Scalping is permitted by most prop firms, but permission is not the deciding factor: what makes a scalping account viable is execution quality and the clauses sitting next to the headline rule. A firm can advertise “scalping allowed” and still dispute a payout on the grounds of abnormally short holding times, latency exploitation, or profit taken on distorted spreads.
This page collects programmes that work for a trader entering and exiting within a minute, sometimes within seconds. The ranking sorts on explicit scalping permission in the terms, absence of any minimum holding time, average spread and per-lot commission on majors, the broker and execution model behind the platform, the stated slippage policy, and how orders are handled around economic releases.
Coming in at number 1, 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.
Ranked 2 on this list, 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.
In third place, FundedNext has been operating since 2022 and scores 85/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $59.99 for a 2-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a static drawdown capped at 10 %, with 5 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 95 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 5 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, no consistency rule, expert advisors allowed. Available on mt4, mt5, ctrader, match-trader.
On the forex and CFD side, FundedNext runs just two routes: Stellar 1-Step (10% target, 6% max loss) and Stellar 2-Step (8% then 5%, 10% max loss). Both use static drawdown, carry no deadline and come with refundable fees. Pricing is on the high side, and the headline 95% split needs a paid option — the contractual base is 80%.
In 4th place, 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.
In 5th place, FundingPips has been operating since 2022 and scores 83/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $29 for a 2-phase evaluation. 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 7 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit. Available on mt5, ctrader, match-trader.
FundingPips lets you choose the withdrawal rhythm and prices the split accordingly: 60% weekly, 80% biweekly, 90% on demand, 100% on a monthly cycle. Its four evaluation models keep static drawdown, with only the instant-funding Zero account switching to trailing. Against that, a Striking System closes a funded account on the fourth warning.
In 6th place, Bulenox has been operating since 2022 and scores 81/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $145 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 100 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 10 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, expert advisors allowed, news trading allowed. Available on ninjatrader, rithmic, quantower.
Bulenox is a futures-only firm run from Delaware since 2022. Accounts are sold as renewable monthly subscriptions, $145 to $325 for $25,000 to $150,000, payouts clear every Wednesday, and the first $10,000 goes entirely to the trader. It holds 4.7/5 across 1,761 Trustpilot reviews, but a 40% consistency rule gates withdrawals and drives recurring complaints.
Coming in at number 7, Alpha Capital Group has been operating since 2021 and scores 80/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $27 for a 1-phase evaluation. The risk envelope is a trailing (end of day) drawdown capped at 4 %, with 3 % allowed per day. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on mt5, ctrader, dxtrade, tradelocker.
Alpha Capital Group is a UK forex prop firm registered in 2021, running eight programs that span a $27 two-phase challenge through to accounts funded at purchase. The rulebook is permissive — news, weekend and overnight holding allowed, four platforms — but the tradable universe stops at forex, indices and metals, and Trustpilot has suspended the rating over fake reviews.
Ranked 8 on this list, 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.
Coming in at number 9, My Funded Futures has been operating since 2023 and scores 80/100 on our scale. The risk envelope is a trailing (end of day) drawdown capped at 4 %. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 1 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on ninjatrader, tradovate, tradingview, quantower, volumetrica.
Launched in late 2023 in Delaware, My Funded Futures posts the highest customer satisfaction in our futures database, at 4.9/5 across more than 21,000 reviews. Its four plans share a 6 % target and an end-of-day trailing drawdown that locks above the starting balance. The notable trade-off: over 80 countries are excluded.
Ranked 10 on this list, TradeDay has been operating since 2020 and scores 80/100 on our scale. Entry starts at $131 for a 1-phase evaluation. Funded traders keep 90 % of profits, with a first withdrawal available after 0 days. Notable freedoms: no time limit, news trading allowed. Available on tradovate, rithmic, ninjatrader, tradingview.
TradeDay was founded in Chicago in 2020 by two former institutional market professionals, and that background shows in the rulebook: no daily loss limit, news trading and scalping allowed, and withdrawals available from day one. The May 2026 rework dropped static drawdown accounts in favour of two paths, Quick Pay and Fast Pass.
The word “scalping” appears in nearly every prop firm FAQ, usually followed by a yes. The real question sits elsewhere. A scalper pays spread and commission on every round trip, and on a strategy targeting a handful of points, transaction cost consumes most of the expectancy. Two firms advertising an identical phase-one profit target can differ enormously in real difficulty simply because one routes to a raw-spread-plus-commission feed and the other to a marked-up feed with no visible commission. That is the first thing to check — well before the profit split.
The second is minimum holding time. Few firms put it on the sales page; many bury it in a clause targeting trades of “abnormally short duration” or the exploitation of latency. The wording is deliberately elastic, leaving room to contest a withdrawal earned across a run of few-second trades. A scalper working at that speed should look for a firm that states in writing that no minimum duration applies, rather than one that stays silent.
Where a scalping account actually breaks
Slippage is the most common failure point. On an account with a tight daily limit, one degraded fill during a volatile minute can cross the line through no fault of the trader. Check whether the firm publishes a compensation policy, or at minimum acknowledges slippage as an event outside the trader’s control.
Consistency rules come next. Scalping naturally produces many small wins and, occasionally, one outsized day; a cap on how much the best day may contribute can block a withdrawal even when every target has been met. Then there is infrastructure: platform, server location, VPS availability. A scalper trading from a home connection to a server on another continent gives back in slippage whatever was gained by choosing the right firm.
Who should trade this category
Prop firm scalping suits a trader who has already measured their average transaction cost and knows what it represents against average gain per trade. Without that number, choosing a programme is guesswork. It also suits traders working short, dense sessions — the London open, the New York open — rather than sitting in the market all day.
Conversely, anyone who has never kept an execution journal will find this category frustrating. The gap between backtest and live account shows up faster here than in any other style, and the evaluation punishes that gap before the trader has had time to diagnose it.
Frequently asked questions
Do prop firms ban scalping?
Rarely in those terms. Most firms allow scalping but restrict adjacent practices: latency arbitrage, exploitation of erroneous quotes, and positions opened and closed within fractions of a second. The line is drawn on method, not frequency. Read the list of prohibited strategies rather than the yes printed in the marketing FAQ.
What is a minimum trade duration rule?
It requires a position to be held for a set time, often a few seconds to a minute, failing which the trade is voided or the account invalidated. Some firms state it plainly; others express it indirectly by prohibiting positions of abnormally short duration. For a scalper this is the single rule to verify before comparing anything else.
Does spread matter more than the profit split?
For a high-frequency approach, yes. The split applies once per payout; transaction cost applies to every trade. Across several hundred round trips, a modest spread difference affects the result more than a few percentage points of split. Always compare average spread and commission together, never one without the other.
Can slippage breach an account?
Yes, and it happens often on scalping accounts. A fill far from the requested price during a volatility spike can be enough to cross the daily loss limit. Few firms compensate for it. Reducing position size around thin-liquidity hours and scheduled macro releases remains the most reliable protection.