Funding Pips
Funding Pips has been around since 2021 and traders keep using them. Whether that's because the product is good or because the marketing budget is genuinely large...that's something the pass rate and community data will tell you better than we can.
(38% of complaints)
Who Is This Firm For?
About Funding Pips
Founded in Dubai in 2022, they've built one of the larger Trustpilot profiles in the industry in a short time. 54,329 reviews don't lie — though 8% one-star is worth keeping an eye on.
- Founded
- 2022
- Max Allocation
- $200,000
- Leverage
- 1:100
- Commissions
- $3/lot
Pros
- - Zero Model: no profit target on master account — unique offering not available at most prop firms
- - 54,329 Trustpilot reviews with consistent payout track record — one of the largest review bases in the industry
- - Hidden Rules Meter 2.0/10 — rules clearly documented and accessible before purchase
- - Static drawdown on all evaluation models — floor never moves against you as you profit
- - Risk per position hard limits clearly defined — 2% above $50K, 3% below $50K
- - 3-day minimum trading requirement — one of the lowest evaluation minimums available
Cons
- - News trading prohibited and classified as account abuse — applies to both evaluation and funded, no exceptions
- - Same trade idea rule — new position in same direction within 10 minutes counts as one combined risk limit
- - Risk assessment interviews can occur daily, weekly or monthly — payouts withheld until completed
- - Zero Model requires 7 profitable days per 30-day period with minimum 0.25% per day — failure closes account
- - Chargeback or payment dispute: immediate permanent ban, all accounts closed, no appeals
- - Responsible Trading Policy runs to several thousand words — unusually detailed compliance framework
Lost faith in this firm
Based on their marketing I expected a lot more than I got. Documentation contradicts itself in multiple places. Looking forward to never logging into their dashboard again.— Verified Trader (arjun) See all reviews
News trading is a hard line at Funding Pips — not a soft restriction. If news is any part of your strategy, this is not the right firm. The 10-minute same-direction trade idea rule catches traders who scale into positions gradually — every buy you open within 10 minutes of the last one counts toward the same risk limit. Read the Zero Model's 7-day profitable requirement carefully before you request a payout.
Trading Conditions
Drawdown System
- 1-Step: 3% daily, 6% max — Static
- 2-Step: 5% daily, 10% max — Static
- 2-Step Pro: 3% daily, 6% max — Static
- Zero Model (master): 3% daily, 5% max — Trailing equity-based
- Zero Model: trails to highest equity — locks permanently at initial balance once 5% profit reached
- 30-day inactivity: account closed
High-Frequency & Fast Trading
- Not Allowed:
- HFT and tick scalping
- Latency arbitrage
- Reverse arbitrage
- Toxic trading flow and server spamming
- Gap trading
- Hedging and long-short arbitrage
- Opposite account trading
- Overleveraging and excessive position sizing
Low Liquidity & Timing
- News trading: explicitly prohibited on all accounts — evaluation and master stage
- Intentional news trading classified as account abuse — leads to termination
- No specific session time restrictions beyond news prohibition
- Zero Model: minimum 7 profitable days per 30-day period required — each day must generate at least 0.25% of account balance
Loss-Chasing & Gambling
- Not Allowed:
- Overleveraging and excessive position sizing
- Purposely trading news events — classified as account abuse
- Same direction position within 10 minutes of existing trade: counted as one trade idea for risk limit purposes
- Splitting one trade into multiple positions to bypass risk per position limits
- Account management or copy trading by third-party vendors
Risk Management
- Accounts $50K and above: maximum 2% risk per position
- Accounts below $50K: maximum 3% risk per position
- Same trade idea rule: new position in same direction within 10 minutes = one combined risk limit
- IP activity monitored and logged — coordinated or managed trading patterns trigger review
- Risk assessment interviews: mandatory participation — payouts withheld until completed
- Payment dispute or chargeback: immediate permanent ban, all accounts closed, no appeals
Funding Pips - Trading Conditions, Key Rules
Forbidden Trading Practices
- Gap trading
- High-frequency trading
- Toxic trading flow & server spamming
- Latency arbitrage
- Hedging & long-short arbitrage
- Reverse arbitrage & tick scalping
- Opposite account trading
- Copy trading or account management by third-party vendors
- Overleveraging & excessive position sizing
- Purposely trading news events — explicitly prohibited & classified as abuse
That last one deserves special attention. Most firms restrict news trading on funded accounts. Funding Pips goes further — intentionally trading news is classified as an abuse of the account given in good faith & leads to termination. Not a soft rule. A hard line.
