The Iceberg Path: Learn. Take a challenge. Understand the roles.
First education, then a challenge of its own — and, for selected traders, possibly a role as a strategy provider. These are different offerings, not an escalator to success. You can start with the community or go straight to the funding rules. A passed challenge is not a claim to a place on the strategy team.
Understand and build a routine
Understand Bookmap, VWAP, and order flow. The community is not a requirement for a challenge.
A simulated challenge
Futures: four phases, published rules.
Career path / a chance, not a job offer
A possible role as a strategy provider — a chance for traders, not a guarantee of employment.
Iceberg Funding is a separate offering with its own challenges; client funds do not flow into prop accounts or to prop traders.
A learning path connects topics, not client funds. Education, funding assessments, and Strategies have different jobs and different people responsible.
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Iceberg Method
Community and education
A chart is quick to open. A routine you can explain takes longer. Iceberg Method is a learning community around Bookmap, VWAP, and order flow. It is about understanding how the market works — not about signals you copy blindly. Method membership is not a requirement for a funding assessment.
Method membership: [PLATZHALTER]
[PLATZHALTER — confirm current Method prices]. Please also confirm session times with Robert. Education is a separate offering; there is no guarantee of success or profit.
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Iceberg Funding
Futures: four simulated phases
Here you buy a challenge, not a $50,000 balance. The futures program has four simulated phases. Each has the same target and its own completion conditions. The large nominal number is a framework for rules and exposure — real live capital follows only after phase 4.
The rules before you pay
- Target per phase
- 9%
- Maximum drawdown
- 5% EOD trailing
- Daily loss limit
- None in the phases
- Consistency
- 25%
- Time per phase
- 60 calendar days
- Futures $50k: one-time fee
- $525
The drawdown follows the end-of-day balance, not open intraday peaks. Once +5% is reached, the loss limit stops at the starting balance. Consistency: (best day PnL / total PnL) × 100 may be at most 25%. The 60-day timer starts with the first trade.
Fixed payouts in the $50k example
A fixed payout after each successfully completed simulated phase. Bar heights compare amounts, not trading results.
Phase 1
$1,000
Phase 2
$1,500
Phase 3
$1,500
Phase 4
$3,000
$1,000 → $1,500 → $1,500 → $3,000. Each payment depends on successful completion and the contractual conditions. No guarantee of success or profit; after phase 4 the separate $6,000 live account follows.
For each successfully completed phase: first the fixed payout, then the next phase with a fresh starting balance. The amounts are contractual terms, not a promise of profit. After phase 4: $6,000 live funded, 90% share of account gains.
The nominal size of the challenge and the later live starting balance are two different numbers. On the futures $50k path, the transition looks like this:
After phase 4: $6,000 of actual live capital, 90% share of account gains. No entitlement to a profit. The bars compare starting sizes, not results.
Source: icebergfunding.com / Futures Rules & FAQTrader
Chooses their trades and is responsible for staying within the assessment rules.
Iceberg Team
Education and community around Iceberg Funding; not the provider of the assessments.
Prop Account, LLC
Provides the simulated assessments and receives the assessment fees.
Iceberg Funding is a brand of GEMS4GENS INC. and an affiliate of Prop Account, LLC. Prop Account, LLC provides the assessments and receives the assessment fees. The assessments are simulated. Education and community are separate. Before you buy, review the assessment contract and, after qualification, the trader agreement with Prop Account, LLC.
Not every product follows this path
- Crypto One-Step: one assessment, then funded; weekend holding allowed.
- FX & CFD One-Step: its own targets and loss rules, not a futures program.
- Instant Funding: FX/CFD and crypto CFDs only, not futures or equities.
- Equities Single Session: its own intraday process for S&P 100 stocks.
Calculator prices and leverage are listed separately by product below. An FX One-Step is not an Instant account, and neither is a futures challenge. Before you pay, check the current terms and the final checkout price.
