How to pass the FXIFY challenge
Short answer
To pass the FXIFY one-step evaluation on a 50k account you need roughly $4k of profit (8%) without ever losing more than $5k (10%) under static drawdown. That is a 0.8:1 reward-to-ruin ratio with no calendar deadline, so time pressure is self-inflicted. At 0.5% risk per trade ($250) you can be wrong 20 times in a row before you are out, and you need about 8 net 2R winners to clear the target. Our modelled pass rate for this structure is ~21%.
Evaluation
1-step
Target on 50k
8% · $4k
Loss buffer
10% · $5k
Modelled pass rate
~21% (estimate)
The maths you are actually up against
Every evaluation reduces to one ratio: how much you must make divided by how much you may lose. On FXIFY's 50k account that is $4k against $5k, a ratio of 0.8:1. Anything above 1.5:1 means you cannot pass by grinding small edges through a normal drawdown — you either run a genuinely positive expectancy or you get lucky, and the fee is priced on the assumption that most people are doing the second one.
The drawdown model changes the same numbers materially. FXIFY uses a static drawdown, which is the trader-friendly version: the loss line is fixed at the starting balance minus $5k and never follows your equity up. Profits you bank become permanent buffer, so the account gets structurally safer the further ahead you are.
Position size accordingly. At 0.5% of account per trade — $250 — you survive 20 consecutive full losers. A trader with a 45% win rate hits a 6-loss streak roughly once every 60 trades, so anything much above 1% risk on this structure is not aggression, it is a mathematical guarantee of eventual failure across enough attempts.
- Profit target: 8% = $4k on 50k
- Total loss buffer: 10% = $5k (Static)
- Suggested risk per trade: 0.5% = $250 — survives 20 losses in a row
- Net 2R winners required: about 8
- Consistency constraint: Applies on selected plans — check before purchase
- Deadline: No deadline on the standard evaluations.
A pacing plan that fits FXIFY's rules
Because FXIFY imposes no calendar deadline, the correct pace is the slowest one you can tolerate. Traders fail unlimited-time evaluations at the same rate as timed ones, purely because they behave as if the clock exists. Set your own soft target of 24 trading days and accept flat weeks; a 0% week costs you nothing here and a -3% week costs you 33% of your usable risk.
FXIFY enforces applies on selected plans — check before purchase. That flips the strategy: your best day must stay small relative to the total, so a large early win actually forces you to keep trading to dilute it. Work out the required total before you take a big day — on a $4k target, a day worth more than the allowed share means you cannot withdraw until the account grows past it.
Day one after funding is the part almost every guide skips. The funded account is where the money is, and it is also where the drawdown rules bite hardest, because the buffer is usually the same size while your incentive to size up is far larger. Trade the first funded cycle at half the size you used in the evaluation, get to the first payout at around day 14, withdraw, and only then scale. A withdrawn payout is yours; an unpaid balance is a claim on a company.
- Weeks 1–2: fixed $250 risk, one setup only, no size changes
- Mid-evaluation: if you are down more than a third of the buffer, cut risk in half rather than pressing
- Final stretch: once you are within $800 of target, halve size again — most blow-ups happen inside the last 20% of the target
- Funded stage: half size until the first payout clears around day 14
- Payout cadence afterwards: Bi-weekly (day-one eligibility on some plans)
The rules that actually fail FXIFY accounts
Most failed evaluations are not blown accounts — they are breaches. A breach means you were profitable and still lost the account, which is the most expensive way to fail. These are the FXIFY clauses that produce them, taken from the current rulebook.
News trading is conditionally allowed (News trading is a paid add-on on some plans and included on others — verify before checkout, this is FXIFY's most common support complaint.) Expert advisors are allowed (EAs allowed; the broker-backed execution is one of the reasons algo traders use it.) Weekend holding is conditionally allowed (Weekend holding is an add-on rather than a default on several plans.)
The subtler failure is the prohibited-strategy clause every firm carries: tick scalping, latency arbitrage, hedged accounts across firms and copy-traded signals shared by many users. You will not get a warning for these; the account is closed and the profit is voided after the fact, usually at the payout review. If your edge depends on holding for under a minute or on running the same signal on several firms at once, verify it in writing with support before you pay.
- News: conditionally allowed — News trading is a paid add-on on some plans and included on others — verify before checkout, this is FXIFY's most common support complaint.
