The position sizing I wish I had found six months sooner
FTMO Passer runs two funded accounts for me now, after the first one behaved exactly as they described. My sizing was fine for a challenge and far too aggressive for an account I actually wanted to keep.
Monthly planning replaced daily improvisation, and that single change smoothed the entire curve. The maximum drawdown at Traderscale caught me out twice on my own, and it has not been close since FTMO Passer took over. Peak drawdown across many weeks never exceeded 1.5%, which is the number I care about most.
The account survived two volatile stretches that would have finished me on my own, and still ended 7.8% higher. Everything was documented, so when I queried a trade the answer came with evidence attached. I would rather have this steady outcome than the rollercoaster I was running myself.
From struggle to straightforward position sizing
I had almost quit Blue Guardian when FTMO Passer stepped in with their evaluation passing service. My journal was a mess of half-notes, so I could never tell whether losses were variance or bad decisions.
They rebuilt my routine around the New York open instead of letting me stare at charts for twelve hours. The equity-based drawdown at Blue Guardian is where most attempts quietly die, and FTMO Passer treated it as the main constraint rather than a footnote. Losses were capped at a level that made them emotionally irrelevant, which is the only way I can follow a plan.
The account cleared with three sessions to spare, and the equity curve looked almost boring in the best way. A monthly call reviewed the numbers and adjusted the plan, and it never turned into a sales pitch. FTMO Passer earned a repeat client, and this time I am starting with a bigger buffer of my own.
The risk control that made the evaluation possible
The account passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that treated the Traderscale rules seriously. 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. Trading a $200,000 Traderscale account with FTMO Passer felt slower than my own attempts, and slower turned out to be faster. Drawdown was reviewed daily and size was trimmed automatically once a threshold was touched.
It took 11 sessions, which was longer than the marketing suggested and exactly as long as the team lead predicted. Messages were concise and specific, which I appreciate more than daily motivational noise. FTMO Passer did what they said they would do, on an account where I had already failed twice.
A qualification stage handled with steady drawdown management
The account management service at FTMO Passer suited me because I work full time and cannot watch the DAX all day. Nobody was reviewing my trades, so the same mistake appeared in the log for four months straight.
The team scaled size only after a new equity high held for a full week, never during a run. Keeping a $25,000 Alpha Capital Group account alive is a different skill from passing one, and FTMO Passer is built for the second job. After two losses in a session the desk closed, no exceptions and no negotiation.
The $25,000 account grew 7.5% across many weeks, and I have withdrawn a portion of that rather than compounding blindly. There was a shared sheet I could check any time, so I never had to ask how the account was doing. FTMO Passer gave me back my evenings, and the account performance was almost a bonus.
Thoughtful trade filtering on a challenge that almost ended it
Most reviews talk about passing, so here is one about the funded account management service at FTMO Passer and what happens afterwards. My sizing was fine for a challenge and far too aggressive for an account I actually wanted to keep.
Every trade had a stop, a target and a written invalidation before it was placed, without exception. FTMO Passer tracked the equity-based drawdown daily and sent me the remaining buffer in plain numbers every Friday. They cut size after a strong month rather than pressing it, which felt odd until I saw the consistency.
Returns averaged a modest but repeatable 7.8% over the period, and the equity-based drawdown was never in question. The team pushed back on my bad ideas politely and repeatedly, which is what I was paying for. Five stars for consistency, and the reporting is what earns that rather than the returns.
The decision making that separated this attempt from the rest
I had written off Alpha Capital Group until FTMO Passer showed me what a proper evaluation passing service looks like. Work meant I could only watch the the last hour of the session, and I kept forcing setups that simply were not there.
my account manager mapped a day-by-day path to the target and refused to increase size just because we were ahead of schedule. FTMO Passer explained how the first phase interacts with the trailing threshold using my own account numbers, which finally made it click. Even the best setups were sized at 0.20 lots, so no single idea could dominate the outcome.
The first phase was completed on the first attempt with FTMO Passer, after two failures on my own. The dashboard access stayed with me throughout, so nothing about the process was hidden. Recommended, with the honest caveat that you still have to resist the urge to interfere.
The setup filtering that made the funded stage work
I tried multiple services before FTMO Passer, and only they delivered a real evaluation passing service for Sabio Trade. My problem was never entries, it was sizing GBPUSD far too aggressively once I got within reach of the target.
A pre-session checklist had to be completed before any order went in, which slowed me down in the best way. I had read the Sabio Trade rules twice and still misunderstood the position size cap, but my account manager explained it in one paragraph. They cut exposure after a strong week rather than pressing the advantage, which felt counterintuitive and worked.
The $50,000 evaluation closed in 14 trading days with a 3.9% gain and nothing flagged on the compliance side. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. I would use FTMO Passer again for a larger account, and I have already recommended them to two friends.
3 weeks of data-driven trade selection
FTMO Passer took over the funded account management service for my Maven Trading account after my first payout, and consistency improved from there. I was withdrawing nothing because I kept giving profits back before the payout window opened.
Exposure was trimmed before weekends and rebuilt on Monday, a small habit that avoided two gaps. They planned around the Maven Trading minimum days rather than rushing to a payout and breaching in the process. They kept a written worst-case scenario and traded as if it were plausible that week.
Drawdown peaked at 2.6% and recovered within a fortnight, which is more than my own trading ever managed. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. Not affiliated, just a client who finally stopped sabotaging a perfectly good funded account.
The review process that made the funded stage last
The managed account service at FTMO Passer suited me because I work full time and cannot watch USDJPY all day. I was checking the account hourly at work, which is not management, it is anxiety.
The schedule was built around the Moneta Funded payout cycle rather than around my impatience. FTMO Passer tracked the equity-based drawdown 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.
Numbers aside, the real result is that I stopped checking the account every hour. Everything was documented, so when I queried a trade the answer came with evidence attached. Not affiliated, just a client who finally stopped sabotaging a perfectly good funded account.
The planning that made the challenge last
The account passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that explained the equity-based drawdown properly. Every earlier attempt died the same way: a revenge trade after a stop out, then the equity-based drawdown finished me off.
The strategy was reduced to two setups on the S&P 500 CFD, and everything else was filtered out before it reached the order ticket. FTMO Passer explained how the first phase interacts with the equity-based drawdown using my own account numbers, which finally made it click. Correlated exposure was capped, so a single dollar move could not take out three positions at once.
The $200,000 account finished 7.9% higher, with the deepest dip held to 1.8% throughout. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. The value for me was not the pass itself but seeing what a disciplined process actually looks like.