Nova Funding review

Nova Funding, a one-step forex evaluation firm, went offline in February 2026 after thousands of one-star Trustpilot reviews alleging blocked withdrawals. Its .io domain no longer resolves at all, and its .com domain was picked up by an unrelated lawsuit-funding company.

Last verified 19 October 2026 · how we check

Nova Funding’s own domains no longer have anything to do with Nova Funding. The .io address returns a DNS failure outright. The .com address now belongs to a pre-settlement lawsuit-funding company with no connection to trading, and the trail that led there runs through thousands of one-star reviews and a website that simply stopped responding.

What happened, in the order it happened

Nova Funding ran a one-step forex evaluation: a single challenge toward a stated 10% profit target with no time limit, advertised funded-account access within 72 hours of passing. That structure is ordinary for the sector; what wasn’t ordinary was the volume of complaints that built up against it.

By the time an independent prop-firm review site documented the situation on 18 February 2026, the pattern was already established: traders reporting blocked withdrawals, accounts frozen without explanation, and support that had stopped answering. The site’s own account was blunt: Nova Funding “appears to have shut down operations after its official website went offline in recent days.”

A one-step, no-time-limit evaluation is, on paper, one of the more trader-friendly structures in the sector: no multi-phase objective, no deadline forcing rushed trades. That made the complaint pattern harder to explain away as “traders failing the terms and blaming the firm,” the usual defence prop firms raise against negative reviews. The complaints weren’t about failing an evaluation; they were about clearing one and still not getting paid.

What the numbers looked like right before it went dark

Trustpilot’s record, checked 19 October 2026, still shows the collapse: 2.2 out of 5 across 4,449 reviews, with 54% at one star, and the platform marking the profile as never having replied to a negative review. A rating that low on a sample that size isn’t a few disappointed customers; it’s the review history of a firm that stopped paying out before it stopped existing.

What the domains show now

Two different outcomes, checked today, and neither one is “still running.”

The .com redirect is the more informative of the two. A domain that expires and gets re-registered by an unconnected buyer is a routine event, not a continuation of the original business under new management, and nothing on the current site references Nova Funding, prop trading or forex in any way. Anyone who still has the old URL bookmarked is now looking at a completely different company that happens to have bought the same address.

Worth stating plainly: the lawsuit-funding business now sitting on that address bears no legal or operational relationship to the prop firm that used to be there. It didn’t acquire Nova Funding’s obligations, its customer list, or any claims against it; it simply registered a domain that became available. Treating the current site as any kind of successor, for a complaint or anything else, would be aiming at the wrong company entirely.

What the entity trail looks like, second-hand

With the firm’s own site gone, a legal entity name has to come from a third party rather than Nova Funding’s own terms, and the two company-data aggregators we checked don’t fully agree. One lists Nova Trading Solutions LLC, incorporated in the United States on 16 January 2023, with the brand itself launched that March. The same listing separately names Nova Trader, a Latvian company registered back in 2017, without explaining how the two relate. We haven’t independently verified either against Nova Funding’s own terms of service, because that page no longer exists to check against. Two possible entity names from two different countries, surfacing only after the original site is gone, is itself a familiar pattern in this sector: it mattered far more before the deposit than it does now.

Which register would even apply, and why we didn’t run one

Nova Funding sold simulated evaluation accounts, which is the same legal position covered in futures prop trading firms: a firm selling an evaluation on a simulated account isn’t, on its own argument, providing a financial service to a client. That’s why a forex evaluation brand typically carries no licence from ASIC or CySEC, the two registers we hold and search directly, and why we aren’t reporting a “not found” result here: neither register is the one that would apply to this kind of US-facing retail forex evaluation business in the first place. The applicable channel for a complaint is the CFTC and NFA BASIC, which a reader can search directly at nfa.futures.org/basicnet.

If you still have an open claim with them

The support channel is gone, not paused. With the domain redirected to an unrelated business, there’s no inbox on the other end of the old site to escalate to.

Collect what you had before the domain changed hands. Account statements, Trustpilot review drafts, payout request timestamps, and any email correspondence, while it’s still findable in your own mail history.

Report it rather than search for a shortcut. A chargeback only works inside your card network’s dispute window, and no legitimate agency charges an upfront fee to chase a refund; see forex scam recovery for the reporting channels that actually exist and the pattern recovery scams follow when they target people in exactly this position.

The review history outlasted the firm

Nothing here required a regulator’s intervention to become visible. A 2.2-star rating on 4,449 reviews, more than half of them one star, was public for anyone checking before depositing, the same way it’s public now. The firm’s disappearance didn’t change the facts; it just removed the only party who could have answered them.

It also isn’t the same shutdown shape as the others on this site. MyForexFunds closed by a CFTC asset freeze and later came back with a public relaunch date. KOT4X closed with a one-line notice still live on its own domain. Nova Funding left no notice at all: no statement, no wind-down page, just a dead subdomain and a .com that quietly became someone else’s business. Three firms, three different ways of disappearing, and the review history is the only one of the three records that stayed put.

A firm that never explains its own closure also never gets to shape how it’s remembered. KOT4X and MyForexFunds both put their own words in front of the story, one with a short notice, one with a court record and a relaunch page. Nova Funding left Trustpilot to write its epitaph by default, and a 2.2-star average across more than four thousand reviews is a blunter account than any statement the firm might have issued.

Sources

• Vetted Prop Firms — Nova Funding appears to shut down amid scam allegations, 18 February 2026
• Trustpilot — Nova Funding reviews, checked 19 October 2026
• novafunding.com — now redirects to an unrelated lawsuit-funding site, checked 19 October 2026
• novafunding.io — domain does not resolve, checked 19 October 2026
• Tracxn — Nova Funding company profile, entity names and incorporation dates