Vest Markets · Trust Score 74.1/100 Through Roya: −5% on every Vest Capital account with code ROYA, entered on the Vest Capital page (read 9 October 2026)
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In four sentences
Vest Markets' Vest Capital program scores 74.1/100 on our grid of 9 October 2026, from an account we paid for: on 8 October 2026 we bought a 1-Step $5,000 evaluation (10% target, 3% daily loss limit, 80/20 split) for $38 — $40 list, −5% with a code pre-filled in our session (ROYA gives the same discount), Stripe receipt — after an email sign-up with no identity document requested at purchase. The rules read on 9 October 2026 at docs.vestmarkets.com: a 6% static max drawdown ($300 on $5,000, floating P&L included), a daily loss limit of 3% or 4% of the reset balance that resets at 20:00 ET, no time limit, no minimum days, no consistency rule, immediate closure on breach, a maximum of 10 live funded accounts, no API on funded accounts, XRP and HYPE unavailable. The Prop Trading Terms accepted at checkout (last updated 6 October 2026) state that "All Accounts, including Instant Funded Accounts, are simulated" and name Vest Exchange Inc., a Panamanian company, as the operator; payouts are an internal "Claim Profit" credited within 24 hours per Vest, then a USDC withdrawal on Base or Arbitrum One, with no public payout address or contract to verify, and we have received no payout yet. Prohibited jurisdictions in the Prop Terms are Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia and Syria; the exchange's Terms of Service add China (mainland, Hong Kong, Macau), the United Kingdom and the United States, and they govern the Primary Account from which withdrawals are made.
From$40 (1-Step $5K, default config — $38 paid with a pre-filled code worth the same as ROYA, 8 Oct 2026)
Key facts
80% / 90% / 95% Instant
Profit split
$25K per account · 10 live max
Max account
USDC withdrawal (Base/Arbitrum) after internal claim · 24h stated
Payouts
Centralized
Settlement
The numbers that matter
$38
paid for a 1-Step $5,000 evaluation ($40 list, minus a pre-filled code worth the same as ROYA) — Stripe receipt, 8 Oct 2026
6%
static max drawdown: $300 on $5,000, floating P&L included (docs, 9 Oct 2026)
3%
daily loss limit ($150 on our account), reset at 20:00 ET, floating P&L included
0.01%
taker fee read on our trade ticket: $1.74 on $17,441.91 of notional (9 Oct 2026)
$13M
seed round led by Portal Ventures, announced 7 Oct 2026 (Fortune)
0
payouts received by us as of 9 Oct 2026 — the account is in evaluation
On 8 October 2026 we bought a Vest Capital evaluation with our own money: a 1-Step $5,000 "Silver" account, 10% target, 3% daily loss limit, 80/20 split — $40 list, $38 paid after a discount code pre-filled in our session (ROYA gives the same discount), Stripe receipt. The account was credited the same minute ("Deposit +$5,000.00") and traded on 9 October. The evaluation is in progress: no result on this page is invented, and we will write the outcome when there is one.
Vest Markets is a centralized perpetuals exchange — Vest Labs, backed per its docs by Coinbase, Jane Street, Selini, Amber and QCP among others, with a $13M seed led by Portal Ventures announced on 7 October 2026 by Fortune — and Vest Capital is its funded-trader program. It is cross-asset: perps on US stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities, FX and crypto in the same account, paid in USDC on-chain at withdrawal. It is NOT an on-chain prop firm in the sense of Propr or Hypernova: the accounts are simulated by contract, there is no readable reserve and no payout contract, which is why it is scored here as a centralized firm.
What this page covers
The prices read on 9 October 2026, the rule that ends the account, KYC and countries, API and weekends, the payout path and what we could and could not verify, the Prop Terms' "simulated" clause set against the "real capital" marketing, and eight questions readers ask. Every figure carries its read date.
−5% on every Vest Capital account with code ROYA, entered on the Vest Capital page — read on 9 October 2026, no end date published. The link does not apply the code by itself: once signed in, type it in "Enter Discount Code", under the account cards.
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About Vest Markets
Vest Markets is a centralized perpetuals exchange; Vest Capital is its funded-trader program. Here is what we could read and date on 9 October 2026, and what we could not.
Funding: $13M seed led by Portal Ventures, closed in July, announced 7 October 2026 by Fortune; team of 22, CEO Justin Ma. The docs list Coinbase, Jane Street, Selini, Amber, QCP, BBH and IVC among backers, plus Citadel, BlackRock and HRT executives.
