What's Moving in Prop.

From 2 June 2026, traders who add a Daily Loss Limit at Trading Combine checkout (Responsible Trading Advantage) get doubled Express Funded payout caps - up to $12,000 per request on the $150K Consistency path - plus $10-$30/month subscription discounts.

Apex continues rolling coupon promotions - currently 'SAVENOW' for up to 90% off any size evaluation.

Ongoing promotion: code NOFEE40 gives 40% off the Test monthly subscription for the lifetime of the account and waives the one-time $130 PRO activation fee.

Alpha Futures launched AlphaTrader, an in-house futures platform built with the Plus500 team, featuring TradingView charts, one-click trading, a built-in trade copier and commission-free execution.

Alpha Futures passed $70M in performance fees paid across 175,000+ Qualified Analysts, and Alpha Group acquired Divento Financials to bring accredited futures trading education to its analysts. Alpha Prime, the group's professional scaling program, is now live.

Instant Funding's site lists upcoming releases including a regulated broker, a new crypto-first trading firm, and an upgraded loyalty program (public beta already live).

As of mid-June 2026 Trustpilot displays GFT's rating as unavailable due to a breach of its guidelines, stating it removed a number of fake reviews. The score had fallen from ~3.6 to ~2.6 over the prior year, driven by a wave of one-star reviews in May 2026 citing payout denials and support issues, against 3,600+ total reviews.

Audacity is celebrating 14 years with a sitewide 14% discount on all programs and a monthly trading competition awarding funded accounts up to $200K (June registration deadline: June 30).

Trustpilot made AquaFunded's TrustScore unavailable, citing a breach of guidelines and stating it removed a number of fake reviews for the company. 1,334 reviews remain on the profile.

Atlas is running a World Cup promotion (every $10 spent = 1 raffle ticket; first prize includes flights and two World Cup match tickets) alongside sitewide discount codes - 35% off + 125% refund with WC35 and 40% off with DDAY observed in June 2026.

Atlas now offers a separate Futures market alongside Forex CFDs, with One Step, One Step Pro, Instant Funded Pro and Instant Pro futures programs and a dedicated Atlas Futures help-center section (observed June 2026).

Atlas's pay-after-you-pass lineup now includes $0 Access - claim a challenge for free, hit a 4% target with no time limit, and pay the funding fee only after passing; the fee is refunded on the 4th payout. Joins the $1 Access and $5-per-phase Pay Later models (live as of June 2026).

CFT launched the Break Challenge: a budget 1-phase evaluation ($25K-$100K) with no daily loss limit, no minimum trading days, on-demand payouts after a $138-$328 activation fee, and a 50%-off first-order promotion.

TradeDay officially launched TradeDay 2.0, introducing Fast Pass evaluations (3-day pass, no minimum trading days), evolving the existing model into Quick Pay with cleaner payout mechanics and no milestones, lowering 50K entry pricing to $62.50, and adding a defined path to Funded Live with up to 5 live accounts and a 90% profit split.

Apex introduced higher-priced evaluation variants with a $0 PA activation fee, applicable to sim-funded accounts activated from May 27, 2026; standard evals keep size-based activation fees (EOD $89-$149, Intraday $69-$129).

Topstep added Aeropay as a payout method, enabling instant delivery of payouts to US bank accounts.

The Standard evaluation was discontinued on 1 May 2026 and replaced by the new Premium plan; Zero and Advanced continue.

On 26 May 2026 Instant Funding announced the acquisition of fellow UK prop firm Funded Trading Plus, bringing both brands under one group; CEO Lewis Mansbridge said the deal lifts group revenue by roughly 70%.

ThinkCapital released Bolt, an instant-funding account ($2.5K-$50K, $49-$599) with no evaluation, 3% daily / 6% trailing equity limits, a 20% best-day consistency cap, 14-day payouts and scaling to $500K.

Finotive relaunched its entire platform for its 5-year anniversary: new dashboard with integrated terminal and live rule tracking, restructured Challenge/Instant/Pro programs from $29, revised drawdowns (e.g. Two-Step 4.5%/9%) and a 90-day scaling plan toward $5.4M.

