FundingTicks review
The futures arm of FundingPips, live for about a year. It wound down on 19 January 2026 with full refunds for every active account, including losing ones, which is far better than the sector norm. It closed a month after a retroactive rule change invalidated trades traders had already made. The parent firm is still trading and has left futures entirely.
| Verdict | closed |
|---|---|
| Stopped operating | 19 January 2026 |
| Regulators | not verified |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Platforms | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView |
FundingTicks stopped selling evaluations on 19 January 2026 and refunded every active account in full, whether it was in profit or in drawdown. Accounts that had made money were paid on top of the refund. In a sector where firms usually vanish behind a holding page, that is the orderly end, and it deserves saying first.
What makes the story worth reading is the month before it. FundingTicks closed four weeks after changing its own trading rules retroactively and invalidating trades its traders had already made.
The wind-down terms
The announcement is still on the homepage. These are the terms as published:
| Account state | What was paid |
|---|---|
| Active Evals and Master accounts | full refund, regardless of profit or drawdown status |
| Master account, target and objectives met | 80% reward split |
| Master account, profit but objectives unmet | 20% reward split |
| Live account in profit | refund, 90% split on realised profit, 20% of initial live balance |
| Live account at initial balance | refund, plus 20% of initial live balance |
| Live account in loss | refund only |
| Pending live transition | refund, plus 20% of initial live balance |
Two deadlines applied and both have passed: crypto wallet verification closed on 25 January 2026, and support for wind-down questions was promised until 31 January.
The login page at app.fundingticks.com still answers as of 6 August 2026, and the
homepage FAQ still carries 24 questions covering refund timing, reward calculation,
missed verification, subscriptions, Tradovate access and personal data. If you had an
account and never collected, that FAQ and that dashboard are where to start.
The clause worth reading before you accept anything
Underneath the FAQ sits the part that no summary of this closure mentions:
Any payments made are processed in good faith and as an act of goodwill, without any admission of liability, fault, wrongdoing, or obligation of any kind. Acceptance of the payment constitutes a full and final resolution and release of all matters relating to platform use and the wind-down.
Read plainly: the money is framed as a gift rather than a debt, and taking it closes your claim. For most traders getting a full refund that costs nothing. For anyone who believes they lost more than the refund covers, because of the December rule change, it is the whole question.
What happened in December
On 23 December 2025 Finance Magnates reported that FundingTicks had changed its rules and applied them to accounts retroactively. The changes:
| Rule | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum trade hold | none | one minute |
| Minimum profit per day | $150 | $200 |
| Profitable days required | five | six |
| Profit split | up to 90% | 80% |
| Withdrawals | — | reduced and capped |
The one thing FundingTicks promoted on social media was the fourth change it made that week: a higher drawdown limit.
Applied retroactively, this meant traders who had bought a challenge under the old rules and passed it found their accounts breached or their profits cut, because trades made weeks earlier broke rules that did not exist at the time. Trades that had been valid were invalidated.
Its Trustpilot score fell from 4.1 in October 2025 to 3.2, with 38 per cent of ratings at one star. The CEO, who posts as Khaled, answered publicly that he had “paid out more than US$220M while putting my traders always first.”
Four weeks later the firm announced it was winding down.
Who ran it
FundingTicks was the futures brand of FundingPips, the CFD prop firm. Its own about page said so, in a sentence the copywriter never finished adapting: “The team behind FundingPips consists of experienced traders and industry professionals.” Khaled claims ownership of both.
The domain shows the same short life. It sat on a “Coming Soon” placeholder from May 2024, went live as a trading site in early 2025, and by 19 January 2026 was serving the goodbye letter. About a year of operation.
FundingPips itself is trading normally. Checked on 6 August 2026, its homepage claims over 3,000,000 traders and $289M+ in total rewards, and offers MetaTrader 5, cTrader and Match-Trader. There is no futures product, no Tradovate and no NinjaTrader anywhere on it. The group did not move futures elsewhere. It left futures.
That is the answer to the question most people actually arrive with: the parent is not gone, and it is not offering what FundingTicks offered. Our separate review of FundingPips covers what it does offer, and where its own numbers disagree with each other.
Three payout numbers that do not reconcile
The same organisation published three different figures inside four months:
| Where | When | Claim |
|---|---|---|
| FundingTicks homepage | November 2025 | “over $120+ million in rewards across Forex and Futures” |
| CEO, on X | December 2025 | “paid out more than US$220M” |
| Wind-down page | January 2026 | “$30M+ in rewards paid to our trading community” |
| FundingPips homepage | August 2026 | “$289M+ Total Rewards” |
The figures are not necessarily contradictory. The $30M reads as FundingTicks alone and the larger ones as the group. The problem is that the $120M sat on the FundingTicks homepage, above a buy button, where a trader reading it would take it for the track record of the firm asking for the money. A number that shifts by a factor of seven depending on what it is being used to prove is a number to treat as marketing.
A dead firm is still being advertised
Search the brand today and the second result is fundingticks.netlify.app. It is a
live copy of the old marketing site, still running, still offering “20% off as an
existing user, or 35% off if it’s your first purchase,” still listing Tradovate and
NinjaTrader plans.
Nothing on it says the firm has closed. Anyone landing there from search sees a working futures prop firm taking orders. Check the address bar before you check anything else.
What we did not establish
The FAQ answers open only on click, so the published detail behind each of the 24 questions is on the site itself rather than reproduced here. We also have no independent confirmation of how many traders were paid, or of the total actually disbursed during the wind-down. The terms above are what FundingTicks published, not an audited outcome.
Verdict: closed
FundingTicks ended better than most firms in this sector do. Full refunds regardless of account state, published terms, a support window and a working dashboard six months later are not the behaviour of an exit scam, and the record should say so.
The reason it needed a good ending is the part to carry forward. A prop firm can change the rules of a challenge you already bought and apply the change to trades you already made. FundingTicks did it in December 2025, in writing, and the sector treated it as a reputational event rather than a legal one. Before you buy an evaluation anywhere, find the clause that says whether the rules can move under you, because that clause is what decides whether your passed challenge stays passed.
Sources
- FundingTicks — wind-down announcement and FAQ
- FundingTicks — about page, archived 8 November 2025
- Internet Archive — fundingticks.com capture history
- Finance Magnates — FundingTicks begins winding down, 19 January 2026
- Finance Magnates — backlash after retroactive rule change, 23 December 2025
- FundingPips — homepage