- EAs / algos: allowed — EAs allowed; the broker-backed execution is one of the reasons algo traders use it.
- Weekend holding: conditionally allowed — Weekend holding is an add-on rather than a default on several plans.
- Overnight: allowed — Overnight positions allowed.
- Copy trading: conditionally allowed — Own accounts only.
- Consistency: Applies on selected plans — read the plan sheet, not the homepage.
Which FXIFY account size to attempt
Buy the smallest size whose dollar buffer survives your normal losing streak, not the biggest one you can afford. On the ladder FXIFY sells, that usually means the 10k or the tier above it: at $40 the cost of a second attempt is small enough that you can treat attempt one as tuition instead of as an all-or-nothing bet.
Run the arithmetic in your own currency and instrument before you pay. A 50k account with a $5k buffer supports roughly 5 micro futures contracts at a 10-point stop, or about 0.25 standard lots at a 20-pip stop. If that size is below what your strategy needs to be worth trading, the account is too small for you and no amount of discipline fixes it.
Reset pricing matters as much as the entry fee. 10% off evaluations with code BEACON Work out the total cost of three attempts, because that is the realistic budget at a ~21% modelled pass rate — one attempt is a lottery ticket, three is a plan.
- 10k — $36: target $800, buffer $1k
- 25k — $54: target $2k, buffer $2.5k
- 50k — $77: target $4k, buffer $5k
- 100k — $113: target $8k, buffer $10k
- 200k — $158: target $16k, buffer $20k
What separates the traders who pass
No firm in this industry publishes audited pass-rate data, ours included — the ~21% figure is modelled from the evaluation structure (1 phase, static, applies on selected plans — check before purchase) and should be read as directional. What is consistent across every dataset we can see is the shape of the failures: oversizing after a loss, trading a setup outside the tested plan, and breaching a rule the trader never read.
The traders who clear FXIFY tend to do four unremarkable things. They trade one instrument they already know. They fix risk in dollars, not in "feel". They stop for the day after two losses. And they read the payout rules before the trading rules, because the payout clause — applies on selected plans — check before purchase, bi-weekly (day-one eligibility on some plans) — is what determines whether passing turns into money.
FXIFY is a London-incorporated forex prop firm (FXIFY Solutions Limited) that launched in 2023 with a structural advantage almost nobody else in the category has: its MT4 and MT5 accounts are wired into FXPIG, a retail broker that has been running since 2010. Most prop firms hand you a MetaTrader demo server with synthetic pricing. FXIFY hands you STP execution against real liquidity, with raw spreads from 0.0. If you have ever suspected that your funded-account fills are worse than your live-account fills, that difference is the entire reason to look at FXIFY.
- One instrument, one session, one setup for the whole evaluation
- Risk fixed at $250 regardless of conviction
- Hard stop for the day after two losers or -1% on the account
- Read the payout clause before the trading rules
- Withdraw the first payout in full at around day 14, then scale
FAQ
How hard is it to pass the FXIFY challenge?
Structurally, you need 8% profit while never losing 10% — a 0.8:1 ratio under static drawdown. Our modelled pass rate for that structure is around 21%, which is an estimate, not a published figure. The binding constraint is the drawdown model far more than the profit target.
How long does it take to pass FXIFY?
There is no deadline, so it takes as long as your edge needs. At $250 risk per trade you need roughly 8 net 2R winners, which for most traders is four to eight weeks of normal-frequency trading.
Can you pass FXIFY with an EA or bot?
EAs are allowed here. EAs allowed; the broker-backed execution is one of the reasons algo traders use it. Note that even where algorithmic execution is permitted, latency, tick-scalping and copy-arbitrage strategies are separately prohibited and are voided at payout review rather than blocked in real time.
What happens if I fail the FXIFY evaluation?
The account closes and the fee is spent. Resets and repurchases are priced separately — 10% off evaluations with code BEACON At a ~21% modelled pass rate, budget for two or three attempts on the smallest sensible size rather than one attempt on a large account.
Is passing the evaluation the hard part?
No — reaching the first payout is. The evaluation is a fixed test; the funded stage adds applies on selected plans — check before purchase plus a bi-weekly (day-one eligibility on some plans) payout window and KYC, with the same buffer and a much stronger temptation to oversize. Trade the first funded cycle at half size and withdraw at around day 14.