Maven Trading Prop Firm Review

Updated and verified on 16 September 2026

Pricing snapshot

Maven is one of the cheapest firms on this site. A $2,000 3-Step is $13, a $10,000 1-Step is $37, and the most expensive single account, a $100,000 Omo 2-Step, is $472.

One thing to understand before you compare Maven with anyone else: the price on the card is the coupon price. Maven runs permanent discount codes, ETERNAL for 10% off and OMO for up to 40% off the Omo line, and the site displays the discounted figure large with the list price struck through beside it. The table below gives list prices, with the coupon price in brackets as seen on 16 September 2026.

Two quirks are worth knowing. Instant Funding costs exactly the same as the 1-Step challenge at every size, which is unusual; most firms charge a large premium to skip the evaluation. And the 3-Step is the cheapest line at $100,000 at $299, against $380 for the 1-Step and $440 for the 2-Step, which inverts the normal pattern because the 3-Step also carries the tightest risk limits.

Company and regulation

Maven Trading is operated by MAVEN LLC, registered in the United Arab Emirates under the DIEZ free zone, registration number 105072496000001, at DSO-IFZA, IFZA Properties, Dubai Silicon Oasis. The terms are governed by UAE law and DIEZ free zone law, and were last amended on 22 October 2025.

A free-zone company registration is a business licence, not a financial one. Maven holds no financial regulator’s licence, and its own terms are explicit about why it does not need one: it states that all accounts are demo accounts with simulated funds, that it does not accept customer funds, and that it delivers no regulated financial service. The firm says it has been operating since 2022.

Two clauses in those terms deserve a reader’s attention. Fees are nonrefundable except after receiving three payouts, which is the mechanism behind the “refundable on the third withdrawal” line on every product card. And Maven’s total liability is capped at whatever you paid it in the one month before a claim, so on a $37 challenge the contractual exposure is $37.

The seven programme lines

Every size from $2,000 to $100,000 is available on every trading line. The prediction-markets line starts at $5,000. Maven markets “no time limits”, and that holds for the Standard and Instant lines. It does not hold for Omo, which carries a 180-day cap.

Every daily drawdown above is measured from the higher of your balance or equity at 00:00 UTC, not from the balance alone. If you carry a winning trade overnight, the unrealised profit raises the floor you must stay above the next day.

Mini is not what the price suggests

Mini is priced identically to the Standard 2-Step at every size except $2,000, and it is a completely different product. You get 24 hours of trading, timed from your first trade, one open position at a time, a 150-second minimum hold, a 1% cap on the gap between equity and balance, and a 15% consistency rule on your largest single trade. You need 3% profit to withdraw, you are paid 70% rather than 80%, and it is a single-payout model: after the first withdrawal the account closes. It is also the one line with no fee refund attached. At the same price as a 2-Step with no time limit and an 80% split, Mini is hard to recommend unless the 24-hour format is exactly what you want.

Prediction markets, which almost nobody else offers

Maven sells a one-step evaluation on prediction and event-driven markets, with the data feed coming through MatchTrade and following the markets on Kalshi or Polymarket. It runs in two tiers, Essential and Elite, both with a 9% profit target, a 70% split and payouts every 10 business days. Sizes run $5,000 to $100,000, and Elite costs roughly 70% more than Essential at every size.

The rule set is deliberately looser than the trading challenges: no daily drawdown limit, no minimum trading days, no consistency rule and no news restriction. Two constraints replace them. No expert advisors or scripts are permitted at all, and any single question can contribute at most 3% of your starting balance, with anything beyond that nulled. That last rule is the one to plan around: a single correct call on a big event cannot carry you to the target.

One inconsistency to flag. Maven’s FAQ says Essential uses a 3% trailing drawdown and Elite a 5% static one, which is the only stated difference between the tiers. The pricing cards for both tiers display 5% max loss. We have reported the FAQ figures above, but confirm the drawdown model with support before buying Essential.

Split and payouts

The split is 80% on Instant, 1-Step, 2-Step and 3-Step, and 70% on Mini. Withdrawals can be requested every 10 business days counted from your first trade, and the challenge fee is fully refunded on your third withdrawal.

The $10,000 cap

This is the single most important thing on this page and it is buried in Maven’s FAQ under the word “Overflow”. You may withdraw a maximum of $10,000 per 30-day rolling cycle, and if you trade several accounts they are treated as one trader for this purpose. If you make more than $10,000 in a cycle you are paid $10,000, and your account is then reset to its starting balance. The excess does not roll forward.

