Prop Firms

A prop firm, short for proprietary trading firm, is a company that pays traders for the profits they generate without asking them to fund a trading account of t...

FTMO and Vanquish Trader both let you prove a strategy on a simulated account and earn payouts for it. That’s roughly where the overlap ends. FTMO is one of the...

Before you pay for an evaluation, it’s fair to ask the obvious question: will this firm actually pay me if I pass? Prop trading has had its share of firms that...

Hitting a profit target is the easy part to plan for. The hard part is everything around it: a loss limit that creeps up after a good run, a consistency rule th...

You found a prop firm with a funded account that looks promising. Then you hit the word "eval" and the page assumes you already know what that means. You don't,...

A trading combine is a structured evaluation prop firms use to identify traders who can manage risk and generate consistent returns. Pass it, and you get a fund...

When considering prop firms for options trading most traders make the same mistake: they compare profit splits and stop there. That's the wrong filter. The spli...

A funded trading account is an account a proprietary trading firm gives you after you prove your strategy in an evaluation. You trade it under the firm’s rules,...