Payout ratios can give us some idea of what revenues at prop firms are. We look at how much Alpha Capital, FundedNext, FundingPips and E8 Markets make as a result.
Prop Weekly
Props don’t seem to have been hit by Chinese traders abusing the gold price. It could cause major problems if it ends up happening.
FTMO is still number one in search, even though it doesn’t do much different from its competitors. So why is the prop firm still number one?
ThinkMarkets had a lot of debt and not much cash. Somehow it’s still going. Is that because of ThinkCapital and its prior prop firm products?
Prop trading is different from binary options from a regulatory point of view. Plus, binary options aren’t bad. People who commit fraud are.
My Forex Funds got lucky that the CFTC was so incompetent. But it means we still don’t really know what’s going to happen in the US for props.
Props face a lot of problems with managing outflows. More and more firms are doing a-book accounts. It’s expensive but it may be the only solution.
Goat Funded Trader just got MetaTrader back by starting a broker in St Lucia, a sign that MetaQuotes is changing its tune about prop trading.
The best instant funding prop firms are smashing it for a simple reason – traders want instant funding, and they want it now.
News feeds and sites are inventing fake stories and then demanding payment from props to take them down.
Rumours abound that a big disruptor is coming to the prop space. But who will it be and what will they do?
More and more props are getting MetaTrader back, while brokers are switching their props to their own URLs again.
The prop business model leaves them open to being scammed. There may be solutions.
FTMO accounts from 2023 show how impactful lower operational costs are on a prop firm’s bottom line.
Prop apps have great potential but will they be hobbled by big tech revenue share requirements?
Prop firms are adding futures. Is it because of regulation? Do they just want more products? And should you even take US clients anyway?
Broker-backed props are adding a new feature to improve retention.
FTMO probably bought OANDA on the cheap. But will the deal work out for the firm or will it struggle to grow revenues?
Brokers want to separate their prop arms, probably for regulatory reasons. But MetaQuotes wants them to be linked together. A conundrum.
Challenging challenge conditions produce randomness, making it harder to know who is a sharp trader and who is not, meaning hedging is tricky.
Lots of brokers are starting to offer prop trading. But will they be able to compete with pure play prop trading firms?
Prop regulations will kill the industry, not make it better. If we do need regulations, wouldn’t it be better if they were under gaming rules?
