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 […]
Payout Caps Prop Firms Are Not Publicly Embracing Payout Caps Yet, But the Industry Is Clearly Moving in That Direction No major prop firm has come out and openly announced that payout caps are now the future of the business. But that does not mean the idea is not already spreading. What is happening looks […]
The FCA Is Watching Prop? Regulating It Will Be Messier Than Most People Think The clean headline is not that the FCA is about to crack down on prop firms tomorrow. The sharper and more accurate point is that major regulators are clearly aware of the sector, while the legal path to regulating it remains […]
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 […]