Prop Firm Directory Audit: 88 Rithmic Listings, 20 Exclusions

Our July 23–August 6, 2026 audit excluded 20 of 88 tracked Rithmic prop-firm listings, nearly one in four, because firms were defunct, unreachable, or no longer operating as prop firms. The remaining 68 formed the baseline of our Rithmic Prop Firm Connectivity Census.

The tracking list excluded historical listings for Topstep, MES Capital and TheFuturesDesk, which had already left the Rithmic-to-NinjaTrader ecosystem, plus one duplicate. These are the original audit figures; the August 18 correction appears below.

What we found

• FastTrack Trading was still listed, despite having ceased operations in November 2024 (community record) — a dead listing nearly two years old.
• 18 entries had no active website at all: AIMTrader, BestFundingTraders, Builtix, FortezzaTrading, FortressCapital Markets, FundedFuturez, IbexPeakFuturesTrading, IncubatorTrading, Mara Futures Fund, StartUpTrader, ThriveTrading, TradingBattlefield, TradingCompetitions, TradingFactoryPro, TradingRevolution, Tradurz, VJCapital, and WeYouCapital.
• DDG is a special case, not a closure: it remains active as an introducing broker in Rithmic’s broker ecosystem — we maintain a DDG live-broker connection guide — but it has no prop-firm web presence, so its prop-firm listing left the census.
• Two listings continue under new brands: AlphaPropTrading now operates as Alpha Futures, and DeluxeProductions as Deluxe Trader Funding.

What it means for NinjaTrader and Rithmic traders

Before paying for an evaluation, check:

1. Is the firm actually operating? A working website, active support, and recent payout or announcement activity — not just a listing on a data-feed directory.
2. How does the account connect to your platform? At the time of the audit, 7 of the 68 firms had a documented native NinjaTrader option for a single Rithmic login, 3 published no native NinjaTrader option, and native availability was undocumented for most of the rest. The census has the breakdown; the connection guides cover setup, including PropFirmConnector’s add-on path.

Update, August 18, 2026: 68 is now 65

By August 18, three more firms had been removed from the original census population:

• Discount Trading — Rithmic moved the listing from its funding-evaluator directory to its broker directory. We already track the company as a live-broker connection guide, so keeping the prop-firm entry counted one company twice.
• Tradentry — Rithmic retired the listing; it is no longer present in the directory’s data.
• FundedNext Futures — the firm appears in Rithmic’s directory only in the section Rithmic’s own site marks as unverified, and FundedNext’s current documentation describes no Rithmic route. We also found no archived FundedNext page that described one. The credentials it issues are Tradovate credentials, and its NinjaTrader access runs on that track, so the firm was outside the census definition rather than newly departed.

Tradentry represents directory churn; Discount Trading and FundedNext Futures correct our original count. The census reflects the current population. This post preserves the August 6 snapshot and August 18 correction.

The numbers, citable

The census includes each firm’s connection status, Rithmic System and verification date, plus a downloadable CSV. It updates when the catalog is re-verified, with quarterly snapshots. Cite the audit period when using this post’s figures; use the Rithmic firm list for the companion connection reference.