Find Your Best-Match Prop Firm

How the Smart Matcher works

The Smart Matcher ranks 16 prop trading firms with a transparent, two-phase model. Phase one applies hard eligibility filters — your country, market, any budget you explicitly set, and deal-breakers such as a required platform, bot support, news trading, daily payouts, or consistency-rule requirements — and removes every account that fails one. Phase two scores each remaining account on the factors below, keeps the best account per firm, and ranks the top five. Every result card shows its strongest score drivers plus practical advantages and tradeoffs, so the ranking is easy to inspect.

• Budget fit (up to 20 points)

  How comfortably the account's true cost — price after discounts plus activation fee — sits inside your stated budget. An account under half your budget scores the full 20 points; one that barely fits scores 5. Choosing Any budget turns this factor off and removes its 20 points from the achievable score ceiling.

• Experience match (up to 15 points)

  Alignment between the firm's structure and your experience level: beginners score higher with instant funding, one-day passes, and cheap entries; experts score higher with large max funding, many simultaneous accounts, and bigger account sizes.

• Trading style match (up to 15 points)

  Rule fit for your declared style. Scalpers score firms that allow scalping and micro-scalping with no minimum hold time; news traders score firms that permit news trading in both the evaluation and funded phases without blackout windows.

• Specific preferences (up to 15 points)

  Bonus points when an account matches your preferred drawdown type (static, end-of-day, or trailing — 10 points) and when a firm allows weekend holding if you asked for it (5 points). Skipped preferences are excluded from the achievable score ceiling, so leaving them open never counts against a result.

• Your seven weighted priorities (up to 30 points combined)

  Fast payouts, high profit split, low cost, flexible rules, scaling potential, trustworthiness, and ease of passing are each scored on a 0-30 scale, then multiplied by the weight your answers assign them. The weights always sum to 1.0, so these factors contribute at most 30 points in total.

Results are ordered by their total score for your answers. Relative labels such as Top Match, Excellent Fit, and Strong Fit describe each firm’s position within your result set. Rankings are decision support based on published firm data — not a guarantee of passing an evaluation or receiving payouts.

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