lose the fees they have paid.
What a challenge really is
When you buy a challenge, you pay a fee to be assessed on a demo or simulated account. If you pass, the firm lets you trade a funded account and pays you a share of the profits under its own terms. You do not deposit capital with a broker, but the challenge fee is an expense you can lose in full.
The risks you need to know
- Losing the challenge fee, once or several times.
- Rules or prices changing, sometimes at short notice.
- A prop firm closing down or suspending payouts: this has already happened in the industry.
- Misunderstood loss rules, especially maximum losses that trail your highest balance.
- A trading bot that behaves differently in live conditions or breaches one of the firm's rules.
Not investment advice
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