A rulebook that fits on one screen
No stacked consistency clauses, no hidden lot ceilings, no surprise interpretation after a winning month. What you read before you buy is what applies when you request money.
From the desk
The Gap Goat Funded Futures Prop Trading Firm Was Built To Close
The idea for this firm started with a spreadsheet nobody wanted to look at. Three of us had been trading funded accounts elsewhere for about two years, and we kept a running tab of every rule change, every delayed transfer and every support reply that answered a different question than the one we asked. By the end of that second year the tab had ninety-one rows. Only eleven of them were about trading.
That imbalance is the part people outside this industry never quite believe. You would expect a funded trader's biggest problem to be the market. In practice the market was the honest part of the day. The market never rewrote a drawdown definition on a Tuesday and told you it had always been that way. So when we finally built our own desk, the first document we wrote was not a marketing page. It was a list of things we refused to do, and it is still pinned in the operations channel.
Some of those refusals cost us money. We do not charge an activation fee, which every consultant we spoke to described as leaving revenue on the table. We do not run a consistency rule on funded accounts, even though it would quietly reduce payouts on the accounts that earn most. We publish the breach reason in writing, which occasionally means admitting an edge case in our own wording and paying anyway. We have done that four times. Each one stung, and each one was cheaper than the alternative.
What we ask in return is narrow. Respect the loss limit. Take at least three real trading days so we can see a pattern rather than one lucky candle. Keep your risk visible and your positions flat before the close. That is the entire bargain, and it fits in a paragraph on purpose.