About JoinProp

Last updated: November 4, 2026 · Reviewed by the JoinProp editorial team

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JoinProp is an independent review and comparison platform for proprietary trading firms. We score 200+ prop firms against a published nine-category rubric, run more than 440 head-to-head firm comparisons, and publish a free trader academy of 260+ articles. We do not operate a prop firm, and no rating can be bought: no firm can pay to raise, change or remove its score.

What Is JoinProp? An Independent Prop Firm Review Platform

JoinProp is an independent comparison and review platform for proprietary trading firms. We do not operate a prop firm: we do not hold client funds, run trading challenges, issue funded accounts, or process payouts. Any payout, regulation or account matter is handled by the individual prop firm, not by JoinProp.JoinProp is published by Opsodo Ventures. Our reviews are written by an editorial team of former proprietary traders, financial analysts and trading educators who have taken firm evaluations themselves.

How JoinProp Scores Prop Firms: Our Nine-Category Rubric

Every firm on JoinProp is scored out of 10 by our editorial team against a published rubric of nine categories:

• Payout reliability
• Fee structure
• Drawdown rules
• Profit split
• Evaluation terms
• Trading rules
• Customer support
• Scaling plan
• Track record and transparency

No rating on JoinProp can be bought. No firm can purchase, negotiate or influence its score. A 9.2 means the same thing regardless of which firm earned it. You can read exactly what we measure, how each score is calculated, where our data comes from, and how to dispute a rating in our prop firm ranking methodology.

How JoinProp Makes Money: Affiliate Partnerships and Advertising

JoinProp earns through affiliate partnerships. If you open an account with a firm through one of our links, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. We may also carry clearly labelled advertising. Neither influences how firms are scored or ranked, and that separation is set out in full in our ranking methodology.

What JoinProp Publishes: Prop Firm Reviews, Comparisons and Academy Guides

• Prop firm reviews: 200+ scored reviews covering funding models, evaluation rules, profit splits, fees, payout terms and trader feedback.
• Side-by-side comparisons: 440+ head-to-head pages that put two firms against each other on the metrics that decide which one fits your strategy and risk profile.
• Payout data: how much firms actually pay out and how their payout process works in practice.
• Prop trading discounts: 90+ discount codes and offers, secured through affiliate arrangements that never influence our reviews or rankings.
• Trader academy: 260+ articles, from fundamentals to advanced strategy and prop firm rules.
• Prop trading glossary: 181 defined terms, from trailing drawdown to soft breach.
• Prop industry news: 200+ reports on firm updates, rule changes and regulatory developments.
• One Prop Trader a Day: 100+ interviews with real funded traders.

Real Trader Reviews on JoinProp: Verified Feedback From Funded Traders

Alongside our editorial scores, JoinProp publishes reviews written by funded traders themselves. These are not anonymous ratings. Every trader review on a firm page carries the trader’s real name, their photograph and a link to their public LinkedIn profile, so readers can see exactly who is speaking and verify them independently.Named trader reviews are live across 19 prop firm review pages, and that list keeps growing. They come from our One Prop Trader a Day interview series, where traders describe their funded journey and then give their own verdict on the firms they have actually traded with. Because each one comes out of a structured interview rather than a review widget, they cover what ratings usually hide: how payouts arrived in practice, which rules caused real problems, and what the trader would warn another trader about.Firms with named trader reviews on their review page: Alpha Capital, Alpha Futures, Apex Trader Funding, Audacity Capital, Blue Guardian, FTMO, FTUK, FundedNext, Funding Pips, Goat Funded Trader, Hola Prime, Instant Funding, Lucid Trading, Sure Leverage Funding, The Trading Pit, The5ers, Topstep, Tradeify and WeMasterTrader.Firm pages also carry star-rated reviews left directly by site visitors. The SFX Funded review page is the largest of these, with 48 customer reviews averaging 4.7 out of 5.A trader review is published only when we can attribute it to a real, identifiable person. That is a slower way to build a review base, and a more useful one for the trader reading it.

The JoinProp Community: A Website Built by Traders, for Traders

Community is one of the core pillars of JoinProp. We are building this website for traders who want to see what real prop trading looks like, not marketing claims. That is why we run the JoinProp Real Prop Challenge, where real traders take on funded-account evaluations and document their journey publicly, including the attempts that did not pass. Together with our named trader reviews and the One Prop Trader a Day interviews, it puts the lived experience of funded traders at the centre of the site. If you trade, you are part of the reason JoinProp exists.

To make the Real Prop Challenge possible, JoinProp gives free accounts with leading prop firms to traders from the JoinProp community. Community traders use those accounts to take on real evaluations and funded accounts, then report what happened openly, whether they pass or not. That is how we keep our content grounded in real trading experience rather than marketing claims.

JoinProp Editorial Principles for Independent Prop Firm Reviews

• Independence: affiliate relationships never influence a review or a ranking position.
• Transparency: our scoring rubric, our data sources and our dispute process are published in full.
• Accuracy: verified research and up-to-date data, checked against each firm’s own published rules.
• Accessibility: plain explanations for traders at every level, with a glossary for the jargon.
• Correction: when a firm or a trader shows us we got something wrong, we correct the page. Found an error? Report it to our editorial team and we will review it.
• Free accounts: free prop firm accounts we give to community traders never influence our scores, rankings or coverage.

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