Best Prop Firms in the USA

DNA Funded is a broker-backed simulated forex and CFD prop firm whose liquidity and execution come from its affiliate DNA Markets, an ASIC-regulated Australian broker. It trades on TradeLocker and MT5, and its contracting entity is DNA Funded Ltd in Saint Lucia. Its most distinctive product is the 24-Hour Multiplier Challenge, where you stake a fee, choose a 2x, 5x or 10x payout multiplier and hit the target within a single 24-hour window for an instant payout. Conventional models include 1-Phase, 2-Phase, Rapid and Instant Funding, with sizes 5,000 to 200,000 and allocation capped at 600,000. The base split is 80/20, upgradeable to 90/10. Note the ASIC licence covers the broker, not the simulated challenges, rules have changed mid-evaluation, and US traders are limited to TradeLocker. It is not connected to FXIFY.

DayTraders.com is a US futures prop firm founded in 2023 and based in Las Vegas, trading only CME, COMEX, NYMEX and CBOT futures on its browser-based ArcTrader platform with TradingView charts and a live Rithmic feed. Its defining feature is Straight to Live, a genuine path to a real, live-capital brokerage account with the firm's own capital, real execution, daily payouts and an 80/20 split, rather than a perpetual simulator. It is unusually flexible on drawdown, offering trailing, end-of-day and static versions, plus an instant Straight to Funded route. You keep up to 100 percent on the simulated Pro accounts, sizes run 25,000 to 300,000, and US traders are accepted. The core evaluation and Pro stages are still simulated.

One of the more trader-friendly futures firms on the economics. A flat 90% split from the start, daily payouts from $250, no minimum trading days, and a consistency rule that raises your target instead of failing you for a good day. The trade-offs are structural: a recurring monthly subscription and a four-stage funnel before you reach real capital.

Funded Futures Network is one of the more forgiving futures evaluations: three of its four account styles have no daily loss limit, OG accounts use a realised-only trailing drawdown so intraday noise will not fail you, the subscription drops to $0 once you pass, and payouts are same-day with no fees. Go in knowing two things. The funded account nearly everyone trades is SIMULATED, and the advertised 90% split is a discretionary, risk-manager-approved promotion (after $5,000 in payouts), not a tier you select. OG accounts also pass through a separate unpaid Exhibition stage where a single Tier-1 news slip forfeits everything with no appeal - which is exactly why the newer MAX accounts exist to skip it.

Leeloo Trading has real strengths: a long-established (2019) US futures firm, unusually honest that everything is simulated, with a wide platform choice and a generous headline structure, 100% of your first $12,500 then 90%. The trade-offs are the discretionary payout rules and the current transition. Because the payout is a discretionary release of simulated profits, it is gated behind subjective rules that are the main source of complaints, the drawdown is an intraday trailing auto-liquidation, and evaluations are a monthly subscription.

UProfit is a US futures funding firm, a Delaware LLC operating since 2019, trading CME, NYMEX, COMEX and CBOT contracts on TradingView and Tradovate. Its defining feature is a two-part structure: a SafetyNet buffer, a non-withdrawable cushion on top of your starting balance so you only withdraw profit above starting balance plus buffer, and a monetized-simulation ladder where you earn real cash from a demo Virtual Live account before graduating to real capital. It runs two lines, the DAY program with end-of-day trailing drawdown and the newer UProfit One with static drawdown, both monthly subscriptions with sizes from 50,000 to 150,000. The split is up to 80 percent, with a 30 percent consistency rule and 4 profitable days before withdrawal, and US traders are accepted.

Take Profit Trader is a US futures funding firm based in Windermere, Florida, trading only exchange-listed futures across CME, COMEX, NYMEX and CBOT on 15-plus third-party platforms such as NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView. Its defining feature is day-one payouts: after a one-step Test of at least 5 trading days, the funded PRO account lets you withdraw from day one with no minimum profit days, once you clear a buffer. The catch is that the funded PRO account is still simulated and uses a stricter intraday trailing drawdown, and profits inside the buffer only pay out, at 50 to 80 percent, if you close the account. The split is 80/20 on PRO and 90/10 on the optional live PRO+, there is no daily loss limit, and US traders are accepted.

Maverick Trading is not a challenge shop. It is a US proprietary trading firm founded in 1997 that recruits, trains and funds traders with its OWN REAL capital as 1099 independent contractors of its trading LLCs. The path is apply, interview, complete a paid qualification program (1,000+ hours, tests, a coach-monitored demo), then get allocated real firm capital (starting around $25k, scaling with no cap). The split is 65-90% (60-90% on currencies), paid monthly by ACH with milestone bonuses, and the firm charges no commission mark-up or spread fees and imposes no volume requirement. The trade-offs are effort and transparency: the exact tuition and required trading bond are NOT published (you apply to learn them), the path is long, and the funded start is modest - but it is real capital, and the firm has done this since 1997.

Tradeify is one of the more flexible US futures firms: you keep 100% of your first $15k, choose your drawdown model and payout cadence, and payouts are fast and daily once funded. For a futures trader who wants to tailor cost and risk to their style, that flexibility is a real, uncommon strength, and the firm is clearly operating and paying most traders. Go in aware the accounts are simulated, the rules are fairly strict, and KYC declines and approved-then-denied payouts are the two recurring complaint areas.

Ment Funding is one of the more solid, well-regarded firms in this space: operating since 2021, a ~4.8 Trustpilot across 200-plus reviews, a not-a-single-refused-payout-since-2021 claim, and a genuinely uncommon funded-equities program alongside forex and futures. The main thing to get right is reading the rules per program: the attractive no-consistency-rule and no-time-limit headlines apply only to forex, futures and equities carry a 33% consistency rule and a 90-day eval, and the evaluation is simulated with 90% a paid upgrade.

Funder Trading occupies a genuinely useful niche: one of the few places an options or stock trader can pursue a funded account, with its own platform and an active education-and-community layer. Approach it with clear eyes: the pricing is a recurring subscription with no refunds, the Terms frame it as education rather than real capital, the reported no-overnight-holding rule can undercut options strategies, and the core numbers are not published. Confirm the holding rules, split and payouts directly before subscribing.

Emerge Profit is a flexible, LATAM-focused firm with a couple of genuinely unusual strengths: you choose your own drawdown model, and it is one of the more copytrading-friendly firms around, with multi-account support and a free copy-system promo. Approach it with the standard caution for an unregulated, simulated firm: the regulated-platforms and live-account framing conflict with demo Terms, a 50% consistency rule and a discretionary inconsistent-trading clause can gate payouts, and the exact checkout setup should still be confirmed before purchase.