DayTraders.com Reviews 444

It's a great company with good prices, especially for beginners in the futures market. Highly recommend!!

I would give -100 stars if I could. Randomly changed rules from minimum activity every 30 days to weekly + profit target. Because my schedule does not allow me to meet this, they cancelled my funded account. I do not mind losing my account for trading reasons, but this is disgusting. I have written to the SEC about this.
In my experience, when prop firms change rules like this, it is sign that they are in trouble and a 'rug pull' is coming. Buy their products at your own risk - you are sure to lose your money. This company deserves to go bankrupt.

UPDATE
What a bunch of liars. They relied with a message that they cannot find any record of me being a customer. I already gave them my account number. I have all the emails from them and the certificate for passing 50K evaluation. It is a shame I cannot upload a copy of the certificate here. Their response tell you everything you need about them. Deal with them at YOUR OWN RISK!

"We are unable to locate any record of you as a customer of DayTraders. If this review relates to a specific issue, please contact our customer support team directly so we can review the matter and assist you accordingly".

(Trust Pilot - you need to have this facility to allow reviewers to upload evidence to stop shysters from using your platform).

This is a scam company. Do not buy anything!
On January the 8th 2026 they decided to change the rules on existing pro accounts and enforce a minimum of four qualifying trading days within a 30-day cycle to keep the account alive. A qualifying trading day means a day where you are able to gain 5.7% on your original available risk capital. Think about that: four times within 30 days a single day with that profit. This can only be achieved by high risk high leverage gambling, not with sound risk management and position sizing appropriate to the small risk margin on the accounts.
They tell you this on the 8th of January and tell you they will enforce it by the end of January. So effectively 15 trading days beforehand. Then they close your account end of January and write an email telling you that trading is not gambling!
They come up with that rule change in the middle of the start of earnings season, a FED day and a high volatility market.
Accumulating these kinds of days over time to qualify for a payout would be fine. But enforcing them on a weekly basis no matter the market conditions is just dishonest.
Stay away. They used to be good last year. But they keep changing everything behind the scenes and try to rip you off. First there was Motive Wave included. It was silently dropped. Then they changed their privacy statement without telling you and require you to give your biometric data to another dishonest company (search for: lawsuit veriff facial scans)
Now this.
Probably they are going to disappear like so many of these "prop firms" before.

Was very happy with them but right after I joined them they instituted a rule that effectively took away traders accounts for something no other firm does. Thought it was overly harsh as many people lost their accounts. However, today DT announced a new program which will alleviate that issue and I am very happy with the again.

Reliable and reasonable price, fast response

I like easy access to connect.
I don't like the fact you close my account without notice

Copy trading and bracket orders...enough said.

Awesome response, criteria,easy rules.... 🔥🔥🔥

Normal rules. Fast Payouts. Helpful support. Everything, what a good propfirm has to offer.

Terrible prop firm. They changed their rules so that you have to meet arbitrary profit goals every 30 days that are not aligned with good risk management, so if the market is slow or your strategy has a break even month, they delete your accounts without warning.

Absolute scam, I spent 1k on straight to funded accounts and then they change the terms immediately after I purchased the accounts. I would not recommend this prop firm to anyone, they will steal your money.

Overall good prop firm

ProjextX user on DayTraders (yes, they partnered last year with Topstep and leased ProjectX). I had almost no execution issues, even during outage times for Topstep (my mates reported they had major outages at certain times last year). This is why I can't give DT the lowest grade here, as I want to be fair about my experience.
I went with DayTraders because they marketed their accounts as "Pay once, hold account forever". I knew I wouldn't be able to trade it as frequent as my live account and therefor this model looked perfect to me.

Some months later I guess they decided that this is not making them enough revenue and so they added a new rule. In order to keep your account, you now must trade at least four "qualifying days". A qD is a market open day in which you must gain at least 8% of your trailing drawdown. They decided to call it an "activity rule". Mind you, if you lose 8% instead of gain, that doesn't count as activity they want. Also, if on that given day you go over 20% consistency, that doesn't qualify either as a "qD". This could be a hurdle a prop trader would be given in order to receive a payout, or maybe become funded, but they decided to make it a way to disqualify their customers "forever accounts", making them actively DayGamblers, because we now have to make at least 32% of entire max allowed drawdown in 4 days.

