The firms we won’t take money from
12 verified firms below the recommendation bar · Zero affiliate links · Firewall enforced in code
A review site that only rates firms well is an advertisement. Every firm below got the same treatment as the firms we recommend — the same published criteria, the same per-variable evidence trail — and landed below our bar. They stay published, they carry a Research Onlylabel, and they earn us nothing: the affiliate route physically cannot exist for a firm scoring under 50 or one we don’t recommend. No commission rate changes that. These verdicts are what make the positive ones worth anything.
- 47.7CautionVerified 2026-06-17 · TraderVerdictThe Funded Traderprop firm
August 2023 suspension froze trader payouts for an extended period — the most-cited red flag in the firm history.|Post-recovery rule changes have been frequent and not consistently trader-favorable.|Score below 50 means…
Full verdict and evidence → - 61.6AdequateVerified 2026-06-24 · TraderVerdict
- 47.8CautionVerified 2026-05-31 · TraderVerdict
- 56.6AdequateVerified 2026-05-30 · TraderVerdict
- 60.4AdequateVerified 2026-05-31 · TraderVerdict
- 61.9AdequateVerified 2026-05-30 · TraderVerdict
- 43CautionVerified 2026-06-11 · TraderVerdict
- 44CautionVerified 2026-06-11 · TraderVerdict
- 49CautionVerified 2026-06-09 · TraderVerdict
- 49CautionVerified 2026-06-09 · TraderVerdict
- 81ExcellentVerified 2026-06-07 · TraderVerdict
- 86ExcellentVerified 2026-06-07 · TraderVerdict
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