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 […]
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 […]
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 […]