POW (Progress Overcome Win) is an industry-leading automated trading community and software provider dedicated to helping serious investors and busy professionals achieve sustainable profitability in the financial markets. Unlike prop firms that require rigorous challenges and that are built are rules designed to make even the best traders fail, POW provides a truly "Plug and Play" ecosystem.We specialize in building professional trading algorithms and advanced software tools designed to reduce risk and maximize returns through diversified automated trading portfolios.Our flagship offering is the POW "Done For You" (DFY) Program, a revolutionary service that combines our historically proven automated trading systems with funded, A-Booked, trading capital. Designed specifically for executives and professionals who lack the time to backtest, optimize, or manage complex VPS setups, the DFY program handles everything. The POW team expertly manages all set file creation, optimization, and diversification, deploying algorithms that have historically generated consistent monthly gains.Through strategic partnerships with top-tier liquidity providers, POW members gain exclusive access to $100k Capital Acceleration Accounts. This unique structure allows clients to leverage professional capital while risking a minimal amount of their own personal funds, ensuring a fixed downside limited only to the initial entry fee.Whether you are looking to leverage our technology independently or prefer the complete, hands-off management of our "Done For You" solution, POW provides the technology, capital structure, and professional algorithms necessary to treat trading as a long-term, sustainable business investment.Key Services:"Done For You" (DFY) Trading Program — Complete management of automated trading portfolios attached to $100k funded accounts.lgorithmic Trading — Access to historically proven trading bots and proprietary software tools for backtesting, automated portfolio balancin
POW - Progress Overcome Win (team-pow.com) has 426 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.7 out of 5.
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Never got on with the software which wasn't the main issue as that could have easily been my issue. When I cancelled the subscription they still took the money and when questioned on this made false claims about cancelling after the money had come out. Luckily I had evidence of emails but when questioned customer support were shocking. Finally got a refund but as stated customer support dreadful. To me there is nothing worse than being questioned when claiming a refund.
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinMay 3, 2023
Hi Phil
Very sorry to read this.
Upon a quick check it seems you cancelled literally a few hours before the payment was due - so the payment processor would have already started to take that payment.
We always advise to cancel enough in advance otherwise this can happen too. I think there was also some confusion over when it was cancelled - which appeared to be after the payment was made our end (which must have been an error.)
We did refund this payment as confirmed but I'll get the ticket reviewed and ensure its discussed with the team.
Thank you for the feedback.
Regards
Darren
DA
davdev
10% passing rate
It's been a year I joined POW and here is my experience.
First of all the payouts and the passed challenges are real, but passing is much harder as you will assume from their marketing.
I tested about 40-50 methods over the year and about 4-5 of them would have passed a challenge overall. As the months went by I was getting more and more frustrated because I backtested a method and I was constantly losing with almost all of them in live forward testing. I mean the reality wasn't even close to the backtest, most of live forward testing were heavy losers.
I spoke to the team and told them in detail what my backtesting method was they confirmed everything I did was correct and I just have to keep trying. On the top of that the EA does very strange things which I raised to the team and got no real solution to them. Here is a few: EA stops trading a sequence when it's still supposed to trade, it opens trades afternoon when it's supposed to trade at the morning, the backtest results change when you change tested time interval, same EA set on same broker same size of account produces different results.
I did open tickets every time these things happened, team confirmed there was something in there than got no resolution.
At the end when I opened a ticket regarding my results, and some unexpected strange things the EA did, a team member Mack hoped on a call with me which was very surprising. He checked my process and said I just need to keep trying because all I'm doing is correct and how it was taught in the video series. He also told me to keep working as he spent 10k on challenges before passing, so it's possible. That's 10x200k or 20x100k challenge which about the same passing rate I was experiencing, so if you think I'm lying you can believe a team member.
If you join, POW will give you 10% chance of passing which is let's be honest still much higher than passing a challenge in general which is about 3-4%. For me 10% chance is very low and I don't have 10k to burn on challenges or to pay 5k to Darren for a private mentorship.
I'd like to also mention that this still probably the best community, didn't see much arguing on discord and the team reply. They have a ticket system where they try to sort out your issues, Darren also organises a weekly Q&A which is always a good chance for asking questions.
At my last ticket when my am settings were trading at pm and the same set produced different results on two different accounts, Connor dealt with me. He didn't seem to care about the technical issues I showed clear proof about, he offered me to show how he approaches backtesting. The figures he entered were similar to what I usually use, I told him that and he closed the ticket before the test was finished so I didn't have the chance to say, his test results were rubbish.
Overall I understand I never paid POW to supervise me and help me but you guys shouldn't say "I'll help you and jump on calls time to time" then ghost me and ignore my messages. Or to say "I'll show you my backtesting method" then close the ticket before you actually did anything.
