PTC Industry Snapshot™
The retail prop trading industry at a glance — market scale, structure, leaders, demand and infrastructure.
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.
Industry at a glance
Market structure
Categories sum to 306 of 306 active tracked firms.
| Metric | Forex | Futures |
|---|---|---|
| Active Traders | 1.12M | 646.9K |
| Funded Traders | 78.4K | 77.6K |
| Monthly payout run-rate | $53.7M | $104.7M |
The locked baseline publishes Forex and Futures universes only; no Crypto industry estimate is published.
Futures represents 37% of estimated active traders but 66% of the modelled monthly payout run-rate.
Current industry leaders
Global trader demand
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.
Trading infrastructure
MetaTrader 536.8%95 firms
cTrader22.1%57 firms
Match-Trader20.9%54 firms
DXtrade15.9%41 firmsDefinition: share of firms with usable platform data that support each platform. These are not shares of trading volume, traders or accounts.
Latest published industry developments
New 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
IC Funded evaluations and pricing pages updated
Trading 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
Consistency Rule article updated
Complaints Policy formally effective