Future Prop Firms: The Full List

Last verified: October 14, 2026

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What This Page Is

A complete directory of every futures prop firm we review, with the facts you need to shortlist, and a link to the full breakdown for each.

This is not a ranking. If you want firms ordered best to worst, that is on our complete firm rankings. This page exists because sometimes you want the whole list rather than someone else’s opinion about the order.

Sixteen firms, updated as rules change.

The Full List

How to Read This Table

Account size is the least useful column. It is the first thing every firm advertises and the least predictive of your outcome. A 250,000 dollar account with a 6,000 dollar drawdown gives you less usable room than a 50,000 dollar account on a static floor. The number that matters is the drawdown, not the headline.

Payout share ranges mean something specific. Where a firm shows a range, the lower figure is usually what applies on day one and the higher figure is reached through tenure, payout count or an upgrade. Compare on the lower number unless you plan to stay long enough to reach the top of the range.

A 100 percent figure is almost always a band. Several firms pay 100 percent on an initial slice of profit, commonly the first 10,000 to 15,000 dollars, then settle lower. That band is genuinely valuable if you expect to earn within it, and irrelevant if you expect to earn well past it.

Ratings reflect the programme, not your fit with it. A firm rated 4.9 with intraday trailing drawdown is still the wrong firm for someone who scales into positions. Our full weighting is on how we score and rank firms.

The Columns That Are Not Here Yet, and Why They Matter More

Three things decide outcomes more than anything in the table above, and all three live in each firm’s terms rather than on its pricing page.

Drawdown mechanism. Static, End of Day trailing, or intraday trailing, and within intraday trailing whether the floor updates on your closing balance or on your peak unrealised equity. That last split is the one almost nobody labels and the one that decides the most. A trade that runs up 2,000 dollars and returns to flat costs you nothing under End of Day logic and permanently costs you 2,000 dollars of room under peak equity trailing.

Whether the drawdown locks. At several firms the trailing stops permanently once the floor reaches your starting balance. Where that applies, the hard phase is temporary and the right play is to size small until it locks. Where it does not, you trade under a moving floor for the account’s whole life.

What a daily loss breach does. At some firms it pauses your day and you come back tomorrow. At others it closes the account. At several there is no daily limit at all, which means nothing interrupts a bad session before it reaches the maximum drawdown. Those are three different products wearing one name.

The rules comparison covers these per firm, and Chapter 06 on margin and survival explains the risk maths underneath them.

Narrow the List by What You Need

Sixteen firms is too many to evaluate properly. Start from your own situation and the list shortens fast.

You want the most forgiving drawdown. Look for End of Day trailing with a permanent lock. Alpha Futures and Bulenox Option 2 both lock once the floor reaches your starting balance. AquaFutures and Blue Guardian use End of Day without the lock.

You want to choose your own drawdown type. Bulenox asks you to pick at checkout between intraday trailing with no scaling plan, and End of Day with one. Almost no competitor offers that choice.

You want a static floor from day one. Elite Trader Funding offers a Static plan among its six, which is the most forgiving structure available anywhere.

You hold positions overnight or across weekends. This eliminates most of the list in one step, because the majority of futures prop firms require positions flat before a daily close. Elite Trader Funding’s Diamond Hands plan permits it, and Blueberry Futures allows it on specific Swing challenges.

You want the lowest total cost. Not entry price, total cost to a cleared payout. Blue Guardian charges no activation fee and no data fees once funded, which frequently beats a cheaper entry elsewhere. AquaFutures uses a one time fee that is refundable on the fourth successful payout. OneUp Trader includes market data and unlimited resets at no extra charge.

You want payouts moving fast. Blue Guardian runs a 7 day cycle with a 24 hour processing guarantee carrying a real penalty clause if missed. Alpha Futures caps withdrawals at 15,000 dollars per request, among the highest in the industry.

You want the first chunk of profit at 100 percent. Bulenox pays 100 percent of your first 10,000 dollars, and Blue Guardian pays 100 percent of your first 15,000.

You are new to funded trading. Prioritise a daily loss limit that pauses rather than fails, plus static or End of Day drawdown. Avoid the combination of no daily limit with large permitted position sizes, which several otherwise good firms have.

How to pick a firm for your trading style works through this properly, routing from how you actually trade to the rules that matter.

Choose Your Evaluation Model First

If you have not decided between qualification routes, comparing individual firms is premature. The model determines which category of rules you will be living under.

One step clears a single profit target, usually paired with tighter drawdown to compensate for the removed stage. Covered on the one step evaluation hub.

Two step adds a verification phase with a smaller second target, usually alongside more forgiving drawdown. Covered on the two step hub.

Instant funding skips the evaluation entirely for a higher upfront price. The test is not removed, it moves to the first payout conditions. Covered on the instant funding hub.

No model is universally easier. Firms compensate for whatever they take away.

Compare Two Firms Directly

Sometimes the fastest route is one pair, side by side. These pages put two firms through the same criteria:

AquaFutures versus Blueberry Futures, Alpha Futures versus Topstep, Alpha Futures versus Take Profit Trader, My Funded Futures versus Apex Trader Funding, My Funded Futures versus AquaFutures, Tradeify versus Funding Ticks, Tradeify versus E8 Futures, Topstep versus FXIFY Futures and TickTick Trader versus Take Profit Trader.