All challenges and simulated funded accounts purchased from 9 April 2026 carry a 90-day limit per challenge stage and between payouts, extendable to 180 days (+5%) or 360 days (+10%) at checkout.

Topstep acquired trader-development firm The Futures Desk, integrating its technology into the TopstepX platform; TFD co-founders Josh Schwartzberg and Brian Ford joined Topstep.

In April 2026 Goat Funded Trader absorbed TradeXMastery; affected traders reported accounts were migrated to GFT products, and some pre-merger payouts were reported as unresolved.

Major programme overhaul: all plans became one-time purchases (no subscriptions), Elite Live Performance Reward Pools of up to $18,000 per account were introduced, Rithmic and Tradesea platform support was added, the Select 50K target returned to $3,000, and the trading journal was integrated into the dashboard.

Following FTMO's 2025 acquisition of OANDA, the OANDA Prop Trader program formally concludes on 31 March 2026, with existing clients migrated to FTMO's platform and offered migration incentives or eligibility-based refunds.

Finotive published a clearer Instant Funding framework, including the per-symbol floating drawdown thresholds (1.0% warning / 1.5% strike) and the cumulative soft-breach strike system.

Sitewide 40% discount promotion across all challenges ('A Reward Worth Carrying Forward'); a 40%-off code (MATCH, +5% profit split) remains active via Prop Firm Match as of June 2026.

Apex's largest rule change to date (v4.0) took effect 1 March 2026: payouts after 5 profitable days, a 50% consistency cap on withdrawals, and fully automated payouts with no manual denials, for Performance Accounts purchased on or after that date.

Apex launched a complete product replacement on March 1, 2026: one-time-fee EOD and Intraday Trailing evaluations with 30-day access, no eval consistency rule, daily loss limits on EOD plans, tier-based PA scaling, a 100% payout split on approved payouts, and a 'no payout denials' policy. Legacy subscription accounts continue under old rules but are closed to new purchases.

BluSky migrated traders to a new dashboard ('BluSky X'). The rushed rollout caused account/login bugs for several weeks - widely noted in Trustpilot reviews - with support credited for resolving issues.

Following the FTMO founders' acquisition of OANDA, migration of OANDA's proprietary trading business (OANDA Prop Trader) began on 2 March 2026, and FTMO co-founders Otakar Suffner and Marek Vasicek took over as co-CEOs of OANDA.

Blueberry Funded published an updated Trading Evaluation Outline and Fees (dated 04/03/2026). Gambling-style prohibitions (martingale, grid, chasing losses) no longer apply to challenges purchased on or after March 12, 2026 per the outline, while new funded-stage limits (1.5% max risk per trade idea, correlated-instrument clusters, position-stacking caps) were formalised.

Trustpilot made CFT's score unavailable citing a breach of guidelines and stated it removed a number of fake reviews for the company; ~1,120 reviews remain visible.

The5ers entered the futures prop space with 25K and 50K one-step accounts (Basecamp and Rebate programs), available worldwide including to US-based traders.

PipFarm replaced its automatic Friday payouts with a request-based system: default 30-day payout intervals, bi-weekly and weekly add-ons, a 7-day personal payout interval and payout caps including a $5,000 hard cap.

BluSky added two-phase stock evaluations ($2K, $4K and $7K) trading NASDAQ stocks and ETFs during NYSE hours via Volumetrica, with a $99 activation fee and 90/10 split paid from a real brokerage account.

QT Funded's site now runs separate CFD and Futures tracks alongside the QT Capital programme, with evaluation accounts from $2.5K to $200K and multi-account funding up to $400K total.

Topstep funded traders can now trade 12 additional products, including Micro Crude Oil, Bitcoin and Gold futures.

Topstep launched Topstep Brokerage LLC, a CFTC-registered introducing broker (NFA ID 0567079) built on an exclusive Plus500 partnership, letting traders move from funded trading to their own capital. Accounts opened from 12 January 2026 use a 90/10 split from the first dollar and route through the TopstepX platform.

Tradeify announced an organisation-wide partnership with esports organisation FlyQuest, alongside its Champion Mindset ambassador series featuring UFC champion Israel Adesanya and darts champion Luke Littler.

