17 days of grounded position sizing
FTMO Passer runs two funded accounts for me now, after the first one behaved exactly as they described. I had no routine, no review process, and no idea how close I was to the position size cap on any given day.
The schedule was built around the My Funded Futures payout cycle rather than around my impatience. The scaling path at My Funded Futures only matters if you survive, and FTMO Passer treated survival as the first objective. Stops were never widened, and the average loser stayed smaller than the average winner all quarter.
The $200,000 account grew 4.2% across many weeks, and I have withdrawn a portion of that rather than compounding blindly. They set expectations at the start and then reported against them, week after week. Not affiliated, just a client who finally stopped sabotaging a perfectly good funded account.
Rules-first drawdown management and a assessment that ended well
FTMO Passer handled my The 5%ers evaluation with a level of care I had not seen before. I had already spent more on resets than on education, and that number is what made me look for help.
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. They knew which sessions suited index CFDs under the The 5%ers conditions and simply avoided the rest. No trade was allowed to run into a scheduled release, and that single rule avoided two nasty gaps.
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. If you keep resetting The 5%ers evaluations, FTMO Passer is the option I would point you to, provided you leave the plan alone.
From 9 failed attempts to a clean evaluation
The prop firm passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that made the My Funded Futures rules feel manageable. I was one of those traders who read every rule and still broke the equity-based drawdown in the first fortnight.
They logged every entry with a screenshot and a one-line reason, which made the weekly review genuinely useful. Ignoring the equity-based drawdown is what cost me two accounts at My Funded Futures, and it was the one thing FTMO Passer never did. The stop was never moved further away, not once, and that alone separated this from my own attempts.
The first phase was completed on the first attempt with FTMO Passer, after two failures on my own. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. FTMO Passer earned a repeat client, and this time I am starting with a bigger buffer of my own.
Calm planning and a two-step process that ended properly
FTMO Passer manages my $50,000 FTMO account, and the biggest change has been how uneventful the weeks feel. I had no drawdown plan, only a profit hope, and FTMO rules do not reward hope.
Position size was set at 0.50 lots and only reviewed after a full month of data, not after a good afternoon. The scaling path at FTMO only matters if you survive, and FTMO Passer treated survival as the first objective. They preferred a flat month to a breached account, and I have learned to feel the same way.
Best month was strong, worst month was small and negative, and that ratio is why I stayed with FTMO Passer. I never had to chase an invoice or a report, which sounds minor until you have dealt with the alternative. FTMO Passer gave me back my evenings, and the account performance was almost a bonus.
How detailed progress tracking made it work
After the evaluation high wore off, FTMO Passer gave my $150,000 account a routine it had never had. Live capital felt completely different, and my first month on Apex Trader Funding was a masterclass in second-guessing.
The book was reduced to two setups on gold futures, traded only during the the rollover hour, with everything else filtered out. The Apex Trader Funding dashboard became something I check weekly instead of hourly, which is the real benefit here. Risk per trade stayed tiny, and the worst week was still comfortably inside the firm limits.
Total return of 2.7% with clean withdrawals, and no compliance emails at any point. A monthly call reviewed the numbers and adjusted the plan, and it never turned into a sales pitch. The fee made sense once the first payout cleared, and it has made sense every month since.
Transparent position sizing and a recap worth the wait
I had written off FTMO until FTMO Passer showed me what a proper prop firm passing service looks like. Confidence was not my issue, patience was, and the two-step process exposed that within a week.
The plan used a daily loss ceiling well inside the firm limit, so a bad day never came close to ending the run. FTMO Passer explained how the two-step process interacts with the trailing threshold using my own account numbers, which finally made it click. There was one losing streak of four trades, and instead of doubling up they reduced size and waited.
The pass came in a quiet week, which is probably the highest compliment I can pay the process. The onboarding call ran long because I had questions, and nobody tried to rush me off it. FTMO Passer did what they said they would do, on an account where I had already failed twice.
18 trading sessions of well-paced risk budgeting
I hired FTMO Passer to clear a Apex Trader Funding evaluation and stayed because the process was calmer than anything I had managed solo. I kept widening stops, and the Apex Trader Funding dashboard was unforgiving about the drawdown that followed.
The whole approach was mechanical enough that I could audit it myself at the end of each day. Ignoring the trailing threshold is what cost me two accounts at Apex Trader Funding, 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.
Confirmation came through with a 7.3% return and a drawdown profile I could actually defend to myself. Support replied within a couple of hours even during a busy week, which surprised me. FTMO Passer did what they said they would do, on an account where I had already failed twice.
17 weeks of precise risk control
After the pass I had no idea how to trade live capital, so FTMO Passer stepped in with their funded management service. I had no drawdown plan, only a profit hope, and Topstep rules do not reward hope.
Trade selection was filtered by session and volatility, so the quiet hours were simply not traded. I had read the Topstep payout terms three times and still got them wrong, while the team lead had them memorised. After two losses in a session the desk closed, no exceptions and no negotiation.
Over many weeks the $200,000 account returned 7.0% with a deepest dip of 1.1%, and payouts landed on schedule. They flagged a rule change before it affected my account rather than after. FTMO Passer gave me back my evenings, and the account performance was almost a bonus.
From frustration to straightforward planning
Six months into the managed account service with FTMO Passer, my Lucid Trading account is still active and still paying. Every payout felt like a finish line, and I celebrated by trading badly for the following week.
They reduced trade frequency dramatically, which improved my results more than any indicator ever had. I had read the Lucid Trading payout terms three times and still got them wrong, while my account manager had them memorised. No position was held through a scheduled release, and that avoided the exact event that killed my last account.
Steady 6.0% growth, 2.0% maximum drawdown, and a payout history I can actually show people. They flagged a rule change before it affected my account rather than after. FTMO Passer is not going to make you rich in a month, and that is precisely why my account still exists.
Rules-first reporting on a evaluation that almost ended it
I went to FTMO Passer expecting noise and got a structured evaluation passing service for my Topstep account. I knew the daily loss limit existed and still traded straight through a high-impact release.
Partial profits were taken at a fixed level and the remainder trailed, so no winner was allowed to become a loser. Because FTMO Passer sized down, the first phase at Topstep looked uneventful on the equity chart, which is the entire point. Drawdown was reviewed daily and size was trimmed automatically once a threshold was touched.
The first phase was completed on the first attempt with FTMO Passer, after two failures on my own. There was a shared sheet I could check any time, so I never had to ask how the account was doing. Not the cheapest service I looked at, but the only one that explained the risk before the reward.