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 […]
MyForexFunds Legal Action CFTC MyForexFunds Is Hinting at a Return. But This Is More Than a Comeback Tease This was not a relaunch announcement. It was something more calculated. On October 6, 2025, MyForexFunds posted on X and LinkedIn, “It’s been a long time. A lot has happened. We will tell our story soon. Be […]
How Do Prop Firms Detect Copy Trading? What Traders Can Use Legitimately, and How Not to Get Flagged Copy trading is one of the fastest ways to get into trouble with a prop firm, not because every copier is forbidden, but because firms draw a hard line between managing your own accounts and copying another […]
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 […]
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 […]
CBOT Fine for Proprietary Trading Firm Hertshten Group Hertshten Group Did Not Get Fined for a Glitch. It Got Caught in a Pattern CBOT Said Distorted the Open This was not a harmless systems hiccup. It was a disciplinary case built around repeated conduct that the Chicago Board of Trade said disrupted price formation before […]
FundingTicks Shut Down FundingTicks Is Dead. The Real Lesson Is That Futures Prop Is Harder Than CFD Hype Suggests FundingTicks did not disappear out of nowhere. It shut down on January 19, 2026 after a short and turbulent run that ended with a public wind down notice, refund promises, and a cleanup process for active […]
This Prop Firm got two CME Fines in 18 Months with Total Penalties Reach $245K Tanius Just Took Another CME Hit. The Real Story Is the Pattern The latest CME penalty against Tanius Technology is being framed as a second strike in 18 months. That actually understates how ugly the record looks. Based on the […]
FundingTicks Faces Massive Backlash FundingTicks Did Not Just Update Its Rules. It Moved the Goalposts After Traders Had Already Played the Game What happened at FundingTicks in December 2025 was not the usual prop firm fine print adjustment. It was a retroactive rewrite of the deal after traders had already bought accounts, traded under the […]
Plus500 Topstep Ownership Plus500 May Not Own Topstep, but It Is Already Closing In on the Prize When the market heard that Plus500 had been in talks to acquire Topstep, the obvious angle was a takeover story. The more interesting angle was control. Even without a signed deal, Plus500 had already positioned itself deep inside […]