$216K paid in a single week is a strong figure. It is always good to see firms sharing regular payout data and keeping traders informed about their activity.
A $5K backup account is actually a nice safety net for testing aggressive lot sizes on your first attempt without eating the full loss if you hit drawdown.
EOD balance calculation for daily drawdown makes a massive difference for swing setups compared to equity-trailing limits. You don’t get punished just because a trade pullbacks before hitting TP.
Good move on dropping the 150K entry barrier. With no activation fees or monthly subs, it actually makes the Reserve account much more competitive against standard 1-step challenges.
Keeping a simple 10% max drawdown is fine, but it depends entirely on the profit target for Phase 1. A 10% target with a 10% max DD is a 1:1 ratio, which gives you way more room than firms requiring 10% profit with only a 6% max loss limit.
Not surprised Gold dominated the payout stats. It’s basically the only asset giving decent daily volatility right now, but trading XAUUSD on a 4% daily loss limit is pure stress during NY session spikes.
Discounts on small accounts are standard promo tactics to get high-volume signups. nice if you want a cheap trial run i guess, but the 50k+ challenges are where the math actually makes sense.
25% off is decent but let’s be real, every firm drops a promo code every few weeks now. only buy it if you were already planning on running a 5k or 10k challenge this month anyway.
