Topstep Brokerage is the first introducing broker to allow individual brokerage accounts to be funded through the direct transfer of payouts earned from its retail proprietary trading programs, the company stated.
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FPFX Tech has acquired BR Management Group LLC, the parent company of BullRush Entertainment, in a move aimed at expanding gamification and competition-based features within its retail prop trading platform.
Tradeify is already sponsoring darts world champion Luke Littler.
TradersYard has announced the launch of futures-based trading challenges, in an expansion of its retail prop offering.
Cyprus-headquartered multi-asset broker Triomarkets has launched a retail prop arm, Triofunded. The firm’s website states its funded accounts offer more than 150 trading instruments, including commodities, forex, crypto and indices.
The approval of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) will enable the firm to shortly launch as a fully standalone regulated brokerage.
The organisers of the London and Dubai Prop Trading Expos have announced Finotive Funding will be the Headline Sponsor for both events, which are scheduled to take place in 2026.
MyFundedFutures (MMFU) is seeking to register as an Introducing Broker with US regulators and build its own proprietary futures trading platform.
Retail prop firm E8 Markets has ditched activation fees on all its programs, including futures accounts, making them one-time fee only.
Match-Trader has rolled out a set of futures-specific tools as proprietary futures trading gains traction in the broader trading ecosystem.
Starting a prop firm in 2025 is not easy and not cheap. We dig into why.
MyForexFunds, which closed down after attracting the attention of the US CFTC, has officially announced it plans to make a comeback.
The prop firm will offer traders a monthly salary if they stay ahead of certain monthly drawdown limits.
The move comes after software providers, including MetaQuotes, pulled support from a wave of prop firms offering services to US clients in 2024.
Kraken has fully integrated a prop trading function, following its purchase of Breakout in September.
The UAE regulates education providers, which may cause problems for firms based there – particularly when it comes to payments and banking.
Ahead of the London Prop Trading Expo, we spoke to Gold-i Founder and CEO Tom Higgins about what you need to make your prop firm a success.
We speak to prop firm marketeer Stanislav Galandzovskyi about retention, client acquisition costs, and discounts in the prop firm space.
Propel Capital is the latest firm in the industry to shut shop. Founder Mitchell Ali said competition meant the firm was selling challenges at a loss.
Offering 50% to affiliates is impossible unless the prop sees multiple challenge purchases and only pays 50% of the first sale.
The FundedNext payout numbers are hard to understand, based on the other numbers that FundedNext has posted on their own homepage.
Prop firms use a number of different methods to identify copy trading abusers. We look at six of them in this article.
Emerging markets offer lower CACs and better paid ad results for prop firms. But companies must make sure they’ve got the right product before spending.
In this guide we look at the question you always want to know – how do prop firms make money? The answer is more complicated than you might expect.
Funded Unicorn said in a statement sent to clients that traders on live accounts caused the firm huge losses that have put it out of business.
Prop trading firms give traders the opportunity to access funded accounts and trade with much larger sums of money than they could otherwise access.
Crypto, props, the UK, competition from Dubai, and the ever present paradox that is the online trading industry.
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.
We talk to PipFarm CEO James Glyde about how the company has managed to stop the scammer onslaught.
VFTradings offers clients two types of challenges, across six different account sizes.
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?
The Trading Pit will use cTrader for its CFD challenges, which were previously offered via a third-party brokerage.
The new website features a refreshed UX and a change to the prop firm’s colour scheme and branding. Atmos was launched in November last year.
Griffin was previously at CMC Markets and also worked as Global Head of Trading at FXCM. Fuze Traders is a prop firm based in Switzerland.
Snir Ahiel has launched Fund Your FX. Ahiel was one of the two co-founders of The 5%ers back in 2016. He left the firm in August of 2022.
Andreou was most recently at BDswiss and spent close to a decade at HFM. He is the latest in a string of ex-broker execs to either join or launch a prop.
MarketsVox will launch MVFunded later this month. The company is the latest in a string of brokers to have added a prop trading offering.
Fintokei – a funded trader firm – has also seen a near three-fold increase in paid for evaluations so a far this year compared to 2023.
The headline ‘funded account’ figure that prop firms offer is less relevant than the drawdown rules the prop imposes on its clients.
Funded trader companies are shutting shop because they can’t sell enough challenges to cover their liabilities. We explain how it all works here.
In this guide we tell you everything you need about how to start a prop firm or funded trader company. It’s more complicated than you think.
We interview FTMO CEO Ottaker Suffner about the company’s expansion plans, the US exit, and start up life.
MT4 and MT5 have been taken off the play store. MT4 demos are done. And are props breaking trade reporting rules? Also Startrader and a new liquidity provider.
And we take a return trip to the Turkish Gold Bazaar
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