This page sets out how Prop Firm Times produces what it publishes. The rules are short on purpose: readers should be able to hold us to them.
How we assess prop firms
A prop-firm review here is an examination of the firm’s own published documents: the evaluation rules, loss limits and targets, the profit split and its scaling, payout cadence, refund conditions, and the discretionary clauses — consistency requirements, prohibited practices, breach definitions — that decide what happens to a customer’s fee when something breaks. We do the arithmetic those terms imply and print it. Figures are always attributed (“per the published terms”, “as of this writing”, “per industry reporting”); terms change, so a review describes the rulebook on its date of publication. We do not invent pass rates, payout statistics, or quotes, we do not present a firm’s claims as our own measurements, and we cannot audit from outside what stands behind any “funded” account — so we say so.
What scores mean
A score is an editorial judgment of the firm as a product — the legibility of its rules, the fairness of its asymmetries, its record of publishing and honouring terms — on the 10-point scale shown in the review. It is never a prediction that a customer will pass an evaluation, receive a payout, or make money, and no score is for sale. Even the firms we rate highest have their drawbacks listed, because in this industry the drawbacks are the business model.
Disclosure
Prop Firm Times is commercially supported and may earn affiliate commissions or advertising revenue from links. Any paid or affiliate content carries a disclosure notice in the post itself, and paid links are marked accordingly. Sponsors receive clearly labelled space; they do not receive editorial control, and they do not receive conclusions.
Bylines
Articles here are published under house bylines maintained by the editorial team. Reviews run under Damian Rusk, a disclosed house pen name and the accountable editorial identity behind every piece; news runs under “Staff, Prop Firm Times”. We do not fabricate journalist biographies or credentials.
Risk framing
Nothing on this site is financial advice, and nothing here should be read as encouragement to buy a challenge. Prop-firm evaluations are paid products with a total-loss downside on the fee, most run on simulated capital by the firms’ own descriptions, and trading involves substantial risk of loss. Every post carries this framing in its own words, and the footer carries it on every page.
Corrections
We correct errors of fact quickly and visibly. If you spot one — a figure, a date, a name — write to us through the contact page and flag it as a correction. That queue is read first.