Prop Firm Reviews

Blue Guardian offers simulated CFD and Futures programs plus a separately earned Futures Live tier. CFD models have stage-specific news restrictions, qualifying days and floating-loss controls; Nano consistency is not the same as Standard. Futures payout caps and buffers vary by size and model, with dated changes for Express and Direct. Five payouts create Live-review eligibility rather than automatic promotion. The detailed help pages should be checked alongside the purchased account terms.

Blueberry Funded launched in August 2024 as the prop arm of the broker Blueberry Markets, and the broker relationship is structurally real: funded traders can take payouts straight into a Blueberry Markets trading account. The operating entity is Blueberry Markets (SVG) LLC in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, so the prop product itself is unregulated, and residents of the United States and Australia are both on the restricted list. Six plans run in parallel: 1-Step, Flex 1-Step, Prime 2-Step, Instant Elite, Instant Lite and a separate Synthetic Indices challenge, priced from $25 for a $5,000 synthetic account and $44 for a $5,000 1-Step, scaling 25% every three months to a simulated $2,000,000 with the split rising to 90%. There is no payout on demand: the first withdrawal comes 14 days after activation, or 7 with a paid add-on. Platforms are MetaTrader 5 and TradeLocker only. Its Trustpilot rating is currently unavailable on the Trustpilot official website, with 35% of 1,725 reviews at one star.

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.

One of the more credible crypto-native prop firms: Kraken backing, real perpetual-futures liquidity, on-demand USDC payouts with a $50 minimum and no day-count or consistency gates, and a static 1-Step drawdown that gets friendlier as you profit. Keep expectations set to the rules rather than the marketing: the real split is 80 percent (90 percent only if you pay for it) and the capital is simulated despite the live-account language.

Bright Funded is a Dubai firm (Bright Global FZCO) running three plans on DXtrade, cTrader and MT5, with no consistency rule and weekend holding allowed. Two points deserve attention before you buy: the 1-Step uses a real-time TRAILING drawdown - the firm's own worked example breaches an account that is only 3.5% down - and the fee refund is a paid add-on rather than something included.

Bulenox gets the split right where most futures firms do not: 100% of your first $10,000, then a free 90% - no paid upgrade, no tier to unlock. The rules are patient too: no minimum trading days, no time limit, and a daily loss limit that pauses you rather than fails you. The catches are the recurring MONTHLY subscription (a slow evaluation gets expensive) and the Safety Threshold Reserve, which locks $3,100 in a $100k account and counts toward the consistency rule - so a first payout needs roughly $4,100 of profit, not the advertised $1,000. Note also that the binding Terms of Use, dated July 2021, state that Bulenox does not provide live trading, while the Funded Account page promises real capital.

BuoyTrade pitch is appealing to the right trader: instant funding, essentially a single drawdown rule, no minimum days or time limits, a static buffer that grows with your profits, and a $50 entry that scales to a seven-figure account with no monthly fees. Two caveats: the headline economics are best-case (real starting split 50 percent), and the firm own Terms define the trading as simulated with fictitious funds. Buy on the Terms.

City Traders Imperium has been paying traders since 2018, which makes it one of the longest-running firms still operating. It is run by City Traders Imperium Limited, licensed in the Comoros Union under number 15969 with an operating address in Costa Rica, and a Dubai company, CTI FZCO, delivering its academy. Four programmes run in parallel: a 1-Step Challenge from $29, a 2-Step from $39, Instant Funding from $79 and Direct Funding from $229, scaling to $2,000,000 per account and $4,000,000 in total funding. The 1-Step is the standout: an 8% target against a 5% trailing drawdown, with no daily loss limit, no time limit, and news trading, third-party expert advisors, martingale, weekend holds and overnight holds all permitted. Very few firms allow all five. First payouts come at 7 days on the challenges and on demand from day 5 on Direct Funding. The firm does not restrict United States residents. Its Trustpilot profile is the healthiest we have verified this month: 4.2 from 1,625 reviews with only 6% at one star and a 100% reply rate to negative reviews. The main thing to watch is Instant Funding, which starts you on half the advertised balance at a 50% share.

Darwinex Zero is not a prop firm and should not be judged as one. There is no challenge, no profit target, no drawdown limit and no way to fail - your entire risk is the subscription. In exchange you keep just 15% of what your DARWIN earns, and real investor capital requires DarwinIA GOLD: eight months of signal history at minimum, plus a 20%+ annual return. Note the regulatory position carefully: Darwinex Zero is run by Tradeslide Technologies Ltd, an FCA Appointed Representative - NOT the authorised broker entity - and its own terms state you are not a client and have no regulatory protection.

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.

Important: as of 17 September 2026 DNA Funded has paused new orders. A notice on every page of its website says so, there is no live pricing page, and existing accounts are unaffected while MetaTrader 5 users are migrated to TradeLocker. The operating entity is DNA Funded Ltd, incorporated in St Lucia under registration 2025-00574, backed by the broker DNA Markets, with no licence behind the prop product. Its documented range covers 1 Phase, 2 Phase, Rapid, Instant Funding and a 24-hour Challenge with a stake-and-multiplier payout, up to a stated $600,000 in simulated capital, on an 80/20 split or 90/10 with a paid booster. Its one real differentiator is that the United States is not on its restricted list, unlike most of its competitors. Its biggest catch is a 5% profit cap on the first three approved payouts, where profit above the cap is deleted when the account resets rather than carried forward. Trustpilot stands at 3.3 from 86 reviews, with 34% at one star.

Earn2Trade provides futures education and evaluations, with funded offers from partner prop firms. Evaluations bought from July 6, 2026 have no fixed minimum days, but consistency requires at least four profitable days. Their funded accounts pay 50% below each withdrawal threshold, 80% at or above it, and 60% on TCP400. Earlier purchases retain their terms. Evaluation/LiveSim drawdown trails at EOD; Live trails intraday except fixed-drawdown TCP200/400. Payouts are weekly with a $100 net minimum and plan-specific LiveSim caps.