How to Buy a Challenge
Buying a challenge is a business purchase: the fee is capital you are deploying. Treat the choice like one. This page is educational, not a recommendation of any specific firm.
1. Choose the account size you can sustain
Pick a size whose fee you can afford to pay repeatedly. Your strategy needs attempts to express its statistics, and each attempt costs a fee. A smaller account you can run ten times beats a large account you can run once.
2. Read the rules before paying
Every parameter below matters twice: once because it shapes how you must trade, and once because it is an input to your PFArmour cycle. Before you buy, know exactly:
- Steps — 1-step, 2-step or 3-step evaluation.
- Profit targets — per phase, in percentage of the account size.
- Drawdown limits — overall and daily, in percentage; check whether the drawdown is static or trailing.
- Time limits — minimum or maximum trading days per phase, if any.
- Refund — whether the firm refunds the fee at your first payout, and how much.
- Profit split — the percentage paid to you, specifically at the first payout.
- Bonus — any extra reward on performance, and the performance threshold that unlocks it.
- Trading restrictions — news trading, overnight and weekend holding, and the firm's policy on EAs and trade copying.
3. Map the challenge to your PFArmour cycle
When you create a cycle in PFArmour you enter exactly these parameters — account size, prop cost, refund, bonus amount and bonus threshold, profit split, number of steps, profit targets and drawdown limits, plus your live phase target. Have them at hand before you buy, and run the numbers first: the configuration window shows the expected outcomes and the broker deposit the cycle requires before you commit to anything.
4. Buy and connect
Purchase the challenge on the firm's website, receive your MetaTrader credentials, and install the terminal on the same PC where PFArmour runs. From there, creating the cycle and connecting the accounts is handled inside the app.