FundingTicks was a futures proprietary trading firm whose accounts ran on the Tradovate platform. It is no longer a firm you can join. FundingTicks announced that it would wind down operations, and its official website said support for wind-down matters would remain available until January 31. Before the closure, on December 17, the firm announced rule changes that applied retroactively to accounts already in progress. That decision, more than any fee or rule set, defines how this firm should be judged.
Where FundingTicks Stands Now
The firm is closed. Its own announcement framed the closure as a wind-down rather than an abrupt shutdown. A wind-down usually means a firm stops selling new evaluations and works through existing obligations within a set period. The home page did set out wind-down terms: active Evals and Master accounts would be refunded in full, and live accounts in profit would get a refund, a 90% reward split on realized profit and 20% of the initial live balance, while crypto rewards were processed within 24 hours; its final challenge prices and the full plan lineup remain unclear. Without them, a plan-by-plan comparison with active firms is not possible. Anyone with an open issue should treat January 31 as the deadline that matters.
FundingTicks has no public discount code, which fits a firm that is no longer selling accounts. Treat any code, store page or “plan” still circulating under the FundingTicks or Funding Ticks name with suspicion.
What FundingTicks Offered
FundingTicks focused on futures. Traders bought an evaluation, traded it on Tradovate, and, if they met the targets and stayed inside the risk limits, moved to a funded or simulated-funded stage where they could request payouts. That is the standard futures prop model, and FundingTicks competed in the same space as firms such as Topstep, Lucid Trading and My Funded Futures.
Its setup had three defining features:
- Platform: Tradovate, a web, desktop and mobile futures trading platform widely used by futures prop firms. Traders who built their workflow on Tradovate can usually carry it over to another firm that supports the platform without retooling charts, hotkeys or order templates.
- Instruments: futures only. FundingTicks was not a forex or CFD prop firm.
- Consistency rule: none stated. Many futures firms limit how much of the total profit a single day may contribute before a payout is allowed. FundingTicks listed a 25% Consistency Score, and its terms apply a consistency score in the Student phase so that no single winning day accounts for an excessive share of profit.
The December 17 Retroactive Rule Change
Prop firms change their rules regularly. A change that applies only to accounts purchased after the announcement lets a trader read the new terms and decide whether to buy. A retroactive change alters the conditions of an account the trader has already paid for, often after they have traded part or all of the way toward a target under the old rules.
FundingTicks announced changes on December 17 that affected active accounts. The accounts at issue were those opened on or before December 16, so traders who bought under the earlier terms found those terms altered after the fact. The firm later issued a partial fix. By the end of December, it had not fully restored the original terms for those accounts, including payment of profits earned under them.
Why a retroactive change hits traders hard
The cost of a retroactive change depends on where a trader stands when it lands. A hypothetical example shows the mechanics. These are not FundingTicks terms:
Hypothetical: A trader holds a funded futures account bought under rules that allow a payout once the balance is $2,000 above the starting level, with no limit on how much one day can contribute. The trader reaches that level, with one strong session supplying $1,500 of the $2,000. The firm then adds a rule that no single day may exceed 40% of total profit before a payout. Under the new rule, the $1,500 day equals 75% of profit. The trader must now earn about $1,750 more, for total profit near $3,750, so that the $1,500 day falls to 40%. Any losing day along the way raises that requirement further and adds drawdown risk on top.
The trader in that example did nothing wrong under the rules they agreed to. The only thing that changed was the rulebook. The same logic applies to tighter drawdown limits, new minimum trading days, lower payout caps or a changed profit split. Each one can turn a payable balance into an unpayable one, or push a trader back into risk to qualify again.
This is why the partial nature of the fix matters. A remedy that restores some terms but not all can still leave traders who were close to a payout under the original rules worse off than when they bought.
The Firm-Reported Payout Total
FundingTicks reported $30,000,000 in total payouts. That figure places it 22nd among the 50 firms that publish a payout total, about 0.5% of all reported payouts in that group.
Keep in mind what a lifetime total shows and what it leaves open:
- It is a cumulative figure. It says nothing about when the money was paid, so it cannot show whether payouts continued normally in the firm’s final months.
- It is self-reported. No auditor or third party has confirmed it.
- It does not tell an individual trader whether their own pending payout will be honored.
For a firm that has closed, the total is a historical claim about past payouts.
What the Trustpilot Distribution Shows
FundingTicks has 1,747 Trustpilot reviews. The breakdown by star rating is lopsided toward the extremes:
| Stars | Reviews | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 746 | 42.7% |
| 4 | 81 | 4.6% |
| 3 | 50 | 2.9% |
| 2 | 49 | 2.8% |
| 1 | 821 | 47.0% |
One-star reviews outnumber five-star reviews (821 against 746). Together the two extremes account for about 89.7% of all reviews, and only around 10% fall in the two-to-four-star middle, which points to strongly split opinion. Read the reviews themselves, sorted by date, to see whether the one-star complaints cluster around the December rule change or the wind-down.
