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Biggest prop firm accounts 2026

The biggest prop firm accounts are defined by the maximum nominal capital a firm will place under one trader: on a single account, across several combined accounts, or at the end of a scaling plan. That capital is virtual almost everywhere; what is real is the drawdown allowance and the profit split applied to gains. So this ranking compares three things: the per-account ceiling, the total exposure a single trader is allowed to hold — usually far below the headline number — and the risk budget that survives once the loss limit is applied. It is built for experienced traders whose strategy is risk-bounded per unit of time and who need size to reach meaningful income, not for beginners.

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Gold bars stacked in a pyramid
  • Up to 5 M in capital
  • Up to 100 % profit share
  • Withdrawals from 7 days
  • 10 with no time limit

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Detailed analysis

1 Funded Trading Plus

Funded Trading Plus

Forex / CFD

80

Coming in at number 1, Funded Trading Plus has been operating since 2021 and scores 80/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $89 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a trailing intraday drawdown capped at 6 %, with 4 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, match-trader.

A London firm founded in late 2021 and bought by Instant Funding in May 2026, Funded Trading Plus pays every 7 days on its 1-Step Express and Instant programs, with the split rising from 80 to 100% and scaling up to $5 million. The catch: intraday trailing drawdown on both, and a Trustpilot score the platform has pulled.

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2 FTMO

FTMO

Forex / CFD · Crypto · Stocks

88

Ranked 2 on this list, FTMO has been operating since 2015 and scores 88/100 on our scale. Entry starts at €79 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt4, mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, tradingview.

Founded in Prague in 2015, FTMO reports more than $450 million paid to traders and closed its acquisition of broker OANDA in December 2025. The 2-Step challenge, static drawdown and no deadline, remains its core product, with fees fully refunded on the first payout. Price is the weak spot, and it rose again in 2026.

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3 City Traders Imperium

City Traders Imperium

Forex / CFD

83

Ranked 3 on this list, City Traders Imperium has been operating since 2018 and scores 83/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $29 on an instantly funded account. The risk envelope is a trailing intraday drawdown capped at 6 %. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 7 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, match-trader.

City Traders Imperium has funded forex traders since 2018 through four routes — 1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Funding and Direct Funding — with no time limit and entry from $29. The profit split starts at 80% and can reach 100%, but the 1-Step allows only 5% trailing drawdown and every trade must carry a stop loss.

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4 Moneta Funded

Moneta Funded

Forex / CFD · Crypto

72

Coming in at number 4, Moneta Funded has been operating since 2025 and scores 72/100 on our scale. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 6 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule. Available on mt5, match-trader.

Moneta Funded was launched in late 2025 by broker Moneta Markets' group, advertising an 88 % profit split and allocation of up to two million dollars. Attractive terms on paper, but the firm is too recent to have a payout track record, and its site blocks automated verification of its pricing.

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5 Audacity Capital

Audacity Capital

Forex / CFD

59

Ranked 5 on this list, Audacity Capital has been operating since 2012 and scores 59/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $49 on an instantly funded account. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 5 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, dxtrade.

Audacity Capital has run funded programs from London since 2012, which makes it one of the oldest forex prop firms still trading, yet its legal entity is registered in the Comoros with no UK or European regulation. Conditions stay permissive — 15% static drawdown, no time limit, payouts every 14 days — while the Trustpilot rating has been suspended since 2026 over fake reviews and disputed payout refusals.

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6 Instant Funding

Instant Funding

Forex / CFD

59

Ranked 6 on this list, Instant Funding has been operating since 2021 and scores 59/100 on our scale. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, match-trader.

Instant Funding carries a warning flag here: Trustpilot removed its score over fake reviews (4,378 reviews displayed, 27 % one-star), and several refused payouts and disputed account closures are documented. The UK firm remains fully operational — it acquired Funded Trading Plus in May 2026 — and its flagship instant model runs with no profit target and no daily loss limit.

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7 ThinkCapital

ThinkCapital

Forex / CFD

75

In 7th place, ThinkCapital has been operating since 2024 and scores 75/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $39 on an instantly funded account. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed. Available on tradingview, mt5.

Launched in 2024, ThinkCapital is the prop trading brand of broker ThinkMarkets, whose liquidity and technology it uses. That backing gives it five well-differentiated programs and a maximum allocation of one million dollars. Two reservations weigh on it: news trading is only available through a paid add-on, and Trustpilot removed its rating over fake reviews.

