Enigma Score Methodology

What the Enigma Score measures

The Enigma Score is a 0–100 rating of a proprietary trading firm's overall quality and fairness to traders. It is computed from 10 independently scored pillars, each weighted by how much it affects a funded trader's real outcomes. The weights sum to 100.

The 10 pillars and their weights

Data-confidence adjustment

A pillar that has little verified data should not get a flattering middle score. After the weighted average is taken, the result is multiplied by a confidence factor of 0.85 + 0.15 × confidence, where confidence (0–1) reflects how much real, sourced data backed the pillars. A fully-evidenced firm keeps its score; a sparsely-documented one is pulled toward the conservative end. Pillars with no real factors are surfaced explicitly as “Insufficient data” rather than silently scored 50.

Score tiers

The Enigma Rating (per plan, 0–10)

Next to the firm-level Enigma Score, every priced plan carries its own discount-aware Enigma Rating. It is built from five sub-scores, each 0–100, blended with the weights below; a firm's headline rating follows its best-rated plan (the one carrying the “Best” badge) plus trader sentiment, so the number answers “what is the best deal this firm sells?”.

First-payout model

Value Index and Payout Reach come from one model of the path to a first withdrawal. The reference profit is the plan's own evaluation target (for instant-funded plans, the profit buffer the firm requires, else 5% of the account) — i.e. “repeat your evaluation result once”. The net first payout is that profit after any per-payout cap and the profit split; Value Index is that amount per dollar of all-in cost. Days to a first payout = eval days (the minimum days, stretched by a consistency rule — 50% forces two days, 30% four — times the number of phases) plus funded days (the payout cadence, a funded consistency rule, or the days needed to build the profit buffer at the same daily rate as the evaluation, whichever is longest). Payout Reach is 60% that day count and 40% price relative to account size. Both figures are shown on every plan.

Trader Sentiment and review text

Trader Sentiment blends the firm's lifetime Trustpilot score, its on-site rating and the average of its most recent ~60 Trustpilot reviews (equal weights, so a firm whose recent reviews are trending down is scored on that trend). The text of those reviews is classified into themes — fast payouts, payout problems, clear rules, rule changes, helpful or poor support, platform issues, account blocks, scam accusations, value — and the themes that recur are shown as “praised” and “complaints”; each recurring complaint theme and a Trustpilot consumer alert trim the score. Signals are refreshed weekly.

Your trading (personalised ratings)

The published ratings assume the default trader: passes first time, keeps the first funded account, and trades at a 75% win rate with 1:1 reward-to-risk. The “Your trading” control on the home page, firm pages and the compare page lets you change those four numbers. Extra evaluation attempts add the (discounted) evaluation price and its days again; an extra funded account repeats the whole path including activation; a lower expectancy (win rate × R:R minus loss rate) stretches the days needed to bank the target and the buffer, capped at 4× the default pace. Your model is stored only in your browser and never changes the published numbers.

Peer groups by drawdown type

Value Index and Risk Cushion are ratios (net first payout per dollar, loss buffer per dollar) and are judged against plans that share the same market and drawdown mechanics. The median plan of a group scores 70; twice the median scores about 88. This is why an intraday-trailing futures plan is not punished for the family-wide fact that trailing plans give less buffer per dollar than static ones. Reference medians (recomputed from every live plan):

• futures · all plans: $10 of first payout and $12.8 of loss buffer per $1
• futures · End-of-day: $9.75 of first payout and $12.7 of loss buffer per $1
• futures · Intraday trailing: $15.96 of first payout and $14.9 of loss buffer per $1
• forex · all plans: $9.69 of first payout and $12 of loss buffer per $1
• forex · Intraday trailing: $7.25 of first payout and $8.3 of loss buffer per $1
• forex · Static: $10.79 of first payout and $17.4 of loss buffer per $1

Pass Ease, plan by plan

Pass Ease is computed from the plan's own rules, not the firm's generic ones, so two configurations of the same plan score differently when their rules differ. The parts and their weights: evaluation drawdown mechanics (20 — static best, end-of-day next, intraday trailing hardest), funded drawdown mechanics (10), loss buffer relative to the profit target (20), daily loss limit (10), consistency rule in the evaluation (15) and once funded (10), minimum trading days (10) and number of evaluation phases (5). Parts with no verified value are left out and the rest are re-weighted; a plan with no rule data of its own falls back to the firm-level rules. Every plan lists the exact reasons (“50% consistency rule in eval”, “No daily loss limit”) so the score is never a black box.

Sources and refresh cadence

Firm data is collected original-source-first: the firm's official website is the primary source for pricing, rules and payouts; Trustpilot supplies the aggregate rating and review count; and PropScore.co is used as a fallback only for firms whose official sites cannot be reliably read. Every field carries source lineage. The full data cascade runs once daily at 11:30 UTC, so pricing, discounts and the score stay current within 24 hours.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure

FundedEnigma earns an affiliate commission when a trader signs up with a firm using the code FUNDIFY. That relationship funds the site, but it does not feed the Enigma Score: the scoring engine reads only verified firm data (cost, payout reliability, drawdown fairness, rules, trust, reviews) and never an affiliate payout rate. The FUNDIFY code delivers the firm's own currently-running public discount — we do not mark prices up. Rankings are not sold; a firm cannot pay to raise its score or position.

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