Verdict: Smart Prop Trader is not a firm you can buy a challenge from. It told traders on 27 November 2024 that it would stop onboarding, and wound its funded programme down on 29 December…
Funding Pips review: static drawdown and the 15%…
Verdict. Funding Pips suits traders who want a drawdown that does not chase them: every plan except one uses a static maximum loss, so the equity floor stays where it started no matter how far…
USD/NOK to 9.20 by Q4 2026: the Nordic-divergence…
USD/NOK reaches 9.20 by December 31, 2026 in the base case, 8.95 in the bear case and 9.90 in the bull case, driven by a Norges Bank hiking cycle that has decoupled the Norwegian krone…
Nubank buys Banco Porto Real to keep ‘bank’…
Nubank has agreed to buy 100% of Banco Porto Real de Investimentos, a wholesale lender founded in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and the strategic logic has almost nothing to do with wholesale lending. Latin…
MyFundedFutures review: $123m paid and the payout-ban complaints
Verdict. MyFundedFutures has the strongest published payout record in the futures prop sector — $123m across 55,733 payouts, $74m of it in a single 90-day window — and it removed the daily loss limit from…
Alpha Futures review: payout terms after the Premium…
Verdict. Alpha Futures runs one of the more trader-favourable rule sets in futures prop trading — end-of-day trailing drawdown on every plan, a 90% split on most tiers, and a $15,000 per-request payout cap that…