Mission
To give traders reliable market access, clear account conditions, professional trading technology, and straightforward payment journeys supported by responsive service.
About Connect Funded
A funding partner for traders who take their edge seriously.
Connect Funded gives disciplined traders access to firm capital across forex, precious metals, commodities, indices, share CFDs and crypto — under a rulebook that is published in full, enforced by software, and unchanged from the $10,000 tier to the $200,000 one.
The founding thesis
Capital, not talent, is the binding constraint.
Connect Funded was assembled in 2019 by people who had spent their careers on institutional desks and kept meeting the same trader: technically sound, properly disciplined, and running four thousand dollars.
That trader does not have an edge problem. They have a position-sizing problem imposed by the size of their account, and no amount of skill fixes it. Give the same person $100,000 with a published rulebook and a real payout schedule and the arithmetic changes completely.
So the firm was built around one question: what does a funded programme look like if you assume the trader is competent and the operator is the variable? The answer turned out to be unglamorous. Publish every rule. Enforce it in software. Settle payouts on a calendar rather than on request. Refuse to bury a consistency clause in the terms that quietly makes the advertised split unreachable.
We are not a broker and we do not hold client deposits for trading. Traders pay once for an evaluation, trade firm capital under the rules published on this site, and take the larger share of what they make. That is the whole model, and the next section sets out the money behind it.
“A funded account is a contract, not a favour. The only thing that makes it credible is that every term is published before the trader pays, and that none of them move afterwards.”
Registered base
Beirut, Lebanon
Trader-facing operations run from Dubai across the Asian, European and US sessions, with remote desks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Mission & vision
What we are here to do, and where we are going.
Two statements that sit behind the rulebook, the desks and the payment rails — not slogans on a wall.
Vision
To build a trusted, technology-led brokerage experience recognized for clarity, accessibility, and consistent client support.
50,000+
Evaluations issued
142
Countries served
$38M+
Paid to traders
4.7 / 5
Average trader rating
How we make money
Two revenue lines, both of them on this page.
Prop firms have a reputation for vagueness here, so this is stated plainly: we are paid by evaluation fees and by a minority share of funded performance. There is nothing else.
Evaluation fees
$99 – $899
Charged once, per attempt, at the tier you choose. Most evaluations do not reach funded status, and those fees are what pay for the liquidity, the platforms, the risk engine and the desks that run them.
Our share of funded performance
10% – 20%
The remainder after your split: 20% on the 80% tiers, 15% on the 85% tiers and 10% on Professional. It is the only line that grows when you do, which is deliberate.
What we never charge for
- No withdrawal or processing fees on any rail
- No monthly platform, data or terminal fee
- No commission added on top of the raw spread
- No charge for the Trading Academy or desk sessions
- Your evaluation fee returned with the first payout
The consequence is worth being explicit about: once you are funded, the firm earns only when you earn. Before that point, we are paid whether the evaluation passes or not — which is exactly why the evaluation fee comes back with your first payout, and why a trader who breaches inside 14 days is offered a discounted reset instead of a second full price.
Operating principles
Five rules we hold ourselves to.
These are not values on a wall. Each one describes a decision the firm has already made and has to keep making.
Publish the rule before enforcing it
Every limit that can close an account is written down and priced into the page you bought from. If a rule is not published, it does not exist, and we do not get to invent it after a profitable month.
Enforce automatically, never by hand
Drawdown checks run at the platform against live equity. Nobody at the firm decides whether your breach counts, because nobody at the firm is in that loop.
Pay on the published cadence
Bi-weekly, or weekly on Professional, released within 24 to 48 hours of approval. We absorb the processing fee on every rail, so the number you request is the number that lands.
Say no clearly and early
Where an answer is no — a rejected payout, a prohibited strategy, a failed verification — you get the reason and the route to appeal it, not a template about our terms.
Scale the relationship, not the churn
The business only works if funded traders stay funded. Scaling, education and support all exist because a trader in their second year is worth more than four who reset once.
Why Connect Funded
The argument, in nine parts.
Every funded programme claims transparency. These are the specific, checkable ways ours differs — each one verifiable against the account tiers and the rulebook before you pay anything.
