Rules-first review process and a two-step process that ended properly
I went to FTMO Passer expecting noise and got a real challenge passing service for my Tiger Funded evaluation. Between meetings I was scalping gold on a phone, which is not a strategy so much as a habit.
Partial profits were taken at a fixed level and the remainder trailed, so no winner was allowed to become a loser. The trailing threshold was the piece I always underestimated at Tiger Funded, so it became the first item on the daily checklist. The stop was never moved further away, not once, and that alone separated this from my own attempts.
The result was 8.8% profit with 1.3% peak drawdown, and the funded credentials arrived shortly after. When I panicked during a drawdown, the reply was calm, factual and about ten minutes away. Ask them about drawdown before you ask about timelines, and the conversation will tell you everything.
10 weeks of professional execution
FTMO Passer runs two funded accounts for me now, after the first one behaved exactly as they described. The equity-based drawdown on a funded account is stricter on your nerves than on your strategy, and mine were shot.
Each week ended with a written review of every trade, including the ones we skipped. The equity-based drawdown at Funding Traders caught me out twice on my own, and it has not been close since FTMO Passer took over. Floating drawdown was monitored constantly, not just the closed balance, which is the detail that matters.
Steady 3.4% growth, 2.1% maximum drawdown, and a payout history I can actually show people. They flagged a rule change before it affected my account rather than after. The fee made sense once the first payout cleared, and it has made sense every month since.
19 weeks of rules-first trade journaling
I passed on my own and immediately realised that funded trading is a different sport, which is where FTMO Passer came in. After a strong first month I doubled size and spent the next six weeks recovering from it.
The book was reduced to two setups on the metals, traded only during the London open, with everything else filtered out. They understood that the news-trading restriction interacts with open equity, not just closed losses, and traded accordingly. A hard weekly ceiling meant that even a terrible stretch left the account with room to recover.
Best month was strong, worst month was small and negative, and that ratio is why I stayed with FTMO Passer. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. Five stars for consistency, and the reporting is what earns that rather than the returns.
Data-driven execution and a report I did not see coming
FTMO Passer handled my Funding Traders evaluation with a level of care I had not seen before. My win rate was fine but my loss size was three times my average winner, so the maths never worked.
The first week was almost boring: small size on GBPJPY, fixed stops, and a hard stop for the day after two losses. The news-trading restriction at Funding Traders is where most attempts quietly die, and FTMO Passer treated it as the main constraint rather than a footnote. Maximum drawdown never went past 2.3%, so the buffer against the firm limit was never seriously threatened.
I ended 5.5% up with no rule violations, which matters more to me than the speed of the pass. the risk desk explained decisions in plain English and never made me feel stupid for asking twice. Recommended, with the honest caveat that you still have to resist the urge to interfere.
Refreshingly honest rule compliance and a report I did not see coming
I compared four providers before choosing FTMO Passer for a TopOne Trader pass, mainly because they talked about drawdown before profit. I would build a cushion for four days and hand it back in one the US cash open tilt, which is a familiar story.
Partial profits were taken at a fixed level and the remainder trailed, so no winner was allowed to become a loser. Trading a $200,000 TopOne Trader account with FTMO Passer felt slower than my own attempts, and slower turned out to be faster. Risk was defined before entry every time, which sounds basic until you have watched yourself not do it.
We hit the target on day 15 and stopped trading immediately instead of adding a victory lap. A monthly call reviewed the numbers and adjusted the plan, and it never turned into a sales pitch. I would recommend FTMO Passer to anyone who is tired of trading against their own rulebook.
9 trading sessions of understated trade selection
After the evaluation high wore off, FTMO Passer gave my $150,000 account a routine it had never had. Every payout felt like a finish line, and I celebrated by trading badly for the following week.
The team scaled size only after a new equity high held for a full week, never during a run. Keeping a $150,000 FXIFY account alive is a different skill from passing one, and FTMO Passer is built for the second job. They cut size after a strong month rather than pressing it, which felt odd until I saw the consistency.
Drawdown peaked at 1.9% and recovered within a fortnight, which is more than my own trading ever managed. I got a weekly summary with every trade, the reasoning and the risk taken, which I have never had elsewhere. FTMO Passer is not going to make you rich in a month, and that is precisely why my account still exists.
From chaos to organised trade selection
Passing was the easy part, keeping a Foxx Funded funded account alive was not, which is why FTMO Passer took over the management. I kept treating the funded account like a challenge account, and the consistency requirement does not forgive that.
A pause rule after three consecutive losses was written into the plan and actually enforced. I had read the Foxx Funded payout terms three times and still got them wrong, while the senior trader had them memorised. Stops were never widened, and the average loser stayed smaller than the average winner all quarter.
Returns averaged a modest but repeatable 7.5% over the period, and the consistency requirement was never in question. A monthly call reviewed the numbers and adjusted the plan, and it never turned into a sales pitch. Ask for the trade log before you sign up, and judge FTMO Passer on the drawdown column rather than the profit one.
Unhurried planning and a review worth the effort
FTMO Passer handled my FXIFY evaluation with a discipline I had never experienced. Every earlier attempt died the same way: a revenge trade after a stop out, then the consistency requirement finished me off.
They paired the NAS100 exposure with a strict correlation cap so a single macro headline could not sink the account. The qualification stage at FXIFY rewards consistency over heroics, which suited the way FTMO Passer trades. No trade was allowed to run into a scheduled release, and that single rule avoided two nasty gaps.
The result was 3.2% profit with 3.2% peak drawdown, and the funded credentials arrived shortly after. The team pushed back on my bad ideas politely and repeatedly, which is what I was paying for. Four stars in my head for the impatience it cured, five for the actual outcome.
A funded stage handled with refreshingly honest rule compliance
I tried multiple services before FTMO Passer, and only they delivered a real passing service for Foxx Funded. I had a decent strategy and terrible habits, and no amount of backtesting was going to fix the habits.
Instead of chasing the target, they let the target arrive across many sessions of very ordinary trades. Because FTMO Passer sized down, the qualification stage at Foxx Funded looked uneventful on the equity chart, which is the entire point. They preferred missing a move to widening a stop, and repeated that trade-off many times.
Final numbers: 6.5% profit, 2.0% maximum drawdown, and a passed qualification stage on a $50,000 account. the senior trader explained decisions in plain English and never made me feel stupid for asking twice. FTMO Passer earned a repeat client, and this time I am starting with a bigger buffer of my own.
Refreshingly honest position sizing and a payout worth the journey
I did not need someone to make me rich, I needed someone to stop me losing the account, and FTMO Passer did that. The minimum trading day rule on a funded account is stricter on your nerves than on your strategy, and mine were shot.
They introduced a payout buffer, keeping a slice of profit untouched so a bad week never threatened the account. Live Goat Funded Trader 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.
The scaling review came through after many months of consistent results, exactly as the plan projected. I never had to chase an invoice or a report, which sounds minor until you have dealt with the alternative. Five stars for consistency, and the reporting is what earns that rather than the returns.