PTC Research Topic

INDUSTRY STRUCTURE

Research on market structure, infrastructure, platforms, business models and the evolving composition of the proprietary trading industry.

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Market Structure™ · Industry Structure · Research Report · PTC-MS-2026-04

Behind the Prop Firms: Owners, Capital & Control

Inside the founders, ownership structures and corporate groups shaping the global prop trading industry

PTC maps the founders, legal entities, holding structures and corporate groups behind major retail prop trading brands, and separates verified ownership from partnership, infrastructure and service relationships.

GLOBAL RETAIL PROP TRADING · CURRENT OWNERSHIP STRUCTURES — RESEARCHED THROUGH 30 AUGUST 2026

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PTC Data Studies™ · Industry Structure · Research Report · PTC-DS-2026-01

PTC Ranking Movers — August 2026

Power, Growth and Market Presence: what changed, what was relative, and what the evidence can actually explain

PTC analyzed the transition from the final July 2026 ranking snapshots to the August calculations across PTC Power, Market Presence and a 41-firm Growth group that can be compared reliably. August contained genuine improvement, genuine deterioration, relative rank moves, unexplained changes and apparent gains that do not survive a comparability check.

GLOBAL · JULY → AUGUST 2026

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Market Structure™ · Industry Structure · Research Report · PTC-MS-2026-03

The New Models of Crypto Prop Trading

On-Chain Funding, Capital Protocols and the Evolution of the Prop Firm

PTC maps the emerging crypto prop-trading market and separates live execution, simulated accounts, on-chain payouts, published reserves and protocol-native capital allocation.

GLOBAL CRYPTO PROP TRADING · H1 2026 + AUGUST 2026 UPDATE

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State of Prop Trading™ · Industry Structure · Research Report · PTC-SPT-2026-01

State of Prop Trading H1 2026

The Retail Prop-Trading Industry at Mid-Year

PTC’s mid-year assessment of the retail prop-trading industry, combining reconciled external evidence with H1-valid proprietary PTC data on evaluation structures, funding environments, branded-search concentration and country-level demand.

GLOBAL · H1 2026

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Industry Structure · Research Report · PTC-IS-2026-02

Payout Disputes in Retail Prop Trading

Why payout requests become contested — and what documented cases reveal

PTC examines documented H1 2026 payout disputes to identify why payouts become contested, including trading-rule interpretation, KYC and identity reviews, processing delays and account investigations.

GLOBAL · H1 2026

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Market Structure™ · Industry Structure · Research Report · PTC-MS-2026-01

Platform Outages & Trader Remediation

January–July 2026

PTC examines documented trading-infrastructure outages, how trader remediation differs across the prop-trading ecosystem, and the industry's significant disclosure gap.

GLOBAL PROP TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE · JANUARY–JULY 2026

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Research briefs

Concise trader-facing analysis in this research topic.

Research Brief · Market Structure™

Your Platform Goes Down. Your Trade Loses Money. Who Pays?

A platform outage does not automatically mean your losses will be restored. PTC found automatic remediation, case-by-case resets, explicit non-compensation policies — and many situations where the answer is simply not publicly documented.

Based on PTC Market Infrastructure™ research

GLOBAL · AUGUST 2026 · RESEARCH BRIEF

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Research Brief · Industry Structure

Will My Prop Firm Pay Me?

What documented H1 2026 payout disputes tell traders about why payouts get delayed or denied—and what to check before you trade.

GLOBAL · H1 2026 · RESEARCH BRIEF

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