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PTC Industry Dashboard™

Global intelligence on the retail proprietary trading industry — observed market structure, PTC modelled scale, published rankings and published industry developments.

Reference period
September 2026
Active firms tracked
306
Latest published rankings
Sep 2026
Modelled cohort
213 firms

Rankings and search-demand datasets are published monthly · Industry scale is published per baseline period

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Market structure

Observed structure of PTC's tracked proprietary trading universe.

Observedprop_firms
Active firms tracked
306
313 firm records · 7 currently classified as closed
Public directory
295firms
Editorial visibility flag — not the research universe.
Confirmed closed
7firms
Current operational status, not a period count.
Asset composition · active firms
Forex228 firms · 74.5%
Futures53 firms · 17.3%
Crypto22 firms · 7.2%
prediction_markets3 firms · 1.0%

Composition sums to 306 of 306 active firms. Categories reflect PTC's primary market classification, not PTC estimates.

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PTC Estimated Industry Scale™

Modelled industry scale based on PTC's published baseline cohort.

PTC EstimatePUBLISHED · 2026-M09Explore industry estimates
Estimated Active Traders™
1.77M
Forex universe
1.12M
Futures universe
646.9K
Firm-level values publishable
113 of 213
PTC EstimateQ3 2026 baseline · 213 firms modelled
active_trader_v2.0 · as of 2026-09-02
Estimated Funded Traders™
156.1K
Forex universe
78.4K
Futures universe
77.6K
Firm-level values publishable
116 of 213
PTC EstimateQ3 2026 baseline · 213 firms modelled
funded_trader_v2.0 · as of 2026-09-02
Estimated Monthly Payout Run-Rate™
$158.4M
Annualised run-rate $1.90B
Forex universe
$53.7M
Futures universe
$104.7M
Firm-level values publishable
8 of 213
PTC EstimateQ3 2026 baseline · 213 firms modelled
monthly_payout_v2.0 · as of 2026-09-02

Figures are the published 2026-M09 publication covering a cohort of 213 modelled firms — not all 306 tracked firms. They are not company-reported figures and no industry-level confidence interval is published for this baseline. Modelled funded-to-active ratio: 8.8%.

View estimate methodology
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Current industry leaders

Latest published PTC rankings.

DerivedSnapshot Sep 2026

Rankings are derived from PTC datasets and published monthly. Movement indicators compare the firm's rank against the previous published snapshot where one exists; no movement is shown otherwise.

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Model coverage

How much of the tracked universe each published PTC model currently covers.

DerivedPublication layerView estimate methodology
Active Trader Model™ v2.0conf 57/100
213 of 306 tracked firms modelled
Public estimate 113Coverage 70%Internal / insufficient 100
Funded Trader Model™ v2.0conf 45/100
213 of 306 tracked firms modelled
Public estimate 116Coverage 70%Internal / insufficient 97
Monthly Payout Model™ v2.0conf 61/100
213 of 306 tracked firms modelled
Public estimate 8Coverage 70%Internal / insufficient 205

PTC publishes coverage rather than implying completeness. Firms classified internal / insufficient are modelled but not shown publicly, and firms outside a model's universe scope are not modelled at all. Active Trader coverage is 213 of 306 tracked firms.

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Latest published industry changes

Published firm-level developments from PTC Market Monitor™.

Research FindingCoverage through July 2026View Market Monitor
  • 21 Jul 2026
    Rule change
    Onyx FuturesNew risk-management standards took effect, limiting how much of an account's drawdown a single trade or protective stop may risk, measured across all accounts held by a trader and applied retroactivel
  • 12 Jul 2026
    Rule change
    IC FundedIC Funded evaluations and pricing pages updated
  • 10 Jul 2026
    Rule change
    Redline Futures FundingTrading Rules page last updated (per its own timestamp), detailing an automated 'AI compliance evaluator' system that screens funded-account payouts for MAE-based single-trade risk, doubling-down, eve
  • 6 Jul 2026
    Rule change
    Aqua FundedConsistency Rule article updated
  • 2 Jul 2026
    Rule change
    The Floor 8Complaints Policy formally effective

Latest published coverage · through July 2026 356 published events in PTC's industry event database. Events are dated by occurrence, not by publication date.

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Global search demand

Share of tracked branded prop-firm search demand by country.

ObservedSnapshot Sep 2026Explore Prop Trading Adoption Index
1🇮🇳India24.0% · 1.78M searches/mo
2🇺🇸United States18.9% · 1.40M searches/mo
3🇵🇰Pakistan8.4% · 623.1K searches/mo
4🇬🇧United Kingdom3.9% · 290.4K searches/mo
5🇨🇦Canada2.8% · 206.7K searches/mo
6🇳🇬Nigeria2.8% · 204.2K searches/mo
7🇩🇪Germany2.5% · 183.1K searches/mo
8🇮🇩Indonesia2.4% · 180.4K searches/mo

Percentages are each country's share of tracked global branded prop-firm search demand for September 2026. They are not market share, trader population, revenue or firm count. Coverage: 49 countries, 296 tracked brands.

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Research & publications

Where the underlying research is published.

Data types used on this page
Observed
Directly measured or recorded data.
PTC Estimate
Modelled values based on a disclosed PTC methodology.
Derived
Calculated from PTC datasets, rankings or published snapshots.
Research Finding
Evidence-backed findings from PTC research.

PTC estimates are modelled from public evidence and proprietary methodologies. They are not company-reported figures unless explicitly identified as such. Observed counts reflect PTC's firm register at read time; rankings, search demand and industry scale are published on their own schedules and are labelled with the period they represent.