Start a Futures Prop Firm on a rulebook traders trust
One system under your brand: trader cabinet, CRM and challenge store, affiliate programme, risk engine, funded-trader copier and the back office that runs them. No revenue share. Trailing drawdown measured the way traders read it, and a session close that behaves — settings, not a development project. From €740 a month.
Contracts, ticks and sessions
A futures instrument is not a currency pair with a different name, and a stack that treats it as one will produce statements your traders do not trust.
Specified per contract
Tick size, tick value and contract months are set per instrument, so P&L is calculated in the units the contract actually trades in.
The session is a real boundary
A futures day has a settlement and a close. Daily rules can follow the session rather than the calendar, which is the difference between a rulebook that matches the market and one that argues with it.
Flattening as a rule
Requiring positions to be closed before the session ends is enforced by the engine, not chased by your desk at the end of every day.
Contract limits per phase
How many contracts a trader may hold, by instrument and by evaluation phase — the scaling plan expressed as a limit rather than a promise.
Trailing drawdown, the way futures traders read it
This section is the product. Get the convention wrong and experienced traders will spot it on your rules page before they ever open an account.
Intraday or end-of-day trailing
The most argued-about number in the industry: whether the trailing maximum follows unrealised peaks during the session or only the settled balance. Both are supported, and which you choose is a commercial decision you should make deliberately.
Where the trail stops
Whether the drawdown stops trailing once the account is in profit by the starting buffer, and at what point — the second question a futures trader asks, and the one most firms answer vaguely.
Daily loss tied to the session
The limit follows the trading session rather than a midnight boundary that has nothing to do with the contract.
Per-contract position caps
Set by instrument and by phase, so a scaling plan is enforced rather than described.
Severity you choose per rule
Warn, freeze or breach, adjustable per rule and overridable for a single challenge.
The full rule library and how severity works is on the risk management page.
What your traders and your desk get
Branded trader cabinet
Live P&L, the current trailing threshold shown as a number rather than a formula, and a challenge store.
Payouts with a trail
Requests, approvals and splits with the record behind them, settled in crypto or by bank transfer.
Funded-trader copy
Mirror funded accounts onto your own book so your firm's exposure is visible beside the traders producing it.
Affiliates and IB tracking
Attribution and commissions in the same system as the traders and the payouts.
What launching actually involves
For futures, the paperwork usually sets the timeline — start it before the software.
Sort data and execution first
Exchange market-data agreements and your execution relationship take longer than anything technical here. Begin them early.
Choose the drawdown convention
Intraday or end-of-day, and where the trail stops. Decide it as product design, because your traders will read it that way.
Design the evaluation
Targets, contract limits per phase, minimum days, resets and the scaling plan.
Write the rulebook
Session boundaries, daily loss, flattening, per-contract caps — configured in the risk engine.
Brand it and open
Cabinet, domain, payments, KYC and affiliates wired before the first trader arrives.
Frequently Asked Questions
Drawdown conventions, market data and what a futures launch involves.
See it running under your brand
Book a demo and we will walk through the challenge model, the rulebook and the payout flow with your numbers in them rather than ours.