Institutional-grade infrastructure
Tier-1 liquidity, segregated client funds and bank-level encryption on every tier — the $10K account routes through the same bridge as the $200K one.
Rules enforced server-side
Drawdown limits are evaluated at the platform, not reviewed after the fact. You always know exactly where you stand, and no breach is ever adjudicated by hand.
Payouts in 24 to 48 hours
Bi-weekly cycles as standard, weekly on Professional. We absorb the processing fee on every rail, so the amount you request is the amount you receive.
No time limit on either phase
Only a four-day minimum. Nothing forces you into a marginal setup to beat a clock, which is the single most common reason evaluations fail elsewhere.
One account, every asset class
Forex, metals, energy, indices, share CFDs and crypto from a single login. No separate permissions, no per-class add-ons, no surprise restrictions.
Trade on your platform
MetaTrader 5, cTrader and a browser-based Web Terminal all connect to the same funded account. Run them side by side if that is how you work.
A portal that tells the truth
Live drawdown headroom, trading-day count, KYC status and full payout history in one dashboard, updated as your positions move.
Scaling published up front
Hit 10% across two consecutive payout cycles and your capital doubles, to a $2,000,000 ceiling. Your split rises with it and never decreases.
Education that continues after funding
Structured courses, weekly desk notes and a glossary written against our own rulebook. Funding is the start of the relationship, not the end.
The desks
Who is actually accountable for what.
There are no photographs on this page and no invented biographies. What matters when something goes wrong is which desk owns the decision, so that is what we publish.
Trading Operations
11 people
Keeping the bridge, the pricing feed and the three platforms running through every session, including the ones that start at 22:00 UTC.
- Liquidity routing and execution quality monitoring
- Account provisioning, resets and scaling upgrades
- Platform incidents and the status notices you receive
Risk
7 people
Writing the rulebook, encoding it into server-side checks, and reviewing every case where an automated decision is disputed.
- Drawdown enforcement logic and its test coverage
- Prohibited-practice detection and case review
- Allocation sizing, scaling approvals and exposure limits
Payments & Treasury
6 people
Moving money in both directions on the published timetable, and absorbing the processing cost so the amount requested is the amount received.
- Payout approval, settlement and reconciliation
- Card, bank, e-wallet and crypto rail maintenance
- KYC review, sanctions screening and source-of-funds checks
Trader Support
14 people
Answering the portal queue 24 hours a day, five days a week, in English, Arabic and French, without a script.
- Portal tickets, email and pre-sale questions
- Rule interpretation and evaluation guidance
- Onboarding walkthroughs and verification chasing
Engineering
18 people
The client portal, the public site, the risk engine and every integration between them, shipped behind tests rather than behind a maintenance window.
- Portal, admin console and public site
- Risk engine, market data pipeline and reporting
- Security, access control and audit logging
56
people across five desks, working from Dubai and remotely across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We publish accountabilities rather than headshots because the seat matters more than the name in it.
Every desk is reachable through the portal ticket queue. Risk decisions are reviewed by the risk desk itself, never by support, so you always get an answer from the team that made the call.
Build-out
What the platform can do, and what is next.
A capability roadmap rather than a press timeline: shipped, in build, and queued behind it.
- Live today
One rulebook across every tier
A 5% daily and 10% overall drawdown, a four trading day minimum and no calendar deadline — identical from the $10,000 Starter account to the $200,000 Professional one.
- Only the profit target and the split change by tier
- No hidden consistency rule, no forced position closure
- Live today
Risk enforced server-side
Drawdown is evaluated at the platform as positions move, not reconciled after the fact by a human reading a statement the next morning.
- Breaches close the account at the moment they occur
- Live headroom is exposed in the portal and the Web Terminal
- Live today
Every asset class from one login
Forex, precious metals, energy, global indices, share CFDs and major cryptocurrencies on a single funded account, with no per-class permission to request.
- Leverage set per class, from 1:100 on forex to 1:5 on crypto
- MetaTrader 5, cTrader and the Web Terminal share one account
- Live today
Payout rails that settle in days, not weeks
Eight funding and withdrawal methods across cards, bank transfer, e-wallets and crypto, with the processing fee absorbed on every one of them.
