Does Funded Futures Network pay out?
The verdict, the risk score and the figures behind them.
Real positives and real negatives coexist here.
Yes, Funded Futures Network pays, but slowly and with an unappealable forfeiture risk at the end of the review. We found repeated dated payouts to named traders between June and August 2026, alongside a same-period cluster of traders whose payouts were reviewed for two to four weeks and then refused, with all profits forfeited.
- Five dated, attributable payout reports in the last quarter, including one trader documenting a third $10,000 payout on 31 July 2026.
- The headline promise of same day payouts is redefined in the firm's own policy as the day you may submit a request; traders consistently report 8 to 21 days to approval.
- Rules are published numerically and in unusual detail across a 42 article rulebook, which is genuinely better than the industry norm.
- Two of those rules forfeit every dollar of profit, and the high frequency trading rule states in terms that there is no appeal process.
- Not one public reply from the firm on any payout complaint we read, from a firm advertising a ten second response time.
Risk breakdown
Six axes, each scored 1-10. Higher means more risk.
Six axes, scored 1 to 10, where a higher number means more risk. Being unregulated is normal for a prop firm and is not scored against them.
- Identity & transparency4/10
Entity verified on the Florida register with named members and a filing date matching its founding claim exactly, offset by a site that names no team and presents a New York mail forwarding suite as its registered office while operating from Florida.
- Payout6/10
Money verifiably leaves, with five dated payouts to named traders in the last quarter, but a same-period cluster of two to four week reviews ending in refusal and total profit forfeiture, and a wide gap between the same day claim and the delivered timing.
- Terms & rug-pull risk7/10
Genuine credit for numeric published thresholds and a tabulated consequence list, outweighed by all-profits forfeiture on two rules with an express no-appeal clause, sim profit forfeiture on promotion to live, and a right to close any account for any reason with no exceptions.
- Trading conditions5/10
The simulated model is stated plainly in the Terms and given its own help article, but the social bio promises live capital, the homepage says traders are trading live, and the FCM partner behind live sub-accounts is never named.
- Reputation6/10
480 reviews at 3.8, with substantial specific positives including repeat payees, against a recent thematically consistent negative tail at 13 percent one-star, and no public reply from the firm on a single payout complaint we read.
- Operational & social4/10
Discord is genuinely alive at over 9,000 members with more than 1,300 online and the rulebook is still being extended in 2026, but the Facebook page has not posted since September 2025 and traders report multi-day support silences against an advertised ten second response.
Payout reality
Whether the money actually arrives, and what we could evidence.
Money does leave this firm, repeatedly and recently, and it also gets stopped at the review gate. Both are true and a buyer needs both.
- What we could evidence. Five dated, attributable reports of money arriving between 9 June and 18 August 2026: one trader documenting a $10,000 payout on 9 June and a third $10,000 payout on 31 July; $1,000 received on 11 July; a first payout reaching the bank on 7 July, described as two weeks to approval and hours from approval to funds; and first and second payouts landing in 8 and 12 days on 24 June. Payment rails are ACH by default, with PayPal and bank wire.
- What contradicts the marketing. The site headline is same day payouts. The firm's own payout policy redefines that as the day you may submit a request, and its withdrawal article adds that processing 'Can take up to 3 business days'. Genuine same day, within 24 hours settlement is a Live Funded feature only, and Live Funded is gated behind five consecutive payouts and a risk manager's decision.
- The denial cluster. Between 23 June and 26 August 2026 multiple unconnected traders reported the same sequence: request, a two to four week review, then refusal on a rule surfaced during that review, profits forfeited, account closed. Named examples include $7,000 of profit refused on a hedging finding on 6 August, over $5,000 across five accounts refused on a high frequency finding on 22 July, and a refusal on the day of payment on 24 July.
- The mechanic that makes the wait costly. Eligibility is tested at the moment the request is reviewed, and the firm instructs traders not to trade the account until the balance is adjusted or the payout is declined. A trader who has waited three weeks has therefore also sat idle for three weeks.
- What we could not establish. The Discord payout channel is not readable without joining, so we could not corroborate the firm's own payout ticker against a dated artefact in its own community, and we could not measure denial frequency against total payout volume.
