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Why funding had to change
For decades, being funded meant being handed an account. Here is what replaced it.
Every other funding model sells you attempts, a challenge to pass, a drawdown rule to survive, one bad day and you start again. There is nothing to pass here, ever. You trade your simulated account however you like, and The Desk syndicates them by allocating capital in the market behind them. It joins small and adds as your trade proves itself.
Focus on the Trade, not the Account.Syndicate, from the Greek syndikos: “one who stands with you.”That’s the whole idea.
Enough to see the Desk join, add, and pay out more than once.
The real product, the smallest way in. Same account, same Desk, same 90%.
What traders and a trading creator told us after they tried it.
“You must be losing money on this. A funding model like thisshouldn’t work.”
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“I’ve waited years for something like this. When I finally saw it, I couldn’t believe it.”
“A beautiful platform. Real innovation in how traders get funded.”
Paraphrased from early, informal feedback. No one was paid for it.
Sep 17, replayed on real prices. Each trade cost $30. Watch the Desk’s own money come in behind it as the move proves itself — and what that paid when it closed.
Hypothetical replays on real market prices — not client results. Past performance does not guarantee future results. These two were picked as examples; many trades earn little or nothing. Trading involves risk.
Three ways to put size behind an idea. This one changes the unit from the account to the trade.
| Feature | Trade your own account | Traditional prop account | Trade Syndication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital needed to start | Fund your brokerage account | Evaluation / account fee | $15 per trade credit1-contract minimum |
| Trading environment | Live brokerage account | Usually simulated during evaluation | Simulated environment |
| Traditional challenge required | No | Usually yes | No |
| Profit target before first eligibility | No | Often yes | No traditional challenge target |
| Personal market capital exposed | Yes | No during most evaluations | No personal market deposit for the simulated trade |
| Account-level drawdown affects future trades | Loss reduces your balance | Usually yes | Each syndicated trade is a fresh opportunity |
| Need to recover prior account losses | Yes, to restore net P&L | Usually yes | Not at the individual-trade level |
| Can act on one specific idea | Yes, with your capital | Within the account rules | Yes — trade by trade |
| Multiple accounts needed to increase nominal capacity | Not applicable | Common strategy in prop | No account stacking required |
| One losing trade can end the entire account | It can materially damage capital | Can breach the account | No — future trade credits remain separate opportunities |
| Performance history can build | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | Traders comfortable risking their own capital | Traders willing to qualify for an account structure | Traders who want trade-by-trade opportunity without a traditional challenge |
The future of trader funding doesn’t have to be account-based. It can be trade-based.
Eight short films. Start at the beginning, or jump straight to the question you actually have.
Asking the Desk what it is following right now…
The industry sells accounts. Buy another challenge, manage another drawdown, copy the same setup across five logins. We changed what you are buying: here the unit is one trade, and you pick which ones.
Trade Maxing is putting more behind the setups you actually believe in, one at a time. A strong idea should not be limited by how many accounts you own or how much of your own money you are willing to put at risk.
Take the setup you want on your free simulated account. Nothing to pass, no evaluation, no rule to survive.
Choose the trades you want the Desk behind. $15 a contract, only on the ones you pick — the rest stay ordinary practice trades.
The Desk puts its own money into the market behind your trade. It starts small and adds as the move proves itself.
90% of what that money made, in your wallet the moment the trade closes. No target to hit first and no payout cycle to wait for.
Pick the setups you believe in and syndicate them one at a time. No account to qualify for first, no drawdown rule carried over from last week, and no reason to stack five logins to express one idea.
One bad trade does not end anything. The next contract is a fresh opportunity, because the account was never what you were buying.
Maxing is not leverage. Your trading stays simulated, and the Desk’s own capital is the Desk’s own risk — sized, stopped and managed by us.
If that money loses, the loss is ours. You are never billed for it, and nothing is ever taken back out of what you have already been paid.
Your trading is simulated and the Desk decides for itself how much to put behind any trade, so there is no reward on a trade it stayed out of.
No challenge, no evaluation, nothing to pass. Three contracts are enough to find out.
Enough to see the Desk join, add, and pay out more than once.
The real product, the smallest way in. Same account, same Desk, same 90%.