Side note: the Responsible Trading Policy runs to several thousand words and covers everything from geopolitical awareness to taking breaks. It reads less like a terms document and more like a trading philosophy book. Whether that's reassuring or slightly overwhelming depends on your patience for fine print.
News Trading
- News trading is forbidden — intentionally trading news events leads to account termination
- Classified as an abuse of Funding Pips accounts
- Applies to both evaluation and master stage
This is one of the strictest news trading policies in the industry. If news trading is any part of your strategy — Funding Pips is not the right firm.
Expert Advisors
- Third-party EAs → allowed only if used as a trade or risk manager
- Any other third-party EA → not allowed, leads to account violation & reward decline
- Custom EAs → permitted within responsible trading guidelines
The distinction is narrow but important — an EA that manages your risk or executes your trades is fine. An EA that generates signals or operates autonomously is not. If you're not sure which category yours falls into, assume it doesn't qualify until confirmed.
Copy Trading
- Copy trading by third-party vendors → strictly prohibited
- Account management by third parties → not allowed
- IP monitoring → Funding Pips explicitly reserves the right to monitor, log & analyze IP address activity
You can trade from multiple IPs — that's acknowledged. But if IP patterns suggest coordinated or managed trading, expect a review.
Account Models — Overview
| Model | Profit Target | Daily Loss | Max Loss | Min Trading Days | Drawdown Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Step | 10% | 3% | 6% | 3 days | Static |
| 2-Step (Phase 1) | 8% or 10% | 5% | 10% | 3 days | Static |
| 2-Step (Phase 2) | 5% | 5% | 10% | 3 days | Static |
| 2-Step Pro (Phase 1) | 6% | 3% | 6% | 1 day | Static |
| 2-Step Pro (Phase 2) | — | 3% | 6% | 1 day | Static |
| Zero Model (Master) | No target | 3% | 5% | 7 profitable days/30 days | Trailing |
The Zero Model — What It Actually Means
The Zero Model is the most unique offering in the Funding Pips lineup & the one most traders misread.
- No profit target on the master account
- 5% trailing max loss — based on equity, trails to the highest equity level reached
- Once 5% profit is reached → max loss locks at initial balance permanently
- 7 minimum profitable days required every 30-day period — each day must generate at least 0.25% of account balance
- Failure to meet the 30-day requirement → account closed
The trailing mechanism works similarly to other firms' trailing drawdown — the better you do early, the tighter your floor gets until the lock kicks in. After the lock, it behaves like a static drawdown. Read the sequence carefully before you start.
Risk Per Position — Hard Limits
This section applies to all accounts & is enforced strictly.
- Accounts $50K and above → maximum 2% risk per position
- Accounts below $50K → maximum 3% risk per position
- Same trade idea rule → opening a new position in the same direction within 10 minutes counts as one trade idea for the 2%/3% limit
- Splitting trades into multiple positions → all positions counted as one trade for the purpose of this rule
The 10-minute same-direction rule catches traders who try to scale into positions gradually. If you opened a buy 8 minutes ago & open another buy now — that's one trade idea, one combined risk limit.
Risk Assessment Interviews
- Periodic risk & compliance assessments — can occur monthly, weekly or daily
- Once initiated → payouts withheld until assessment is satisfactorily completed
- Participation mandatory — failure to cooperate results in withheld remuneration & potential termination
The frequency range here is wide — daily assessments are theoretically possible. In practice this is triggered by unusual trading patterns, but it's worth knowing the mechanism exists before you hit a payout request.
Inactivity Rule
- 30 consecutive calendar days without a trade → account closed
Standard across the industry. Nothing unusual here.
Disputes Policy
One rule worth reading before you ever consider a chargeback:
- Disputing a payment → account banned immediately, permanently
- All other active accounts → closed
- No appeals accepted
Funding Pips treats chargebacks as a direct financial & reputational damage. The policy is explicit and non-negotiable. If you have a genuine issue with a payment, contact support first — a dispute will end the relationship permanently.
Final Take
Funding Pips has built something real in three years — 54,329 Trustpilot reviews, a clean Hidden Rules Meter of 2.0/10 & a product lineup that covers most trading styles. The Zero Model in particular is genuinely different from what most firms offer.
The news trading prohibition is the most significant limitation in the lineup — stricter than most competitors & worth factoring in before you buy. The risk per position rules & the 10-minute same-direction trade idea rule add another layer of complexity that rewards traders who read carefully.
