City Traders Imperium review
CFD prop firm operating since 2018, built around a balance-based, non-equity drawdown model
- CEO
- Martin Najat
- Headquarters
- United Arab Emirates
- Founded
- 2018
- In business
- 8 years
- Trustpilot
- 4.2(1.6K)
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Our grade
Average
6.3 / 10 · #7 of 22
4.2
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1.6K reviews
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- 4★9%
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City Traders Imperium payouts
Payout score 5.9/10
How City Traders Imperium pays
- Profit split
- 70% – 100%
- Frequency
- First payout on demand; after that, monthly (last 5 days of the month) on the 1-Step/2-Step or bi-weekly (14th/15th and last 5 days) on Instant/Direct Funding, unless cumulative eligible profit reaches 10%, which unlocks on-demand requests
- First payout
- At least 7 profitable trading days (min 0.5% profit each) on the 1-Step/2-Step, or 5 on Instant/Direct Funding
- Processing time
- Internal transfer to the dashboard wallet within 2 business days of qualifying, then withdrawal processed within 1 business day of the request; CTI advertises approval within 24 hours and reviewers report crypto often lands the same day
- Minimum
- 2% net profit or $100, whichever is higher
- Methods
- Bank transfer
- Crypto
Why payouts scored 5.9
- Payout complaints
- 2.5 per 100 reviews
- Positive payout mentions
- 71%
34 of the latest 200 reviews talk about payouts:
Payout track record
CTI has processed payouts continuously since 2018, and its case studies and Discord 'payout-proof' channel document individual withdrawals rather than a single audited lifetime total. 4 times as often as negatively, and several long-tenured traders describe repeat payouts across years.
Set against that is a pattern, traceable in the negative review sample back to at least 2020, of payout requests themselves triggering a discretionary review that ends in a cancelled or reduced reward, most often on 'one-sided betting,' 'gambling behaviour,' device/VPN, or copy-trading grounds. CTI frames these as rule enforcement rather than denial, and the underlying rules are published in unusual numeric detail, but the trader rarely sees the specific evidence behind a given call. No independent, firm-wide payout-denial wave or regulator action has been reported; the risk is concentrated in individual, hard-to-contest decisions rather than a stoppage.