Launch Prize Challenge: top 2 win a $25K Phoenix futures eval

Launch Prize Challenge

Fully Funded launches on October 26, and the first two weeks come with real prizes: Phoenix Trader Funding is giving away two free $25K futures evaluations to the top two traders in the game.

How it works

• Play the Daily Challenge solo. Every player in the world trades the same market that day.
• Your first Daily Challenge each UTC day is your ranked run. Later tries that day are practice.
• Your score is your total P&L across your ranked days from Oct 26 to Nov 8, losing days included, just like a real evaluation.
• Quit a ranked day before the closing bell and it counts as hitting the daily loss limit (-$1,100).
• Live standings are in the game under Leaderboards > Prize challenge.

Fair play

Every ranked day saves a record of its trades. Before any prize is awarded, we replay the top players' trades and check that every score is exactly what those trades produce. One person, one Steam account.

Prizes

1st and 2nd place each win a Classic Starter 25K evaluation from Phoenix Trader Funding. Winners are announced by Steam name on November 9, and the game's main menu tells each winner how to claim (claim by November 15).

See you on the leaderboard.

Official Rules

Run by: PTL Studios Dates: Monday October 26, 2026 00:00 UTC through Sunday November 8, 2026 23:59 UTC Prize: 1st and 2nd place each win one Classic Starter 25K evaluation from Phoenix Trader Funding

How it works

1. Play the Daily Challenge in Fully Funded, solo. Every player in the world gets the same market that day.
2. Your first Daily Challenge each UTC day is your ranked one. Any later tries that day are practice and don't count. If the game can't confirm your ranked start with Steam (for example, you're offline), the run is practice on a separate practice market, not that day's real one.
3. Your contest score is your total P&L across all your ranked solo days in the contest window, losing days included, just like a real evaluation.
4. If you start a ranked day and quit before the closing bell, that day counts as hitting the daily loss limit (-$1,100).
5. Team days (2-4 players on one account) are fun, but they don't count toward the contest.
6. Live standings are in the game, under Leaderboards > Prize challenge.

Fair play

• One person, one Steam account. Using more than one account (for example, to preview the day's market) gets you disqualified.
• No looking ahead. Finding out how a day's market moves before your ranked run, by any means (another account, a friend's game, modified files or tools), is cheating and gets you disqualified.
• Every ranked day saves a record of its trades. Before any prize is awarded, we replay the top players' trades and check that every score is exactly what those trades produce. Any score that doesn't check out is disqualified.
• No exploits, modified game files, cheat tools, or automation.
• PTL Studios may disqualify any entry it believes, in good faith, broke these rules. Our decisions are final.

Ties

Ties go to the player with the best single ranked day. If that's also tied, the player who posted the score first wins.

Winners

• When the contest ends, we check the top scores by replaying every trade. Winners are then announced by Steam name on our Steam page and social media, and the game's main menu tells each winner how to claim.
• To claim, email ptlstudios.games@gmail.com with your Steam name by Sunday November 15, 2026. A prize not claimed by then passes to the next eligible player.
• To confirm the Steam account is yours, we'll ask you to message our studio Steam account with a code we send you.
• Then register a free account at phoenixtraderfunding.com and send us the name and email you registered with. We pass them to Phoenix Trader Funding, who add the evaluation to that account.
• We use your details only to deliver the prize and delete them afterwards (see our privacy policy).
• The prize is subject to Phoenix Trader Funding's own terms and eligibility rules (including age and location). It has no cash value, can't be transferred, and can't be exchanged.

Eligibility

• You must own Fully Funded on Steam.
• You must be 18 or older, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher.
• The contest is void where prohibited.
• PTL Studios staff and their households can't win.

Phoenix Trader Funding provides the prize and does not run, sponsor or endorse this contest. Questions: ptlstudios.games@gmail.com.