All prices from the website calculator
Public marketing calculator, retrieved on 10 November 2026. Account sizes and fees in US dollars; the account size is not a freely available balance.
| Account size | One-time fee |
|---|---|
| $25,000 | $265 |
| $50,000 | $525 |
| $100,000 | $1,000 |
| $150,000 | $1,595 |
No FX leverage: futures are traded via contracts.
| Account size | Fee |
|---|---|
| $5,000 | $45 |
| $10,000 | $95 |
| $25,000 | $250 |
| $50,000 | $525 |
| $100,000 | $1,050 |
| $200,000 | $2,150 |
Leverage per the calculator: 5:1 BTC & ETH, 2:1 others.
| Account size | Fee |
|---|---|
| $5,000 | $99 |
| $10,000 | $179 |
| $25,000 | $399 |
| $50,000 | $749 |
| $100,000 | $1,399 |
Leverage per the calculator: Up to 20:1 (FX & Metals).
| Account size | Fee |
|---|---|
| $5,000 | $299 |
| $10,000 | $499 |
| $25,000 | $1,299 |
| $50,000 | $2,799 |
| $100,000 | $5,499 |
Leverage per the calculator: Up to 50:1 (FX & Metals).
| Account size | Fee |
|---|---|
| $5,000 | $45 |
| $10,000 | $65 |
| $25,000 | $150 |
| $50,000 | $300 |
| $100,000 | $600 |
| $200,000 | $1,400 |
A separate equity program; the futures rules do not automatically apply here.
Before payment, checkout on icebergfundingdashboard.propaccount.com confirms the final price. The terms shown then are the ones that govern.
Prices in the calculator on icebergfunding.comEnter code PF24 at checkout. The provider confirms the effect before payment.
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Iceberg Strategies
Career path — a possible role as a strategy provider
Are you thinking about a next professional step? Iceberg Strategies is intended as a career path for traders: a possible role as a strategy provider, including the chance of being approached by other asset managers, banks, or hedge funds. “Can” is the word that matters here: a chance, not a promise of employment, placement, or collaboration. A passed funding challenge does not open that door automatically.
Iceberg Funding is a separate offering with its own challenges; client funds do not flow into prop accounts or to prop traders.
A possible next step — not a promised job
The path may lead to working with Iceberg Strategies or may attract interest from other asset managers, banks, or hedge funds. Whether someone approaches you, and whether that becomes a collaboration, remains open. There is no promised selection, no guaranteed contract, and no performance promise. Until they are confirmed, the selection criteria remain an explicit placeholder.
The separate B2B offering works with algo detection: software identifies traces of large orders that algorithms split into many smaller child fills. GEMS4GENS INC. develops the strategy as strategy provider; Robert Rother is the strategy developer. Selected traders deliver trade setups but do not control client funds. That describes the roles in the offering — not a promised career.
For clients, the licensed asset manager CTM Global Investment Ltd (Mauritius, FSC license GB24203653) decides and executes. Robert does not manage client money and has no contract with those clients. A strategy conversation explains the strategy; it is not investment advice.
Trader team
Determines the market phase and, in the strategy area, delivers trade setups. No access to client funds.
Gems4Gens / Robert
Strategy provider / strategy developer: develop and explain the strategy. Robert does not manage client money.
Asset manager
CTM Global Investment Ltd decides and executes for clients. A separate business, not prop accounts.
Markets and risk rules
Indices, in particular the S&P 500 future, commodities, and currencies; long and short. Entry, exit, and a fixed loss limit are defined in advance and implemented under the system. The loss limit is not widened; only the profit target may be extended. Slippage can affect the actual fill — that is not a guarantee against loss.
The trader team determines the market phase: in sideways phases, short trades; in trend phases the holding period may be days or weeks. This is a description of roles, not a trading recommendation.
[PLATZHALTER — selection criteria: confirm with Robert]
What this is not
- — Not a retail investment offering on PropFirms24
- — No performance or return figures
- — Prop-firm results are not Strategies performance
- — Traders have no access to client funds
- — No personal investment advice
[PLATZHALTER — Strategies clearance still pending]. The technical role description follows the [ÖFFENTLICH OK] statements in the briefing; the career framing was confirmed by Robert on 10 November 2026. No external Strategies link until clearance.
Details will follow after clearance