After Passing a Prop Challenge: Activation Checklist

First establish which phase you passed. A target marked complete, a provider review, an approved identity, an accepted agreement and an activated next account are separate states. Passing a challenge does not by itself prove durable skill, future income or immediate access to another account.

Find your actual next step

FTMO’s CFD transition guide distinguishes 1-Step completion from passing only the first phase of 2-Step. The latter leads to Verification after review; final completion still has review, identity and contractual steps. Instant is excluded from that guide.

FTMO describes its CFD accounts as simulated. Do not infer personal ownership of the displayed allocation or automatic copying to a company account. Topstep separately describes Combine, Express and Live stages; their names and requirements must not be collapsed into one account model.

Save the official result and instructions. Use the provider’s own portal for identity and contract steps. Ask which stage remains open if the account is not ready; this guide does not promise credentials within a universal number of hours or days.

Compare the new account before carrying settings over

Worked status example: the result is marked passed, but identity remains pending and no next-account identifier is issued. Record those three facts separately. There is no evidence that the next account is activated, and the evaluation settings are not a verified next-stage configuration.

Do not assume an overall limit is monthly or that it resets each month. A daily breach is not universally a one-day pause. Check the exact rule and consequences; software may fail to prevent a breach. Passing with a strategy also does not prove that execution conditions are identical or that unchanged settings will remain profitable.

Confirm permission and control

FXIFY’s phased-account EA guidance requires support review and pre-approval. “EAs allowed” is not unrestricted permission. Check the exact file, account, platform and any approval record.

A customer-owned account, licence or agreement with a service provider does not by itself authorise third-party operation, copying or evaluation passing. Establish the programme’s permission and the exact service scope before sharing control. No fixed service price or management share is established here.

Keep payment, refunds and scaling separate

A completed evaluation is not an approved payout. Check the actual reward share, cycle, eligible amount and request process. A provider’s share is not automatically a refundable reserve. FTMO’s fee FAQ distinguishes the 2-Step refund at the first Reward withdrawal request from nonrefundable 1-Step and Instant entry fees.

Record any fee and refund separately. Scaling has its own product and cohort conditions; no fixed monthly return, automatic account doubling or income path follows from passing. Multiple accounts add rules and combined exposure; permission and diversification cannot be inferred from different account names.

Retain a transition record

Keep the result, agreement version, identity status, account details, specifications, software/settings changes and unresolved questions. Track incidents and costs alongside gains. Tax classification and recognition depend on their own facts; the page does not assign a universal income category or tax rate.

The JPTC EA Hub supplies files for a compatible customer terminal. It is separate from the hosted JPTC Algo: Algo customers install and run nothing and need no VPS; that service is not provided for prop evaluations. Software guarantees neither compliance, passing nor payout. Company-published broker-statement figures are not customer transition evidence or an independent audit.

Primary transition and permission sources checked 16 October 2026.