Audit: smart contracts audited by OtterSec (file in the docs). Incident reports published for 15 April 2026 (erroneous liquidations, about 10% of active accounts), 8 June 2026 and 30 June 2026 — all on the earlier trade.vestmarkets.com platform; Vest says affected accounts were reinstated or compensated.
Product: evaluation accounts of $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000 (1-Step configurable or 2-Step), Instant accounts of $500 to $25,000, perps on stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities, FX and crypto — 88 markets listed in the app on 9 October 2026 (54 stocks, 10 ETFs, 3 indices, 7 commodities, 9 FX pairs, 5 crypto) — the docs say "hundreds".
Nature of the accounts: "All Accounts, including Instant Funded Accounts, are simulated" (Prop Terms, 6 October 2026); traders supply "Trade Ideas" and receive a contractual compensation. Vest may copy those ideas on its own accounts.
What we could not verify
The launch date of Vest Capital, its pass rate, and the number of traders paid — Fortune's "roughly 26% of the platform's 27,000 traders" is Vest's own figure, attributed, not confirmed.
A payout. We have requested none (account in evaluation), and no payout address, contract or reserve is published for anyone to check.
Whether "VEST", shown pre-filled in the discount field during our session, is a permanent public code. The ROYA discount is the standard affiliate discount.
A purchase with a wallet-only login (the FAQ says it works; we bought with an email account).
What we like
Price: $40 for a $5,000 1-Step (0.8% of the account), 2-Step from $15, Instant from $10 — read 9 October 2026; $38 on our receipt of 8 October, after a code worth the same as ROYA.
Cross-asset in one account: perps on NYSE/NASDAQ stocks, ETFs, indices (ES, NQ, RTY), commodities, FX and crypto — 88 markets listed in the app on 9 October 2026 (54 stocks, 10 ETFs, 3 indices, 7 commodities, 9 FX pairs, 5 crypto) — the docs say "hundreds". No other firm on our grid offers that.
A complete, numbered rulebook before you pay: price matrix of 36 configurations, daily-loss formula with its 20:00 ET reset, 6% static drawdown, no consistency rule, no time limit, no minimum days (docs, 9 October 2026).
Payout terms on paper: Claim Profit with no cap on amount or frequency, 24 hours per Vest, then USDC on Base or Arbitrum One from 1 USDC; split of 80% or 90% chosen at purchase, 95% on Instant.
Fees: maker 0, taker 0.01% (ES/NQ/RTY 0.0025%). We read a $1.74 fee on $17,441.91 of notional on our own ticket on 9 October 2026 — exactly 0.01%.
Funding and disclosure: $13M seed led by Portal Ventures (Fortune, 7 October 2026), named backers, an OtterSec audit, and published incident reports (15 April, 8 June, 30 June 2026) — a firm that documents its own failures.
Watch-outs
Simulated accounts, by contract: the Prop Terms of 6 October 2026 say "All Accounts, including Instant Funded Accounts, are simulated" while the docs sell "Real Vest capital. Not simulated". The contract wins; the marketing should say so.
Nothing verifiable from outside: no payout address, no distribution contract, no readable reserve — and we have received no payout (account in evaluation as of 9 October 2026).
No API on funded accounts, evaluation or live: bots cannot trade here in practice. XRP and HYPE are unavailable on funded accounts; BTC/ETH leverage is 15x.
Four public contradictions read on 9 October 2026: refund 3 days (docs) vs 28 days (Terms and FAQ); "90%" in the hero vs 80% on the default cards (90% costs about 20% more); a breach at exactly the floor (FAQ: "touches or drops below"; docs: "equality alone does not breach a limit"); 100 evaluation accounts max (docs) vs "not capped" (FAQ).
The daily loss limit includes floating P&L, resets at 20:00 ET and closes the account immediately; positions on a closed market are locked at the weekend (everything but crypto).
Ceilings and borders: $25,000 per account, 10 live accounts max; the US, the UK and China are excluded by the exchange's Terms, which govern the Primary Account you withdraw from.
How it went, step by step
8 Oct 2026 · 22:23 ET
The purchase: $38
Email sign-up, no identity document requested. The purchase modal shows three evaluation cards — $40, $80, $210 — with "No Discount Applied". We chose the Silver $5,000 1-Step on its default configuration: 10% target, 3% daily loss limit, 80/20 split. The discount field was pre-filled with a code "VEST" in our session, worth −5% — not ours; ROYA gives the same discount, checked the next day — and Stripe charged $38.00 (receipt 1552-9436). The app credited the account the same minute: "Deposit +$5,000.00".
