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From Zero to $25,252: @y_fifawi Credits Apex as the Turning Point
X user @y_fifawi documented a year long climb from never having heard of prop firms to collecting more than 25 payouts totaling $25,252, with three Apex Trader Funding payouts worth $2,240 marking the shift from CFDs into futures.
On X, trader @y_fifawi shared a milestone post dated Sunday, November 8, recapping a journey that started just a year earlier when prop firms were a foreign concept. The thread tallies more than 25 payouts across several futures and CFD evaluation firms, with Apex Trader Funding singled out as the turning point that shifted the trader from CFDs into the futures arena.
According to the post, early payouts came from a CFD prop firm and totaled $1,538 across small withdrawals. After switching to futures, @y_fifawi reported three payouts from Apex Trader Funding totaling $2,240, framing that stretch as the moment belief replaced doubt. Additional payouts followed from GOAT Funded Futures ($8,854), Lucid ($5,839), FundedNext ($5,007), and Funded Futures Family ($1,775), adding up to the headline figure of $25,252.
“I didn't trade at all in August. My backtests said I always lose that month, so I just didn't touch the charts.”— @y_fifawi on X
The most striking detail in the recap is not the dollar total but the discipline behind it. The trader sat out the entire month of August because personal backtests flagged it as a consistently losing month, then returned in September and collected seven payouts in six weeks. Apex Trader Funding is designed to reward exactly that kind of patience by letting funded traders request payouts on a flexible schedule rather than waiting on a rigid monthly cycle, which lines up with the rhythm @y_fifawi described after the August pause.
The Apex portion of the run, three payouts for $2,240, reads as a stepping stone rather than a jackpot, and the trader frames it that way too. What matters in the post is the compounding of confidence, from a first real withdrawal to a documented process that now spans multiple firms. For readers tracking payout proofs, this thread is a reminder that the size of any single check matters less than whether the trader can repeat the result across months and across platforms.