Hidden Rules Meter: 2.0/10 — Trust Score: 4.3/5 — Trustpilot: 4.5/5.
Restricted Countries
Funding Pips operates under Dubai law. Full list of restricted jurisdictions available on the Funding Pips website.
Features & Support
Zero
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
2-Step Pro
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 6.0%
2-Step Standard
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
2-Step Pro
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 6.0%
1-Step
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Zero
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
2-Step Standard
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
2-Step Pro
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 6.0%
1-Step
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Zero
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
2-Step Standard
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
2-Step Pro
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 6.0%
1-Step
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Zero
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
2-Step Standard
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
2-Step Pro
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 6.0%
1-Step
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Zero
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
2-Step Standard
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
2-Step Pro
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 6.0%
1-Step
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Zero
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
glad i switched
Went with teh smallest acount size to keep the risk low while i learned. i tested the live account against the demo with the same setups and it matched. fees are reasonable for what you get and the retake discount softens the blow. idk but the consistency rule is generous compared to the firms that cap you hard. getting verified for a payout needed an id and a selfie, standard stuff, painless. kyc was painless, uploaded my id and got verified the same afternoon. four stars, the missing one is just me being picky about the ui.
Cheap Eval Real Payouts
My prop firm group chat would not shut up about them so i caved. no surprise inactivity fees which i half expected to get hit with. the rules pdf is long but at least nothing is buried in tiny print. email notifications can lag a bit which is mildly annoying but not a dealbreaker. no hidden gotchas on the payout page, what they say is what you actually get. i had a margin scare during cpi and the platform held up without freezing. sticking around until they give me a reason not to.
they actually pay
Third firm i tested this quarter and probably the most painless so far. their content creators seem to actually trade the product instead of just reading scripts. i passed phase one then immediately fumbled phase two before pulling it back in the last week. i requested a payout three times and all three landed inside the promised window. would i recommend? yeah, as long as you can follow rules.
Paid On Time Every Time
Been burned by a sketchy firm before so i went in cautious this time. execution during london open is tight enough to scalp if you are into that. they paused my consistency tracker when i asked for a couple weeks off, super flexible. they honoured a payout even though i fat fingered a lot size, very fair. the ui looks like it was designed in 2014 but functionally everything works. i renewed my challenge this month which is basically my whole review right there. good enough that i stopped shopping around for alternatives.
Funded On First Try
I scalp news sometimes so i specifically checked their rules first this time. i like that the daily loss limit resets at a sane hour for my timezone. leverage is reasonable, not the reckless stuff that blows beginners up. they let me run my algo as long as it is not some latency arbitrage exploit. i traded indices mostly and the spreads on those were perfectly fine. not the cheapest, not the flashiest, just reliable, and that is enough.
not perfect but solid
got tired of demo trading and figured a challenge would force me to focus. the weekly market recap they send is actually worth reading. the demo and funded feeds matched closely enough that i trusted my backtests. pricing is not the cheapest but you kind of pay for the peace of mind. support speaks actual english and not copy pasted template answers. I don't see the point of some of the rules, man. verdict: boring in the best possible way.
mostly good experience
tried them out after a refund nightmare with a competitor. i got a small payout bonus for hitting a milestone which was unexpected. first withdrawal i was sweating bullets but it came through clean and on time. slippage outside of high impact news is basically a non issue for me. they cap the max lot size which annoyed me at first but it protects you. their economic calendar integration is a small thing but i use it daily.
Passed Eventually Lol
Ok so the evaluation is exactly as advertised which is rare these days. they refunded my eval fee when i got funded which was a nice surprise. the funded payout split started at 80/20 and scaled up which felt fair. i breached the daily loss limit on a tilt day, fully my fault … they did nothing wrong. their server uptime during the last nfp was flawless from where i sat. all in all i would point a friend their way without much hesitation.
Platform Is Rock Solid
started with thier two step eval because teh one step felt too good to be true. payouts are biweekly on funded accounts which is way better than the monthly firms. idk but i never had to chase support, they actually closed my ticket the same day. their dashboard is genuinely useful, learned stuff about my own trading just looking at it. would i do it again? yeah, probably with a bigger account next time.
no surprises here
my first funded account ever was with these guys so i am a bit biased. i scaled twice and each bump was a real size jump not some token gesture. the drawdown is calculated on balance not equity which honestly saved me a few times. the profit target on phase one is ambitious but not insane. i like that they show your stats in real time instead of a delayed dashboard. if you cannot handle a daily loss limit this place will eat you alive.
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