The purchase modal before any code ("No Discount Applied"): Silver $5,000 at $40, Gold $10,000 at $80, Platinum $25,000 at $210 — 3% daily loss, 10% goal, 80% split on all three · read on · next.vestmarkets.com/vest-capital
9 Oct 2026
The Terms accepted at checkout
The checkout modal carries the Prop Trading Terms, last updated 6 October 2026, under the heading "IMPORTANT PROGRAM DISCLOSURE": "All Accounts, including Instant Funded Accounts, are simulated. No real trading capital, assets, margin, or collateral are credited or entrusted to you." The contracting entity is Vest Exchange Inc., a Panamanian company. We quote it because the marketing says the opposite — see the verdict.
The Terms shown before checkout ("Last updated: October 6, 2026"), opening on an IMPORTANT PROGRAM DISCLOSURE: all accounts, including Instant Funded, are simulated; fees buy access to the program, not assets. We closed it without accepting — we did not accept terms on anyone's behalf · read on · next.vestmarkets.com/vest-capital
9 Oct 2026
The code ROYA on the pricing page
Read back on the evaluation pricing page: with ROYA in the field, the banner reads "Discount is Active!" and the three cards go from $40 / $80 / $210 to $38 / $76 / $199.50 (−5%). The same discount applies to Instant accounts ($10 → $9.50). It is our affiliate code: we earn a commission when you use it, and your price still drops.
The evaluation pricing page with the code ROYA typed in "Enter Discount Code": "Discount is Active!", 5% off — $40 → $38, $80 → $76, $210 → $199.50 on the default 1-Step cards (10% target, 3% daily loss, 80/20) · read on · next.vestmarkets.com/vest-capital/evaluation
9 Oct 2026
The account in the app: the floors in dollars
Portfolio page of our account: Evaluation Phase, Evaluation Goal $0.00 / $500, Max. Daily Loss / $150, Max. Drawdown / $300, an "Account Health" gauge and two open positions. The three dollar figures match the docs exactly: 10% of $5,000, 3% of $5,000, 6% of $5,000. Nothing on this screen is a trading result; the evaluation is in progress.
Our own Silver $5,000 evaluation (1-Step, 10% target, 3% daily loss, 80/20), bought for $38 on 8 October 2026: the app shows Evaluation Goal $500, Max. Daily Loss $150 and Max. Drawdown $300 — the docs' 3% and 6%, to the dollar — with the two positions Raphael opened on 9 October. The P&L on screen is a snapshot of that morning, not a result: the evaluation is in progress · read on · next.vestmarkets.com
9 Oct 2026
The terminal: Fail Price and a 0.01% fee
The trade interface prints a "Fail Price" next to each position — the price at which that position, everything else unchanged, takes the account to its nearest loss floor (on our account on 9 October both Fail Prices sat about $336 of loss away: the distance to the daily floor of $4,850, not to the $4,700 max-drawdown floor). On the ticket we read a $1.74 fee on $17,441.91 of notional, which is the 0.01% taker rate the docs publish (ES/NQ/RTY are listed at 0.0025%; maker is 0). Fees are simulated during the evaluation and real on a live account.
The trading terminal on our evaluation account: order form with the Fail Price — the price at which that position, everything else unchanged, takes the account to its nearest loss floor — shown before you send the order · read on · next.vestmarkets.com
Screenshots, dated
Proof — what the firm's site showed us
Instant Funded cards: $500 for $10, $5,000 for $200, $10,000 for $400, $25,000 for $1,000 — the price equals the maximum drawdown, 95% split, no daily limit, no target · read on · source next.vestmarkets.com/vest-capital/instant
The rule that kills the account
The daily loss limit, floating P&L included
On the 1-Step we bought, the Daily Loss Limit is 3% of the "reset balance" — balance plus reserved collateral, floating P&L excluded from the BASE — fixed once a day at 20:00 ET. On our $5,000 account that is a $150 floor, printed on the Portfolio page as "Max. Daily Loss $150" (read 9 October 2026). What is compared with that floor is the CURRENT equity, floating P&L included: an open position in a loss can breach you. Non-trading transfers move the floor accordingly.
The static 6% max drawdown
The max drawdown is 6% of the starting capital, static: $300 on $5,000, $600 on $10,000, $1,500 on $25,000. The floor never rises with profits. Equity, floating P&L included, falling below it ends the account — the docs add that equality alone does not breach, while the FAQ says "touches or drops below" (docs loss-limits and FAQ, 9 October 2026).
