Futures
Prop Firms

Lucid Trading

3.9

Lucid Trading is a futures-focused proprietary trading firm offering evaluation-style funding accounts. Its headline terms include funding up to $750K, a 6% profit target, a 4% end-of-day trailing drawdown, a 90% profit split, and daily payout availability with fast processing advertised. Lucid Trading is still a newer firm, so traders should verify the latest account pricing, platform access, payout eligibility, and rule updates directly on the firm’s website before purchasing an evaluation.

• Futures-focused prop firm
• One-step futures evaluation model advertised
• Up to $750K in advertised funding
• 90% profit split

Blue Guardian Futures

4.7

Blue Guardian Futures is the futures division of the Blue Guardian brand, launched in November 2024 by CEO Sean Bainton, supporting contracts across CME, CBOT, COMEX, and NYMEX. It's a simulated futures evaluation and instant-funded program restricted to futures products only - no stocks, options, forex, crypto, or CFDs. It offers three tiers (Standard, Guardian, Instant) with end-of-day trailing drawdown and 90% profit retention.

• End-of-day trailing drawdown
• No daily loss limit (Guardian tier)
• Instant funding available
• 48-hour payouts via Riseworks

Tradeday

4.6

TradeDay is a Chicago-based futures prop firm founded in 2020 by CME-industry veterans with 80+ years of combined desk experience. Relaunched as TradeDay 2.0 in May 2026, it offers a single-phase evaluation via two routes Quick Pay (5-day minimum, choice of Intraday or EOD trailing drawdown) and Fast Pass (3-day pass, no minimum days) — across $50K, $100K, and $150K accounts. Its standout combination: EOD trailing drawdown, zero daily loss limit, zero consistency rule once funded, and payouts available from day one with 24-hour processing.

• Over $10 million paid out to traders
• Single-rule evaluation: just don't breach the trailing max drawdown
• Free resets on billing renewal after a violation

FundingPips

4.7

FundingPips is a Dubai-based forex/CFD prop firm founded in 2022 that has become one of the most popular in the industry, with $260M+ in third-party-verified payouts across 127,000+ transactions and roughly 3 million traders from 195 countries. It offers four funding programs — 1-Step, 2-Step, 2-Step Pro, and Zero (instant funding) — with unlimited evaluation time, no consistency rule during evaluation, and static drawdown on its main programs. Its signature feature is a flexible profit split tied to payout cycle (60% weekly up to 100% monthly), topped by the Hot Seat elite program: 100% split, doubled account balances, and scaling to $2M. Entry pricing starts at just $29, among the lowest anywhere

• $63–64M paid out in 2026 alone across 64,000 rewards
• Four-level scaling ladder: Launchpad → Ascender → Trailblazer → Hot Seat
• Weekend and overnight holding permitted on all accounts except Zero
• News trading fully allowed during evaluation

The5ers

4.6

The5ers, founded in 2016 and based in Israel, is one of the longest-running and most verifiably legitimate firms in retail prop trading, with $43M+ in payouts independently verified through Payout Junction across 20,000+ transactions and a 4.8/5 Trustpilot score from 24,000+ reviews. Built around a risk-first, capital-preservation philosophy, it offers three core CFD programs - Hyper Growth (1-step, fast scaling), High Stakes (2-step, entry from just $39), and Bootcamp (3-step, structured for developing traders) - all with unlimited evaluation time. Its scaling model is the industry's most ambitious: accounts double on each 10% funded-stage target, reaching up to $4M at a 100% profit split. In 2026 the firm added the Pro Growth program (with crypto) and a Futures arm with US trader access.

• Accounts double at each 10% funded-stage profit target (Hyper Growth path to $4M)
• Split ladder rises with scaling: 80% → 85% → 90% → 95% → 100%
• Registered company with known leadership - not an anonymous offshore operation

My Funded Futures

4.6

MyFundedFutures is a Fort Worth, Texas–based futures prop firm founded in 2023 by Matthew Leech, and one of the highest-rated in the category with a ~4.9 Trustpilot from 20,000+ reviews and 72,000+ active traders. It runs single-phase evaluations from $25K to $150K on CME contracts, with a defining firm-wide policy: no daily loss limit on any plan — a category-wide differentiator versus most US futures peers — plus zero activation fees. The three current plans map to trader archetypes: Rapid (90/10 split, 4% intraday trailing, daily payouts) for scalpers; Pro (80/20, 3% EOD trailing, bi-weekly) for patient day traders building toward the $100K live-funded transition; and Builder (80/20, 48-hour payout cycles) for fastest first payouts. Three years of operation with no major payout-suspension event and near-instant Rise processing anchor its reputation

• Three-year operating history with no major payout-suspension event and no structural rule overhaul hitting active funded accounts
• Clear live-funded transition paths: Pro at $100K cumulative payouts; Builder after 5 cycles; Rapid after a $10K net-profit single day or risk-team approval
• Legacy plans (Core, Flex) continue for existing holders - useful FAQ point for your readers

Top One Futures

4.7

Top One Futures is a US futures-only prop firm (Top One Futures LLC, Cheyenne, Wyoming) that launched in 2025 and grew fast on one obsession: speed. Payouts are advertised in under 24 hours, with traders typically reporting approvals in under 4 hours - dramatically faster than the industry's 5-7+ day norm. Rather than one evaluation, it offers six funding paths - three evaluation programs (Elite Challenge, Elite Daily, Elite Access) and three instant-funding programs (Instant Sim Funded, S2F Sim PRO, IGNITE) — all paying a flat 90/10 sim split with EOD trailing drawdown (intraday on S2F only). News trading is explicitly allowed on all account types, a free trading academy is included, and accounts stack to $1.5M. The trade-offs: it's intraday-only (flat by 4 PM ET), every program carries a consistency rule (15-40%), and with a 2025 launch the firm still has time to prove itself compared to decade-old incumbents.

• Live transition triggers: 3 payouts (standard), 2 (S2F Sim PRO), 5 (Elite Daily)
• On funded accounts the daily loss limit is a soft pause (trading resumes next session), not an instant fail, on most programs
• Free trading academy included

Goat Funded Futures

4.3

Goat Funded Futures is the futures arm of the Goat Funded Trader brand - a Hong Kong-registered firm (WITI Limited) launched in November 2024 that funds traders on CME-group contracts. It runs four product lines spanning the full spectrum: EOD Evaluation (end-of-day trailing drawdown), Sprint (faster single-phase), Flex (static, non-trailing drawdown suited to swing trades), and Instant Funded (no evaluation at all). The headline draw is the payout structure — 100% of the first $10,000 in profit on Sprint and Instant tracks, then 90/10 - paired with rules that are unusually forgiving for futures: weekend holding fully allowed on all account types, no activation fees, no time limits, no minimum trading days, and consistency-rule violations that delay payouts rather than terminate accounts. Traders get a nine-platform stack at no extra cost, including MT5 through the firm's own licensed broker, and payouts process within two business days with a $500 late-payment guarantee. With $9M+ in documented payouts and 140K+ funded accounts in under two years, it's an aggressive newer entrant - best suited to smaller-capital traders, since maximum allocation is modest by industry standards.

• $9M+ paid out and 140K+ funded accounts since launch
• Requesting a payout does not move or lock the trailing drawdown floor
• No added costs for data or platforms on any plan