PTC Research Topic
Research on market structure, infrastructure, platforms, business models and the evolving composition of the proprietary trading industry.
Publications in this research topic, most recent first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Concise trader-facing analysis in this research topic.
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
What documented H1 2026 payout disputes tell traders about why payouts get delayed or denied—and what to check before you trade.
Subject classifications across PTC Research.