The proprietary trading industry has a trust problem.
Traders pay hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars for evaluation challenges, pass them through weeks of disciplined trading, and then wait. They wait for payouts that arrive late, arrive short, or don't arrive at all. They trade under rules that change without notice. They operate on platforms where execution quality is opaque and complaint resolution is non-existent.
We built Dolvero because we believe the economics of prop trading are fundamentally sound — but the execution of that model by most firms in this space is not.
This is what Dolvero does differently, and why.
The Core Problem: Opacity
Most proprietary trading firms operate behind closed doors. Payout statistics are self-reported or absent entirely. Rule changes appear without changelog entries. Execution models are undisclosed. When a trader's account is breached, the explanation is often a screenshot of a single metric with no audit trail.
This lack of transparency creates an adversarial dynamic between firm and trader. Traders assume the worst. Firms provide no evidence to the contrary. The result is an industry where legitimate firms are indistinguishable from illegitimate ones based on publicly available information alone.
We set out to change that equation.
How Dolvero Approaches Transparency
Public Payout Ledger
Every payout processed through Dolvero is recorded in a public, real-time payout ledger. Each entry includes the payout amount, processing method, timestamp, and duration from request to completion. This ledger is not a marketing page — it is a live database view that updates as payouts are processed.
We publish this because payout reliability is the single most important metric for any proprietary trading firm. If a firm cannot demonstrate a consistent, timely payout record, no other feature matters.
Published Rules with Version History
Dolvero maintains a public changelog documenting every rule modification with the date of change, what was modified, and why. When we adjust a limit or introduce a new constraint, traders know exactly what changed and when.
This matters because rule clarity is the foundation of fair evaluation. A trader who passes a challenge should never discover after the fact that a rule was interpreted differently than how it was documented at the time of their trading.
Disclosed Execution Model
We are transparent about how we handle order flow at each stage of a trader's progression:
- Evaluation stage: Trades execute on proprietary infrastructure designed to replicate live market conditions with institutional-grade pricing.
- As performance scales: A portion of order flow is progressively routed to live markets.
- Elite tier: Full direct market access with raw institutional spreads.
This disclosure matters because many firms in this space deliberately obscure their execution model, leading traders to question whether they are trading against the house.
The Evaluation Model
Dolvero currently offers a 2-Step Evaluation across six account sizes, from $5,000 to $200,000.
Phase 1 requires a 10% profit target with a 5% daily loss limit and 10% maximum drawdown. There is no time limit — traders can take as long as they need.
Phase 2 reduces the profit target to 5% while maintaining the same risk parameters. A minimum of 5 trading days is required in each phase.
Upon successful completion, traders receive a funded account with an 80% profit split, upgradeable to 90% through an optional add-on. The evaluation fee is fully refunded after the second payout.
We designed these parameters to be achievable for disciplined traders while filtering for consistency over luck. The absence of a time limit is deliberate: we want traders to demonstrate sustainable performance, not rushed decision-making under arbitrary deadlines.
Risk Rules: Strict but Fair
Every rule in our system exists for a specific reason, and we explain those reasons publicly on our rules page.
Daily loss limit (5%): Protects against catastrophic single-day losses that typically result from emotional or revenge trading. Calculated from the higher of your starting daily balance or equity.
Maximum drawdown (10%, static): Sets an absolute floor below which the account cannot recover. Unlike trailing drawdown, static drawdown does not tighten as the account grows — giving profitable traders more room to operate.
Maximum risk per trade (2%): Ensures no single position can produce a loss exceeding 2% of account equity. This prevents overleveraging and encourages proper position sizing.
News trading restriction (±30 minutes): Prohibits opening or closing positions within 30 minutes of high-impact economic releases (NFP, CPI, central bank rate decisions). This protects both the trader and the firm from adverse fills during periods of extreme volatility and widened spreads.
Weekend holding: Positions must be closed before Friday market close. Gap risk over weekends can produce losses that exceed any reasonable stop-loss, and we prefer that evaluation results reflect deliberate trading decisions rather than weekend gap exposure. An add-on is available for traders who require weekend holding as part of their strategy.
What We Are Building Beyond Evaluations
Dolvero is one component of the Divitae Group — a fintech holding company building infrastructure for the full lifecycle of a professional trader. Our roadmap extends well beyond funded accounts:
- Scaling plan: Funded traders who demonstrate consistent profitability over 3–12 months receive automatic capital increases, from $100K up to $200K and beyond.
- Institutional track: Elite performers become eligible for direct market access and allocation through Divitae Assets, our discretionary asset management arm.
- Technology: We are developing proprietary trading intelligence tools that will be made available to funded traders — including AI-driven market analysis and risk monitoring systems.
These are not marketing promises on a slide deck. They are engineering projects with timelines, and we will document their delivery publicly as they ship.
An Invitation to Verify
We launched on November 30, 2025. Everything we claim is designed to be independently verifiable:
- Our payout ledger is public.
- Our rules are documented with a version history.
- Our execution model is disclosed on our How It Works page.
- Our pricing is published with no hidden fees.
We invite you to evaluate us the same way we evaluate traders — on the basis of measurable, transparent performance.
If we fall short of our own standards, we will publish that too.
