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RULE BREAKDOWN Copy Trading Across Prop Firm Accounts Owning multiple accounts is not the same as being allowed to copy trades across them. Here is where firms actually draw the line, how they catch the ones who cross it, and why “it’s my own money” is not a defense. Compare futures prop firms Skip to

ORB defines your stop by handing you the width of the opening range, a number the market picks each morning. Your drawdown buffer is fixed. This breaks down what one ORB trade actually costs on intraday-trailing versus end-of-day accounts, and why the contract cap is not a sizing guide.

Five prop firms fund options and only four fund listed contracts. What each one lets you trade, what it costs, and which strategies it rules out.

Seven CFD prop firms compared here all skip the evaluation deadline, so “no time limit” barely separates one from another anymore. What actually varies, and what most guides never check, is the inactivity window: 30 days at four firms, 60 at three others, verified directly against each firm’s own rules page.

FTMO scores 8.3/10 in our rankings, but some widely repeated facts about it, including whether the 1-Step fee gets refunded, turned out to be wrong when checked against FTMO’s own site. Here are five alternatives, each mapped to one specific rule or payout mechanic it beats FTMO on, plus a $10K apples-to-apples pricing table most alternatives posts skip.

We checked the current, published rules on 13 prop firms to see which ones actually allow EAs on a funded account, not just during the challenge. Three firms market EA-friendly evaluations, then ban automation the moment you pass — including one that runs a dedicated “EA Challenge.”

The cheapest sports betting prop firm challenges we verified, from $8.99 to $249.99, each paired with our independent review score.

The cheapest prop firm challenges we verified, from $1 pay-after-pass deals to $25 flat fees, each paired with our independent review score.