The full set lives on the comparisons hub.

What This List Does Not Include

Worth being straight about scope.

Forex and CFD prop firms. Several large prop firms operate in currencies and contracts for difference rather than exchange traded futures. Different products, different rules, different regulatory position. This list is futures only.

Firms we have not reviewed. The industry has well over fifty futures prop firms and this list covers sixteen. A firm’s absence means we have not reviewed it, not that it is bad.

Firms that no longer operate. Prop firms close, get acquired and rebrand frequently. We remove firms that stop operating rather than leaving dead entries in the table, which is why the last verified date at the top matters.

Before You Buy From Any of Them

Ten minutes on the terms page beats any list, including this one.

Find the drawdown mechanism, and whether trailing updates on balance or peak equity. Find whether the floor locks and at what point. Check what a daily loss breach does. Find the consistency rule and divide your typical best day by your typical monthly profit to see whether it will affect you. Read the funded account terms as a separate document from the evaluation terms, because they usually are. Add every cost line to a realistic first payout. Then look at price and any discount code.

How a futures prop firm works walks through all of that with worked numbers. Current discounts across every firm are on the coupons hub, and rule changes across the industry are tracked in NewsFlash.

What You Are Actually Buying

A prop firm evaluation payment is generally a service fee for access to a trading programme, not a deposit into a regulated brokerage account held in segregation. Most funded accounts in this industry are simulated environments using live market data, with payouts paid as real money by the firm.

That is a legitimate model used by established companies, and the firms that state it plainly score better with us than the firms that leave it ambiguous. The CFTC customer protection resources explain what regulated futures customer funds protection actually covers. Contract specifications and tick values come from the exchange, and CME Group publishes them directly.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How many futures prop firms are there?

The industry has well over fifty active futures prop firms, with new entrants appearing regularly and others closing or rebranding. This list covers the sixteen we have reviewed in full, each scored against the same seven factors for consistency.

2. What is the best future prop firm?

There is no single best firm, because rule difficulty depends entirely on trading style. A firm that suits a scalper with tight stops will repeatedly fail a trader who scales into positions. Our rankings order firms by programme quality, not by fit with any particular approach.

3. Which futures prop firm has the biggest accounts?

Several firms in this list offer accounts up to 250,000 dollars, including Bulenox, Elite Trader Funding, OneUp Trader and Funded Futures Network. Account size is poorly correlated with usable trading room, since the drawdown amount rather than the notional figure determines actual risk capacity.

4. Which firm has the best profit split?

Split figures across this list run from 80 to 100 percent, with several firms paying 100 percent on an initial profit band before settling lower. A split is only meaningful alongside the payout conditions attached to it, since a high share of an unreachable payout returns nothing.

5. What does the rating column mean?

Ratings reflect the quality of the programme measured against our seven scoring factors, weighted toward drawdown structure, payout terms and rule clarity. They measure the firm, not your fit with it, so a highly rated firm can still be the wrong choice for a specific trading style.

6. Why do some rows have blank cells?

Blank cells mean we have not verified that figure against the firm’s own published terms. Leaving a cell empty is more useful than filling it with an estimate, because readers act on these numbers when deciding where to spend money.

7. How often is this list updated?

The last verified date appears at the top of the page. Firms in this industry change rules, pricing and account structures frequently and often without announcement, so any list without a verification date is asserting that nothing has changed since it was written.

8. Are all these firms available to US traders?

The futures prop industry is predominantly US based and built around CME Group products, so US availability is rarely an obstacle. A small number of firms restrict certain other regions instead, which should be checked before purchasing.

9. What is the difference between this page and your rankings?

This page is a complete directory ordered for reference, while the rankings order firms by overall score with the reasoning behind each position. Use this page to see everything available and the rankings page when you want a recommendation.

10. Which firms allow overnight holding?

Overnight and weekend holding is uncommon across futures prop firms, with most requiring positions flat before a daily close. Elite Trader Funding permits it on its Diamond Hands plan, and Blueberry Futures allows it on specific Swing challenges.

11. Which firm is cheapest?

Entry price and total cost frequently point to different firms. Once activation fees, market data charges, reset costs and any withdrawal buffer are included, the total to a first cleared payout often runs three to five times the advertised entry price and reverses which firm looked cheaper.

12. Do these firms use real money?

Most futures prop firm funded accounts are simulated environments using live market data, with payouts paid as real money from the firm. Some route funded trades to live markets. The written agreement is the only reliable source on which model a specific firm uses.

13. How do I choose between sixteen firms?

Start from your own trading style rather than from the list. Hard permissions such as overnight holding eliminate firms outright, then drawdown mechanism narrows it further, then the consistency rule, then total cost. Price should be the last filter rather than the first.

14. Should I use more than one prop firm?

Running accounts at several firms is generally permitted and spreads counterparty risk, which is worth considering given that evaluation payments are not held in segregated accounts. Each firm’s rules on account limits and simultaneous positions should be checked individually.

15. Why are some well known firms not on this list?

A firm’s absence means we have not completed a full review of it, not that it is unsuitable. We add firms as we review them against the same seven factors rather than listing names without the underlying work.

Next Step

Use this list to see what exists. Use the rules to narrow it.

Compare firms on what decides outcomes: open the rules comparison and filter by drawdown type, or see every firm scored and ranked if you want the order rather than the list.