Closure is immediate
The docs and the FAQ say the same thing: closure is immediate and permanent, no warning, no grace period. The terminal prints a "Fail Price" per position — the price at which that position, everything else unchanged, takes the account to its nearest loss floor — the same rule, shown as a number.
What does not end the account
No time limit, no minimum trading days, no consistency rule; news, scalping, overnight and weekends allowed (FAQ, 9 October 2026). The 1-Step sells the daily limit as an option — 3%, 4% or none, at different prices — and Instant accounts have no daily limit at all; the 6% max drawdown (or the Instant price, which IS the drawdown) always remains.
6% static ($300)· default card 10% / 3% / 80-20 — the one we bought for $38 on 8 Oct 2026
1-Step $10K (Gold)
$80
10%
3%
6% static ($600)· default card; 80/20 split
1-Step $25K (Platinum)
$210
10%
3%
6% static ($1,500)· default card; 80/20 split — largest evaluation sold
2-Step $5K
$15
10% then 5%
3%
6% static· fixed configuration, 80/20 split
2-Step $10K
$35
10% then 5%
3%
6% static· fixed configuration, 80/20 split
2-Step $25K
$90
10% then 5%
3%
6% static· fixed configuration, 80/20 split
Instant $500
$10
none
none
$10 (2%) = the price· live from payment; 95% split
Instant $5K
$200
none
none
$200 (4%) = the price· 95% split
Instant $10K
$400
none
none
$400 (4%) = the price· 95% split
Instant $25K
$1,000
none
none
$1,000 (4%) = the price· 95% split — largest Instant sold
Read on 9 October 2026 in the account-tiers docs and cross-checked against the cards in the app and against our own Stripe receipt ($40 → $38 on 8 October). The 1-Step is configurable: target 10% or 20%, daily loss limit 3%, 4% or none, split 80/20 or 90/10 — 12 combinations × 3 sizes = 36 configurations. The three rows above are the default card; the extremes read the same day are $25 / $50 / $130 (20% target, 3% daily, 80/20) and $90 / $180 / $450 (10% target, no daily limit, 90/10). The 90% split costs about 20% more than the 80% card. The code ROYA (−5%, read 9 October 2026) applies to every card: $38 / $76 / $199.50 on the defaults, $9.50 on the $500 Instant.
KYC & excluded countries
Sign-up by email, Google or wallet (MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet and others, per the FAQ). We signed up with an email address and bought on 8 October 2026: no identity document was requested at purchase — Stripe checkout took the payment and the account was credited the same minute. That is a fact about the purchase, not about withdrawal: we have not withdrawn, so KYC at payout is unverified. The Prop Terms and the program disclosure do reserve identity checks: waiving the evaluation "does not waive identity checks", and participants must provide information to verify sanctions and AML compliance — when those checks run is not published. The FAQ says a wallet-only login can buy a funded account; we did not test it. Countries: the Prop Trading Terms (28 September and 6 October 2026) list Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia and Syria as prohibited jurisdictions, plus the Government of Venezuela and sanctioned persons; the exchange's Terms of Service (6 March 2026) add China (mainland, Hong Kong, Macau), the United Kingdom and the United States. Because the Primary Account that receives payouts and sends withdrawals belongs to the exchange, a trader in the US, the UK or China would have to use an account those Terms bar them from — we have not tested it and say no more than that.
Bots, API, copy trading, weekends
No API on funded accounts, evaluation or live: the docs and the FAQ, read 9 October 2026, keep the API for the Primary Account. Bots are not listed as prohibited anywhere we read, but without an API the question is academic — in practice you trade by hand in the web terminal. Explicitly allowed (FAQ): news trading, scalping, high-frequency trading, overnight and weekend holding, no minimum days, no time limit, no consistency rule. Forbidden: abuse and coordination between accounts, opposite positions across several accounts. Weekends: crypto trades 24/7; ES, NQ, RTY and commodities close Friday 17:00 ET to Sunday 18:00 ET, stocks Friday 20:00 ET to Sunday 20:00 ET, FX is closed at the weekend — and positions on a closed market are locked, you cannot close them until it reopens. Leverage on funded accounts: up to 50x per the cross-margin docs — NQ/RTY 50x, ES 75x, BTC/ETH 15x — but 5x on 74 of the 88 markets in the docs' leverage table. XRP and HYPE are not available on funded accounts.
