Elite Trader Funding Reviews 

I am highly satisfied with the service I received from Elite Trader Funding's support team. A payment and account activation issue I was facing (involving 5 Elite accounts) was resolved extremely quickly and professionally.

Customer service clearly explained the situation, and immediately after I completed the necessary steps, my past-due payments were processed, and my accounts were instantly activated.

I recommend them without hesitation. Thank you for the fast and effective solution!

Great customer service, Quick to respond when issues arise or if you have any questions, very helpful!

Reliable prop firm,I have been staying with themfor a while

I dont like the minumun 200/300 USD to get a 1/10 credit to get a payout at 10 days credited but I realize its for understandable risk management reasons while the firm grows its capitalon the back end.

This is in order to disinsetivize "hit and run" trading /windfall trading.

I would recommend this firm as it has shown real progress in the progressing from a seemingly sim only/sim eval funded venture to a real prop firm.

I expect nothing from good things from this firm in the future as they get more live traders and truly moves into an old school instiyutional style prop desk.

I save my 5 stars when this inevitavebly happens.

need to have some data that will allow traders to live data like trading view and all them lag back

Quick easy and reliable

THE WORST prop firm you can get!

I mean look at their 50k accounts. The most expensive on the market (by a huge, huge margin) and the lowest you can ask for a payment (also by a huge margin, it's insane).
They limited the number of Elite accounts to 5, while the COMPETITION is giving 10-20.

Now, for rithmic data feed they are charging 40$ per month, which is insane! I don't need their stupid data feed.

It cost you double to activate your Elite account, it simply doesn't make sense why would enyone choose this prop firm.

I guess they simply don’t understand the meaning of words COMPETITION and COMPETITIVE 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

I have also written this on their discord channel and got insant ban. I should have expected this, they provide a top notch service (...)

PS. "As for Discord moderation, bans are typically related to violations of community guidelines, which are in place to keep discussions productive and respectful for all members"

what i wrote here is exactly what i've written on Discord. I guess negative feedbacks are punished with a ban. I am not saying i feel bad about it, just that it made me terminate all my subscriptions i had at the moment.
I don't need luck in my trading career, not at all. But i do believe you need all the luck in the world, for surviving another year....

Ps2. The fact that all the positive feedback are labeled as Invited speaks volumes about how not recommend this prop firm is! Awful, awful way of doing business...

Elite trader funding is my go to prop firm. Quick response time on emails clean dashboard. And pay outs are good as well.

Straight forward platform. Need more promo. Also needs to add paper trading platform for new user. Need more promo.

Edit: It's been a month now and notice how ETF STILL hasn't addressed the denied payout in their response. Obvious red flag and you should look elsewhere.

I followed all the DTF rules and submitted for my $2.5k payout. Payout denied and they moved me to live with a 5k static account and 20MES. Account took a week longer than they said it would to setup and it was setup with only 2 MES. Waiting another 5 days for this to get fixed. They emailed me and said it was fixed. I wait for my trade and execute only to find out the account is locked. I emailed them and they unlocked, but my trade had already played out. Missed trade due to ETF's incompetence. I start trading and take a payout. Payout is processed same day, but account remains locked. I am told it will be ready to go by next trading day. Next morning the account is still locked as I try to execute a trade and it doesn't work. Another missed win. Trade a few more days and take another payout and the same shit again. Told account will be ready and it wasn't. Another missed trade.

Today I lost 50% of the account balance and my so called 5k static they gave me in fact was a lie as well. They closed my account mid trade. Guess what happened. I never hit my stop and the account balance never went to zero and then profit targets hit. The email said they need to end the "partnership". What in any of my experience above leads them to believe this was a partnership. It is absolutely a one way street to protect themselves and their bottom line. I will absolutely never spend another dime with these incompetent fools again.

Edit based on their response. They want to address my experience "honestly" but then ignore the denied payout. If you incompetent crooks left my trade alone it ended up hitting profit but instead closed it for me taking the loss (only 6 points above my stop loss). It says nothing on your site about this 50% rule, which proves again that ETF does what they want and could care less about the trader. Denied payouts and made up rules on the fly. Clown prop firm.

Go ahead and address my denied payout (you won't) so you can admit this is what you do even though your chat bot said payouts will be processed during live transition.

Instead of coming on here running damage control for all the one star reviews (25% of your reviews are one star lol) actually work on being a better firm.

