Easy Money Is Gone Are Prop Firms Still Profitable? Seacrest’s Exit Suggests the Easy Money Is Gone For a long time, the prop industry sold a simple story. Launch a challenge business, acquire traders aggressively, pay out the minority who win, and scale fast on marketing. That story has not fully broken. But it is […]
Transition of Prop Trading Clients OANDA’s Prop Trading Chapter Is Ending, and FTMO Is Taking the Clients This is not a partnership headline. It is an exit. On March 2, 2026, OANDA announced that it is transitioning OANDA Prop Trader into the FTMO Group, while OANDA refocuses on its core brokerage business. FTMO confirmed the […]
FTMO’s OANDA Deal: Is Prop Trading entering real Finance? FTMO’s OANDA Deal Was Not Just a Cash Flex. It Looks Like the Moment Prop Trading Entered Real Finance For a long time, FTMO was treated as the prop industry’s ultimate cash machine, a company so profitable that it could simply buy OANDA off its own […]
NinjaTrader Jumps into Prop Trading with Two Tech Platforms NinjaTrader Did Not Really Become a Prop Firm. It Became the Infrastructure Behind Them The headline made it sound like Kraken owned NinjaTrader had jumped directly into prop trading. The reality was more strategic and, in some ways, more important. On October 1, 2025, NinjaTrader Group […]
Prop Firms Are Getting Broker Licences Prop Firms Are Getting Broker Licences, and the Best Ones May Stop Looking Like Props at All For a long time, the default assumption was that brokers would copy the prop model, not the other way around. That is no longer the whole story. The more serious shift is […]