Payouts
Method & threshold — Profit split of 80% or 90%, chosen at purchase on evaluations and fixed for the life of the account; 95% on Instant. From the funded account, "Claim Profit" moves profit to your Primary Account: credited within 24 hours per Vest, no cap on amount or frequency, as often as you like, irreversible. From the Primary Account, Withdrawal in USDC to your own wallet: minimum 1 USDC, instant up to $50,000 per rolling 24 h (a 24 h processing period beyond that), on Base or Arbitrum One for email/Google accounts (docs claiming-profit and withdrawals, FAQ, read 9 October 2026).
What we verified
The rules, read in full on 9 October 2026: the docs, the app FAQ (63 questions) and the Prop Trading Terms of 28 September and 6 October 2026.
The purchase: $38.00 charged by Stripe on 8 October 2026 (receipt 1552-9436), $40 list minus a pre-filled code worth the same as ROYA, and a $5,000 Silver evaluation credited in the app the same minute — "Deposit +$5,000.00".
The checkout: with ROYA in the field, "Discount is Active!" and the three cards go from $40 / $80 / $210 to $38 / $76 / $199.50.
The Payouts page of our account, which reads "No payouts yet".
What we did not verify
A payout. We have received none: the account is in evaluation as of 9 October 2026, so the 24-hour Claim Profit and the USDC withdrawal are Vest's claims, not our measurement.
Nor can anyone verify them from outside: Vest publishes no payout address, no distribution contract and no readable reserve — the payout is an internal credit on a centralized exchange, then a withdrawal. That is the difference with Propr (Distributor contract) and Hypernova (vault), and it is why the payouts sub-score sits at 62.
Fortune reported on 7 October 2026 that, per Vest, roughly 26% of its 27,000 traders had received a cash payout as of late September. The figure is self-reported; we attribute it, we do not confirm it.
Our verdict
We paid $38 for this one on 8 October 2026 and traded it on 9 October; the evaluation is in progress and we are not inventing a result.
What the money settled
The product is what the docs say: $40 for a $5,000 1-Step, a 6% static drawdown, a 3% daily limit reset at 20:00 ET, an app that prints the dollar floors ($150 / $300) and a Fail Price per position, and a taker fee that reads 0.01% on the trade ticket. The rulebook is complete before payment and the firm publishes its incident reports and its funding — 74.1/100 on our grid of 9 October 2026, above Carrot Funding (73.2) on value and on the clarity of the rules.
What keeps it below Propr and Hypernova
Nothing is verifiable from outside: the Prop Terms describe simulated accounts and a contractual compensation, there is no payout address, no contract, no readable reserve, and we have received no payout. Propr (87.7) and Hypernova (85.7) settle on-chain, and that gap is the whole difference in score. Four public contradictions (3 days vs 28 days refund, 90% vs 80%, breach at the floor in the FAQ vs the docs, 100 accounts vs uncapped) cost it points on rules, and the absence of an API costs it points on freedom.
Who it is for
A discretionary trader who wants stocks, indices, commodities, FX and crypto in the same funded account, at a $40 ticket, and who accepts a simulated-account model with a centralized payout. Not for bots (no API), not for US, UK or China residents (exchange Terms), and not for anyone who needs to read the reserve before paying. We will update this page when we claim a first profit — or when the account breaches.
Vest beats Propr when you want stocks, indices, commodities and FX in the same funded account as crypto: Propr is Hyperliquid perps only, Vest lists perps on NYSE/NASDAQ stocks, ETFs, ES/NQ/RTY, commodities, FX and crypto (docs, 9 October 2026). It is also cheaper at entry — $40 for a 1-Step $5,000, $38 with ROYA — and lets you choose your split at purchase (80% or 90%). Propr wins on everything that can be verified: on-chain payouts with a hash per line, a published reserve, an API and bots allowed. If you trade by hand across asset classes, Vest; if you automate or want proof, Propr.
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FAQ
Is Vest Capital simulated or real capital?+
Simulated, by contract. The Prop Trading Terms accepted at checkout (last updated 6 October 2026) state: "All Accounts, including Instant Funded Accounts, are simulated. No real trading capital, assets, margin, or collateral are credited or entrusted to you." Traders supply "Trade Ideas" and receive a contractual compensation computed on the simulator; any live trading on those ideas is done by Vest for its own accounts. The docs and the /vest-capital page say "Real Vest capital. Not simulated" and "up to $25,000 in real trading capital" — that is the marketing, and the contract wins. It is the standard model of a simulated-account prop firm, written with unusual precision; it is not an on-chain account whose reserve or payouts you can read.
