You CANNOT use Stop/Take Profit/Limit orders...
I've since reached out to Tradovate directly for information about the fills in question since ETF hasn't felt the need to respond. It was in fact a Take Profit order and it was LESS THAN 1% above the current market in MBT. It wasn't even within 10 ticks of the top of the market move so how/why ETF would deem this an "unrealistic fill" and worthy of wiping my 10k account is anyone's guess.
(For further back story read my other reviews)
There are a literal gauntlet of random rules that they will use to disqualify you from a payout, as evidenced by the hundreds of other 1 star reviews and stories on here.
In my specific case they denied my $2500 payout and closed my account with 10k in profits because I had a take profit order catch the top of a market swing.
The trade itself was only about $100 profit out of the 10k total in the account but it was deemed disqualifying. It literally says no where in there rules that you cannot use Stops/Take Profit/Limit orders, but they cited some jargon about "gaming a simulated trading environment" as if I could somehow know where the top of the market would be (you'd think they would want such a skilled trader lol)
In the back and forth in trying to get further details on the disqualifying trade I came on here and shared my story and they used this as justification to ban my other 5 100k funded accounts.
I received a partial refund on the activation fees and have attempted to reach out to get the remaining but get radio silence from their support at this point.
Don't waste your time here. I spent months with them, first funding and then building up funds over 20k on 6 total accounts.
Literally spending my money funding those accounts and hours/days/weeks trading them successfully.
Successful traders get moved to live accounts in real prop firms to avoid risk to the firm (I'm convinced ETF doesn't actually have a live funded program based on the reviews here)
Instead like so many other 1 star reviews have mentioned, if you get too successful your account will magically get closed for any number of random things they can make up and they won't even have to explain themselves as in my case.
EDIT: Let their response below serve as yet another warning to traders, again just make your own decision.
If you'd be okay trading a funded account for MONTHS. Hours every day. Systematically building your account over 10k in profits only to receive this vague excuse from them to not payout and close your account and no further detail whatsoever, ETF IS THE PLACE FOR YOU.
They have provided me NO other details other than those I have quoted and laid out in these reviews. None. I implore them to do so publicly on here, I am giving them my permission.
Note also that it took 12 hours AFTER they closed and completely wiped my accounts before their support even felt the need to reach out and tell me why.
They are an outright scam and are running a pretty much endless promo to milk the rest of what they can from their existing customers.
(For further back story read my other reviews)
There are a literal gauntlet of random rules that they will use to disqualify you from a payout, as evidenced by the hundreds of other 1 star reviews and stories on here.
In my specific case they denied my $2500 payout and closed my account with 10k in profits because I had a take profit order catch the top of a market swing.
The trade itself was only about $100 profit out of the 10k total in the account but it was deemed disqualifying. It literally says no where in there rules that you cannot use Stops/Take Profit/Limit orders, but they cited some jargon about "gaming a simulated trading environment" as if I could somehow know where the top of the market would be (you'd think they would want such a skilled trader lol)
In the back and forth in trying to get further details on the disqualifying trade I came on here and shared my story and they used this as justification to ban my other 5 100k funded accounts.
I received a partial refund on the activation fees and have attempted to reach out to get the remaining but get radio silence from their support at this point.
Don't waste your time here. I spent months with them, first funding and then building up funds over 20k on 6 total accounts.
Literally spending my money funding those accounts and hours/days/weeks trading them successfully.
Successful traders get moved to live accounts in real prop firms to avoid risk to the firm (I'm convinced ETF doesn't actually have a live funded program based on the reviews here)
Instead like so many other 1 star reviews have mentioned, if you get too successful your account will magically get closed for any number of random things they can make up and they won't even have to explain themselves as in my case.
EDIT: Let their response below serve as yet another warning to traders, again just make your own decision.
If you'd be okay trading a funded account for MONTHS. Hours every day. Systematically building your account over 10k in profits only to receive this vague excuse from them to not payout and close your account and no further detail whatsoever, ETF IS THE PLACE FOR YOU.
They have provided me NO other details other than those I have quoted and laid out in these reviews. None. I implore them to do so publicly on here, I am giving them my permission.
Note also that it took 12 hours AFTER they closed and completely wiped my accounts before their support even felt the need to reach out and tell me why.
They are an outright scam and are running a pretty much endless promo to milk the rest of what they can from their existing customers.
Response from Elite Trader Funding
You were provided with information about why your account was closed. There is evidence that you were gaming in the sim environment, and we do not tolerate such behavior. Therefore, your accounts were closed. Successful traders who follow the rules we move to Live account. That is our mission.