Alpha Capital Group
The UK regulator publicly warns against it. The FCA added Alpha Capital Group, under its alphacapitalgroup.uk address, to its Warning List on 22 November 2023 and it is still listed — the entry says the firm may be providing or promoting financial services without FCA permission, with no Ombudsman or FSCS recourse. That register is served by JavaScript and we cannot archive it, so the wording here is ours; the list itself is public and searchable by name. Its own terms agree it is not FCA authorised. FTMO, The5ers and City Traders Imperium are not on that list — so this is not simply how the industry works.
The rules themselves are better than we first reported. The drawdown is genuinely static on Pro, Three and Swing at both stages — only Alpha One trails. The 40% best-day rule applies solely to on-demand payouts, exempts the bi-weekly schedule entirely, and merely delays a payout rather than failing the account. The two-minute average-trade-duration rule is real and does wipe funded profit back to the initial balance — but it is published openly in the help centre, is aimed at tick scalping, and never touches a trader who holds positions longer than two minutes.
No disqualifier applies, and there is a plan here worth trading — but something real is wrong, and we name it. Read the reservation before you pay.
Scorecard
13Static at both stages — the floor never moves
A named company, but no financial regulator anywhere — or a light-touch one only
A per-request cap well below the account size
Two official channels disagree on a number that matters
Established, with a normal review profile
Each axis is scored 0–5 against a published scale. The line under each bar is the rung this firm landed on — not our summary of it, the scale entry itself.
Plan by plan
Static 6% at both stages with weekend holds allowed throughout; the 40% rule delays a payout rather than failing the account.
Static 10% and the only plan built for holding through weekends when funded, though on-demand payouts make the 40% rule unavoidable.
Trails then locks permanently at the initial balance; the firm never states clearly whether the trail follows live equity or closed balance.
The highest split at 90%, paired with the tightest consistency rule at 15%, which recalculates only when a new trade is placed.
Static at both stages, then removes the profit from any position held over a weekend on the funded account — a restriction that did not exist during the evaluation.
Trustpilot
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