Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Real Funded?

Real Funded is a revolutionary prop firm that take a different approach to ensure sustainability, reliability and security to their traders. Made by real traders, we provide real trading power to those looking to make trading a successful endeavour.

If you are a trader looking to break out of the norm, look no further than Real Funded. We believe that all traders want are the tools to do the work to the best of their ability. Too many firms promise the world to their traders and don’t follow through, using hidden rules and empty slogans to succeed at the expense of their traders.

That’s why we created Real Funded. We believe success is when prop firms grow with their traders. Having built a successful trading infrastructure in the UK, we know what it takes to build a prop firm the right way. The Real way.

Our simple rules and powerful STP accounts mean that when we say real funds, we mean it. No B-book, no hidden rules, just real funds with guaranteed payouts that never rely on the sale of challenges. It’s about empowering traders to realise their trading potential with a prop firm built on trust, transparency and real trading power.

What is the minimum withdrawal amount?

The minimum withdrawal amount at Real Funded is $100. Once your trading profits reach this threshold, you can request a withdrawal through your Real Funded Wallet. Withdrawals are processed efficiently, ensuring you receive your funds quickly and securely.

Are the funds in my account real?

Yes. Real funds, Real traders, Real Funded. Our approach is simple, pass the evaluation process that is made to test the best of traders, and receive real funds at the end of it. We believe that the most sustainable approach is to find real trading talent and support them in their trading journey. When you make profit on your funded stage account, real profit has been made on our side too, meaning your payouts are always secure, reliable and fast. Backing traders with real funds means when your request is submitted to withdraw, it is processed daily with no delays.

Why should I join Real Funded?

Real Funded supports Real Traders. For too long, the prop trading industry has taken advantage of traders by relying on their downfalls and failures. Real Funded takes a different approach. We actively want our traders to succeed because your success is our success too. Our evaluations are designed to find Real traders with real capabilities and profitability. Passing the evaluation unlocks access to real funds and real trading power. No funny business, no rejections, no searching for a reason to deny. When you make profit on your account, you make real returns.

What trading platform can I use?

Real Funded use TradeLocker to trade. You can access your TradeLocker details on both your dashboard and via the account details email sent at the time of purchase of your evaluation. You can gain access to your Trade locker sign in at https://demo.Tradelocker.com

How are Real Funded different from other firms?

Real Funded are unlike most firms in the industry, the key stand out being the ability to back successful traders with real funds which provides a much needed level of confidence and security to traders. This means when you request your payout, there will be no excuses. The profit you make, is the profit we make too.

Alongside this, our technology and user interface is of the highest level of advancement including AI usability and insights to trading performance like no other. Our dashboard and technology is designed with traders' success in mind. Access information to your performance, market analysis from experts and keep up to date with all the market news, all at your fingertips.

Do you allow Martingale & Grid trading?

At Real Funded, we do not limit traders concerning their trading strategies as long as they are not abusive, prohibited strategies that cannot be replicated in live market conditions. As such, trading with the likes of Martingale and Grid trading is permitted and will not lead to account suspension.

The Real Funded Risk Department may contact users who trade in such a manner if they determine that the overall exposure and approach to the trading is high risk. This does not mean a suspension; instead, Real Funded will work directly with the trader to limit the potential risk of losses and protect the trader and the firm's capital.

In extreme circumstances, if deemed appropriate by the risk department, the trader may be asked to either use an alternative trading approach or lower their risk approach to the Martingale / Grid strategy to limit exposure.

Payouts and processing:

How long does the review take?

During the funded stage of a Real account, traders are able to make payout requests. Once the request is submitted, the assessment of the account will be conducted and the request will be concluded within 24 hours. Once the request is approved, the payout is allocated to your real wallet where it becomes eligible for withdrawal or to act as a credit for additional account purchases.

How frequent are payouts?

Payouts can be made on a daily basis. All traders on the funded stage are eligible for daily payouts. Traders are permitted a maximum of 1 request on a single day from their Real Funded wallet.

What is the payout processing time?

Once a request is submitted on your Real Funded wallet, the funds will be released within 24 hours. The processing of funds to then reach you will depend on the method of withdrawal chosen, with each one having their own processing times. When the request is accepted, you will receive email confirmation that the funds are on their way, via your chosen method of withdrawal.

How do the consistency rules work?

To qualify for evaluation approval, you must follow the 40% profit consistency rule. Traders must ensure not having one day's profit equal to more than 40% of the total trading interval profit to qualify for approval of the evaluation.

How frequent are payouts?

Payouts can be made on a daily basis. All traders on the funded stage are eligible for daily payouts. Traders are permitted a maximum of five requests on a single day from their Real Funded wallet.

When do I upload my KYC?

KYC can be uploaded at any stage, via our dashboard, and must be completed before receiving your live account. KYC must be completed ahead of requesting your first withdrawal request. By uploading your KYC before receiving your live account, you ensure no delays to your payout.

When do I sign my traders agreement?

The traders agreement can be downloaded and uploaded on the client dashboard. The traders agreement once downloaded must be signed and approved ahead of requesting your first withdrawal request.

