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Prop firm news

A dated, sourced log of prop-firm, Rithmic, and NinjaTrader ecosystem events — launches, closures, rebrands, rule and platform changes. Short entries live here; stories that affect how you connect get a full blog post. Last entry: .

Three listings leave our verified connection catalog; the census population is now 65

Rithmic has reclassified Discount Trading from its funding-evaluator directory to its broker directory, where we already track the company as a live-broker guide, and has retired the Tradentry listing entirely. We have also removed FundedNext Futures: Rithmic lists it only in the directory section its own site marks unverified, and FundedNext’s documentation describes no Rithmic route — the credentials it issues are Tradovate credentials, and its NinjaTrader access runs on that track. Separately, My Funded Futures keeps its guide but is now scoped to previously issued Rithmic credentials, after the firm removed its Rithmic setup articles in 2024.

Source: Rithmic — Prop Firm Ecosystem Directory (verified 2026-08-18) Full story → Guide: My Funded Futures →

Take Profit Trader cuts its evaluation minimum from five trading days to three

Take Profit Trader has reduced the minimum trading-day requirement on its evaluations from five days to three, effective August 17, 2026. The firm says every other test rule is unchanged — profit target, position size, drawdown, approved products, counter positions, and the 50% consistency requirement — as is its day-one and daily payout policy. The shorter minimum applies to new test accounts only: traders already working through an evaluation, or resetting an existing one, stay on the five-day minimum.

Source: Take Profit Trader — 3-Day Evals announcement (published 2026-08-17) Guide: TakeProfit Trader →

Bulenox adds Fast Track and Momentum paths alongside its classic qualification

Bulenox now sells three routes to a funded account: the classic Qualification evaluation, Fast Track — which skips the qualification stage entirely and starts on a funded Master-level account from day one — and Momentum, where a single payment covers both the evaluation and the Master account with no separate activation fee. Platform setup is unchanged: accounts still authorize through Rithmic’s R|Trader Pro, and the firm allows up to five Master-level accounts at once across the new types.

Source: Bulenox — Accounts & Pricing page (observed 2026-08-17) Guide: Bulenox →

Alpha Futures’ platform lineup lists no Rithmic connection path

Alpha Futures’ trading-platforms guide, updated July 15, 2026, lists AlphaTrader, WealthCharts, Deepchart, and Quantower — with Quantower connecting over a dxFeed data feed. Neither Rithmic nor NinjaTrader appears in the guide, even though the firm remains listed in Rithmic’s public prop-firm directory as AlphaPropTrading.

Source: Alpha Futures — Trading Platforms help article (updated 2026-07-15, observed 2026-08-15) Guide: Alpha Futures →

Tradeify’s Rithmic accounts include Tradesea and Sierra Chart

Tradeify’s supported-platforms guide shows its Rithmic broker option covers four interchangeable platforms on one set of credentials: Tradesea (a third-party TradingView-based web platform), Quantower, Sierra Chart (which requires its own paid Sierra Chart subscription), and R|Trader. The guide confirms NinjaTrader connects through Tradeify’s Tradovate credentials only, leaving the Rithmic track without a native NinjaTrader route.

Source: Tradeify — Supported Platforms help article (observed 2026-08-15) Guide: Tradeify →

Apex narrows the 40% first-month Bonus Vault bonus to a trader’s first live account

Apex Trader Funding’s Live Prop Trading Program FAQ now states the enhanced 40% first-month Bonus Vault bonus applies to a trader’s first live account only, with additional live accounts earning the standard 20% monthly bonus. Archived captures of the same page from June 1 and July 13 said the 40% rate applied to the first month of each new account, placing the change between mid-July and August 14. The page’s own summary table still carries the older wording, and Apex has not announced the revision separately.

Source: Apex Trader Funding — Live Prop Trading Program FAQ (change dated via Wayback Machine captures) Full story → Guide: Apex Trader Funding →

NinjaTrader Prop’s firm directory now lists 22 firms, 11 of them in our catalog

NinjaTrader’s prop-platform directory at prop.ninjatrader.com currently lists 22 firms offering accounts through NinjaTrader Prop and Tradovate Prop — well beyond the handful named when Apex went live on the platform in early August. Eleven are firms in our verified Rithmic connection catalog, including Tradeify, TradeDay, Lucid Trading, Elite Trader Funding, and Phidias. Rithmic-credential accounts at those firms are a separate track and are unchanged.

Source: NinjaTrader Prop — Find a Prop Firm directory (observed 2026-08-14) Full story → Guide: Apex Trader Funding → Guide: TakeProfit Trader → Guide: Tradeify → Guide: BluSky Trading Co. → Guide: TradeDay → Guide: Lucid Trading → Guide: The Trading Pit → Guide: Elite Trader Funding → Guide: Phidias Propfirm → Guide: EmergeProfit →

NinjaTrader’s legacy forum is offline; archived threads live in the Wayback Machine

Every forum.ninjatrader.com address now redirects to the newer Discourse forum, and legacy thread links return "page not found" — no migration or retirement announcement located. The Internet Archive holds 19,525 captured pages from the forum (February 2023 through July 8, 2026), and old threads can be reached by prefixing a dead link with web.archive.org/web/2026/.

Source: Internet Archive — Wayback Machine captures of forum.ninjatrader.com Full story →

Apex Trader Funding goes live on NinjaTrader Prop

NinjaTrader’s prop-platform tier now features Apex Trader Funding, including an exclusive 25K evaluation account sold through NinjaTrader Prop and Tradovate Prop. The October 2025 launch release had named Apex among the first firms; Apex’s Rithmic-credential accounts are unchanged. First covered by Mike Swartz on YouTube.

Source: NinjaTrader Prop — official site Full story → Guide: Apex Trader Funding →

August audit removed 19 inactive listings from the verified connection catalog

Our August audit of the Rithmic prop-firm listings we track found 18 with no active website and one — DDG — with no prop-firm web presence (DDG continues as an active introducing broker in Rithmic’s broker ecosystem). All 19 left the verified connection catalog; they remain in Rithmic’s public directory. Two catalog entries were renamed to the firms’ current brands: AlphaPropTrading as Alpha Futures and DeluxeProductions as Deluxe Trader Funding.

Source: Rithmic — Prop Firm Ecosystem Directory Full story → Guide: Alpha Futures → Guide: Deluxe Trader Funding →

Connection catalog launched from Rithmic’s public prop-firm directory

We turned Rithmic’s public prop-firm ecosystem directory into per-firm NinjaTrader connection guides with verified Rithmic System values — 88 tracked listings, after setting aside historical entries for firms that had already left the Rithmic-to-NinjaTrader ecosystem. This catalog is the baseline for the connectivity census.

Source: Rithmic — Prop Firm Ecosystem Directory

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