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Rules re-checked July 20, 2026

Profit split and price are easy to compare and rarely decide anything. The rules do: whether you can trade the release, run your EA, carry a position over the weekend, or withdraw after one outsized day. Each filter below classifies every firm we track and explains the mechanic behind the rule.

  • Prop firms that allow news trading

    A news restriction is the rule most traders discover after they have already paid. This page separates firms with genuinely no blackout from firms that allow news on the evaluation and then restrict it on the funded account — which is where it actually costs you money.

    15 allowed · 7 conditional · 0 not permitted

  • Prop firms that allow EAs and algorithmic trading

    Almost every firm says it allows EAs. Almost every firm also bans a list of automated behaviours that covers most of what a retail EA actually does. This page splits firms into unrestricted algo-friendly, assisted-automation-only, and the specific exclusions each one enforces.

    12 allowed · 10 conditional · 0 not permitted

  • Prop firms that allow weekend holding

    Weekend holding is the dividing line between a day-trading account and a swing-trading account. Get it wrong and your position is closed for you on Friday afternoon — often at the worst spread of the week.

    10 allowed · 3 conditional · 9 not permitted

  • Prop firms with no time limit on the evaluation

    Calendar deadlines are mostly gone from this industry — but they were replaced by two other clocks: minimum trading days, and monthly subscription fees that make a slow pass expensive. Here is what each firm actually charges you for time.

    22 allowed · 0 conditional · 0 not permitted

  • Prop firms that allow copy trading across accounts

    Copy trading is how funded traders scale past a single account's allocation. It is also the rule most often misread: copying between your own accounts is usually fine, while copying the same signal that hundreds of other traders at the same firm receive is usually a hard breach.

    8 allowed · 14 conditional · 0 not permitted

  • Prop firms with no consistency rule

    The consistency rule is the single most common reason a first payout gets delayed. It rarely appears on the pricing page, it applies at withdrawal rather than during trading, and it punishes exactly the outcome most traders are aiming for: one very good day.

    10 allowed · 7 conditional · 5 not permitted

  • Prop firms that allow crypto trading

    Three different products get called 'crypto prop trading': CFD crypto pairs at forex firms, CME crypto futures at futures firms, and dedicated crypto firms trading perpetuals. They have almost nothing in common apart from the ticker.

    13 allowed · 9 conditional · 0 not permitted

  • Prop firms that allow overnight holding

    Overnight holding is standard at forex firms and rare at futures firms — and where a futures firm does allow it, the permission is usually attached to a specific plan rather than the whole account range.

    13 allowed · 3 conditional · 6 not permitted

Every rule on this hub is read from the firm's own rulebook rather than its landing page, because the two disagree more often than they agree. A firm can market itself as news-friendly while its funded-account terms restrict entries inside a two-minute window, and both statements are technically true — only one of them affects your payout.

We classify each rule into three states rather than yes/no. 'Allowed' means the standard funded account permits it with no add-on and no discretionary clause. 'Conditional' means the permission depends on the plan you bought, a paid upgrade, or a narrow window. 'Not permitted' means the platform enforces it automatically, usually by liquidating the position.

The three-state split matters most for futures firms, where plan sheets differ inside a single brand. My Funded Futures permits overnight holding on one plan and not on others; Elite Trader Funding's static and end-of-day plans carry different rules entirely. A firm-level yes/no would be wrong for both.

How we build this list

  • ·Rules sourced from each firm's public rulebook, FAQ and plan sheets — not affiliate material.
  • ·Funded-stage rules take priority over evaluation-stage rules, because that is where money is at risk.
  • ·Any firm with a discretionary profit-removal clause is downgraded to conditional at best.
  • ·Retroactive rule changes are tracked separately in our rule change log and feed the firm health score.

Rules in this industry change without notice. Verify against the firm's current terms before purchase — and if a firm changed a rule on you retroactively, tell us and we will log it.