Futures prop trading firms sell evaluations. You pay a fee, trade a simulated futures account against a profit target and a loss limit, and if you pass, the firm funds a simulated account and pays you a share of the gains. There are dozens of them in the United States and they advertise almost identical headlines, which is exactly why the headline is the wrong thing to compare them on.
They have already matched each other on the split
Eight of the ten firms in this index publish a profit split and every one of them is 90%. The minimum, the median and the maximum of that column are the same number, which tells you the split is a competitive floor rather than a product feature. Topstep publishes keep 90% of your profits, Tradeify publishes keep 90% of profit and get paid daily, Funded Futures Family publishes you keep 90% of every payout you receive. Choosing between these firms on the split means choosing on the one thing they have all already agreed.
They have not matched each other on the drawdown
This is the real division. Bulenox publishes both shapes and makes you choose between a trailing drawdown whose loss limit follows your highest point including open positions in real time, and an end-of-day drawdown that moves only once a day on realised profit. TradeDay similarly lets you choose intraday or end of day. Take Profit Trader and Tradeify publish end-of-day; OneUp Trader publishes a trailing limit that rises with the balance. If you hold winners through a pullback, those rules produce completely different outcomes on identical trading.
Five large firms are missing from every table including this one
Apex Trader Funding, Elite Trader Funding and TickTickTrader answer our fetches with an HTTP 403, and Funded Futures Network and Pure Futures do not answer at all. Since every figure here is a quotation checked against a live page, those firms get no cells rather than cells filled in from review sites. Apex is one of the largest firms in this market, so a table that quietly omitted it would misrepresent itself as the whole market. They are named with the reason instead.
Questions people ask about futures prop trading firms
Which futures prop trading firms are best?
This site does not rank them, because the ranking would depend on which drawdown rule suits how you trade rather than on any property of the firms. Read the drawdown column first, decide whether a trailing or an end-of-day limit fits the way you hold positions, and only then compare price and payout cadence.
Are futures prop firms legal in the US?
The firms in this index operate in the United States on the basis that a simulated evaluation is not a controlled investment and the firm is not the counterparty to a retail derivative. This site covers US futures and simulated evaluations only and carries no CFD or spot-FX prop offer in any market. Nothing here is legal advice.
How many futures prop firms are there?
More than are listed here. This index carries the ten whose own pages we can fetch and quote, and names five more that we cannot read. New firms appear regularly and terms change without notice, which is why each cell carries the date it was read.