When you join you also need to know those passed challenges you see are "only passed". You don't know out of how many attempts people passed challenges, how many of them are lost already or how many people had just even 1 payout. If they had data of that, that number it would be very very low and the sales would go down.
In Darren's reply you'll read that I probably never watched Q&A's (I did), I never followed the process probably (I did, Joel, Mack both confirmed and Connor also didn't come up with different approach from mine) I never went for a challenge (I did), I never provided crystal clear proof of the result discrepancy (I did) and they have higher passing rate than 10% (except fastpass, the 10% passing rate is correct which was confirmed by Mack).
Believe who you want to believe.
UPDATE: score feels harsh? Your marketing states a 70% passing rate, and the reality is that is 10%, I'm glad you didn't deny that.
I followed all your instructions, put the effort in and didn't get funded, what do you expect after that?
So: you did not review any of my tickets, you replied a few times and promised me to look into the data and never did. I provided screenshots, videos of ALL EA issues, your team didn't close the tickets before I saw the response, they just ignored it and said "you're doing everything right just keep trying bro". Mack even reviewed everything on a call and witnessed some of issues I was talking about and just told me to keep trying because I followed the process you laid down.
I didn't ask questions on QnAs? You even thanked me on Discord once for me great questions ffs.
I love these marketing answers from you honestly.
Instead of replying to this, just email me and refund me please, you're so confident anyway that passing is achievable within 12 months...
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinJan 28, 2023
Hey - thanks for the review.
Reading through it there are some positives - so the score feel's a little harsh!!
To date, we're now over $100m in funding as a total - how long people keep their accounts for and manage them emotions and psychology is a bigger task than just buying a strategy and some support - that's why it's impossible to have one size fits all results - because there's too many variables - but you know that already.
The EA issues - I review tickets and so do the team - we have no other reports of issues with trading times, etc. I can only say without seeing the examples it must be a learning issue in how the EA reads time - its not your time, or the VPS time - its the Market Watch Server time.
We have a strong community and support system and I'm sorry if tickets were closed without you seeing the answer. In that instance you could have just raised another or asked me literally any question for further support in the Live Q and A's that I host - but I don't believe you did. Tickets are closed if we don't get replies after a reasonable time - for obvious reasons that we would have hundreds and hundreds open.
If you need further help please raise another ticket with reference to this review and your issues and I'll ensure any unanswered questions are answered.
Thanks
Darren
JA
Jaap
Watch out! POW takes your money without permission
In 2021 i bought a trading bot from POW with my intention to use it. I changed my plans, never used it, never logged in again, so i lost my money. Now, December 16th 2022 there has been taken €593,50 from my creditcard AGAIN without my permission and after sending several emails to Darren (one of the founders) with the question to refund my money and close my account (which i don't use) he is NOT refunding my money and not responding anymore! Very sad.
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinJan 10, 2023
Hi, sorry to read this. It's your responsibility to manage your subscription and we also send payment reminders.
Please raise a ticket for support which is always the process and the team will sort this out.
My out of office is always on with any emails over Christmas time with the support information - the discord link and instructions to raise a ticket for help.
Please do that and we can sort this out for you!
Thanks
Darren
BO
Boy
Failed 2 times in 1 year.
Beautiful images and screenshots. However, 2 times tried to let them achieve a challenge and failed. Can happen you would say, all those advertisements and reviews and praise videos / screenshots / instagram you would say differently.
POW advertised if they don't complete the challenge, you will get the refund you paid to POW. Once the challenge is not achieved they say you only get 50% back. I have recieved it. I paid £999 for pow pass. Take your advantage of it!
Nice talk but no actions unfortunately.
I would look for someone else. Meanwhile 4 live funded accounts further. And its 4 weeks later.....
Mooie afbeeldingen en screenshots. Echter 2 keer geprobeerd om ze een challenge te laten behalen en faalde. Kan gebeuren zou je zeggen, al die advertenties en reviews en lovende filmpjes/screenshots/instagram zou je anders geloven.
POW adverteert als ze de uitdaging niet voltooien, krijg je de terugbetaling die je aan POW hebt betaald. Zodra de uitdaging niet is bereikt, zeggen ze dat je maar 50% terugkrijgt. En heb ook £999 betaald voor pow pass.
Leuke praatjes maar geen daadjes helaas.
Ik zou iemand anders zoeken. Inmiddels 4 live gefinancierde rekeningen verder. En het is 4 weken later.....
Doe er je voordeel mee!
JO
Jonjo
Everything Failed!
I joined and ran their set files which failed, they said you need to optimise them so I did. They looked great until i ran some challenges, but they failed as well.
After a few more tries and failures I paid $999 for the POW PASS team try and pass a Challenge for me, I thought I was in good hands as they were the experts right and surely they know what they were doing! How wrong I was this challenge also ended in a huge loss and an abysmal failure, I did receive a fifty percent refund for this so I will award them one star. Overall it was just a waste of my time and my money.