For a trader on a $10,000 account this will never bite. For anyone running the maximum $200,000 of funded capital, it is a hard ceiling on what the arrangement can pay, and it is the reason to read Maven as a place to prove a strategy cheaply rather than a place to scale income.

Payment methods and fees

Payouts go by direct bank transfer or Rise, and which you get depends on where you live. Traders in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana can use direct bank transfer. Traders in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, France and a longer list of other countries can only be paid through Rise, and Rise charges a $20 fee per withdrawal. On a first payout from a small account that $20 is a meaningful share of the money.

Buyback

If you lose a funded account you can buy it back without redoing a challenge: $200 at $2,000, $400 at $5,000, $750 at $10,000, $1,400 at $20,000, $3,500 at $50,000 and $6,000 at $100,000. Those figures are many times the original challenge fee, so the buyback is a convenience product, not a discount.

The M2 Account Saver, and what happens once funded

Maven presents the M2 Account Saver as a protective feature. Read it as a penalty, because that is how it behaves. It monitors open positions and triggers automatically when drawdown reaches 2% of your account balance. On the first trigger every open trade is closed and your profit split is permanently reduced to 50% for the life of that account. On the second trigger trades are closed again and the account is permanently deactivated, with no recovery. It applies to the Omo and Buy Now Pay Later funded accounts.

Two further rules apply only after you pass, which is where several traders are caught out. On the Omo line the maximum drawdown changes from 8% static to 8% trailing off your highest floating equity the moment you are funded, so the floor now follows you up. And the Profit Rebuild anchors your loss limit to the original funded balance after every withdrawal: funded at $100,000, reach $101,000 and withdraw $500, and your balance is $100,500 with only $500 of room before you breach.

Payout data

Maven publishes no payout statistics. There is no transparency report, no processed-payout total, no average processing time and no independent review of its payout record. What it offers instead is testimonials on the pricing page and a Feefo rating it references in its own FAQ.

That is a real gap and it should weigh against the firm. Several competitors in this price bracket publish running payout logs, and at least one publishes an outside accountant’s review. Maven asks to be taken on trust. The countervailing point is that its published rules are unusually detailed, which is itself a form of transparency: almost every question a trader would ask before buying is answered in writing, including the unflattering answers.

Rules and fees at a glance

• Commission is charged: $2 per side, so $4 round trip, on FX; $6 round trip on precious metals and energy; $0 on indices, commodities and digital ETFs. Swap is zero across all accounts. On a $2,000 account a $4 round trip is 0.2% of the balance per trade, which matters against a 3% daily limit.
• Leverage: Forex 75:1, commodities 20:1, indices 20:1, precious metals 20:1.
• News: you may not open or close a trade within two minutes either side of a red-folder release. Unusually, the rule catches profit as well as entries: if any trade hits take profit or your target inside that window, or simply sits in profit there, you do not pass. The rule does not apply to Instant accounts.
• Weekend holding is permitted on every account type.
• Inactivity: accounts must not go more than 30 calendar days without an executed trade.
• Minimum hold time of 150 seconds at the funded stage; shorter trades do not count toward progress.
• Consistency: 20% at the funded stage on Omo, Instant and Buy Now Pay Later, measured as largest winning day divided by total profit. Mini uses 15% measured on the largest single trade instead. The Standard 1, 2 and 3-Step challenge phases carry no consistency score.
• Scaling: 10% profit over four months, roughly 2.5% a month, with at least one payout in each of those months, earns a 25% account increase. Repeatable up to $1,000,000. The withdrawal cap scales with it.
• Maximum starting capital is $200,000 across funded accounts before scaling.
• IP address policy: your IP must stay in the same geographical region throughout, and a change triggers a request for proof such as travel documents.
• Prohibited: high-frequency trading, toxic order flow, long or short arbitrage, tick scalping, grid and gap trading, reverse or group hedging, copy trading from another individual (both accounts are breached), excessive scalping defined as holding 50% or more of trades for under a minute, all-in trades with no stop loss, and running two accounts against each other.
• Fee refund: full refund of the challenge fee on your third withdrawal. Mini is excluded, since it closes after the first.

Verdict

Maven is the cheapest credible entry point on this site. Thirteen dollars for a real $2,000 evaluation with no time limit is not a gimmick, the rulebook is written out in unusual detail rather than hidden, and the 80% split on four of the seven lines is competitive. If you want to test whether a strategy survives a drawdown limit without spending real money finding out, this is a rational place to do it.