How the program works
The evaluation, the funded phase and what the firm keeps.
A futures evaluation service. You buy a monthly subscription or a one time evaluation, hit a profit target without breaking a rule, then pay to activate a funded account.
- Account sizes and price: 25K at $68, 50K at $80, 100K at $158, 150K at $183, 250K at $295 per month, shown at a 50 percent discount against list.
- Two live products since 1 July 2026: Standard MAX (end of day drawdown, 5 days to pass) and STEADY (end of day drawdown, 2 days to pass). OG and Express MAX were closed to new purchase but existing accounts keep their original rules.
- Targets: a 50K Standard MAX needs $3,000 profit against $2,000 maximum drawdown.
- Fees after passing: $120 activation per account, $100 to reset an evaluation, and $126 a month in professional data fees deducted from the funded balance.
- Profit split: 80/20 on Standard MAX sim funded, 90/10 on STEADY sim funded and on all Live Funded accounts.
- Payout cadence: request on any day you meet every eligibility test. Minimum $500, maximum $10,000 per user per payout on sim, no maximum once live.
- Getting live: five consecutive payouts, then apply to a risk manager who holds final decision authority.
Who they are
The company behind the brand, and where it is registered.
- Brand: Funded Futures Network (FFN)
- Legal entity: Funded Futures Network LLC, named in its own Terms of Use and in its site footer
- Registered: Florida Limited Liability Company, document number L22000267808, filed 13 June 2022, status Active, EIN 88-2806402
- People on the registry: Kevin Swart (member and registered agent), Jacky Swart (authorised member), and Dexnu Holdings LLC of Dover, Delaware (authorised member)
- Addresses: principal address 99 Wall Street Suite 1660, New York, which is a mail forwarding suite; registered agent and mailing address 40 Raintree Lane, Ormond Beach, Florida, which is where the operation actually sits
- Website: fundedfuturesnetwork.com
- Founded: 2022, and the claim holds up. The registry filing date, the copyright line, the X account creation month and our own record all agree on June 2022
- Team disclosed: No. The About page describes the founders only as 'a couple of ordinary people'. No founder, director or staff member is named anywhere on the site
- Where it accepts traders from: Worldwide with a published restricted country list; governing law is Florida and disputes are bound to Volusia County courts
Company on record
The legal entity named in the terms, as found on a public registry.
- Legal name
- Funded Futures Network LLC
- Registration number
- L22000267808
- Jurisdiction
- United States, State of Florida
- Incorporated
- 2022-06-13
- Registered address
- 40 Raintree Lane, Ormond Beach, FL 32174 (registered agent and mailing); principal address given as 99 Wall Street Suite 1660, New York, NY
- Registry
- Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz)
Why this verdict
How the findings add up to this verdict.
MIXED_SIGNALS is not a hedge here. Substantial positives and substantial negatives are both evidenced and they do not cancel out.
- The firm is real, traceable and four years old. The entity is on the Florida register, its filing date matches its founding claim to the day, and named members sit behind it.
- Payouts are evidenced across the most recent quarter, to more than one trader, in amounts that match the published caps. That rules out systematic denial and rules out collapse.
- Against that, the disclosed payout speed and the delivered payout speed are far apart, and the gap is where the refusals happen.
- Two published rules forfeit all profit in the account, and one of them says plainly that no appeal exists. A trader who is wrong about a threshold loses everything in the account with no route back.
- The firm answers none of this in public. Every payout complaint we read sits without a reply, which is the opposite of the open book the About page promises.
- Nothing pushed this higher: no regulator has acted, no predecessor collapse is attached, no deposit rails exist, and money verifiably moves.
Counterpoints
The strongest case in their favour, and what would change our mind.
The case in their favour
The strongest honest case for FFN is a good one, and it rests on documentation and delivery rather than on marketing.
- It publishes its numbers. The consistency rule is tabulated per account type and phase, 40 percent or 25 percent or 50 percent against a stated denominator, with a worked example. The high frequency rule is a published threshold of no more than 30 percent of a session's trades at or under a 5 second round trip, with the session defined to the minute. Most of this industry leaves both undefined so it can decide later. FFN took that option away from itself.
