The drawdown management I wish I had found when I started out
The account passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that made the My Funded Futures rules feel achievable. I had already spent more on resets than on education, and that number is what made me look for help.
Position size was calculated from the stop distance rather than from how confident the setup felt. My Funded Futures does not care how good your analysis is, only whether you stay inside the trailing threshold, and the plan reflected that. There was one losing streak of four trades, and instead of doubling up they reduced size and waited.
The result was 7.8% profit with 1.5% peak drawdown, and the funded credentials arrived shortly after. Support replied within a couple of hours even during a busy week, which surprised me. Not the cheapest service I looked at, but the only one that explained the risk before the reward.
Straightforward session discipline from start to review
FTMO Passer inherited a $50,000 FTMO account with almost no drawdown room left and stabilised it. The pressure of trading real payout money made me cut winners early and hold losers far too long.
Each week ended with a written review of every trade, including the ones we skipped. Live FTMO conditions are not demo conditions, and FTMO Passer adjusted size for spreads and slippage accordingly. The team took a full week off after a volatile stretch instead of trading through it.
Steady 7.2% growth, 1.2% maximum drawdown, and a payout history I can actually show people. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. Recommended for anyone who works full time and cannot babysit a funded account.
A two-step process that finally felt manageable
FTMO Passer took the emotion out of my Apex Trader Funding funded account, which was the only thing wrong with it. I could pass a challenge repeatedly and could not hold an account for a full quarter.
They documented the position size cap in a one-page sheet that sat next to the order ticket. I had read the Apex Trader Funding payout terms three times and still got them wrong, while my account manager had them memorised. The team took a full week off after a volatile stretch instead of trading through it.
Many months in, the Apex Trader Funding account is active, profitable and boring, which is the entire objective. Updates were honest about losing days, which is the fastest way to earn trust with me. If your funded accounts keep dying in month one, this is the fix I would try.
Balanced progress tracking when it mattered most
FTMO Passer made the first phase at FTMO feel like a checklist I could follow. I had a decent strategy and terrible habits, and no amount of backtesting was going to fix the habits.
They began with a risk audit, cut my per-trade exposure to a fraction of what I used, and built the plan around the equity-based drawdown. FTMO 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.
They hit the target, flattened everything, and handed over a report rather than an invoice for extras. The dashboard access stayed with me throughout, so nothing about the process was hidden. Solid work from FTMO Passer, and the reporting alone justified the fee for me.
Well-paced risk budgeting and a funded stage that ended cleanly
Two months of going in circles ended when FTMO Passer took over the prop firm passing service for my Apex Trader Funding evaluation. I was one of those traders who read every rule and still broke the maximum drawdown in the first fortnight.
A pre-session checklist had to be completed before any order went in, which slowed me down in the best way. Anyone who has sat through a Apex Trader Funding two-step process knows the pressure is psychological, and FTMO Passer removed most of mine. No trade was allowed to run into a scheduled release, and that single rule avoided two nasty gaps.
It took 18 sessions, which was longer than the marketing suggested and exactly as long as my account manager predicted. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. Solid work from FTMO Passer, and the reporting alone justified the fee for me.
Detailed trade filtering from start to finish
The funded account management service from FTMO Passer was the difference between a funded certificate and an actual payout for me. The pressure of trading real payout money made me cut winners early and hold losers far too long.
They separated the payout account from the growth plan, which stopped me spending money that was still at risk. Keeping a $100,000 Topstep account alive is a different skill from passing one, and FTMO Passer is built for the second job. The team took a full week off after a volatile stretch instead of trading through it.
My first payout arrived in week 4, which was the moment the whole thing became real for me. They flagged a rule change before it affected my account rather than after. I have already moved a second Topstep account across to FTMO Passer, which is my honest review in one sentence.
The position sizing that separated this from the rest
The managed account service from FTMO Passer was the difference between a funded certificate and an actual payout for me. I was checking the account hourly at work, which is not management, it is anxiety.
Each week ended with a written review of every trade, including the ones we skipped. They kept a permanent cushion against the Lucid Trading breach level, so a losing week never became an existential event. They preferred a flat month to a breached account, and I have learned to feel the same way.
Over many weeks the $10,000 account returned 7.2% with a deepest dip of 2.8%, and payouts landed on schedule. The onboarding call ran long because I had questions, and nobody tried to rush me off it. Five stars for consistency, and the reporting is what earns that rather than the returns.
Balanced rule compliance on a evaluation that tested patience
The honest version of my story is that I could not follow my own rules, so FTMO Passer followed theirs on my Topstep account. I was one of those traders who read every rule and still broke the daily loss limit in the first fortnight.
The plan had a pause rule after three consecutive losses, and it triggered twice without any drama. Passing a Topstep account is a compliance exercise as much as a trading one, and FTMO Passer understood that distinction. A hard weekly loss ceiling meant the account always had room to recover in the following session.
Final numbers: 2.7% profit, 2.8% maximum drawdown, and a passed assessment on a $10,000 account. They set expectations at the start and then reported against them, week after week. Four stars in my head for the impatience it cured, five for the actual outcome.
The daily routine that made the evaluation sustainable
The evaluation passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that made the Lucid Trading rules clear. I was trading the metals and the main index product together with no correlation awareness, so one bad move counted double.
They began with a risk audit, cut my per-trade exposure to a fraction of what I used, and built the plan around the minimum trading day rule. The first phase at Lucid Trading rewards consistency over heroics, which suited the way FTMO Passer trades. The stop was never moved further away, not once, and that alone separated this from my own attempts.
It took 20 sessions, which was longer than the marketing suggested and exactly as long as the senior trader predicted. The dashboard access stayed with me throughout, so nothing about the process was hidden. FTMO Passer earned a repeat client, and this time I am starting with a bigger buffer of my own.
From frustration to balanced setup filtering
Handing a $50,000 account to FTMO Passer was uncomfortable for about a week and then a relief. I kept treating the funded account like a challenge account, and the daily loss limit does not forgive that.
Every trade had a stop, a target and a written invalidation before it was placed, without exception. The daily loss limit on a funded FundedNext account is unforgiving, and FTMO Passer built the entire schedule around staying clear of it. Correlated positions were capped so a single dollar move could not hit the book three times.
Returns averaged a modest but repeatable 7.5% over the period, and the daily loss limit was never in question. I got a weekly summary with every trade, the reasoning and the risk taken, which I have never had elsewhere. Not affiliated, just a client who finally stopped sabotaging a perfectly good funded account.