Interactive Tool · 2026
Select any 2 from 12 major futures prop firms and instantly compare them on drawdown rules, trading restrictions, payout splits, and eval cost.
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All data based on $50k account. Verify current rules at each firm before purchasing an eval. Leeloo, Earn2Trade, Take Profit Trader, and Elite Trader Funding data is approximate.
Comparing prop firms comes down to four things: how their drawdown is calculated, what trading restrictions they impose, how and when they pay out, and what the evaluation costs. Every rule matters when real funded money is on the line.
A static drawdown (Topstep, FTMO, FundedNext, Take Profit Trader) is fixed from your starting balance — your floor never moves. A trailing EOD drawdown (Apex, MyFundedFutures, TradeDay, Leeloo) follows your highest end-of-day equity upward. Bulenox uses a realtime trailing drawdown that tracks your intraday peak — the most restrictive of any major firm.
Apex, MyFundedFutures, and Bulenox enforce a consistency rule: no single day can account for more than 30–40% of your total profit. One huge outlier win day can disqualify an otherwise solid eval. Topstep, FTMO, TradeDay, FundedNext, and GOAT have no consistency rule — one big day is perfectly fine.
All major futures prop firms allow TradingView Pine Script automation via services like TradersPost. Apex is the most automation-friendly — no daily loss limit means your script needs no session circuit breaker. Firms with daily loss limits (Topstep $1,000, FTMO $1,000) require your Pine Script to track intraday P&L and halt trading when the cap is hit. FTMO also restricts news trading, which can affect automated entries around major economic events.
Topstep pays 100% of your first $10,000 profit then 90% — the best split for first payouts. Apex and FundedNext pay 90% with Apex settling as early as the next business day. TradeDay, Bulenox, and GOAT pay 80% on bi-weekly or weekly cycles. For cash-flow, Apex next-day and Topstep weekly are the fastest options in the industry.
Eval fees on a $50k account range from ~$140 (MyFundedFutures on promo) to $345 (FTMO). Apex runs frequent sales where a 50k eval can drop to as low as $7. Reset costs run $80–$250 — for high-volume eval traders the reset price often matters more than the initial fee.
Our Pine Script strategies are built around prop firm rules — drawdown limits, consistency rules, and trailing drawdown management built in.
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