Tools / Prop firm matcher
Prop firm matcher
Six questions, then a ranked shortlist from the 34 firms we track — with the scoring reasons shown, so you can disagree with it.
Your shortlist
Scored against your answers. Data verified July 20, 2026.
100
match score
- Entry
- $49
- Split
- 90%
- Drawdown
- eod-trailing
- + Built around futures trading, which is what you asked for
- + Entry at $49 sits inside your budget
- + End-of-day trailing drawdown, so intraday swings do not move your stop-out
- + First payout available after roughly 7 days
- + Strong public payout evidence trail
- + Active discount: Up to 60% off combines
100
match score
- Entry
- $68
- Split
- 100%
- Drawdown
- static
- + Multi-asset desk, so it covers your instruments either way
- + Entry at $68 sits inside your budget
- + Static drawdown, which is even safer than the end-of-day trailing you asked for
- + First payout available after roughly 7 days
- + Active discount: 15% off
100
match score
- Entry
- $150
- Split
- 90%
- Drawdown
- eod-trailing
- + Built around futures trading, which is what you asked for
- + Entry at $150 sits inside your budget
- + End-of-day trailing drawdown, so intraday swings do not move your stop-out
- + First payout available after roughly 5 days
100
match score
- Entry
- $77
- Split
- 90%
- Drawdown
- eod-trailing
- + Built around futures trading, which is what you asked for
- + Entry at $77 sits inside your budget
- + End-of-day trailing drawdown, so intraday swings do not move your stop-out
- + First payout available after roughly 5 days
100
match score
- Entry
- $79
- Split
- 90%
- Drawdown
- eod-trailing
- + Built around futures trading, which is what you asked for
- + Entry at $79 sits inside your budget
- + End-of-day trailing drawdown, so intraday swings do not move your stop-out
- + First payout available after roughly 7 days
Most prop firm shortlists you find online are ordered by commission rate, which is why the same three brands sit at the top of every list regardless of what the reader actually trades. That ordering is useless if you are a futures scalper being shown a two-phase forex challenge, or a swing trader being pushed onto an intraday trailing drawdown account that will stop you out on a normal retracement. The matcher exists to reorder the same dataset around your constraints instead of ours.
Asset class is the first filter and the heaviest one. Futures firms and forex firms are structurally different products: futures evaluations are cheap, single-phase and priced per contract with a monthly funded fee, while forex evaluations are more expensive, usually two-phase, and often refund the fee on your first payout. A firm can be excellent and still be completely wrong for you purely because it is built around the other side of that split.
Drawdown model is the input that experienced traders weight most heavily, and the one first-time buyers ignore. An intraday trailing drawdown moves your stop-out level up with every new equity high, including unrealised profit on an open position — so a trade that runs 2% in your favour and comes back to break-even can leave you closer to failure than before you entered. End-of-day trailing only ratchets on closed balance at the session close, and static drawdown never moves at all. If you scalp reversals or hold through drawdown in a winning position, that mechanic decides your outcome more than the profit split does.
Payout speed and cadence matter for a reason that has nothing to do with impatience: unpaid profit sitting at a prop firm is counterparty exposure. Every week your balance stays with the firm is a week you are lending it your money on trust. A firm that pays weekly on demand lets you keep your exposure small structurally, which is why we weight first-payout speed and why our payout-proof score feeds into every result here.
The rule toggles are hard requirements, not preferences. If you run an expert advisor and a firm bans automation, no profit split compensates for that — you will breach a rule you cannot trade around. The same applies to news trading: a firm that voids trades placed within a window around high-impact releases will claw back exactly the trades a news trader is there to take. We penalise those mismatches sharply rather than hide the firm, so you can see the trade-off rather than wonder why a well-known brand is missing.
Finally, every result carries a quality adjustment from our payout-proof and trust scores, which are built from published payout evidence, operating history, rule-change stability and any unresolved payout complaints filed with us. Two firms can look identical on paper and differ substantially on whether traders reliably get paid — and that difference belongs in the ranking, not in a footnote.
How the matcher scores
- ·Every firm starts at 50 points, then gains or loses on six weighted criteria: asset class fit, budget fit, drawdown model, first-payout speed, and the news and automation toggles.
- ·Hard requirement mismatches (banned EAs, banned news trading, wrong asset class) carry the largest penalties, because they are constraints rather than preferences.
- ·A quality adjustment scales each firm's payout-proof and trust score into the final number, so evidence of actually paying traders always moves the ranking.
- ·Firm data comes from the same public dataset used across the site, re-verified on the date shown above. Commission rates are not an input.
A shortlist is a starting point, not advice. Confirm the current rulebook, drawdown model and payout terms on the firm's own site before buying an evaluation.
FAQ
- How does the prop firm matcher decide which firm fits me?
- It scores every firm in our dataset against your answers using weighted criteria: asset class match, whether the entry price fits your budget, how the drawdown model lines up with your tolerance, first-payout speed against your cadence preference, and hard filters for news trading, expert advisors and weekend holding. Firms that break a hard requirement are penalised heavily rather than silently hidden, so you can still see why they ranked low.
- Is the ranking influenced by affiliate commissions?
- No. The scoring inputs are the same public dataset used across the rest of the site — price, split, drawdown model, payout cadence, platform list, rule flags and our payout-proof score. Commission rates are not an input and firms cannot pay to move up. We do earn a commission if you buy through our links, which is disclosed on every page.
- Why does a cheap firm sometimes rank below an expensive one?
- Because entry price is only one weighted input. A $37 evaluation with an intraday trailing drawdown and a 30% consistency cap on payouts can be a worse expected outcome than a $300 evaluation with static drawdown and no consistency rule, particularly if you told the matcher that drawdown tolerance matters to you. The reasons column shows exactly which factors moved each firm.
- Should I open an account with the top result straight away?
- Treat the shortlist as a filtered starting point, not a verdict. Read the full review for the top two or three, check our firm health page for any live payout signals, and confirm the current rulebook on the firm's own site — prop firm rules change frequently and a firm that fits today may change its drawdown or consistency terms next quarter.
- What if none of the results score well?
- That usually means your requirements conflict — for example demanding same-week payouts, sub-$100 entry, static drawdown and full news freedom at once. Relax the single requirement you care about least and re-run it; the score spread will tell you which constraint was doing the most damage.