I’d wish you luck, but the industry would be better off if your firm were as liquidated as the accounts you prey on.

Before joining Elite Trader Funding, I had 9 other traders tell me NOT to do it and this was the biggest scam of a prop firm out there. I really wanted to prove them wrong and unfortunately today I have to concede victory to them as I was denied payout after running up over $13,000+ in profits. Unbelievably, they have these scam rules that change mid-way through your trading journey, not after a payout or a move up to a new level.... it literally changes dynamically with the only objective to screw you out of a payout, exactly like every one of my other trader friends told me they would do. How do you respond to this ETF? And please don't lecture us on how this is some quality you are looking for in a trader.... this is a total scam designed to fail accounts of solid traders. Terrible…. Buyer beware, these con artists screwed me out of over $13,000 and now offer no explanation or payout option. Worst rated prop firm on the market today and for good reason.

My Reply to ETF's Reply:

Thanks for responding, but your explanation actually highlights exactly why many traders view Elite Trader Funding as predatory.

1.) You’re calling this a “standing risk parameter,” but in practice it activates only after a trader becomes significantly profitable (20% profit milestone) rather than existing from day one. That means the effective risk profile of the account materially changes mid‑journey, precisely when the trader has finally built a meaningful cushion. A rule that only turns on after profit is reached is, by definition, dynamic in effect, even if you’ve buried it in documentation.

2.) The way this is structured creates an obvious economic incentive for the firm:
- Let traders grind and generate large profits.
- Once they cross a profit level, flip them into a much tighter loss parameter.
- Any normal variance or modest drawdown after a big run‑up is then used as grounds to deny payout and terminate the account.
A rule that only really “bites” once traders are in payout territory doesn’t look like risk management; it looks like a payout‑avoidance mechanism.

3.) Transparency is not just “somewhere in the Help Center.” Traders are sold on marketing headlines and simple rules; the critical “gotcha” here is a non‑intuitive mechanic that is:
- Triggered only after a certain profit level,
- Not front‑and‑center in the signup flow,
- And only fully understood after a trader loses a large payout.

Hiding the most punitive part of your framework behind help articles while promoting “no time limits” and “simple rules” is classic predatory design.

4.) Your response never addresses the core ethical issue: if a trader meets all stated objectives and builds over $13,000 in profit, why is the default reaction to deny the payout instead of:

- At minimum paying out a portion, or
- Giving a warning/reset, or
- Clearly notifying the trader when this new loss limit starts applying?

The fact that there is zero flexibility, no partial payout, and no warning at the time this “standing” rule actually becomes active in practice is what makes this feel like a trap, not genuine risk control.

5.) The “we also evaluate risk control” line is a red flag. Risk management is something you build into the evaluation rules from the start, not something you selectively enforce only once the firm is on the hook to pay. When risk rules are designed in such a way that they almost never interfere with traders losing, but trigger only when they are finally in line for a payout, the economic intent is obvious.

In short:
- A rule that activates only after hitting a profit threshold is functionally dynamic.
- Its structure disproportionately punishes profitable traders right at payout time.
- It’s not prominently disclosed where it matters (front‑end marketing and evaluation description).
- The inability to offer any fair compromise or partial payout underscores that this is about preserving firm revenue, not about trader development or genuine risk management. You have a chance to correct this part....

This is why many of us call these practices predatory: they’re engineered not to protect traders or capital, but to systematically reduce the firm’s obligation to pay out profitable accounts. Buyer Beware.

AWESOME EXPERIENCE

I am writing a second review simply to prove the point that they don't actually read these reviews. I will inevitably get a copy pasted response discussing a $25000 payment from this company that I never received.

See my first review a couple days ago to understand the real issues of the company.

very efficient Firm, ease of use and clear rules. Fast account setups.

It was a smooth experience, after almost 2 years of setbacks and understanding the market.
Thank you elitetraderfunding.com for all the support.
Bring on the next phase.

Elite is reputable and has great customer service.

Easy to buy accounts for evaluation. Also the rules are not very stringent to traders and you easily pass.

I have blown many accounts probably a record amount yet her I still am here.

They refused the payout because I and my girlfriend live in the same household. I trade my own account. She trades her own account. Our trading styles are completely different. We even trade in different rooms. If this violates your platform then everybody needs to know this and I don't want to associate with Elite Trader Funding.