ThinkCapital launched its redesigned website on January 22, 2026, and now sells $200K Lightning, Dual Step and Nexus challenges at checkout.

Bitfunded refreshed its lineup with a new $150,000 Apex tier on 1-Step and 2-Step evaluations, Instant Funding accounts ($2,500 Kickstart and $5,000 Base) and hourly Day Trader challenges with 2x-5x payout boosts.

DayTraders added an end-of-day trailing drawdown account line (25K-300K) alongside its Trail and Static evaluations, marketed as 'NEW' on the pricing page.

The5ers is marking 10 years since its 2016 founding and now runs a dedicated futures arm (the5ers.com/futures) alongside its CFD programs, as part of the 5% group that also includes Trade The Pool (stocks), Trade Delicious and TSG Brokers (CySEC-licensed).

Alpha Capital reports surpassing $100M in performance fees paid to over 100,000 Qualified Analysts across 140+ countries.

Traders can now pay to reset Phase 1, Phase 2 or a funded account and restart from where they left off, instead of purchasing a new challenge.

GFT's refreshed site now offers account sizes up to $400K (from $2.5K), the limited-time weekend Goat Blitz challenge (3% target), GOAT/Standard/PRO 2-step variants, and scaling toward $2M in simulated capital, alongside a separate Goat Funded Futures brand.

Goat Funded Trader launched its mobile app on the Apple App Store and Google Play, extending its in-house dashboard (metrics, certificates, rewards/points system) to mobile.

The firm relaunched its lineup: the consistency rule was removed across all programs, payouts are now credited the same day upon approval, FTP scaling was extended (marketing 'up to $768K with FTP'), and platforms consolidated on MetaTrader 5 and DXtrade.

BrightFunded restructured its challenges into three tracks - a 1-Step with trailing drawdown, the entry-level 2-Step Bright and the wider-drawdown 2-Step Classic - and introduced a 15% Evaluation Profit Reward credited to funded accounts.

The site now offers MetaTrader 5 and cTrader (+$15) alongside MatchTrader and TradeLocker, a new Elite model tier, a $150K account size, and the limited-edition Aqua Man $100K challenge with a 2% profit target (drops twice monthly, 100 accounts per drop).

New sustainability rules across all programs: maximum position-holding durations by asset, a 5-position simultaneous cap, hedging ban, minimum trading activity per payout period, and graduated payout penalties for excessive margin concentration.

The group launched Alpha Trader, its in-house trading platform with TradingView integration, alongside TradingView connectivity for evaluations.

Platform outages during the TopstepX migration in December 2025 disrupted live trading sessions; Topstep removed negative trades within acknowledged outage windows, but the episode pulled its Trustpilot rating down from ~4.5 toward the mid-3s.

The two-step program was rebuilt into separate Intraday and Swing variants with different drawdown calculation, news-trading and holding rules.

FTMO's founders completed the purchase of global broker OANDA from investment group CVC, one of the largest deals in the retail trading industry.

Spotware announced The5ers selected cTrader as a core trading environment alongside MT5 Hedge; CEO Saul Lokier said it was added 'as an additional option to enhance our offering for experienced traders'. cTrader accounts carry a $10 surcharge at purchase.

BrightFunded marked two years of operation with a press release citing its growth as a prop trading firm, its Trade2Earn loyalty program and its payout record.

FTMO added a single-phase challenge alongside its classic two-step evaluation, with a flat 90% reward, EOD-trailing 10% max loss, 3% daily loss and a 50% Best Day Rule.

Take Profit Trader removed daily loss limits across Test and PRO accounts, leaving the trailing drawdown as the primary risk limit.

A second 1-step track, Pro Growth, joined Hyper Growth: same 10% target and 6% stop-out, but a hard 3% daily loss, 3 minimum profitable days, a 75/25 starting split and incremental scaling to $500K.

Alpha Capital Group launched sister brand Alpha Futures, extending the group into proprietary futures trading.

The team behind Goat Funded Trader launched a dedicated futures prop firm under Hong Kong-registered WITI Limited, offering simulated funding up to $750K on CME-group products with no activation or data fees.