{ "name": "PROP NAVI — Prop Firm Rule-Change Tracker", "updated": "2026-08-05", "source": "https://propnavi.io/data/rule-change-tracker/", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "count": 12, "records": [ { "firm": "Topstep", "slug": "topstep", "effectiveDate": "2026-01-12", "observedDate": "2026-07-23", "category": "profit-split", "scope": "grandfathered", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "100% of the first $10,000 in lifetime profits, then a 90/10 split.", "after": "90/10 split from the first dollar.", "affects": "Accounts created on or after 2026-01-12. Traders who joined the new Topstep dashboard before that date keep the first-$10,000-at-100% term.", "note": "Both the date and the split treatment of old and new accounts are stated on the firm’s own payout policy page.", "sourceLabel": "Topstep Help Center — Topstep Payout Policy", "sourceUrl": "https://help.topstep.com/en/articles/8284233-topstep-payout-policy", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "Apex Trader Funding", "slug": "apextraderfunding", "effectiveDate": "2026-03-01", "observedDate": "2026-07-23", "category": "product-retired", "scope": "grandfathered", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "Performance Accounts paying 100% of the first $25,000 then 90/10, on an 8-day payout cycle with a 30% consistency rule.", "after": "EOD and Intraday Performance Accounts: 100% split, $500 minimum, 5 qualifying days, 50% consistency rule, and a maximum of 6 payouts after which the account closes.", "affects": "Accounts purchased on or after 2026-03-01. Accounts bought earlier keep the legacy terms; legacy and current accounts cannot be converted in either direction.", "note": "Apex documents both rule sets in its help centre. A re-fetch on 2026-08-05 returned HTTP 403 (Cloudflare), so the check date is the last date the articles were read directly.", "sourceLabel": "Apex Trader Funding Support — Legacy Products Overview", "sourceUrl": "https://support.apextraderfunding.com/hc/en-us/articles/47114837287067-Legacy-Products-Overview", "altSourceLabel": "Apex Trader Funding Support — Legacy PA Payout Parameters", "altSourceUrl": "https://support.apextraderfunding.com/hc/en-us/articles/40507212951451-Legacy-PA-Payout-Parameters", "checkedDate": "2026-07-23" }, { "firm": "The5%ers", "slug": "the5ers", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "product-retired", "scope": "unclear", "disclosure": "unannounced", "audience": "trader", "before": "An Instant Funding product page was published and sold.", "after": "the5ers.com/instant-funding/ returns HTTP 404. Separately, the entire help centre at help.the5ers.com returns HTTP 404.", "affects": "Unclear. We found no statement covering accounts already opened under the product.", "note": "No announcement located. Other program pages (Hyper Growth, Bootcamp) returned HTTP 200 on the same check, and the High Stakes page still refers to trading alongside \"4 Instant Funding accounts\" — the reference outlived the page. Recorded as observed 2026-07-31, not announced.", "sourceLabel": "The5%ers — Instant Funding page (HTTP 404 on the check date)", "sourceUrl": "https://the5ers.com/instant-funding/", "altSourceLabel": "The5%ers — help centre (HTTP 404 on the check date)", "altSourceUrl": "https://help.the5ers.com/", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "The5%ers", "slug": "the5ers", "observedDate": "2026-08-05", "category": "documentation", "scope": "unclear", "disclosure": "unannounced", "audience": "trader", "before": "Homepage: \"Get qualified by a private equity fund and manage up to $4,000,000\".", "after": "High Stakes program page: \"Scaling up to $500,000\".", "affects": "Anyone relying on the advertised maximum funding figure. Both pages were live and contradicting each other on the check date.", "note": "An unresolved contradiction in the firm’s own material rather than a dated change. It is recorded here because the help centre that would normally settle which figure binds returns 404.", "sourceLabel": "The5%ers — High Stakes page (states scaling to $500,000)", "sourceUrl": "https://the5ers.com/high-stakes/", "altSourceLabel": "The5%ers — homepage (states up to $4,000,000)", "altSourceUrl": "https://the5ers.com/", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "Fintokei", "slug": "fintokei", "effectiveDate": "2026-01-21", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "scaling", "scope": "all-accounts", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "The スケーリング道場 scaling program, with the initial-fee return attached to it.", "after": "The scaling program was \"fully retired\" and replaced by the Capital Scaling Boost inside the Loyalty Program. The Loyalty Program contract-fee return ran only to 2026-06-30.", "affects": "All accounts. The firm dated the retirement in its own FAQ, which is what makes the residual advertising checkable.", "note": "Plan pages on the checkout path still carry the footnote 初期費用の返還 ※スケーリング道場の適用により as of 2026-08-05 — an advertised benefit that nothing else on the site confirms is currently available.", "sourceLabel": "Fintokei FAQ — What is Scaling? (\"fully retired\" as of 21 January 2026)", "sourceUrl": "https://support.fintokei.com/en/articles/8409193-what-is-scaling", "altSourceLabel": "Fintokei — ProTrader plan page (still footnotes the fee return via the retired program)", "altSourceUrl": "https://www.fintokei.com/jp/protrader/", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "TradeDay", "slug": "tradeday", "effectiveDate": "2026-05-29", "observedDate": "2026-08-05", "category": "product-retired", "scope": "new-accounts", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "Nine