Futures Prop Firms

OneUp Trader is one of the more reputable and long-running US futures funding companies: a drawdown that stops trailing at your starting balance, 100% of your first $10,000 then a 90% split, a huge platform choice, and a consistency rule that rewards steadiness over luck, reflected in a strong Trustpilot. Go in understanding the structure: the evaluation is simulated, the Terms frame it as education that places you with third-party funders, and the fee is a monthly subscription. For a disciplined futures trader it is a strong, credible choice.

Elite Trader Funding is a US futures firm offering six evaluation types across thirteen platforms, with payouts processed twice a week. Every account you can buy is simulated - the firm says so itself, and its LIVE ELITE stage, which uses real capital, cannot be purchased at any price. The mechanic that most affects a successful trader is the $25,000 lifetime sim payout cap: reaching it moves you to LIVE ELITE, and the firm's terms state that sim balances do not carry over.

My Funded Futures runs four futures plans - Rapid, Pro, Flex and Builder - across NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView and others, with no activation fee and payouts as fast as 24 hours. The evaluation is a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION, not a one-time fee, which is easy to miss. Rapid carries the headline 90% split and daily payouts, but it is also the only plan whose drawdown trails INTRADAY off your equity high, and the word intraday appears nowhere in the marketing.

FuturesElite (Quantum SRL, Italy) gets several things right: an EU-registered operator, an end-of-day (not intraday) trailing drawdown that locks at your starting balance, no daily loss limit and no consistency rule once Elite-funded, a $0 activation fee, and sub-24-hour payouts. Go in understanding two things. The 90% and 100% splits are an Elite-tier feature and a paid add-on respectively - not the "all accounts" default the homepage implies (base is 80%). And the flat, non-scaling payout caps are a deliberate nudge to buy MULTIPLE accounts - the firm openly states traders scale by holding multiple funded accounts rather than growing one. Automation (AI/bots) is banned, and the funded account is simulated with a $50,000 lifetime cap before any live transition.

Taurus Arena is a Cyprus futures firm selling one-step evaluations and direct-funded accounts on CME Group futures. Its 85/15 profit split is flat from the first payout with no add-on, tier or scaling ladder to climb, and a consistency breach here delays a payout rather than closing the account. The catch is the default real-time trailing drawdown, which follows unrealised profit on open trades and never moves back down; the gentler end-of-day version is a paid add-on. Four programmes each gate payouts differently, evaluations expire on a 30-day subscription, and the firm has disclosed no payout figures at all.

Traders Yard is one of the more genuinely innovative firms in this batch. The preset challenge lineup is now clearer, futures accounts are live, and the Build Your Yard configurator still gives advanced traders control over custom rules. Read the details rather than the headlines: the account is simulated under a signal-provider model, the split is tiered, and the up-to-$300k claim depends on allocation/scaling rather than one simple account headline. TradersYard also publishes several scale signals: $410K+ in total rewards, an 8-hour average reward time, $76M in challenge volume and 25K+ active traders, plus iOS and Android apps. Treat award claims as firm-supplied unless independently verified.

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.

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.

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.