Now, to add insult to injury, DayTraders also decided to impose this rule during the time period when most people are on their winter break vacation. As well as they made it a retroactive rule. Meaning, if you didn't gain 32% of you max DD over the span of four days, from Dec 31st to January 31st, your evaluation, but also fully funded account is GONE, closed out without a warning.

They claim they had communicated this absurd rule via email to their traders, but they did not fully clarify that the rule takes into effect from December 31st on! Their mods on discord also told people to "relax and keep trading as they have until Jan 31st" I have proof of all of this saved.

Come January 31st, many people woke up to their painstakingly traded accounts closed out. Some, their single accounts, others multiple, 4, even 15...
Requests for leniency denied. Mind boggling decisions on part of this firm right before they are about to lose access to Topsteps ProjectX, which makes me worried they might be in financial trouble that could tank all of their traders accounts at once.

In the end, I would love to change this impression and review for better in case DayTraders makes it right with the affected account holders, course corrects and etc.
The idea of "forever accounts" is a great one...Make it more expensive if you really need to, but don't switch it up like this into something totally counter intuitive and counter trader, pro gambler.
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Update after DT response:
I have already contacted your support and the answer was a resounding no.
No, you don't want to give me back my accounts or a refund after you failed to give proper warning and explanation for the abrupt switchup of your entire model.
No, you don't want to acknowledge that you are now effectively forcing people who are traders into gambling their "trading accounts" away.

In a remote chance one of those no's turns into a yes some day and you course correct, please tap me with a response here, so that I can re-evaluate my grade and opinion of your firm.

God bless

This Prop Firm is not trying to be anything other than what it is. Rules and guide lines are there for you to read. Cost is good for my budget.

At this stage in my trading journey and being introduced to the prop firm world, DayTraders has been amazing! Seamless account process, haven’t had to speak with customer service which is always great due to the fact of no issues in purchase through trading! Can’t say enough about this firm. I have literally tried them all seems like and blown more accounts due to my own inexperience and unclear ridiculous rules!!!! Upfront from the beginning and the description of services and rules follow the experience offered on ONYX. Amazing as well! Try em out don’t think you will be disappointed!!!! Thank you DayTtaders!!!

First propfirm, first payout. So far so good. Very happy with Daytraders.com

Their support is very responsive and overall experience has been nice.

I only gave them 3 stars because they have a practice where a trader can only make additional $10,000 that gets invested to Live. It is unclear how the rest of extra money that you make translates into Live account. Theoretically, if you have 3 150k accounts, you are bound to make over $30,000 after 6 payout milestones per their rule and only $10,000 is guaranteed to Live. Their rule should be $10,000 per account.

I'll update my review if they change this rule. Until then, I would not buy more than 1 account from them.

Edit - Props to Kha Yen for working with the customers to make things right. Daytraders should be honored to have you. Raising my starts to 5 solely because of her.

Edit 2 - I've gotten payouts from this firm.

Very straightforward and seamless.. No compliance BS or anything. They approved my payouts quickly and without any problems.

I’ve been in the trading game for five years. In that time, I’ve blown over 100 evaluation accounts and more PAs than I can count. It’s been a long, tough road, but I finally secured my first $2,000 payout thanks to DayTraders.com.

​The biggest difference for me was how their structure takes the pressure off. For the first time, I wasn't trading with a 'survival' mindset. If you are a struggling trader who feels like you’re close but just can’t get over the hump, I highly recommend giving them a shot. This firm actually helps you cross the finish line.

Futures trading is difficult. I passed the evaluation fast and now in pro account. Fees are OK in industry at the moment (paid $152.5 in total) but the profit target and DD is challenging in this prop firm. I used static DD.
Hopefully, my first withdrawal will cover the fees (evaluation fee + activation fee). Always I can pay again to have the opportunity to withdrawal real cash from the CME.