What are your withdrawal methods?

Once funds are available in your Real Wallet, they can be withdrawn via the following methods:

Crypto
Bank transfer
Card transfer
Faster payments

How does the Real Funded Wallet work

The Real Wallet is where your profits from the Real Funded trading account are stored. Upon the approval of successful requests, your trading profits are withdrawn from your trading account and allocated to your wallet. Traders are then eligible to use the wallet for making additional purchases, using the profits they have generated, or alternatively withdraw them from the wallet to their chosen payment method. Traders are able to store funds in the wallet for an indefinite period of time, allowing funds to be used at the traders discretion.

What are the profit splits?

Profit splits are 80% as standard, and traders can receive up to 90%.

How do I request my payout?

Traders initiate their request by putting in their transfer request via the wallet on their dashboard. Once the transfer has been approved, traders can make the withdrawal to their chosen method via the wallet.

Can I make more than one request in a day?

Yes, traders with Real Funded can make up to five withdrawal requests per day.

How soon will my account be made after purchase?

Upon the successful purchase of your Real Funded Evaluation, you will receive an email containing your login information for the trading account. This email is automatically generated and will be sent within 5 minutes of your purchase completion. Trading account details can also be located on your Real Funded dashboard.

Do you offer a refund of the account fee

Real Funded do not offer a refund of the account fee upon successful completion of the evaluation. Please also see our refund policy within our T&C’s.

What are the available payment methods?

Real Funded offer a variety of payment methods to suit your financial requirements, including:

Crypto payment
Card payment (available post launch phase one).

Trading rules and information

What are the minimum trading days during evaluations?

While we do not have a set minimum trading days rule specifically, at Real Funded, we have a 40% consistency rule in the evaluations stage. This means that the trader will need to show trading consistency of 40%, and as a result will need three days of successful trading in order to pass.

Am I trading real capital?

Yes. During the funded phase of your account, your trades are facilitated into the live market via our Liquidity Providers. Our evaluations are designed to find real traders with real trading talent. Passing the evaluation showcases the ability to trade real funds and generate a genuine return. This means when you profit on the funded account, those returns have been made legitimately meaning you will face no issues at the time of payout.

What assets can be traded?

Real Funded provides exceptional trading conditions with low spreads and commissions across a variety of asset classes. These include:

(FX Pairs)
(Commodities)
(Indices)
(Cryptos)

What trading platform is used?

Real Funded uses TradeLocker on all account types.

IP / Device rules?

Real Funded have a strict IP/Device access policy to ensure the legitimacy of trading activity. All users to Real Funded on both evaluation and funded stages must ensure that their IP & Device are unique to them and do not match any other users. Matching IP/Device access will be viewed as possible account management and therefore a breach of the account and suspension from future services.

Multiple IP & Device access that illustrates possible suspicious activity will be investigated by the review team and may result in suspension. Trading activity must not cycle through multiple devices and access points. Traders must also notify Real Funded in the event of travelling which may result in IP location changes to other countries. This is to prevent the possibility of IP access breaches.

Traders must ensure that the IP & device access used in the evaluation must match with the IP & Devices used for trading in the funded phase. Traders who’s access points change from the evaluation to the funded phase will face account suspensions.

Can I use account management?

Account management is strictly prohibited and any uses of such services will result in account termination and rejection of any pending requests. Real Funded trades are expected to trade based on their own initiative and their own analysis without relying on others for their trade ideas or execution.

Copy trading alongside other users is also prohibited and falls within the account management criteria. Having a large percentage of trading activity matching with other users on regular occasions will result in a detailed review of activities and possible suspension from services.

Your IP & Device access in the funded phase must match the IP & device access of the evaluation.

Can I use an EA?

Yes, EAs can be used with Real Funded.

EAs which are trading focused should not be “off the shelf” or “mass market” EAs which are widely available and may result in possible copy trading infringements. The use of such EAs which are widely available runs the risk of having multiple traders at Real Funded using the same system and having replicated trading activity which would be in breach of rules, leading to possible account termination.

Can I use a VPN / VPS

Yes, we allow usage of VPN / VPS.

Is a SL required?

There are no requirements to trade with a SL on 1 Step and 2 Step accounts in both the evaluation and the funded phase.

What is the max risk I can use?

At Real Funded, traders are allowed to use their preferred risk management approach, whether that be low risk, or slightly higher. As long as the trading rules are followed, traders are free to trade with their own risk preferences.

We encourage traders to use proper risk management. Traders who consistently trade in an extreme manner with an all-in mentality may face additional reviews at Real Funded’s discretion.

How do the consistency rules work?

At Real Funded, we apply a 40% consistency rule in the evaluation phase only. This means that traders must not have one single day’s results equate to more than 40% of the profit target. This ensures that traders trade in a consistent manner in order to pass the evaluations. During the funded phase, consistency rules are removed allowing traders more freedom to profit.

Can I trade news?

