How the desk scores

Plain terms, no black box. If you disagree with a score you can trace exactly where it came from.

The test

Every firm is scored on its best program, and that is the program shown on its card. A program counts only when it has all five rules with a source: the profit target of every phase, daily loss, max loss, minimum days (0 counts when the firm says it has none), split. On top of that we need a sourced price for the $100,000 account, or the nearest size the firm sells, read as price per $1,000 of account. The percentiles are taken over every complete program of every firm, and each firm keeps the score of its best one, so no firm is judged on a weaker program than it sells.

Miss any one of those and the firm is Not scored. It still gets a page, and it ranks after every scored firm. A gap never raises or lowers a score, and a card can never show a score next to "not verified".

Four parts, each a percentile

100 points total

Each part is the firm's rank among the scored firms, 0 worst to 100 best. It is a relative standing, not an absolute grade, so a score moves when the field moves.

Weight 40

Room

Max loss as a share of the total profit target across all phases (a three-phase 5% program needs 15%). The more a firm lets the account breathe against the target, the more room you actually have. A trailing max loss follows your highest balance, so profit you give back can fail the account. Room counts in full for a static max loss, 75% for one that trails at the end of the day, 50% for one that trails intraday, and 75% when the firm does not say which.

Weight 20

Daily room

The daily loss limit. Higher is better, and a firm with no daily limit counts as the best value.

Weight 20

Split

We score the split you get on the first payout, not the best case after scaling or paid add-ons. When a firm publishes only an 'up to' figure, we count 80%, the most common starting split among the firms we track. Higher is better.

Weight 20

Cost

Price per $1,000 of account. Lower is better.

Total is the weighted sum of the four ranks, rounded. Nothing else earns a point: not platform, not payout speed, not years operating, not whether a firm advertises with us. See how this works on a real firm: our VFunded review.

Prices

Price is the model's fee for the $100,000 account, or the nearest size on its table. Where a model has no size table, the size in the model name is used; if the name carries none, the firm's lowest published price is taken against the $100,000 basis. Cost is always read per $1,000 of account, so a big account and a small one compare fairly.

A monthly subscription is scored on its first month’s fee, the least you will pay. Every extra month costs the same again.

The rules we hold to

Scores come from published terms only, set before any commercial consideration.
Our own brand firm, VFunded, is scored by the same formula and is not forced to the top.
Discount codes and commission are excluded. List prices are scored.
Trader sentiment carries zero weight.
An unpublished figure renders as not published. Silence is information.
Every value keeps the exact page it was read on.

Your process. Capital behind it.

Evaluation first, funded account after: up to $200K and a 90% split, nothing hidden.

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