- It documents consequences up front. A dedicated article tabulates each violation against its outcome, so a buyer can read what failure costs before paying.
- It grandfathered a rule change. When the funded lineup changed on 1 July 2026, accounts bought before the cutoff kept their original terms. That is the fair-handed way to do it.
- It states the simulation plainly. The Terms say the evaluation, exhibition and Funded Pro stages are simulated and use simulated funds, and a help article is devoted to the sim versus live distinction.
- It pays, and repeat payees exist. A trader reaching a third $10,000 payout is a stronger signal than any number of first payouts.
- The community is alive. Over 9,000 Discord members with more than 1,300 online at the time we looked, and a rulebook still being extended in 2026.
What would change our mind
Specific and checkable, in both directions.
- Upward: the firm publicly answering the June to August 2026 payout refusals with the actual session data it relied on. An appeal route added to the high frequency policy. A published median approval time that matches the eight day figure traders report at best. Dated payout artefacts through the coming quarter showing approval inside three business days as the withdrawal article states.
- Upward: naming the FCM partner that holds Live Funded sub-accounts, and naming the people the Florida register already names.
- Downward: approval windows lengthening past a month, or refusals appearing without a stated rule. A regulator listing the domain. The Discord payout channel going quiet while the storefront keeps selling. The evidenced payout trail stopping, with the most recent artefact ageing past a quarter.
- Downward: any demand for a further payment before funds are released, which we did not find and which would change this report entirely.
Evidence ledger
Every finding behind the verdict, with its source.
- In favour
E1Terms of Use name Funded Futures Network LLC as the operating entity and state that the evaluation, exhibition and Funded Pro stages are simulated and use simulated funds, with a Funded Pro user possibly moved to a live sub-account held with FFN's FCM partners at FFN's sole discretion. Also states the firm is not a broker-dealer.
- In favour
E2Florida Division of Corporations record for Funded Futures Network LLC, document L22000267808, filed 13 June 2022, status Active, EIN 88-2806402, Kevin Swart as member and registered agent at 40 Raintree Lane Ormond Beach FL, with Jacky Swart and Dexnu Holdings LLC of Delaware as authorised members. The filing date matches the founding claim and our record to the day.
- In favour
E3Five dated, attributable reports of payouts arriving between 9 June and 18 August 2026, including a trader documenting a third $10,000 payout on 31 July 2026, $1,000 received on 11 July, and first and second payouts landing in 8 and 12 days on 24 June. Confirms money leaves the firm to more than one trader in the current quarter.
- Against
E4A time-clustered pattern of payout-integrity complaints from unconnected traders between 23 June and 26 August 2026 with a single shared sequence: request, two to four week review, refusal on a rule surfaced in that review, profits forfeited, account closed. Named instances include $7,000 refused on a hedging finding on 6 August and over $5,000 across five accounts refused on a high frequency finding on 22 July.
- Against
E5The high frequency trading policy sets a published numeric threshold of no more than 30 percent of a session's trades at or under a five second round trip, assessed at each session close, but the stated consequence is that the account is failed, all profits are forfeited immediately, and there is no appeal process.
- In favour
E6The consistency rule is published as a full table of numeric thresholds by account type and phase, 40, 25 or 50 percent against a stated denominator, with worked examples, and no consistency rule at all on Live Funded or STEADY. A firm that publishes the number cannot decide it later.
- Against
E7The firm's own payout policy redefines its same day headline as the day you may submit a request, its withdrawal article adds that processing can take up to three business days, and only Live Funded accounts get funds sent within 24 hours. The marketing headline and the policy do not describe the same product.
- Against
E8For accounts purchased after 1 July 2026, moving from sim funded to live funded forfeits accumulated sim profits and restarts the account at size plus original buffer, and a risk manager holds final decision authority over whether and when that move happens. Accounts bought before the cutoff kept the legacy transfer rule.
- In favour
E9No deposit apparatus exists. The published sitemap lists only home, about, why, rules, faq, videos and blog with no cashier, deposit, wallet or account-types page; the Terms contain no client funds, segregated, margin or principal language; and the only money a customer sends is a non-refundable evaluation fee, a $120 activation fee, $100 resets and $126 monthly data fees. The Negative Deposit Test passes cleanly.
