Algos do not work, no contact any longer
I signed up by end of March 2026, paid for the license worth $10k and was really excited to start using the algorithms for prop firms and a live account. The first week was amazing and I was able to get a Lucid funded account. A second funded account 3 months ago I also count as a success. In the meantime, Vincere Trading build a community with office hours, backtesting lectures and even a weekly meeting about emotions in trading together with coffee and algos in the morning showing, how to set up NinjaTrader, the algos and how to get everything ready for the day. Whenever there were a big news event, there was an announcement saying that the algos might not perform well today. However, this changed drastically a few months ago. All meetings were cut, the coffee and algo meeting is often postponed due to kids at school, sickness or other excuses. The discord channel died. A designated contact was assigned to me establishing communication with Vincere in case of any trouble. However, that contact does not respond anymore. And it seems, I am not the only one, since another client asked for a reply in an unrelated Vincere Discord channel, why nobody responded so far. That is all fine, if the algos would perform. However they do not. I blew the 2 funded accounts that I was able to achieve, hundreds of evaluation accounts (since according to Vincere, it is just a down phase, so I keep refilling blown accounts), and the recently the live account. In short, Vincere set me back several 10 thousand dollars this year alone. To be more objective, I started to run the algorithms on individual simulation accounts (all low risk) about 3-4 months ago. All simulation accounts started at 100k with the Ninja Trader's normal commission fee. Here is the result (as of Oct, 9th, 2026, 6.5 months after I started): ARPD: $92115 B2X: $97470 DJDR: $93104 FSA: $96434 G4M: $100052 IFSP: $98194 MST: $97721 OGX: $90311 PLPI: $90800 RBO: $94749 SYFY: $98665 URGO: $101000 As you can see, all algorithms with the exception of URGO and G4M would have lost money. On average all algos lost $4115 over the last 6 months with the worst performance of PLPI and OGX (about -10k each). The wins of $1040 in total for URGO and G4M cannot even close come to a breakeven. When it became evident that the algos are not performing, a representative from Vincere went over the VPS with me to check, if everything is set up correctly. He could not find any mistakes. Another bad taste left the separation of prop firm and live account holders. Live account holders get the promise that the sign up fee is returned, when the algos do not perform within 6 months. Unfortunately, this does not apply to me. In summary, I deeply regret having signed up for Vincere. In hindsight, I could have had other investments that would have been more successful. I am trying to find some gratitude since Vincere taught me a lot in the beginning especially with the office hours. But since they do not exist anymore and Vincere has no platform for clients to exchange experiences any longer, I find it hard to remember to be grateful. My recommendation: Do not sign up. Instead, if you trade randomly let's say MNQ, you would have made more money. For instance, I developed an algorithm that randomly takes longs and shorts in random intervals and let them run. There is no other input except after a trade closed, a time span when to enter a trade again irrespective of what the market, the MACD, or whatever indicator says. Just random. For the same period shown for the algorithms above, the current balance of that sim account is $100107. Although it is just a break even (as expected), it outperforms most Vincere's algorithms.
By Alexander F.