Hi DevBru!
We are announcing the new partnerships this month. I can assure you, nothing sketchy, and you will see from the respectable partners we'll show you.
As far as I hear from the new prop firm, it isn't exactly easy to set something like the environment we need up on a short notice with a brokerage. Not only are there a large number of people that need to be processed daily, spun through the FCMs compliance, from a multitude of countries, but the technical aspect of monitoring and margining these accounts also takes extensive setup, and more importantly testing, to make sure that traders have a swift and convenient experience, the brokerage has a happy compliance and risk departments and the prop firm feels safe with their money. These are just the technical and practical aspects, then think about negotiations on cost, commissions, who does what and where responsibilities lie. These took some time.
When all of this is done and settled, if you think about it, if you storm out of the gate and possibly cause a huge backlog with dozens if not hundreds of traders, the experience becomes even worse for you, the prop firm and the FCM, straining a brand new relationship and creating more discontent among the traders.
Please add to that a holiday and COVID, which, I understand people hate as an excuse, nonetheless it exists.
Believe me, nobody hates this interim period more than Earn2Trade, and we don't like seeing our traders in this limbo. We tried to present an opportunity with the LiveSim and many have used and profited well, especially in December from that solution. But we'd rather risk a bit of ill feeling because of the wait for a while, than rush into something that crashes down on us on week 1.