Goat Funded Trader review
Hong Kong-registered prop firm selling instant, 1-step and 2-step accounts since 2023
- CEO
- Edoardo Dalla Torre
- Headquarters
- Hong Kong
- Founded
- 2023
- In business
- 3 years
- Trustpilot
- ≈1.2 · hidden
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Our grade
Poor
3.1 / 10 · #21 of 22
≈1.2
Trustpilot
4.3K reviews
- 5★5%
- 4★0%
- 3★1%
- 2★3%
- 1★92%
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What traders say about Goat Funded Trader
Trustpilot · 416 reviews analyzed
Trustpilot TrustScore
4,345 reviews
Trustpilot hides this firm's TrustScore, which it does after finding fake reviews or other guideline breaches. Based on our analysis of its visible reviews, the score would be about 1.2.
- · The profile (listed under the name Wishes Tower) shows no TrustScore: Trustpilot says the rating is unavailable due to a breach of its guidelines (4,345 reviews on Oct 1, 2026).
- · Trustpilot also hides the star breakdown, so the distribution and the 1.2 score are our figures for the 200 newest reviews (Aug 21-Sep 30, 2026), not the full 4,345-review profile.
- · Trustpilot's own share card for the profile labels it 'Poor' with two stars, its band for TrustScores around 2.
- · A third-party review recorded 3.4/5 from 3,339 reviews plus a Trustpilot notice that fake reviews had been removed; PropNavi saw the rating withdrawn by Jul 31, 2026.
- · GFT replies to part of the criticism (11 of the 20 newest reviews), usually asking for account details or saying the decision rested on trading data.
- · A newer profile for the sister site goatfunded.com shows 3.4/5 from 181 reviews, and the futures brand's profile also has its rating withdrawn.
- · GFT's homepage advertises '4.8 stars from 5k verified reviews' without naming the platform.
Recent sentiment
Trend: declining200 most recent reviews · 6% verified
2026-08: 93.6% negative, average 1.3, 47 reviews; 2026-09: 94.8% negative, average 1.2, 153 reviews
Most reported issue · 47% of complaints
Payout rejected and account closed at the payout request
Nearly half of the negative reviews follow the same sequence: a profitable funded account, a payout request, then a breach notice and a rejected payout within days. Amounts run from under $200 to more than $9,000, and several reviewers had been paid by GFT before.
Most praised · 89% of positive reviews
Quick help with small account problems
Eight of the nine recent five-star reviews thank support for fixing missing credentials, a mistyped email or an inactivity lock quickly. None of them mentions receiving a payout.
Complaint themes · 216 negative reviews
- Payout denied or account closed at payout47%
Breach notices and rejected payouts arriving right after a payout request, often on a first withdrawal and sometimes after earlier payouts from the same account.
- Coordinated, group or copy-trading accusations30%
Traders receive a spreadsheet matching their trades to other accounts, often gold or index entries minutes apart, and most deny any contact with those traders.
- Risk team and support silence26%
Risk-team emails go unanswered for one to three weeks, live chat sends people back to the risk team, and some describe bot-style replies or cancelled interviews.
- VPS, VPN and IP findings23%
Breaches for VPS use or IP mismatches, including accounts bought before the Aug 12, 2026 VPS rule and traders on mobile data or dynamic home connections.
- Unclear or changing rules22%
Rules reviewers say they met only at a breach or denial: the 80% margin limit, 1% floating-loss closures, the 1% news-profit cap, first-payout caps cut from 6% to 4%, and the 2-minute rule.
- Payouts stuck past two business days19%
Requests sitting one to four weeks or longer under review, with the $1,000 late bonus refused because a review or interview was pending.
- Discord bans and removed posts10%
Traders say questions about group-trading rules or payout status in the Discord led to deleted messages or bans, and a few say earlier reviews disappeared.
- Slippage and execution7%
Stop losses filled well beyond the set level around news, including one NFP example on gold, and spreads described as wider than at other firms.
Praise themes · share of 4–5★ reviews
- Fast help with login, credential or email issues89%
Support resolved missing credentials, a mistyped email address or an inactivity lock within minutes to a day.
- General endorsement22%
Short reviews calling GFT a good or the best prop firm without further detail.
- Clear rules and clean execution11%
One reviewer described the dashboard rules as straightforward and execution as clean after an inactivity lock was lifted.
Our read of the reviews
Trustpilot's recent feed for Goat Funded Trader reads like a complaint file. Of the 200 newest reviews (Aug 21 to Sep 30, 2026), 184 give one star and only nine give five, and every week in that window ran 92-97% negative, so there is no sign of recovery yet. The profile itself is flagged: Trustpilot has withdrawn the rating for a guidelines breach, and its share card now labels the firm Poor, down from the 3.4 a third-party review recorded on the same profile earlier.
The complaints are specific and repetitive. About 47% of the 216 negative reviews describe a payout request that ended in a breach and a rejected payout, most often for coordinated or group trading (30%), backed by a spreadsheet of trades that matched other clients within minutes, or for VPS, VPN and IP findings (23%). Many add that the risk team went silent for weeks, that a scheduled interview was cancelled, or that asking about it in Discord led to a ban. Some denials will involve genuine copy trading, which GFT's rules prohibit, but the reviewers include traders with earlier payouts, mobile-data users and people who say they recorded their interviews.
The few positive reviews are about support solving small problems such as missing credentials, a mistyped email or an inactivity lock, and none of the nine five-star reviews in the window mentions being paid. The 3-star reviews from 2025-26 point to older, milder issues: dashboard lag, slow chat support, slippage and the 2-minute rule being applied to an account bought before the rule existed.
Method: we collected the 200 most recent Trustpilot reviews plus the most recent 216 1–2★ reviews, classified every review by theme and read the samples by hand. Shares are of the stated sample. How we analyze reviews