THE TRUTH THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO TRADE: Inside South Africa’s PROP FIRM WARS Where Your Dream Is Their Secret Weapon
Forget everything you’ve been told about getting funded. In South Africa’s explosive prop trading scene, firms are locking traders into a DANGEROUS GAME where the rules are rigged, and YOUR ambition is the real commodity. We investigated the top players, and what we found will make you question EVERYTHING. This isn’t just trading—it’s a BATTLEFIELD for your wallet and your sanity.
LOOK at the tables. STUDY the rules. Firms like top-ranked OneFunded dazzle with promises of 90% splits and $200,000 accounts, but the devil is in the details. Their own charts show the TRAPS: a crushing 4% daily loss limit, a 6% overall loss limit on a 1-Step Challenge. One wrong move and YOU’RE OUT, while they keep your fee. City Traders Imperium and others play the same game, dangling “Instant Funding” while hiding balance-based drawdowns that can wipe you out overnight.
Why does this matter? Because these firms are getting RICH off your struggle. They profit from evaluation fees and take a cut of YOUR wins, all while you shoulder 100% of the risk. The platforms—cTrader, MT5, TradeLocker—are just the shiny cage. The so-called “flexibility” is a carefully engineered illusion designed to make you trade more, risk more, and PAY MORE. Who stays silent? The influencers pushing referral codes, blinded by commissions, while ordinary traders get crushed by complex rules buried in FAQs.
This system isn’t designed to fund you. It’s designed to FILTER you out and harvest your cash. You are not a client. You are the product.
They are betting you’ll fail. PROVE THEM WRONG.
Edited for Kayitsi.com



