The cheaper doors

The demo under challenge rules: the free self-test that replaces the first ticket

Facts checked October 22, 2026

Every program in the dataset publishes its rules. That means the test can be rehearsed exactly, free, before any fee exists — the one door no affiliate page will build for you, because a reader who rehearses buys later, smaller, or never.

The protocol

  1. Pick the program and size you intend to buy. Write its target, daily loss and maximum loss at the top of a fresh demo account.
  2. Trade the demo for 20 consecutive sessions under those exact numbers, with your real intended position sizing — including the funded-stage versions of any rule that changes (news windows, trailing type).
  3. Apply your own daily stop without exception. The test measures rule-keeping, not profit.
  4. Score it the way the firm would: target reached inside the drawdown, no daily-limit breach, and — where the program has one — no day over the consistency cap.

Reading the result

Pass: you have evidence your current level fits these rules at demo stakes. The checker can now price the smallest ticket with a straight face. Fail: you just saved the expected series — about 7 tickets at base rates — and learned the specific rule that ends you, which is the cheapest trading education in this industry. Repeat monthly; a single pass is a sample of one, and two consecutive passes are the dataset's idea of a green light.

Demo fills flatter everyone: no slippage, no payout review, no money fear. Treat a demo pass as permission to buy small, not as proof of a funded future.

Before you pay, take the whole walkthrough

The verdict gives you the expected cost and the rule that applies to you. The Challenge Odds Kit gives you, program by program, the before-you-buy checklist, the style-versus-rules worksheets, the expected-cost workbook, and the payout-protection playbook: how to never hand a firm the excuse to refuse your payout.

Included in the $39 Challenge Odds Kit

See the Challenge Odds Kit

Sources: the firms' own published pages (price grids and program terms), the FPFX Technology dataset of 300,000+ accounts reported by Finance Magnates (2024), pass and payout figures published by the firms themselves, and regulator publications (CFTC, FSMA, Consob, CNMV). Recorded and checked October 22, 2026. Prices on this site are the list prices recorded on that date, promotions excluded; if a price or a rule has moved since, the firm's own page wins — and write to help@doogex.com so we can correct ours.