Best prop firms for futures, ranked by nothing except what they publish

What each firm prints

Four questions that separate these firms faster than a ranking

1. Does the loss limit trail you intraday, or move once at the close?. This is the rule that ends most evaluations, and it is the sharpest division in the market. A trailing drawdown follows your account's high water mark as it rises, and at several firms it follows unrealised profit too, so a trade that goes your way and comes back can breach a limit you never saw. An end-of-day drawdown moves only at the close and only on realised profit. Bulenox publishes both shapes and describes the trailing one as following your highest point including open positions in real time; Take Profit Trader and Tradeify publish end-of-day drawdown instead. Neither is better in the abstract; one of them is much worse for how you actually trade.
2. What does the split apply to, and when?. Almost every firm here publishes ninety percent, so the number tells you very little. What differs is what happens around it. Bulenox publishes that the first ten thousand dollars in payouts is one hundred percent yours, and OneUp Trader publishes the same shape for the first ten thousand withdrawn before the ninety percent split resumes. Those are terms about the first payout, which is the one most funded traders actually reach, so they change the arithmetic far more than a five point difference in a split that only applies later.
3. How often can you take money out?. Payout cadence is published unevenly. Earn2Trade prints a weekly withdrawal from one hundred dollars upward. My Funded Futures, Tradeify and Funded Futures Family all publish daily payouts against at least one plan. Others describe how fast their quickest traders were paid, which is a claim about somebody else's outcome rather than a term you are buying, and this site does not carry those as terms.
4. What does the evaluation cost, and what does a reset cost?. Advertised entry prices in this market are usually discounted and the discount is usually running. TradeDay advertises accounts from forty five dollars, Uprofit publishes an evaluation from one hundred and thirty dollars, and Funded Futures Family states you can start for under twenty dollars. Read those as the bottom of a range on the day we read them, not as the price of the account size you want, and check the reset fee before you pay, because failing and restarting is the common path and the reset is what you will actually be buying repeatedly.

Questions

Which futures prop firm is best?

This site does not answer that, because the answer depends on a rule rather than a ranking. Almost every firm in the index publishes a ninety percent split, so the split does not separate them. What separates them is whether the loss limit trails your account's high water mark while a trade is still open or moves only once at the close, and that is a question about how you trade rather than about which firm is better. The table shows what each firm prints so you can decide which rule you can actually trade inside.

What is the difference between a trailing and an end-of-day drawdown?

A trailing drawdown follows your account's highest point upward, so as you make money the level you must stay above rises with you. At several firms it follows unrealised profit too, which is what catches people out: a trade that moves your way and then comes back can breach a limit that only existed while the position was open. Bulenox describes its trailing rule as following your highest point including open positions in real time. An end-of-day drawdown moves only at the close and only on realised profit, which Take Profit Trader and Tradeify both publish.

How much does a futures prop firm evaluation cost?

The advertised entry prices in this index run from under twenty dollars at Funded Futures Family to one hundred and thirty dollars at Uprofit, with TradeDay advertising accounts from forty five dollars. Read those as the bottom of a range on the day we read them rather than as the price of the account size you want, and check the reset fee before you pay, because failing and restarting is the ordinary path through these programmes and the reset is the thing you are likely to buy more than once.

Do these firms really pay ninety percent?

Ninety percent is what nearly all of them publish, and the quotations in the table are exactly what their pages say. What differs is what the split applies to and when. Bulenox publishes that the first ten thousand dollars in payouts is one hundred percent yours, and OneUp Trader publishes that funded traders keep one hundred percent of their first ten thousand before the ninety percent split resumes. Since the first payout is the one most funded traders actually reach, those terms matter more than the headline percentage.

Why is Apex Trader Funding not in the table?

Because we cannot read its site. Apex Trader Funding, Elite Trader Funding and TickTickTrader all answer our fetches with an HTTP 403, and Funded Futures Network and Pure Futures do not answer at all. Every figure on this site is a quotation checked against the live page, so a firm we cannot read gets no cells rather than cells filled in from somewhere else. Apex is one of the largest firms in this market, so leaving it out silently would misrepresent the table as the whole market. It is named, with the reason, under the index.

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