- Approved payouts released within 24 to 48 hours
- Bi-weekly cycles as standard, weekly on Professional
- Live today
Published scaling to $2,000,000
Return 10% across two consecutive payout cycles and the allocation doubles. The plan is published before you buy, so the target is never moved once you are trading toward it.
- Profit split steps up with each doubling and never falls
- Combined allocation capped at $400,000 before scaling
- Live today
The Trading Academy
Fourteen structured courses, a recommended learning path, four recurring desk sessions a week and a glossary written against this rulebook rather than a textbook.
- Free from registration, before any evaluation is purchased
- Taught by the trading operations and risk desks
- In build
Arabic and French across the whole surface
Support already answers in all three languages. The remaining work is the portal, the rulebook and the academy, which are being translated rather than machine-rendered.
- Right-to-left layout for the portal and the public site
- Localised payout documentation and KYC guidance
- In build
Per-instrument analytics in the portal
Expectancy, average R, slippage and drawdown contribution broken out by instrument and by session, from your own trade history rather than a generic dashboard.
- Session-tagged execution quality reporting
- Exportable trade list for your own journal
- Queued next
Allocations above the combined cap
A reviewed route for consistently profitable traders who have reached the $400,000 combined allocation cap and want to run more capital under a formal agreement.
- Risk-desk review rather than an automatic upgrade
- Bespoke reporting and a named operations contact
Careers
Six seats open across five desks.
We hire people who want to be accountable for a specific part of a trader's experience. Market-hours roles are real market hours, and remote roles are genuinely remote.
6 open roles
RiskHybrid
Senior Risk Engineer
Dubai (DIFC)
Own the service that evaluates drawdown against live equity on every tick, and the test suite that proves it is right. You will be writing the code that closes accounts, so correctness matters more than throughput.
Trading OperationsOn-site
Trading Operations Analyst, Asia Session
Dubai (DIFC)
Cover the Sydney and Tokyo sessions from the Dubai desk: execution quality monitoring, liquidity routing and first-line platform incidents. Suits someone who already keeps market hours.
Payments & TreasuryRemote
Payments & Treasury Associate
Remote (EMEA)
Run the payout queue end to end — approval, settlement and reconciliation across card, bank, e-wallet and crypto rails. You will be the reason a trader gets paid on the day we said they would.
RiskOn-site
Compliance Analyst, AML and KYC
Dubai (DIFC)
Review verification documents, run sanctions and politically exposed person screening, and handle source-of-funds enquiries. Prior experience inside a DIFC or ADGM regulated entity is a strong advantage.
Trader SupportHybrid
Trader Support Specialist, Arabic and English
Dubai (DIFC)
Answer the portal queue for Arabic and English speakers across evaluation rules, payouts and platform questions. We do not use scripts, so you will need to understand the rulebook properly.
EngineeringRemote
Full-Stack Engineer, Client Portal
Remote (UTC-3 to UTC+6)
Build the surfaces traders actually live in: drawdown headroom, payout requests, verification and reporting. TypeScript, React and Postgres, shipped behind tests and feature flags.
How hiring works here
- 01
Written application
Send a short note about the role and anything you have built or run that is relevant. No cover letter formalities, and no automated screening between you and a human.
- 02
Conversation with the desk lead
Forty-five minutes with the person you would report to, covering how the team works and what the first ninety days actually look like.
- 03
A paid practical exercise
A scoped piece of real work, timeboxed to a few hours and paid at a day rate. Nothing we ask you to produce ships without a further review.
- 04
Final panel and offer
One conversation with two people from other desks, then a decision inside three business days. We tell you either way, with a reason.
Nothing here that fits?
Write to us anyway with the role you think we are missing. Choose the careers topic on the contact form and it routes straight to the hiring desk rather than to support.
Follow the desk
Six channels, one trading desk
Levels before the session opens, event alerts as they land and payout proof once they clear. Pick the channel that fits how you work.
Follower counts are indicative and refreshed monthly. Nothing posted on these channels is financial advice, and no Connect Funded team member will ever ask you for account credentials or a payment outside the client portal.
The rules are published. The capital is real.
Pick a tier from $10,000 to $200,000, pass two phases under a 5% daily and 10% overall drawdown, and keep 80% to 90% of what you make.