- Context
E10The Discord community is live with 9,130 members and 1,343 online, and the help centre is actively maintained with articles reflecting the 1 July 2026 product change. Against this, the Facebook page has not posted since 8 September 2025 and its bio claims the firm provides traders with live capital, which the Terms contradict.
Official channels
Official accounts and the captures we archived.
Official channels
Audience size and the latest post we could see, captured on the review date. A prop firm usually goes quiet before it stops paying, so an inactive channel is worth noticing.
What we captured
Screenshots taken by WIKILIX on the review date. Pages change; these do not.
Questions about Funded Futures Network
The questions traders actually ask about this firm.
Yes. We found five dated reports from named traders of money arriving between 9 June and 18 August 2026, including one trader documenting a third $10,000 payout on 31 July 2026. Payments arrive by ACH, PayPal or bank wire with no fee charged by the firm.
Eligibility is verified at the moment the request is reviewed, and every condition must be true then. Between June and August 2026 several traders reported a two to four week review that ended in refusal on a rule found during the review, most often the high frequency trading rule or the hedging rule, with all profits in the account forfeited.
Yes, which is better than most of this industry. It is 40 percent for Standard MAX and OG, 25 percent for Express MAX, 50 percent for Express MAX in evaluation, and none at all for STEADY or any Live Funded account. Note that after each payout the profit tally restarts at zero while your best single day carries forward permanently, so your consistency figure reads high at the start of every new cycle.
No. You pay a subscription or one time evaluation fee, a $120 activation fee per account after passing, $100 per reset, and $126 a month in data fees once funded. There is no cashier, no trading deposit and no client money language in the Terms.
The website names nobody. The Florida register shows Funded Futures Network LLC, document L22000267808, filed 13 June 2022, with Kevin Swart as member and registered agent, Jacky Swart as authorised member and Dexnu Holdings LLC of Delaware as an authorised member. The New York address on the site is a mail forwarding suite; the operating base is Ormond Beach, Florida.
Not on a sim funded account. The firm's own policy defines same day as the day you may submit a request, and its withdrawal guide says processing can take up to three business days. Traders report eight to twenty one days from request to funds. Genuine same day settlement within 24 hours applies only to Live Funded accounts.
No more than 30 percent of the trades you place in one session may have a round trip duration at or under five seconds. A session runs 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET the next day and is assessed at the close. Breaching it fails the account and forfeits all profits, and the policy states there is no appeal process. It applies to manual and automated trading alike.
Simulated at the start. The Terms state that the evaluation, exhibition and Funded Pro stages are simulated and use simulated funds, and that a Funded Pro user may be moved to a live sub-account held with the firm's FCM partners at the firm's discretion. Those FCM partners are not named. Payouts are real money either way.
For accounts purchased after 1 July 2026 they are forfeited. Your live account opens at the original account size plus the original buffer, for example a 50K STEADY account starts live at $52,000. Accounts bought before that cutoff keep the legacy rule where sim profits transfer. Withdraw down before applying to go live.
We found none. No enforcement action, injunction or warning list entry naming Funded Futures Network LLC or its domain turned up in our checks.
What we would do
What we would do with our own money.
Workable for a disciplined futures trader who prices in the review window. Not a firm to treat as a same day cash machine.
- Read the high frequency policy and the consistency article before you buy, not after you pass. Pull your own trade history and count what fraction of your round trips finish inside five seconds. If manual scalping is your edge, this firm can cost you the whole balance with no appeal.
- Assume two to three weeks from request to funds on a sim funded account, and plan not to trade that account while you wait, because trading it can void the request.
- Take payouts early and often rather than banking a large balance. The $10,000 per user cap and the all profits forfeited outcomes both punish letting profit sit.
- Understand that your best single day is permanent in the consistency calculation while the profit tally resets after each payout. Avoid an outsized day if you want smooth withdrawals.
- If you buy an account after 1 July 2026, know that moving to Live Funded forfeits your accumulated sim profits, so withdraw down before you apply.
- Keep your own timestamped record of every request, and be aware disputes are bound to Volusia County, Florida courts with a one year limitation period.