Prop Firm Frequently Asked Questions

Propfirmito is an independent prop-firm review and ranking platform. We score 21 firms and 325 challenge accounts from 0 to 100 with the Propfirmito Score, recomputed daily from each firm’s published pricing and rules, and we test every discount code at a live checkout before publishing it. The site is published in English and Italian.

The score combines six pillars — trust & legitimacy, cost, trading conditions, passability, payout reliability, and access & scaling — built from 14 verifiable factors taken from list prices and published rules. The full formula is public on our methodology page.

No. Scores are never for sale: affiliate commissions cannot move a score or a ranking position, and discounts are excluded from the calculation by design. A bigger discount never buys a better rating — and we say so in writing.

Daily. The engine recomputes every score from each firm’s published pricing and rules, so the rankings and reports update themselves whenever a firm changes its prices, drawdown rules or profit split.

We fix it and log it publicly in our corrections log, dated and described. If you spot something wrong, email admin@propfirmito.com — we verify and correct, usually within 24 business hours.

A prop firm (proprietary trading firm) gives traders access to a funded account: the trader passes an evaluation, trades the firm’s capital — today almost always in a simulated environment — and keeps a share of the profits, typically 80–90%.

The challenge is the entry exam: hit a profit target (usually 6–10%) without breaching the daily and maximum drawdown limits. Formats include 1-step, 2-step and instant-funding accounts with no exam; you pay for the challenge with a one-time fee or a subscription.

Once your funded account is in profit you can request a withdrawal on the firm’s payout cycle — on-demand at some firms, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly at others. The typical profit split pays the trader 80–90%, with promotions up to 95–100% on specific programs. Payout reliability is one of the six pillars of our score.

Drawdown is the maximum loss allowed before the account is closed: the daily limit is measured within the trading day, the maximum limit across the whole account. A static floor never moves; a trailing floor rises with your equity high-water mark, so giving profits back can end the account. Work out your exact dollar floors with our drawdown calculator.

The business model is legitimate, but prop firms are not regulated brokers: you almost always trade simulated capital, and your main protection is the firm’s track record. That is why our score weighs longevity, payout evidence and verified reviews in the trust pillar — and we have removed firms from this site when we could no longer stand behind them.

As of today, Lucid Trading leads the futures rankings at 92.1/100 (A+) and Funding Pips leads forex at 89.2/100 (A) on the Propfirmito Score. Rankings recompute daily from published pricing and rules, so the leader can change — the live rankings are always current.

Compare cost per $1,000 of funded capital, not the sticker price: an $85 challenge on a $50K account can be cheaper than a $49 challenge on $10K. Our account search sorts all 325 scored accounts by price and by $ per $1K, and the verified discount codes stack on top.

It depends on what you want to trade. Forex firms offer CFDs on currencies, gold and indices on MT4/MT5/cTrader with percentage-based rules; futures firms give access to CME contracts (ES, NQ, GC…) and almost always use trailing dollar drawdowns. We score the two classes separately, with distinct leaderboards.

We do not give personal advice, but structurally three things matter most: a smaller account size (10–25K), no time limit, and simple rules. Our 4-question matcher filters all 325 scored accounts by market, format, size and budget to shortlist what fits.

Yes. Every code is tested at a real checkout before publication, and the discount pages show the verification date. When a code expires or changes we update the page — and when a firm has no active discount we say so plainly instead of showing a dead code.

No. Discounts are excluded from the Propfirmito Score by design: the ranking measures firm quality, not promotional generosity. Disclosure: some links may earn us a commission, but commissions cannot buy scores or positions.

First check the code matches the right program — some offers apply only to specific formats or sizes, and some deals auto-apply through the link with no code at all. If it still fails, email admin@propfirmito.com: we retest the code and fix the page, normally the same day.

Use our compare tool: it puts two firms head-to-head across 33 metrics (score, cost, drawdowns, targets, split, trading rules) or two challenges across 15 metrics, with the winner highlighted row by row.

Yes — ten free calculators at /tools/: position size, futures tick value, pip value, drawdown, profit split, challenge pass planner, risk of ruin, expectancy, compounding and losing-streak survival. No signup — everything runs in your browser with the formulas shown in full.

Through the contact page or by emailing admin@propfirmito.com. We read every message and answer most inquiries within 24 business hours, Monday to Friday.