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinDec 11, 2022
Hey Jono,
Thanks for the review - I'm struggling to piece together your email or the time you joined us.
It does look like you've joined and maybe rushed in a little - expecting everything to work in the markets all of the time.
This is unfortunately just not the case in trading. Something we warn and explain across all of our platforms and websites.
If you require more help open a ticket and lets have a look at what you've been doing so far.
If nothing worked we wouldn't have over 48m in funded traders to date - but as with trading you can't just give up if something didn't work for you the first time. There's lots of variables in this game and it's fair to say most of the guys and girls winning haven't given up at the first hurdle overall.
Anyway, we're here to help if you want it.
Remember we have a guarantee on the Banker EA - that's there because we have total belief you'll get funded when you follow our blueprint. If you chose to rush in, without paying attention and learning then I'm afraid you're very likely to fail in anything you do.
Reach out if you want some help!
You can also get me on any weekly live zoom with any questions - but I've not seen your name on them.
Darren
AA
Anthony A.
Disgusting conditions...
If you want to "enjoy" the montly payment of the EA, you are forced to join their shi***** broker, you cannot use yours and you are forced to open and trade their brokers account.
A lot of promo in instagram to sell an EA which you can easily find in MQL5 for lot less money and lifetime license.
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Edit to your answer:
You have probably won a lot of awards and none of them because of your intelligence.
Why do you lie?
I have NOT bought your useless EA which I can almost get in mql5 for 300 usd and have it for ever without paying 900 USD.
I´m not a bad customer since I have even not purchased from you yet and I won´t.
Just looking at the way you try to incriminate me with your reply shows the anger you have inside and how much of a bad person you are.
You are trying to making laugh from the people and I´ll explain to you how:
1) You sell your EA as almost magical with dirty adds in instagram trying to make people think it will pass almost all of their challenges, when it i NOT going to do it in MOST of the cases.
2) You take advantage of the people who don´t know anything about EA´s world to charge them 800$ for just an EA which you can get similar in MQL5 for MUCH LOWER value. But you use your website and the "testimonials" to create an intense marketing so then you can put those astronomic prices which does not make sense at all!
People will buy your ea and WON´T:
Get the EA lifetime
But WILL:
Pay more than almost all people who knows a little bit about EA´s and know they can buy those in mql5 for sooo less value than yours.
Please don´t incriminate me nor try to make me look like the bad guy, i WOULD NEVER buy from you, NEVER. So by saying you are ¨restricting" me (which i don´t know how you did it given that Im not even register in your website) you are just making me a favor.
LAST ANSWER TO YOUR ANSWER
Im rating 1 star and giving you this review because it is what I truly think. Im reviewing your sales funnel, your marketing, your ABUSIVE price and the fact you want to make money from people who know nothing about brokers and making them think they are winning because of paying monthly whiles sending them to a bad broker where their money won´t be safe.
Please don´t try to appear you product+service is worth it by saying the support and zooms are amazing. I´m just saying people could get a trading bot in MQL5 for 400 usd and get lifetime access to support, guides and also telegram groups.
My review is just what you get from someone who has been in the EA world for a long time and knows about trading and marketing.
Please, note I´m not saying your EA works or doesn´t, probably it does work, but you can find better options, cheaper and lifetime access. Im pointing the fact you are abusing peoples lack of knowledge and charging insane quantities of money.
For real, I don´t earn anything from this more than knowing I will make a lot of people a favor.
Before buying this, get information about MQL5 and the bots you can get there.
Take care
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinOct 3, 2022
Apologies - it looked like we had removed you for not doing as instructed.
But I'm even more confused on this 1 star review when you're not even a member.
How can you understand or comment on something you know nothing about.
You have no clue about the help support and response times we give our members? Other services/EA'S provide 24/7 help to members or ignore them after they buy? Weekly zooms to answer questions? Loads of education on using EAs and testing properly? Proof of 45m in funded traders and counting?
No I didn't think so.
I'm sorry something's triggered you - but to leave me a 1 star review and you're not even a member - I think that's very unfair to be honest.
But hey ho, nothing I can do about it.
Hope you have a great day.
Darren
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Hey Anthony,
Thanks for the review.
Disgusting conditions?
All the 'conditions' for the monthly option are clearly outlined on the website.
The monthly offer is their to ultimately benefit YOU by giving you instant access to £899 of tools and strategies at just £59 a month.
You have 30 days to even trade your own account as it clearly says.
However, for those 'trying' to play the system like yourself you'll be warned and access can be removed (as it even says on the website).
So if you're only using our strategies for prop funding with no intention of trading live you shouldn't have joined the monthly.
