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U.S. stocks are moving toward near-continuous trading while CME is already testing weekend access in futures.

By Will

Prop firms advertise account sizes of $50,000, $100,000 and even $150,000, but those numbers often tell traders very little about how much risk they actually have.

By Will

Topstep restored TopstepX after a Tuesday outage as some traders reported unintended orders and hedging alerts. Account remedies remain unclear.

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Will prop firms move away from the traditional business model in favor of challenges?

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Tradeify’s current $300K Select V2 lowers the evaluation price and increases total drawdown, but it also adds a Daily Loss Limit and changes several funded-account parameters. Legacy V1 accounts keep their original rules.

By Will

LucidFlex funded accounts use a 90/10 payout split, require five qualifying profitable days, and do not require a payout buffer or funded consistency rule. Here’s how the payout cycle, withdrawal caps, drawdown, and scaling plan work.

By Will

My Funded Futures splits its payout structure across Rapid, Builder, and Pro plans, with different consistency rules, payout timing, buffers, profit splits, and withdrawal limits. Here’s how the three paths differ.

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Here’s how the current account structure, drawdown rules, payouts and Legacy accounts differ.

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Topstep now offers two Express Funded Account payout paths. Here’s how the Standard and Consistency options differ, how payout caps work, and what changes after each withdrawal.

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Apex Performance Accounts now have a maximum six-payout cycle. Here’s how the limit works, how payout caps increase by account size, and what happens after the sixth approved payout.

By Will

Topstep Labs has added a new $6K Challenge alongside its $3K and $1.5K formats. We compare the fees, drawdowns, contract limits, purchase rules and practical trading constraints across all three.

By Will

FTMO has launched a futures prop-trading program with Growth and Pro account paths, end-of-day trailing drawdown, simulated funded accounts, and payouts of up to 90%. Here’s how the two structures differ.

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Consistency rules are often presented as simple percentages, but they can affect evaluations, payout eligibility, and even profit targets in very different ways. Here’s what they actually measure and why the details matter.

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Take Profit Trader has automated the balance-to-wallet step for Tradovate PRO withdrawals, cutting a process that previously took up to 12 business hours to a matter of seconds. The firm says payout eligibility itself has not changed.

By Will

Prop-firm payouts are governed by more than a profit split. Caps, qualifying days, consistency rules, safety nets, withdrawal limits, and post-payout drawdown changes can all affect what a trader can actually withdraw.

By Will