No calendar pressure
Your evaluation has no expiry date. Trade the setups your strategy waits for instead of forcing entries before a deadline.
The WenCrypto approach
Why we stopped designing challenges that traders were meant to fail
Anyone who has spent a couple of years around funding programmes knows the pattern. A firm advertises a huge account, hides a trailing drawdown in the small print, adds a 30-day clock, and then quietly counts on most people tripping over one of those details. It works as a business model for a while. It just does not build anything worth keeping.
WenCrypto started in 2021 with four traders and one uncomfortable spreadsheet. We tracked which of our own rules had ended accounts, and the answer was awkward: barely any of the failures came from bad trading. They came from a trailing limit tightening after a good run, or from someone pushing size on day 28 because the deadline was closer than their setup. So we cut both. The drawdown was fixed to the starting balance and the calendar was thrown out entirely.
Pass rates roughly doubled, which sounds like a problem until you look at what happened next. Funded traders stayed longer. Average holding periods went up. The desk's own risk numbers improved, because people were no longer gambling against a clock. Paying out more money to fewer, better traders turned out to be cheaper than collecting fees from a crowd churning through resets.
That is the whole philosophy behind WenCrypto, and it explains the decisions that look generous on the surface. The fee comes back with your first payout because we would rather earn from the trading relationship than from the entry ticket. Payouts are reviewed the next business day because a trader waiting three weeks for their own money starts making worse decisions. Rejections come with the trade log attached because nobody learns from a closed door.
None of this removes the difficulty. Eight percent inside a fixed eight percent loss limit is a genuine test, and most people who try it will not clear it on the first attempt. But when a WenCrypto account closes, it closes because of how someone traded, not because of a clause they never read.