We are actually in the process of removing this option to stop people like yourself trying to take advantage of the offer.
Moving forward we will offer 3/6/12 month options without the monthly/broker offer.
I'm sorry you're not satisfied - however, we've not created any new rules or expectations here - they were there all along from when you made the decision to join via that route.
We've removed your access after the warning we gave you.
All the very best,
Darren.
FV
Forexpert Vantage F.
Pow scam
Total show this is. Community is okay but they are tricking you and service is total disaster. They are buying good reviews.
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinNov 10, 2022
Strange one - if you believe that that's up to you.
If you was an actual member you'd recognise all the names match members in the Discord.
Real people, real results.
Some people don't get results - there's lots of variables here in this trading game isn't there?
You'd know this being a 'Forexexpert' yourself my friend.
Thank you.
Darren
AF
Armand F.
For anyone wanting to get in on POW
For anyone wanting to get in on POW - Let me share my honest experience with it.
I was under the impression that this is a tried and true product that you are buying out of the box to pass any prop firm challenge.
If you are under the impression that this is a plug and play EA/Robot straight out the box - you are wrong - IT IS NOT.
First off - In order to use this robot in any way or fashion you are going to have to do Backtesting, forward testing, in-sample and out of sample data tests, in order to get a working EA for a specific server and for a limited time (because markets change) so you will have to recalibrate / "optimize" as they call it - the robot for changing market conditions. At least once per month as stated by Darren to me. So your EA will be 1. Regular Maintenance and 2.Time consuming 3. Not Future proof in any way
There are some hidden costs -
Also, not stated before buying the product - you will need quite a strong computer (processing power) to run optimal tests with big amounts of data otherwise you will be waiting for long periods just to get a test result. By the way - I did not sign up to become a data scientist and find that "1 magical working set" by rigorous testing - I was hoping that is what POW would provide me ( A out of box working EA) - which its not.
POW also don't share any working sets with you out of the box - if they did - there would be no need for testing anything.
If you want to automate POW Edge (Which is the point of any EA product) you will need to pay a monthly subscription fee for Tradingview and a subscription fee for a third party to integrate Tradingview with MT4 (Also not stated beforehand - that would make it look not so appealing)
When you enter the discord everything looks barren as also stated by another member - the explanations are not good to be fair - they claim to have quick response times but I waited a few hours for some and when I ask to cancel - then Darren suddenly jumped came on and assisted.
The set files shared in their google drive DO NOT WORK. You cannot just plug and play them anyway into any live environment which I feel is useless then - why provide them when they are just a template then? No value there.
Also if you bought pow banker and pow edge, you can only use Edge when you have a working EA plugged onto the chart - which you only get after doing horrendous amounts of testing. I tried the set file and the EA executed no Trades the entire day after confirming the license is
I think POW could work for the right person that is willing to put in a lot of time and effort into something that changes monthly or even weekly but this product is not for me - the time spent on trying to find that one magical set could be spent actually trading the market or taking a FX course to learn and do it yourself - maybe even some proper signals could suffice in my opinion.
To summarize everything - If you do not want to spend countless hours optimizing, testing, hypothesising, backtesting, forward testing, using in sample and out of sample data for a few weeks maybe months before you can trade anything then DO NOT BUY POW.
Response from POW - Progress Overcome WinAug 26, 2022
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review - I tried my best to help you.
Most of your points here are just totally not correct. This is all because you've not actually read/watched any of the info provided.
You were adamant you'd watched the instructional videos - but then you hadn't because you had missed the main parts of what I've taken the time to explain to actually HELP you.
When I challenged you on this exact point you just ignored me and didn't return to your support ticket.
Most of your messages in support to Rick were replied too within 5 minutes!!!
I even said this to you when I came online. Totally unreasonable.
It's crystal clear you'll struggle to find success in any form of trading because of the fact you aren't interested in learning how to do this properly.
Most traders fail right? Because they don't do or know most of the stuff we've tried to educate you on.
Our process and tools work else we wouldn't have achieved what we have - -$46,000,000 to date.
The website also is clear and explains who this ISNT FOR.
We DO provide set files, optimisation files and data - the fact you're saying we don't also confirms you haven't actually read anything that's been in front you. They WONT work if you just try them on ANY server. This is when I knew you hadn't watched the video or read our instructions.
All brokers are different.
This is explained on the website where - most traders go wrong. 😅🙌🙏🏻
You've literally ignored everything provided and done the exact opposite.
A sure fire way to failure.
What's the saying 'you can lead a horse to water???'.
I am sorry we didn't meet your expectations but I'm afraid my best suggestion is that you start to slow down, pay attention to any information provided and listen to advice.
Fixed mindset. No intention to learn.
Failure.
I can't help that I'm afraid but I wish you well in your journey.
Regards
Darren