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$10,000 payout rejected after completing 5 profitable days I’m sharing my personal experience with Lucid Trading. I completed the required 5 profitable days across 5 funded accounts and was ready to request a $10,000 payout. At the time I attempted to request the payout, all five accounts were paused and I was asked to contact support. I immediately completed their requested KYC re-verification using my passport. After the verification, I was informed that my accounts required further review. Lucid then informed me that they had detected “cross-user coordinated trading activity” and permanently banned my accounts. I trade my accounts myself and did not intentionally coordinate trading with another Lucid user. My main concern is that the decision came after completing the required profitable days and reaching the payout stage, resulting in my $10,000 payout being rejected and all five funded accounts being closed. I have purchased multiple accounts, passed the evaluations, and invested significant time and effort into reaching the funded stage. I’m currently requesting that Lucid restore my five funded accounts and process the $10,000 payout. I hope Lucid provides a clear explanation of the specific activity behind the violation and reconsider the decision. This is my personal experience, and I’m sharing it so other traders can make informed decisions.

My experience with Lucid became extremely concerning at the time of my **first payout**. I purchased several evaluation accounts, failed several through normal trading, continued purchasing accounts, reached funded status, lost my first funded account normally, and later achieved the required results on another funded account. My dashboard showed approximately **$3,668 in profit**, with the required trading days completed. After Lucid's payout limits and profit split, my expected first payout was approximately **$1,650**. Before reaching this payout, I had never received any warning regarding hedging, coordinated trading, linked accounts or fraud. When I became eligible for payout, my account was suddenly locked and placed under review. Lucid required me to complete KYC again through Plaid, which I completed immediately. After the review, Lucid claimed that **“cross-user hedging activity”** had been confirmed between my account and another linked account. I categorically deny this allegation. I did not coordinate trades with another Lucid user and did not use another Lucid account to hedge or offset my positions. I was completely willing to cooperate and provide anything necessary to verify this, including **IP information, login/access logs, device information, complete trading history, order records, timestamps, KYC records and payment information**. However, Lucid did not show me the allegedly linked account or identify a single trade supposedly constituting the hedge. I specifically requested the account, trades, instruments, timestamps, position sizes and evidence used to link another user to me. No such evidence was provided. Instead, Lucid stated that the permanent ban was final. I later received a formal enforcement notice listing the reason simply as **“Fraud”**, an even more serious allegation, again without any specific evidence being presented to me. My request remains simple: **Show me the allegedly linked account. Show me the trades. Show me the evidence.** I am not asking Lucid to ignore its rules. I am asking the company to demonstrate that I actually violated them. The timing is particularly concerning because I was allowed to purchase accounts, fail evaluations, continue buying accounts and trade normally without any previous warning. The accusation and permanent ban appeared only when I reached my **first payout**. Prop firm trading is part of how I support my family, and I have a newborn child. Traders invest real money, time and work into these accounts and accept the financial consequences when they fail. When a company permanently bans a trader and withholds a payout based on accusations as serious as cross-user hedging and fraud, those accusations should be supported by objective and verifiable evidence. I remain fully willing to participate in an independent manual review and provide any technical records necessary to prove my activity. If Lucid provides the evidence or corrects what I believe is an incorrect decision, I will update this review accordingly.

LUCID denied my 6K payout saying "Cross-user hedging activity" All my access have been revoked, now i can't access my trades history or anything. I have posted on X, the post got over 110k views, yet no reply from them. Just a cold ban & no acknowledgement. Multiple people raises the question, no reply to it also. I started trading December and received 4k payout & then my losing steak continued. I started trading back 2 months ago, purchased 1 account, passed, received 2000$, Using that purchased 2 more, passed both, Received 4k from them and while again completing min days i tilted. Then with the money i purchased 3 accounts, passed in 3rd set & received 6k from them, then completed min days again with 5k buffer. And they rejected by saying i cross hedged which i didn't. We are taking service from them or are doing business, the foundation of it is transparency which lucid failed to provide. The overall experience was good until they falsely accused me of trading & banned my account straighaway. Denied 6k, 5k buffer in each 3 accounts, plus my 3/4 days lost as i posted this on X and it went viral.