How much does a Vest Capital evaluation cost?+
Read 9 October 2026 in the account-tiers docs and on the cards in the app. 1-Step, default configuration (10% target, 3% daily loss limit, 80/20 split): $40 for $5,000, $80 for $10,000, $210 for $25,000; the 1-Step has 36 configurations in total (target 10% or 20%, daily limit 3%, 4% or none, split 80/20 or 90/10), from $25 / $50 / $130 to $90 / $180 / $450. 2-Step: $15 / $35 / $90 (10% then 5%, 3% daily, 80/20). Instant: $10 for $500, $200 for $5,000, $400 for $10,000, $1,000 for $25,000 — the price is the max drawdown, 95% split, no daily limit. We paid $38 for the $5,000 1-Step on 8 October 2026, with a pre-filled code worth the same as ROYA.
Is there a Vest Markets discount code?+
Yes: ROYA, −5% on every Vest Capital card, typed by hand in "Enter Discount Code" (under the account cards on the Vest Capital page, once signed in). Read 9 October 2026: "Discount is Active!", $40 → $38, $80 → $76, $210 → $199.50, and $10 → $9.50 on the $500 Instant. It is our affiliate code — we earn a commission when you use it, your price still drops — and it is the standard affiliate discount, not a negotiated deal. During our session the field also showed a pre-filled "VEST" code with the same discount; whether that one is a permanent public code is not something we verified.
Can I get a refund — 3 days or 28 days?+
Both figures are published, and they contradict each other. The Prop Trading Terms (28 September and 6 October 2026) and the app FAQ say 28 days, provided the account has not been used; the docs' vest-capital overview and Refund Policy page say 3 days, "provided no trades have been placed". The two docs pages are the more restrictive; the Terms are the contract. We publish it as it stands and did not test a refund. The affiliate dashboard notes that commissions are held "for the refund period", so the firm does apply one.
Can traders in the US or the UK join Vest Capital?+
Not without breaching the exchange's Terms. The Prop Trading Terms list Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Russia and Syria as prohibited jurisdictions (plus the Government of Venezuela and sanctioned persons) — the US and the UK are not in that list. But the exchange's Terms of Service (6 March 2026) exclude China (mainland, Hong Kong, Macau), the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Primary Account that receives your Claim Profit and sends your USDC withdrawal belongs to the exchange. Those Terms bar US and UK residents from the exchange, and the exchange's Primary Account is where Claim Profit lands and withdrawals leave from. We have not tested what happens in practice, and we say no more than that.
Does Vest Capital have an API? Are bots allowed?+
No API on funded accounts, in evaluation or live — the docs and the FAQ, read 9 October 2026, keep the API for the Primary Account. Bots are not named as prohibited, but with no API you trade by hand in the web terminal, so the question is academic. Explicitly allowed: news trading, scalping, high-frequency trading, overnight and weekend holding. If automation is your edge, Propr publishes the opposite policy — bots, copy trading and an official API are allowed — and that is where our bot-trading readers should look.
Can I trade at the weekend on Vest Capital?+
Crypto, yes: 24/7. Everything else follows its market: ES, NQ, RTY and commodities close Friday 17:00 ET to Sunday 18:00 ET, stocks Friday 20:00 ET to Sunday 20:00 ET, FX is closed at the weekend. Overnight and weekend holding is allowed, but a position on a closed market is locked — you cannot close it until the market reopens, and the 6% static drawdown and the daily limit keep applying to your equity. The daily limit resets at 20:00 ET every day (docs markets and loss-limits, FAQ, 9 October 2026).
Is Vest Markets legit? Did Vest pay us?+
We bought a $5,000 1-Step with our own money on 8 October 2026 ($38 after a discount code, Stripe receipt) and traded it on 9 October, so this review is first-hand. What we verified: the account was delivered the same minute, the floors in the app match the docs to the dollar ($150 daily, $300 max drawdown), the fee measures 0.01%, and the firm publishes its rules, its Terms, its incident reports and a $13M seed (Fortune, 7 October 2026). What we did not: a payout. The account is in evaluation, we have claimed nothing, and Vest publishes no address, contract or reserve that would let anyone check a payout from outside — Fortune's "roughly 26% of the platform's 27,000 traders" paid is Vest's own figure. Hence 74.1/100: a Good score, below the on-chain firms, not because of anything we caught it doing but because nothing can be checked.
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