Six funded accounts went live
Thursday's board was the smallest we have counted in a week, and it sent more people across the line than a bigger day would have. Eight evaluations finished the job outright.
Thursday was the quietest board in a week. 93 traders, down from 128 the day before. 657 trades, down from 814. Fewer countries, fewer accounts, fewer contracts.
It was also the day more of you finished something. Ten accounts crossed their profit target, eight of them completed the whole evaluation with the minimum days attached, and six funded accounts went live before the session closed. Five of those six came straight off an evaluation that had just hit its number. Wednesday put 16 target crossings on the board from 128 traders. Thursday put up 10 from 93, which is a better rate per person on a slower day.
The session ran almost end to end. The first trade closed at 00:02 Chicago time from Kenya and the last one at 23:33 from the United States, with the two busiest hours sitting either side of the US cash open, 81 trades apiece. Micro Nasdaq carried 470 of the 657 trades on its own, which is roughly where it always lands. The rest spread thin across micro S&P, the full-size Nasdaq, micro crude, micro gold and micro Dow.
Five sessions worth reading twice
Put 108 trades through a funded Track $2,500 account between 09:21 and 23:30 Chicago time, and averaged 1.08 contracts on them. He never went past three. 59 of those trades were winners and 46 were not, and the largest single trade against him was $128.50, which is the number that actually matters. Small size, repeated for fourteen hours.
Seven trades on a Track $25,000 evaluation, one contract every single time, six of them green. It is the only account he has ever opened with us, and he has been working it since 22 July. There is no version of this that was a gamble.
Eleven trades between 10:06 and 10:44 Chicago time, all eleven green, one to two contracts each, then he closed the platform. Thirty-eight minutes of work on the funded account he earned with his first and only evaluation.
His Track $2,500 evaluation closed at +$491.50 across ten trading days, more than three times the $150 it needed, and his first funded account went live at 17:01 Chicago time. Ten days is the slow way round. It is also the way that sticks.
Took the other route. A Track $2,500 evaluation closed at +$228 on exactly three trading days and three profitable days, the minimum on both counts, and the funded account was live by 11:17 Chicago time. Same finish line as Anagbogu V.🇳🇬@valenz, a week earlier.
From the board to funded
Everyone who moved up
- Gabriel S.🇧🇷 crossed the $2,500 target on three Flex $50,000 evaluations in the same session, all three inside the same hour of his morning.
- Sudheer K.🇮🇳@SudhiMusashi cleared the $1,250 target on a Flex $25,000 in his first session on the account. One more trading day and it counts.
- Muhammad S.🇳🇬@will_of_fullfillment and Victory K.🇳🇬@Adeolapor both finished Flex $5,000 evaluations, target and minimum days together.
- Abdul A.🇬🇧@azim1983 closed out a Track $2,500 at +$157 and Sombir B.🇮🇳@budhvir56 closed his at +$168, both on three profitable days.
- Anushka S.🇮🇳@Anushka007 cleared a Track $2,500 evaluation and had the funded account live before the session ended.
- Venroy W.🇯🇲@shinobi was the last one through, funded at 23:48 Chicago time off a Track $2,500 that finished +$349.
Everyone on the board is already in The Pit
All 93 traders who took a trade on Thursday have a Pit account, and 80 of them have claimed a handle. The Pit itself is at 3,248 members across 108 countries now, up seven since Wednesday.
It was a quiet day in chat, 111 messages from 20 people, and five of those landed in Funded Traders. That channel gets a little louder every week, and yesterday it had six new reasons to.
If you are mid-evaluation right now, the useful thing in all of this is that Anagbogu V.🇳🇬@valenz took ten trading days and Parth N.🇮🇳@wave took three, and the platform does not care which one you are. The finish line is a number of days as much as it is a number of dollars. Go get yours.
All 93 traders in this issue are already in there.