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PTC Industry Snapshot™

The retail prop trading industry at a glance — market scale, structure, leaders, demand and infrastructure.

As of 01 Oct 2026Current snapshot · latest source data through 01 Oct 2026

Current published intelligence from PropTradeCenter's firm, model, ranking, platform and market-demand datasets. Source datasets carry their own observation dates; each module below states the snapshot it reads.

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Industry at a glance

2026-M10 · PUBLISHED
Active tracked firms
418
Observed
489 firm records tracked in total
Estimated Active Traders™
2.15M
PTC Estimate
207 firms modelled · firm_scale_v3_active_traders_2026_10
Estimated Funded Traders™
193.0K
PTC Estimate
207 firms modelled · firm_scale_v3_funded_traders_2026_10
Monthly payout run-rate
$188.6M
PTC Estimate
207 firms modelled
Annualised run-rate
$2.26B
Derived
Modelled monthly run-rate × 12 — a run-rate, not a forecast of actual annual payouts.
Published plans
1,883
Observed
Published evaluation plans held for tracked firms.
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Market structure

ObservedActive universe · 418 firms
Active tracked firms by market
Forex29871.3%
Futures8520.3%
Crypto307.2%
prediction_markets51.2%

Categories sum to 418 of 418 active tracked firms.

Modelled components — published baselinePTC Estimate
MetricForexFutures
Active Traders——
Funded Traders——
Monthly payout run-rate——

The locked baseline publishes Forex and Futures universes only; no Crypto industry estimate is published.

03

Current industry leaders

PTC EstimatePTC Power Index™ · October 2026
1FTMO▲ 2100
3The 5%ers▲ 294
4Funding Pips▼ 393
5Topstep▼ 191
Relative 0–100 score within the published cohort of 100 ranked firms.Explore PTC Power Index →
04

Global trader demand

ObservedMeasured branded search demand · —
Measured monthly searches
—
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Countries measured
—
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Leading country
—
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Highest adoption
—
Population-adjusted · Prop Trading Adoption Index™
Regional distribution of measured demandDerived

Measured branded search demand only — not a trader count, total market demand or customer population. Countries without a usable observation in this snapshot are excluded rather than entered as zero, so they do not depress any share shown here.

05

Trading infrastructure

ObservedPlatform data through 13 Oct 2026
Platform data available for 252 of 430 active tracked firms (58.6%).
MetaTrader 5 logoMetaTrader 535.7%90 firms
cTrader logocTrader21.0%53 firms
Match-Trader logoMatch-Trader20.2%51 firms
DXtrade logoDXtrade15.5%39 firms

Definition: share of firms with usable platform data that support each platform. These are not shares of trading volume, traders or accounts.

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Latest published industry developments

ObservedCoverage through 24 Oct 2026
24 Oct 2026PayoutGlobal Forex Funds

Global Forex Funds introduces weekly payouts on GFF+ Challenge

24 Oct 2026Platform changeGlobal Forex Funds

Global Forex Funds adds TradeDock and TradeLocker platforms

14 Oct 2026PricingAlpine Funded

Alpine Funded Fees for Base Camp and The Peak Now Advertised From €75 and €70

14 Oct 2026PricingAlpine Funded

Alpine Funded Lowers Alpine Pass First-Month Price to €95

14 Oct 2026Rule changeAlpine Funded

Alpine Funded Adds Alpine Pass Everyday Rules: 10+ Profitable Days and Best Day Rule

378 published events in the PTC event record. Dated, published events only — a rolling-window KPI is not published because event dating and category coverage are not uniform across the record.View Market Monitor →
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Explore PTC industry intelligence

Methodology & sources
Firm universe & plans
Active tracked firms are the authoritative active firm universe. Published plans are the published plan cohort used by PTC Industry Statistics™.
Modelled scale
Active Traders, Funded Traders and monthly payout run-rate are read from the locked, published baseline 2026-M10 — identical to PTC Industry Estimates™. Methodology.
Rankings
PTC Power Index™ positions and scores come from the latest published ranking snapshot (October 2026). No ranking is calculated on this page.
Demand & platforms
Demand reads the same — country snapshot as PTC Country Intelligence™. Platform figures read the PTC Platform Adoption™ calculation. Missing observations remain missing.