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: .
Boxcar Trading is launching four futures evaluation and simulated-funded plans with one-time fees and a free Chicago VPS offer. All Boxcar account types use Rithmic; PropFirmConnector lets traders run their Boxcar login alongside other Rithmic logins in one NinjaTrader 8 workspace.
Source: Boxcar Trading — launch announcement Full story → Guide: Boxcar Trading →
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 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 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’ 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 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 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’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 →
TradeDay launched a Rithmic account type, and its checkout now opens with a choice between Tradovate and Rithmic; all of a trader’s accounts must sit on one of them. TradeDay says pricing, evaluation structure and standards are unchanged. Its help center supports NinjaTrader Desktop only on Tradovate/CQG accounts.
Source: TradeDay — “IT’S HERE: RITHMIC IS NOW LIVE ON TRADEDAY” (August 10, 2026) Full story → Guide: TradeDay →
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 →
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 →
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 →
FastTrack Trading, which ceased operations in November 2024, was still present in Rithmic’s public prop-firm directory this July. The entry was retired from our verified connection catalog.
Source: NexusFi — Fast Track Trading has ceased operations (November 2024) Full story →
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.
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