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Matching a Prop Firm to Your Trading Style: What to Actually Evaluate
With dozens of funded-account programs available, traders who start with their own edge and work backward to firm structure tend to make more durable choices.
Jul 2, 2026
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FTMO
The original modern prop firm (since 2015), $500M+ paid out. Famously lenient — news trading, weekend holding and EAs are all allowed. The traps are the 1-Step's trailing max-loss and its Best-Day consistency rule, plus a daily limit that resets at midnight Central European Time, not yours.
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FTMO: fast facts
- Account sizes
- $10K – $200K
- Profit split
- 80% – 90%
- Platforms
- MT4, MT5, cTrader, DXtrade
- Payouts
- On-demand payouts; first after ~14 days
- FundedWiki rating
- 9.3/10
- Status
- active
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