Prop Firm Times — Funded trading, examined. We cover the retail proprietary-trading industry: the firms that sell funded-trader challenges, the evaluation models behind them, the payout terms, and the regulation slowly assembling around all of it.
The premise of this desk is that the prop industry publishes its most important facts and counts on nobody reading them. Pass rules, drawdown limits, consistency clauses, profit splits, refund conditions — it is all in the terms, in the fine print of the word “funded”. We read it, do the arithmetic the marketing leaves out, and print what we find. We do not sell trading education, we do not publish “how to pass” coaching, and we never suggest that any evaluation is a likely path to income.
What we cover
Two kinds of pieces. News: the enforcement actions, regulatory warnings, and industry moves that change what these products are, reported with claims attributed to the documents they came from. Reviews: individual firms examined against their own published terms — the evaluation model, the loss limits, the split, and above all the clauses that decide what happens to your fee when something breaks.
How this site is funded
Prop Firm Times is an independent, commercially supported publication. We may earn affiliate or advertising revenue from links on the site, and any paid or sponsored placement is disclosed where it appears. Revenue never dictates conclusions: no firm buys a score, softens a con, or previews a verdict. The full rules are in our editorial policy.
Who writes here
The site is edited under the byline Damian Rusk, a disclosed house pen name maintained by the editorial team — the accountable identity behind every review. News runs under the staff byline. We do not invent journalist biographies or credentials, here or anywhere.
One line of standing advice, because it belongs on this page too: a challenge fee is real money paid to trade simulated capital, and it is the only sum in the transaction that is guaranteed to move. Read the terms before it does.