@Timo Amtsberg Being a scam is debatable. Most of them probably make more money from failed challenges than they do with profitable traders. Some even pay their profitable traders from the money paid in from failed challenges. Honestly, I don't care how they do it on the back end as long as they keep paying out. I am trading with way more capital than I could have in a personal account and I mostly trade CFDs which I cannot any other way in the US. I don't care if they give me a demo or a real funded account as long as they pay the profits I make. Something else I do is trade with multiple firms just in case one closes their doors, I'm not all-in on one firm. Speaking to the EA part, most of them don't want two traders trading the same EA. With that, I wouldn't use any EA available on the market because someone else is doing the same thing. I code my own. I'm not saying they are all good and I'm not saying none of them are scams. I'm just giving my point of view and my experience.