Trader @psyxaki Publicly Disputes $28,000 Apex Payout on X
A trader posting as @psyxaki on X has gone public with a payout dispute against Apex Trader Funding, claiming $28,000 in profits remain inaccessible after the account was placed in what the trader describes as a Live status hold.
The post, dated Tuesday June 9 and addressed to fellow trader @0xAndreG alongside the official @ApexTradeFund handle, congratulates a peer on a successful withdrawal before pivoting to the author's own grievance. According to the message, @psyxaki has run twenty Apex Performance Accounts and received only a single payout across that history, an outcome the trader characterizes as inconsistent with their trading results.
The dollar figure at the center of the complaint is $28,000, which @psyxaki says represents accumulated profits that have not been released. The trader uses pointed language, accusing the firm of a rug pull and referencing what they call a non-existent Live jail, a phrase they claim applies to hundreds of other successful traders in similar situations. No supporting screenshot of an Apex dashboard or official denial letter accompanies the post in the source text provided.
“My first 20x Apex PAs and I only had ONE payout.”— @psyxaki on X
The complaint surfaces inside the broader evaluation framework Apex uses for funded traders. Apex Trader Funding operates a futures-focused evaluation model in which traders pay a monthly fee to attempt a profit target on a simulated account before being moved to a Performance Account stage, and the firm states publicly that it has paid out more than two billion dollars to traders since launching in 2021.
Independent verification of @psyxaki's specific $28,000 figure, the listed June 2026 approval date, and the attached certificate image at pbs.twimg.com is not possible from the post alone. The account size tied to the disputed profits was not stated in the source material, and no instrument, strategy, or trade log was disclosed by the trader. Readers should treat the claim as a one-sided account pending any response from Apex Trader Funding.
The post forms part of a recurring pattern of public payout-related discussion on X, where funded traders frequently tag prop firms directly to escalate disputes or celebrate withdrawals. Whether @psyxaki's case reflects a rule violation flagged by Apex's compliance review, a consistency-related hold, or a processing delay cannot be determined from the available text.