Apex Is Live on NinjaTrader Prop: What It Means for Rithmic Traders

Apex Trader Funding’s NinjaTrader Prop offer does not determine how every Apex account connects. NinjaTrader’s August 2026 storefront featured an exclusive Apex 25K evaluation offer through NinjaTrader Prop and Tradovate Prop. For setup, check the data feed and credentials issued for your account: a Rithmic login requires the Rithmic connection instructions.

What NinjaTrader Prop is

NinjaTrader Group announced NinjaTrader Prop and Tradovate Prop on October 1, 2025, naming Apex among the participating firms. It described tools for evaluations and funded trading, including charting, order flow, TradingView integration, risk controls, and mobile, web, and desktop access.

The NinjaTrader Prop site also describes market replay, daily loss caps, profit targets, volume controls, per-account lockouts, and a lock on risk settings. Available features and connection steps depend on the account and platform you use.

The Apex offer drew coverage from Mike Swartz on August 9, 2026.

Historical update — August 14, 2026: NinjaTrader’s Find a Prop Firm directory listed 22 firms offering NinjaTrader Prop and Tradovate Prop. Our August 18 comparison counted ten of those in the Rithmic connection catalog. These are dated counts; use the linked directories for today’s listings.

Correction — August 18, 2026: The catalog overlap originally read “eleven.” FundedNext Futures was removed because its documentation described a Tradovate-only route, reducing that comparison to ten. See the connectivity census.

What it means for NinjaTrader and Rithmic traders

Choose setup instructions from your issued credentials, not the firm name or a promotional page.

What you have	What to do
Rithmic username and password	Follow the Rithmic route for NinjaTrader Desktop and use the system and gateway specified by your firm.
Tradovate-based credentials	Follow the onboarding instructions for those credentials and your chosen platform.
An offer or dashboard that does not identify the feed	Confirm the connection type with the firm before selecting a guide or add-on.

NinjaTrader’s connection guide distinguishes Rithmic from Tradovate-based credentials and states: “Only one Rithmic-based connection can be active at a time.” Multiple trading accounts under one login are different from separate logins that you want connected simultaneously.

For Apex Rithmic credentials, the Apex connection guide covers setup and the PropFirmConnector option for separate Rithmic logins in one NinjaTrader instance. Buying a NinjaTrader Prop offer alone does not establish a need for that add-on.

What the rollout does not establish

The launch announcement does not identify every offer’s data feed or replace firm-issued onboarding instructions. It also does not change how the Rithmic connectivity census is scoped: that reference records routes for Rithmic credentials, not every account sold by a listed firm.

Correction — September 15, 2026: An earlier version treated all NinjaTrader Prop accounts as non-Rithmic and suggested they required no separate setup. The cited launch announcement did not establish either claim. This article now follows NinjaTrader’s documented distinction between issued credentials and connection types.