tts.03 :
I want to warn other traders about my experience with QT Funded.
I did not trade two accounts at the same time. I traded them one after the other.
Account 1: I passed Phase 1 without any issues. I then passed Phase 2 trading exactly the same way. Right when I should have received my funded account, I got an email saying the account was in "hard breach" for "Excessive Margin Usage".
Account 2: I gave them another chance and started over. Again I passed Phase 1 without any problem. Again I passed Phase 2. And again, right at the moment I should have become funded, I received the exact same email for the exact same reason.
Both times it was an immediate hard breach. I didn't just lose my profits, I lost the entire account. All the work of passing two phases, gone. Twice in a row, on two separate accounts, both times only after passing Phase 2.
The facts:
- Every trade had a stop loss in place.
- I never risked more than 1% per trade, and often less.
- I used the exact same strategy and risk in Phase 1 on both accounts, and that was never a problem.
- The emails call my trading "malicious" and an attempt to "exploit the account structure", without telling me which trades, which percentage, or which exact limit I supposedly exceeded.
My strategy uses tight stop losses, so the lot size is larger, but the actual risk to the account stays the same. If there is a maximum margin usage, it should be clearly stated as a number in the rules before you buy a challenge. I could not find any clear limit like that.
What bothers me most is the timing. Same trading, no problem in Phase 1, but as soon as I pass Phase 2 and would become funded, suddenly it's a violation. And not once, but twice in a row. In my opinion this is a very unfair way of treating traders. It feels like vague rules are used to avoid giving people funded accounts.
As a "gesture of goodwill" all they offered me was a new challenge, starting again from Phase 1. That is pointless. You pass both phases, they breach you right before funding, you get a new challenge, you pass again, and the same thing can happen again. It's a vicious circle where you never actually get funded.
DON'T TRADE WITH QTFUNDED!
2026-11-09 14:11:40