21 trading days, one qualification stage, zero drama
FTMO Passer runs two funded accounts for me now, after the first one behaved exactly as they described. Nobody was reviewing my trades, so the same mistake appeared in the log for four months straight.
Every trade had a stop, a target and a written invalidation before it was placed, without exception. Take Profit Trader rewards traders who stay small and stay present, which is precisely how FTMO Passer operates. Stops were never widened, and the average loser stayed smaller than the average winner all quarter.
Drawdown peaked at 2.7% and recovered within a fortnight, which is more than my own trading ever managed. The dashboard access stayed with me throughout, so nothing about the process was hidden. FTMO Passer gave me back my evenings, and the account performance was almost a bonus.
12 weeks of organised execution
FTMO Passer made the two-step process at FundedNext feel like a process instead of a lottery. Every green day tempted me to double size, and every red day convinced me to stop trading entirely.
Partial profits were taken at a fixed level and the remainder trailed, so no winner was allowed to become a loser. FundedNext does not care how good your analysis is, only whether you stay inside the equity-based drawdown, and the plan reflected that. No trade was allowed to run into a scheduled release, and that single rule avoided two nasty gaps.
Final numbers: 5.6% profit, 3.0% maximum drawdown, and a passed two-step process on a $200,000 account. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. FTMO Passer earned a repeat client, and this time I am starting with a bigger buffer of my own.
The trade filtering that separated winners from resets
I went to FTMO Passer after two failed Take Profit Trader attempts, and the evaluation passing service was a revelation. I was one of those traders who read every rule and still broke the maximum drawdown in the first fortnight.
Size stayed at one contract until the buffer justified a change, and that patience is what saved the attempt. FTMO Passer explained how the evaluation interacts with the maximum drawdown using my own account numbers, which finally made it click. They kept a written worst-case number on the desk and traded as though it could happen that afternoon.
The $10,000 evaluation closed in 17 trading days with a 8.7% gain and nothing flagged on the compliance side. The dashboard access stayed with me throughout, so nothing about the process was hidden. My only regret is not doing this before paying for three resets at Take Profit Trader.
Realistic risk control from start to finish
Six months into the account management service with FTMO Passer, my Funding Pips account is still active and still paying. I was checking the account hourly at work, which is not management, it is anxiety.
the team lead set a monthly objective and a hard drawdown floor, then sized every position backwards from that floor. FTMO Passer tracked the trailing threshold daily and sent me the remaining buffer in plain numbers every Friday. They preferred a flat month to a breached account, and I have learned to feel the same way.
Returns averaged a modest but repeatable 4.2% over the period, and the trailing threshold was never in question. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. Ask for the trade log before you sign up, and judge FTMO Passer on the drawdown column rather than the profit one.
Methodical account handling and a funded stage that ended well
After the pass I had no idea how to trade live capital, so FTMO Passer stepped in with their funded management service. Live capital felt completely different, and my first month on Tradeify was a masterclass in second-guessing.
Trade selection was filtered by session and volatility, so the quiet hours were simply not traded. They planned around the Tradeify minimum days rather than rushing to a payout and breaching in the process. Risk per trade stayed tiny, and the worst week was still comfortably inside the firm limits.
Numbers aside, the real result is that I stopped checking the account every hour. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. If your funded accounts keep dying in month one, this is the fix I would try.
The capital preservation that made the two-step process work
I tried everything before FTMO Passer, and only their evaluation passing service made the Funding Pips evaluation work. Work meant I could only watch the the rollover hour, and I kept forcing setups that simply were not there.
Position size was calculated from the stop distance rather than from how confident the setup felt. Ignoring the daily loss limit is what cost me two accounts at Funding Pips, and it was the one thing FTMO Passer never did. They preferred missing a move to widening a stop, and repeated that trade-off many times.
I ended 9.1% up with no rule violations, which matters more to me than the speed of the pass. They set expectations at the start and then reported against them, week after week. Would I call it effortless? No, but it was the first attempt where I understood every decision that was made.
Steady review process from start to finish
I went to FTMO Passer expecting noise and got a structured evaluation passing service for my Tradeify account. Work meant I could only watch the Asian session, and I kept forcing setups that simply were not there.
The first week was almost boring: small size on the NQ, fixed stops, and a hard stop for the day after two losses. The team treated the Tradeify evaluation as a risk budget to be spent carefully rather than a race to be won. The stop was never moved further away, not once, and that alone separated this from my own attempts.
It took 8 sessions, which was longer than the marketing suggested and exactly as long as the analyst assigned to me predicted. Support replied within a couple of hours even during a busy week, which surprised me. The value for me was not the pass itself but seeing what a disciplined process actually looks like.
The progress tracking that made the verification stage viable
The funded management service from FTMO Passer was the difference between a funded certificate and an actual payout for me. My sizing was fine for a challenge and far too aggressive for an account I actually wanted to keep.
The schedule was built around the The 5%ers payout cycle rather than around my impatience. The scaling path at The 5%ers only matters if you survive, and FTMO Passer treated survival as the first objective. Risk per trade stayed tiny, and the worst week was still comfortably inside the firm limits.
The $200,000 account grew 3.8% across many weeks, and I have withdrawn a portion of that rather than compounding blindly. I got a weekly summary with every trade, the reasoning and the risk taken, which I have never had elsewhere. I will keep renewing with FTMO Passer as long as the drawdown discipline stays where it is.
Patient risk budgeting on a first phase that almost ended it
I passed on my own and immediately realised that funded trading is a different sport, which is where FTMO Passer came in. My first funded account died on a news spike I had no business being in front of.
Every trade had a stop, a target and a written invalidation before it was placed, without exception. I had read the My Funded Futures payout terms three times and still got them wrong, while my account manager had them memorised. Correlated positions were capped so a single dollar move could not hit the book three times.
Over many weeks the $100,000 account returned 2.9% with a deepest dip of 1.8%, and payouts landed on schedule. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. Not affiliated, just a client who finally stopped sabotaging a perfectly good funded account.
19 trading sessions of measured loss capping
The account passing service from FTMO Passer was the turning point on my The 5%ers account. Every green day tempted me to double size, and every red day convinced me to stop trading entirely.
They kept a separate note of every skipped setup, which taught me more than the winners did. What I appreciated is that FTMO Passer built the schedule around the The 5%ers rulebook rather than trying to trade around it. Maximum drawdown never went past 1.4%, so the buffer against the firm limit was never seriously threatened.
The evaluation passed cleanly, and the summary report listed every trade with its reasoning attached. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. The value for me was not the pass itself but seeing what a disciplined process actually looks like.