What Maven is not is a place to earn at scale. The $10,000 rolling cap with the balance reset puts a ceiling on the whole arrangement. The M2 Account Saver can halve your split permanently over a 2% drawdown. The Omo drawdown quietly turns trailing the day you pass. Commission is real. Rise takes $20 if you live somewhere that leaves you no alternative. And the firm publishes nothing at all about its payout record, which in this sector is a meaningful silence rather than a neutral one.

Buy it at $2,000 to $20,000 to learn something cheaply, read the funded-stage rules before you pass rather than after, and treat the Standard 2-Step as the sensible default over Mini at the same price. Anyone whose plan depends on withdrawing more than $10,000 a month should look elsewhere.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Maven Trading legit, and is it regulated?

It is a real firm that has been trading since 2022, operated by MAVEN LLC in the UAE’s DIEZ free zone under registration 105072496000001. It is not regulated by any financial authority, and its terms are candid about why: all accounts are demo accounts with simulated funds, it accepts no customer money and it provides no regulated financial service. Its contractual liability is limited to whatever you paid it in the month before a claim.

How much does a Maven challenge actually cost?

List prices run from $13 for a $2,000 3-Step to $472 for a $100,000 Omo 2-Step. Be aware that every price displayed on Maven’s site is a coupon price: codes such as ETERNAL for 10% off and OMO for up to 40% off the Omo line were live on 16 September 2026, and the site shows the discounted figure with the list price struck through beside it.

Is there a limit on how much I can withdraw?

Yes, and it is the most important number on this page. You may withdraw a maximum of $10,000 per 30-day rolling cycle, counted across every account you hold. Profit above that is not paid and does not carry forward, and your account is reset to its starting balance once the split has been paid. The cap does rise as you scale.

What is the M2 Account Saver?

An automatic mechanism on Omo and Buy Now Pay Later funded accounts that triggers when drawdown reaches 2% of the account balance. The first trigger closes all open trades and permanently cuts your profit split from 80% to 50% for the rest of that account’s life. A second trigger closes the trades and deactivates the account permanently. It is presented as protection; in practice it is the harshest rule Maven operates.

Can I trade the news?

Only on Instant accounts. Everywhere else you may not open or close a trade within two minutes either side of a red-folder release, and the rule is stricter than it first looks: a trade that hits take profit or your overall target inside that window, or that is simply sitting in profit there, will cost you the challenge. Weekend holding, by contrast, is allowed on every account type.

Does Maven charge commission?

Yes. $2 per side on FX, so $4 for a round trip, and $3 per side on precious metals and energy. Indices, commodities and digital ETFs are commission free, and swap is zero across all accounts. On the smallest accounts the FX commission is a real drag: $4 on a $2,000 balance is 0.2% before the trade has moved.

Which programme should I pick?

Seven lines are on sale. For most traders the Standard 2-Step, which gives 80%, 8% static drawdown, no time limit and a fee refund on the third withdrawal. The 3-Step is cheaper at $100,000 but its 3% maximum and 2% daily drawdown are tight. Instant costs the same as the 1-Step and skips the evaluation, at the cost of a 20% consistency score before every payout. Mini costs the same as the 2-Step but pays 70%, closes after one withdrawal and gives you 24 hours, so it is rarely the better buy.

Is there a time limit on Maven challenges?

Not on the Standard 1, 2 and 3-Step lines, nor on Instant. The Omo 2-Step is the exception and must be completed within 180 days across both phases combined. Mini runs on a 24-hour clock that starts with your first trade. Separately, no account may sit without an executed trade for more than 30 calendar days.

What is Maven’s prediction markets challenge?

A one-step evaluation on event-driven markets, priced from $44 at $5,000 to $999 for a $100,000 Elite account, with the data feed running through MatchTrade and following Kalshi or Polymarket. The target is 9% and the split is 70%. There is no daily drawdown limit, no minimum trading days, no consistency rule and no news restriction, but expert advisors and scripts are banned outright and no single question may contribute more than 3% of your starting balance, with the excess nulled. Maven’s FAQ says the Essential tier uses a 3% trailing drawdown and Elite a 5% static one, while both price cards show 5%, so confirm that with support before buying.

How do payouts reach me, and what do they cost?

By direct bank transfer or through Rise, depending on your country. Traders in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana can use direct bank transfer; traders in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, France and a number of other countries can only use Rise, which charges $20 per withdrawal. Requests can be made every 10 business days from your first trade, and your challenge fee is refunded in full on the third one.