Cheapest prop firm: the price of a $100K account across 23 firms
We priced a $100,000 funded-account programme at 23 prop firms from their own live pages.
Abdelaziz Fathi
Senior Reporter, Brokers and Prop Firms
Abdelaziz Fathi covers the intersection of forex/CFD brokerage, regulation, liquidity, fintech, and digital assets. With a B.A. in Finance and hands-on industry exposure, Aziz blends analytical rigor with clear storytelling to make complex market structure understandable for traders, brokers, and fintech professionals.
September 2026
Legacy Funded Futures review: four different maximum payouts
Legacy Funded Futures publishes four different maximum payouts, four profit-split ladders and three minimum-day counts across pages that are all live at once.
Forexive review: 95% on the homepage, 80% in the help centre
Forexive advertises a 95% split and 24-hour payouts.
Rhodium FX review: the 90% upgrade its 100K terms exclude
Rhodium FX sells a paid 90% profit-split upgrade on its $100,000 challenge.
EUR/SEK back to 11.05 by September 30: the hike-signal case
EUR/SEK fixed at 11.1620 on September 7, 2026, a 12-month high. But the Riksbank governor has pre-announced a rise: the gap-compression case for 11.05.
Propr review: the payouts verify on-chain, the positions do not
Propr settles payouts in USDC on Ethereum and publishes its hedging wallets. We traced a payout on-chain and it checks out. The positions traders open never do.
Funded7 review: the 6% odds it publishes without a source
Funded7 prints the odds of reaching a funded account on its own site — about 6% from Phase 1 entry.
Hold Brothers review: the 99% payout and the $30,000 deposit
Hold Brothers Capital advertises up to a 99% payout on its self-clearing status.
US 30-year yield to 5.50% by October: the 20s30s case
The US 30-year Treasury yield, at 5.24%, reaches 5.50% by the October 27-28 FOMC as an inverted 20s30s spread repairs into a Fed priced to tighten.
Trader2B review: the data fee its help centre calls optional
Trader2B runs a US equities funded-account programme billed monthly.
GBP/AUD to 1.84 by the November RBA decision: the divergence case
GBP/AUD trades at 1.8783 after a 100 basis point swing in the RBA-BoE policy gap. Base case 1.8400 by the November 3 RBA decision; 1.9200 invalidates.
Futures Elite review: six qualifying days between payouts
FuturesElite pays a 90% split, but a funded 50K Elite needs six profitable days above $150 in every cycle and caps each request at $2,000 gross.
Atmos Funded review: the drawdown lock behind every payout
Atmos Funded pairs a cheap single-phase evaluation with a drawdown that locks at the starting balance every time you withdraw.
USD/BRL to 5.45 by the October 25 runoff: the crowded-carry case
USD/BRL to 5.45 by October 25, 2026: CME speculative long-real positioning sits at the 99th percentile as Copom goes dark for 49 days into the runoff.
Clarity Traders review: an education company, a Saint Lucia broker
Clarity Traders' legal footer calls it a technology and education company, not a prop firm.
Equity Edge review: where the 15% consistency rule actually applies
Equity Edge publishes a 15% consistency score with worked examples - but only for Instant accounts, and in neither version of its Terms.
Also filing this week: Rick Steves and Karthik Subramanian.