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8 Maven Trading

Maven Trading

Forex / CFD

73

Ranked 8 on this list, Maven Trading has been operating since 2022 and scores 73/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $13 for a 3-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 3 %, with 2 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 80 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, match-trader, ctrader.

UAE-based since 2022, Maven Trading leans on breadth of formats and some of the lowest entry prices around — $15 for a $2,000 account. The rulebook is permissive: no time limit and no consistency rule on the standard paths. The trade-off is limited transparency about the firm itself and its payout terms.

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9 The5ers

The5ers

Forex / CFD · Futures

86

In 9th place, The5ers has been operating since 2016 and scores 86/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $39 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 5 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 14 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule. Available on mt5, ctrader, tradingview.

Founded in Israel in 2016, The5ers is one of the oldest forex prop firms still operating. Its strongest asset is the rulebook: static drawdown across every program, no time limit and no consistency rule. The tradable universe stays narrow, though — forex, indices, metals and futures, with no crypto and no equities.

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10 E8 Markets

E8 Markets

Forex / CFD · Crypto · Futures

76

Coming in at number 10, E8 Markets has been operating since 2021 and scores 76/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $110 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, tradelocker, match-trader.

Every E8 Markets product is now single-phase: a 6% target, withdrawals available from day three, and a split running from 80% to 100%. The trade-offs are a 35-40% consistency rule, no scaling plan, and a Trustpilot rating suspended in August 2026 for a breach of the platform's guidelines.

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Why this ranking

Nominal capital versus real risk budget

Headline allocation figures are notional. In a simulated model no firm places that sum in the market; it defines a permitted position size and a loss limit. The number that governs your trading is therefore the maximum drawdown in absolute currency, because that is the risk you can actually deploy. An allocation twice as large paired with a drawdown percentage half as generous gives you nothing extra.

The type of drawdown matters as much as its size. A static limit measured from the starting balance behaves very differently from a trailing one that follows your equity high. On a large account, trailing drawdown turns every unbanked gain into a constraint: the better you perform, the less room you have left. That mechanism, rather than poor trading, is what ends most large funded accounts.

The cap that counts is the one per trader

Maximum account size and maximum trader exposure are two different limits, and the second is almost always lower. Firms cap the total capital assigned to one person across all accounts, and most forbid copying identical trades between them, which kills the obvious workaround of stacking allocations to beat the ceiling.

Two further clauses deserve attention. Payout caps limit how much you can withdraw per cycle regardless of profit, and on a very large account they can neutralise the benefit of size. Scaling requirements mean the largest allocation is often unreachable at purchase and granted only after months of results. Futures programmes add per-instrument contract limits that bind your real size long before the notional figure does.

When size genuinely helps

Large allocations suit strategies with low risk per trade and few opportunities: swing trading, discretionary macro, low-frequency systematic work. There, size is the only route to meaningful income, and a wide drawdown fits the holding period.

They help far less for scalpers and active intraday traders, who already reach their daily risk ceiling on a mid-sized account. Paying more for notional capital you never use is buying a number.

Size also amplifies counterparty risk. The more capital sitting with one firm, the more a refused payout, a compliance review or an outright closure costs you. At the top of the range, track record and payout history should outrank the advertised allocation, and splitting exposure across two established firms is often wiser than concentrating it in one large account at a newer one.

Frequently asked questions

What is the largest account a prop firm offers?
The highest ceilings in the market run into seven figures in nominal terms, but rarely on a single account: they are reached by combining accounts or by completing a scaling plan. The number that matters is the total exposure allowed per trader, stated in the terms and usually well below the marketing figure.
Can you hold several accounts with one firm?
Usually yes, up to a global exposure cap. The restriction is less about the number of accounts than about behaviour: copying identical trades across accounts is commonly forbidden, as is hedging one account against another. Some firms also require accounts to be merged once combined size passes a stated threshold.
Is prop firm capital real money?
In most cases traders operate in a simulated environment, and the firm decides internally whether to hedge the flow. The payouts, however, are real money. So the useful question is not whether the balance is live, but whether the firm has a verifiable record of paying what it owes.
Is a bigger account harder to pass?
Evaluation rules are generally identical across sizes: the same profit target and drawdown percentages apply. The added difficulty is psychological rather than contractual, since larger numbers push traders to cut risk too far or to oversize positions. What genuinely scales is the cost of failure, because the fee rises with the allocation.

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