A funded-account programme that profits from failed challenges will always be tempted to set traders up to fail. We built the opposite, and then published the numbers so you can hold us to it.
In 2019 Hana Halvorsen and Idris Haddad were both trading other people's capital and both spending their evenings answering the same question from friends: which funded-account programme is worth paying for? The honest answer was none of them, because the good ones did not teach and the ones that taught did not fund.
So the first version of HH was a curriculum, run for eleven people out of a shared document. Nine of them ended up passing an evaluation somewhere else, which was a useful result and a slightly embarrassing business model. We added our own evaluations in 2021, and our own capital in 2022.
The rule we set then still holds: the evaluation fee is refunded with your first payout. If we are not producing traders who reach a payout, we are not earning. That single constraint has shaped every other decision on this site — the free retry, the absent time limit, the mentors who have to show their own equity curve before they can teach.
We report the percentage of traders who clear each route every quarter, including the quarters where it drops. It currently sits at 11.4% for the 2-step. That number is low because evaluations are hard, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Every rule that can close your account is on the pricing page, in plain language, before you pay. There is no consistency clause we apply retroactively and no discretionary review of a passing account.
The curriculum is available without an evaluation, and membership credits against the fee if you buy one later. We would rather you arrive prepared than arrive quickly.
Payouts are processed by a team with no authority to delay one for review. If a request is going to take longer than 24 hours, you get told why within the first two.
Mentors trade funded accounts alongside you. Their live equity curves are on their profiles inside the desk.
CO-FOUNDER
Ten years on an FX desk in Oslo. Writes the risk modelling track.
CO-FOUNDER
Former prop trader, indices and energy. Runs the London open session.
HEAD OF MENTORSHIP
Trades gold and US indices. Reviews roughly 90 journals a week.
HEAD OF PAYOUTS
Built the payout pipeline. Answers the support queue personally most days.
Run out of a shared document. Nine of the eleven passed an evaluation elsewhere.
The 2-step route launched with a refunded fee, which nobody else was doing at the time.
Stopped routing funded accounts through a partner firm and started backing traders directly.
Simulator, automatic journaling, and the live drawdown meter in one place.
1,902 funded accounts across 63 countries, with a median payout time of 18 hours.
Sit in on a live session, read the published pass rates, then decide.