We launched Dolvero on November 30, 2025. That gave us exactly thirty-one days before the calendar flipped — thirty-one days to prove that a newer, more transparent kind of proprietary trading firm could actually work. Today, January 2, 2026, we are sharing every number from that first month, unfiltered.
This is not a marketing retrospective. It is an operational report written for traders who care about whether a firm keeps its word.
The Numbers That Mattered
Let us put the headline figures on the table first, because everything else flows from them:
- Total payout volume: $54,821
- Number of payouts processed: 25
- Average processing time: 1.3 hours
- SLA compliance rate: 100%
- Largest single payout: $7,589.45
- Smallest payout: under review for publication consent
- Payout rejections: 0
- Disputes opened: 0
Twenty-five payouts across thirty-one days. That averages to just under one payout every day and a half from a firm that had been live for fewer than five weeks. We did not expect this pace. It told us that traders were passing evaluations faster than our internal models had projected.
How We Measure Processing Time
When we say 1.3-hour average processing time, we mean the elapsed time between a trader submitting a verified payout request through their dashboard and the moment funds leave our payment processor. We do not count banking transit — that is outside our control and varies by institution and geography.
The 1.3-hour figure is a straight average across all 25 payouts. It includes weekdays and the one weekend payout we processed during the month. Our rules specify a 24-hour SLA for payout processing during business days. We beat that SLA on every single request. On seventeen of the twenty-five payouts, processing completed in under one hour.
The slowest payout in December took 4.2 hours. That occurred on a day when our compliance team was conducting an unrelated internal audit and reviewer availability was temporarily reduced. We flagged it internally and adjusted staffing protocols so it does not recur.
Who Got Paid and From Which Account Sizes
We are not publishing individual trader identities without consent, but we can share the distribution by account size:
- $5,000 accounts: 6 payouts
- $10,000 accounts: 7 payouts
- $25,000 accounts: 5 payouts
- $50,000 accounts: 4 payouts
- $100,000 accounts: 2 payouts
- $200,000 accounts: 1 payout
The largest payout of $7,589.45 came from a $200,000 funded account. That trader had completed both phases of the 2-Step evaluation, received a funded account, and requested their first withdrawal approximately three weeks into trading. At the standard 80% profit split, $7,589.45 represented a gross profit of approximately $9,487 on the funded account — a return of roughly 4.7% in under a month.
We tell this story not to boast but to illustrate something operationally important: large payouts from large accounts did not slow us down. The 4.2-hour outlier described above was not the $7,589.45 payout. That one cleared in 52 minutes.
What We Built in December That You Did Not See
The payout stats are the visible part. Here is what was happening behind them:
Compliance infrastructure
Every payout at Dolvero goes through a multi-step compliance review before funds move. This is not box-ticking. Our compliance layer checks trading activity against our rules — looking for prohibited strategies, news trading violations, drawdown breaches, and pattern anomalies. In December, all 25 requests passed cleanly. Not because we approved everything automatically, but because the traders who reached funded status had, in every case, traded within the framework they agreed to.
Support response times
December support volume was lower than we anticipated — a good sign. The questions we did receive clustered around two topics: how Phase 2 targets work, and whether specific news events qualified as restricted under the ±30-minute news rule. We are using that data to improve our documentation in January.
Platform stability
MT5 server uptime for December: 99.94%. The 0.06% downtime was a planned maintenance window lasting approximately 26 minutes on December 14th. We notified active traders via dashboard alert 48 hours in advance.
The $54,821 in Context
Fifty-four thousand dollars sounds like a lot or a little depending on your frame of reference. Here is the frame that matters to us: every dollar of that $54,821 represents real profit generated by real traders on real markets, paid out at the agreed split, with no delay tactics and no invented rule violations used as pretexts for refusal.
This is how the prop trading industry is supposed to work. It is, unfortunately, not always how it works. The public record of prop firm disputes — across review platforms, forums, and regulatory complaints — is full of cases where firms found reasons not to pay when payout day arrived. Vague "inconsistent trading" clauses. Sudden account reviews that stretched for weeks. Support tickets that disappeared.
We built Dolvero with the specific intention of not being that firm. December's numbers are the first evidence that the intention is being executed. They are not proof — thirty-one days is not a track record. But they are a start.
What We Got Wrong in December
Transparency means sharing the failures too.
Evaluation calendar communication
Several traders during December were confused about the minimum 5-trading-day requirement in Phase 1. The rule exists and is published on our rules page, but we received enough support tickets about it to recognize that our onboarding communication did not surface it clearly enough. We are revising the evaluation dashboard to display the trading day count prominently throughout Phase 1.
Payout request UX
The payout request flow in our dashboard required too many clicks in December. Three traders contacted support to ask if their request had been submitted because the confirmation screen was not prominent enough. We redesigned the flow and deployed the update on December 28th. If you request a payout now, you receive an immediate on-screen confirmation and an email within two minutes.
Timezone ambiguity in the news rule
Our ±30-minute news trading restriction — which prohibits opening or closing positions within 30 minutes of major scheduled economic events — did not initially specify which timezone applied to the event schedule we reference. Two traders asked. The answer is UTC, and we have now made that explicit in the rules. See the changelog for the exact wording change.
Looking at January 2026
We are not going to make revenue projections or trader count targets public. What we will say is this:
The pace of evaluations being completed is ahead of our December estimate. We are seeing a pattern consistent with what serious retail trading communities describe anecdotally: traders who have been preparing for prop evaluations for months, waiting for a firm they trusted enough to commit to. We do not know if Dolvero earned that trust or if timing favored us. Either way, the obligation is the same — to keep processing payouts on the same terms we started with.
In January, we are also launching the Public Payout Ledger. This is a real-time, verifiable record of every payout Dolvero has ever processed, accessible to anyone at app.dolvero.com/live-ledger. We will publish more details on January 7th. The short version: if you want to verify that we paid trader #14 on December 19th at 11:42 UTC, you will be able to do that. Publicly. Without creating an account.
We are also reviewing our account size offerings and potential product additions for later in Q1. Nothing is announced. We will use the changelog and the blog when there is something concrete to say.
A Note to Everyone Who Passed Their Evaluation in December
Twenty-five payouts means twenty-five traders who completed a real two-phase evaluation, managed risk correctly under live market conditions, and trusted us to pay. We did. Thank you for that trust — it is the only input that makes this firm worth building.
If you are still in Phase 1 or Phase 2, the numbers above describe what is waiting on the other side. The evaluation parameters are posted at /rules. The pricing is at /pricing. The process is explained at /how-it-works.
2026 starts now. Let us see what the next thirty-one days look like.
— The Dolvero Team, January 2, 2026