If You Held a FundingTicks Account
Former customers have until the January 31 support deadline. Practical steps, in order of urgency:
- Contact support in writing before January 31. Use email or a ticket system rather than live chat alone, so a record exists. State your account number, purchase date, account status and the outcome you are asking for.
- Save your evidence. Keep purchase receipts, payment confirmations, account IDs, trade history exports from Tradovate, balance screenshots and any payout requests already submitted. If you have a copy of the rules or terms that applied when you bought, especially anything dated on or before December 16, keep it. That is the clearest record of what you agreed to.
- Save the firm’s announcements. Screenshot or archive the December 17 rule change notice, any later fix, and the wind-down notice. Pages on a closing firm’s website can disappear.
- Note your payment method. If you paid by card, your card issuer has its own dispute process with its own time limits. Whether a dispute is available or appropriate depends on your issuer, your purchase and the reason for the dispute, so ask the issuer directly rather than assuming.
- Know what jurisdiction applies. The firm’s terms and conditions normally state the governing law and how disputes are handled. That determines which consumer protection rules, if any, apply to you.
These steps give you the strongest position available if the firm, a payment provider or another party later reviews claims.
Lessons for Choosing a Replacement Futures Prop Firm
The rulebook you buy into is only as stable as the firm’s willingness to keep it: fees, targets and drawdown limits all depend on the firm not rewriting them after you pay. When comparing futures prop firms, several checks follow directly from what happened here.
Read the amendment clause
Most prop firm terms include a clause allowing the firm to change rules. The question is how far that power reaches. Look for wording that says whether changes apply to existing accounts or only to new purchases, and whether accounts in progress keep the rules in force at the time of purchase. A firm that commits in writing to honoring purchase-date terms gives you something concrete to point to if it later changes course.
Prefer firms that publish pricing and payout policy
Active firms that publish full challenge pricing, the payout schedule, processing times and the profit split let you check what you are buying and compare it over time. If a firm’s terms shift, published terms also leave a record.
Treat payout totals as a starting point
Treat a self-reported payout total as a claim about the past. Look for how recently payouts were processed, how processing times are stated, and whether the firm describes payout conditions clearly enough that you can tell when you qualify.
Watch for sudden changes to rules you are close to
If a firm announces a rule change while you hold an account near a target or payout threshold, save the old and new versions and ask support in writing whether the change applies to your account. A written answer is far more useful than a chat message if the matter is disputed later.
Keep platform continuity in mind
Traders who used FundingTicks were on Tradovate. Moving to a firm that supports the same platform keeps your setup intact while you rebuild. Among established futures firms, the Topstep review, Lucid Trading review and My Funded Futures review cover current rules, payouts and platform support in detail. If cost is the main constraint after losing money on a closed firm, the cheapest prop firm challenges comparison sets entry prices side by side.
How we checked FundingTicks
We visited fundingticks.com on 13 November 2026, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia. The address forwarded us to www.fundingticks.com, and the home page opened normally under the title “Funding Ticks”, with a live chat widget in the corner. From the footer, we clicked through to the Terms & Conditions. That was the whole walk. Nothing was bought, and no account was opened.
The home page showed no challenge prices on our visit. It carried wind-down terms instead: active Evals and Master accounts “will be refunded in full”, and live accounts in profit get a refund, a 90% reward split on realized profit and 20% of the initial live balance. It also claimed “$30M+ in rewards paid to our trading community” and listed a 25% Consistency Score. Rewards go out via crypto, card or Rise, with crypto payments processed within 24 hours. The terms are strict. Trades cannot be held overnight or over the weekend, an account cannot sit inactive for more than 7 calendar days, and High-Frequency Trading appears among prohibited practices. Under the Pro+ Model, the EOD trailing maximum loss is $1250 on a 25k account and $2500 on a 50k account. One line jars with the home page: the terms say “No refund applies to the service that FundingTicks offers.” We found no working purchase button, so we cannot say whether checkout required an account first.
There was nothing to look up in a register. The pages we read name no legal entity, show no licence or registration number, make no regulator statement and carry no risk warning. When we read Trustpilot on 13 November 2026, FundingTicks scored 2.8/5 from 1,747 reviews. The domain was registered on 2024-02-19, and the Wayback Machine’s first capture of the site dates from 2024-05-21. A capture from 2025-10-09 still showed figures such as $99 and $120 that are gone now.
What we could not verify is the part that matters most to former customers. Neither the $30M+ total nor whether the promised wind-down refunds are actually being paid could be confirmed from the outside.
Who FundingTicks Suits
FundingTicks suits no new trader, because it is closed and winding down. The only people with a reason to engage with the firm now are former customers resolving open accounts, refunds or payouts before the January 31 support deadline.
For everyone else, FundingTicks is a case study: a futures prop firm on a mainstream platform, with $30,000,000 in claimed payouts and 1,747 Trustpilot reviews, still changed the terms of active accounts after the fact and then closed.
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