Trading during news releases is only permitted on the Swing account format. On all other account types, restrictions to news trading are in place. There is a 10 minute window of restricted trading during high impact news releases, 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after the release. During this restricted time window, both opening and closure of trades is prohibited and will lead to a breach of the account if it occurs.

High impact news releases include:

USD:
GBP:
EUR:
JPY:
AUD:
NZD:
CHF:
CAD:


News restrictions apply to the relevant currencies and their associated news events. For example USD related pairs are restricted during a US CPI release. However a pair such as EURCHF, is not restricted during that particular event due to no USD exposure.

On the Swing account format, trading news has no limitations and the trader has full freedom to trade news.

Can I hold over a weekend?

Weekend holding is permitted on the Swing account evaluation only. Holding trades over a weekend is strictly prohibited on other account formats. Weekend holding can be added as an add on to the Real Trader program, by adding on this function the trader is able to hold trades through the weekend.

Holding a trade over the weekend will result in one warning, and deduction of profitable positions that are held in this period, followed by suspension of the account on a second violation.

Can I hold overnight?

Overnight holding is permitted across all account types at Real Funded with zero restrictions. Traders should be aware of the added risks associated with overnight holding and the impact that trading conditions in illiquid hours can have on active positions.

The trader accepts these risks and acknowledges that the changes to conditions can bring around unfavourable trading during certain hours.

What trading strategies are prohibited?

Trades which exploit demo conditions of the evaluation are not prohibited, this includes but is not restricted to forms of arbitrage, HFT, tick scalping. Trading in an unreasonable manner using maximum risk per trade, stacking trades excessively which increases overall exposure, and trading with behaviours that replicate that of cross platform/party hedging are not permitted.

Trading should be conducted in a legitimate format with proper risk management.

On Express (1 Step) and Classic (2-Step) account formats, holding trades over the weekend is not permitted. Weekend holding is only permitted on the 2- Step Swing format.

On 1 Step and 2-Step Classic accounts, news trading is not permitted. News trading is only permitted on the 2-Step Swing account.

During evaluation phases, aggressive scalping is not permitted and minimum trade hold times must be abided by. Having over 40% of your trade volume below this minimum threshold will result in the evaluation being rejected. This includes hedging a position within 1 minute of the original trade.

Do you have a minimum hold time for trades?

Yes, during the evaluation phases traders should be aware of the restrictions to hold time duration of their trades. During evaluation phases trades must not be opened and closed within a 1 minute timeframe. Having over 40% of your trade volume below this minimum threshold will result in the evaluation being rejected. This includes hedging a position within 1 minute of the original trade.

For example, a trader is not able to open a long on EURUSD, at 10:00 and then a short, within 60 seconds.

Can I hedge a position on the account?

Hedging is permitted on the account as long as they are not placed within 60 seconds of the original trade. Hedging a position within the 60 second time frame will result in possible breach during review due to minimum hold time rules.

Is there a maximum lot size?

The maximum lot size is determined by the available margin of the account which is in turn determined by the account’s leverage and balance.

What are the trading commissions?

During the Evaluation phase, there are zero trading commissions, providing an excellent trading environment to review your trading ability.

During the funded phase of the accounts, trading commissions are charged at $6 per lot round trip on our RAW account set ups with ultra low spreads.

What are the spreads?

Spreads are determined by the liquidity provider and are not influenced by Real Funded. Meaning, traders gain access to ultra low spread conditions with no input or  manipulation from the firm. Traders can trade with  confidence in elite level conditions providing you the greatest chance of success.

Spreads at Real Funded are Real tight. We have exceptional trading conditions to ensure that successful traders have the highest level of satisfaction and are in the perfect conditions to achieve success.

Is there an inactivity period?

Yes, all accounts are subjected to a 30 day inactivity period. This is in place to ensure optimisation of our servers and prevent server space being taken up by inactive accounts. This means active traders with Real Funded are able to have a more successful trading experience. If you anticipate that you will be taking a step away from trading, you can keep your account active by opening a small position within the 30 days to prevent suspension.

Accounts which have zero activity within a 30 day period will be terminated.

Community, partners and support:

Do you have a community of traders?

Yes, we have a supportive, interactive and engaging community of REAL traders. You can explore our community in both our group and also on our community analysis section of the dashboard (coming soon), where you can share trade ideas and outlooks for the markets, as well as gain insight into our professional analysts’ expectations.

Do you have an affiliate programme?

Yes, Real Funded are delighted to provide rewarding affiliate partnerships. Leverage your trading communities and earn up to 10% on each purchase using your exclusive links. Each affiliate is further rewarded by competition bonuses and prizes for top performers as well as further rewards for their trading communities. Minimum redemptions are $100 for payment.

For more information on how to start your lucrative partnership with Real Funded please visit https://realfunded.com or alternatively contact us on our dedicated Partners page on X @RealFundedAffs.

How can I contact support?

Support networks at Real Funded are accessible via a number of different avenues including: Discord support tickets, Live web chat, Whatsapp Support, email support and our dedicated support page on X.

Our support network is operated by real people with no gimmicks. We are here to help and provide you the best environment for becoming a real trader.

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