Prop firms to avoid (2026)

Only 86 Trustpilot reviews at 3.3 - too thin a record to verify either way. This is not an allegation of misconduct: we simply have no reliable basis for recommending a firm this lightly reviewed, and our floor for firms under 5,000 reviews is 3.8. We'll revisit once there's enough of a track record to judge.

Excluded from the directory: Trustpilot suspended the firm's rating in 2025–2026 for suspected review manipulation. That isn't proof of payout misconduct — the firm continues to operate — but when independent review data can't be verified, the firm can't be vetted to the same standard as listed firms. Candidate for re-inclusion if the rating is reinstated.

Excluded from the directory: launched late 2024 and currently sits around 3.1/5 on Trustpilot — below the floor for a recommendation — with multiple reviews citing payout delays and rule-enforcement complaints. May warrant inclusion in a future quarter if the rating stabilizes and the trader base grows.

Demoted from the active partner list in June 2026: a recurring 'shared device' policy used to confiscate profits and ban accounts even where traders documented a multi-month gap on pre-owned hardware. Still operating, but the payout-denial pattern is a caution and it is no longer affiliate-linked here.

Demoted on our own rating floor: 3.3 on Trustpilot across 326 reviews as of September 2026, below the 3.8 minimum we require of firms with fewer than 5,000 reviews, and down from the level at which we first listed it. Reviews are sharply polarized rather than uniformly poor. The recurring themes are payout caps in early cycles, slower processing than advertised, and a discretionary route to live capital. Gibraltar-registered. Still operating and still paying traders — excluded from recommendations on the rating alone, and a candidate for relisting if it recovers and holds.

Demoted from the active partner list in June 2026: a recurring pattern of payout denials at the second payout, with profitable accounts flagged for 'shared IP / shared environment' on near-identical template emails. Trustpilot has slid toward 3.0. Still operating and many traders are paid, but no longer affiliate-linked here.

Demoted on our own rating floor: 3.4 on Trustpilot across 570 reviews, below the 3.8 minimum we require of firms with under 5,000 reviews. No payout dispute and no collapse - the score simply fell short of the bar we hold every firm to. We removed our affiliate link rather than keep recommending a firm our own rule excludes, and will relist if the rating recovers and holds.

Sits at 3.7 on Trustpilot across 640 reviews, just under the 3.8 floor we require of firms with fewer than 5,000 reviews. A marginal miss rather than a serious concern, but the floor only means something if we apply it to firms that fall barely short as well as badly short.

Reclassified September 2026. In June the firm's CEO, Khaled Ayesh, posted that its new Prime account “is and will remain optional.” By August, traders invited by its Responsible Trading Team were being moved into Prime without an opt-out. Prime works by forfeiting the fourth cash payout in exchange for a trading allocation, capped at 10% of the master account size. The firm acknowledged concerns about how the transition was communicated but declined to say whether it was intended to preserve cash. Converting an earned cash payout into something that isn't cash is the pattern we flag on — the same shape as Alpha Futures converting pending payouts into fee refunds. Funding Pips also shares ownership with FundingTicks, which changed its rules retroactively in December 2025 and shut down in January 2026 with only partial refunds. Still operating, and earlier payouts are still paid in cash.

Not the same firm as MyFundedFutures. Reclassified September 2026. MyForexFunds was shut down in August 2023 by an ex parte CFTC asset freeze, and trader payouts stayed frozen for roughly two years. In May 2025 a US federal court dismissed the case with prejudice and sanctioned the CFTC around $3.1 million, after a Special Master found the agency had made false statements in sworn declarations — the transfer cited as evidence of asset dissipation was a legitimate tax payment to the Canada Revenue Agency, which the CFTC held documentation of before it filed. Canadian assets were ordered returned in December 2025, and the firm began contacting traders about outstanding 2023 payouts in April 2026. We previously listed this under withheld payouts. That was wrong: the freeze was imposed by a regulator a court later sanctioned, not by the firm. Two caveats stand — the dismissal was procedural and the underlying allegations were never tried on the merits, and a relaunching firm has no current track record. Kept on the list for historical clarity, because the name is routinely confused with the separate and operating MyFundedFutures, and because a returning firm is unproven by definition.

Caution-flagged pending re-verification; affiliate removed. (Replace with specific rationale from prior review.)