account SKUs across Static, EOD and Intraday types.", "after": "Two evaluation routes — Quick Pay and Fast Pass — with entry from $62.50 on a 50K account.", "affects": "New purchases. The firm announced the rebuild on its own blog on the day it took effect.", "sourceLabel": "TradeDay — TradeDay 2.0: The Next Evolution of Prop Trading (29 May 2026)", "sourceUrl": "https://www.tradeday.com/blog-posts/tradeday-2-0---the-next-evolution-of-prop-trading", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "TradeDay", "slug": "tradeday", "effectiveDate": "2026-07-26", "observedDate": "2026-08-05", "category": "payout-terms", "scope": "new-accounts", "disclosure": "documented", "audience": "trader", "before": "Funded Sim accounts had no consistency objective. Payout caps were $2,000 on a 50K, $2,500 on a 100K and $3,000 on a 150K.", "after": "A 45% consistency objective applies — no single day may make up more than 45% of total gross profits — and payout caps fall to $1,500 on a 50K, $1,850 on a 100K and $2,250 on a 150K.", "affects": "Accounts opened on or after 2026-07-26. Accounts opened before that date keep no consistency objective and the higher caps, as stated in the same article.", "note": "The policy article states both rule sets side by side and carries a \"Modified on Sun, 26 Jul\" stamp, but we found no separate announcement of the change. Follows the TradeDay 2.0 rebuild of 2026-05-29.", "sourceLabel": "TradeDay Knowledge Base — Fast Pass Funded Sim Payout Policy", "sourceUrl": "https://tradeday.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000404096-fast-pass-funded-sim-payout-policy", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "Alpha Futures", "effectiveDate": "2026-07-12", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "payout-terms", "scope": "all-accounts", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "Premium Plan accounts with pending and already-approved payouts outstanding.", "after": "Premium Plan closed. The firm stated pending and unpaid Premium payouts would not be honoured and that active Premium accounts would be refunded their account fee instead.", "affects": "All Premium Plan holders, including traders whose payouts had already been approved. Zero and Advanced accounts were not closed.", "note": "Partially reversed around 2026-07-16: the firm stated every Premium Plan trader \"approved for pay\" would be paid in batches, with the first batch equal to 10% of outstanding Premium payouts, while refunds to active Premium accounts continued. The trigger was a platform partner terminating the relationship effective 2026-07-12.", "sourceLabel": "Finance Magnates — NinjaTrader and Alpha Futures breakup turns bitter, exposing a big industry risk", "sourceUrl": "https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/ninjatrader-and-alpha-futures-breakup-turns-bitter-exposing-a-big-industry-risk/", "altSourceLabel": "Alpha Futures — Update: Partner Exit, Invoices, and Premium Accounts (July 2026)", "altSourceUrl": "https://alpha-futures.com/posts/alpha-futures-update-partner-exit-invoices-and-premium-accounts-july-2026", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "Goat Funded Trader", "slug": "goatfundedtrader", "effectiveDate": "2026-06-13", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "product-retired", "scope": "grandfathered", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "The 2-Step PRO model was available for purchase.", "after": "The 2-Step PRO model is no longer available for sale.", "affects": "New purchases only. The firm states that existing 2-Step Pro accounts remain active under their current terms.", "note": "Carried in the firm’s own help centre with a date and an explicit statement about existing accounts. This is the disclosure standard the rest of this table is measured against.", "sourceLabel": "Goat Funded Trader FAQ — 2-Step PRO Model (withdrawn from sale 13 June 2026)", "sourceUrl": "https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/13778401-2-step-pro-model", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "Funded7", "slug": "funded7", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "trading-rule", "scope": "all-accounts", "disclosure": "documented", "audience": "trader", "before": "Not established. We could not date the introduction of the rule or find what preceded it.", "after": "Closes under 15 seconds above 2% of trade count, or under 30 seconds above 3%, demote the account to a restricted Silver or Bronze Funded tier — tighter flat risk limit, lower leverage, mandatory stop-loss — rather than terminating it.", "affects": "All funded accounts. The tier table is published; the date it took effect is not.", "note": "Recorded as observed 2026-07-31, not announced. The Silver and Bronze Funded tiers and their risk limits were re-confirmed live on 2026-08-05. We found no changelog on the site.", "sourceLabel": "Funded7 FAQ — Rule 2 & 3: Position Risk & Execution (Funded / Silver Funded / Bronze Funded tiers)", "sourceUrl": "https://funded7.com/faqs/trading-rules/rule-2-3-position-risk-execution-the-safety-net/", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "Smart Prop Trader", "slug": "smartproptrader", "effectiveDate": "2024-12-29", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "product-retired", "scope": "all-accounts", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "trader", "before": "An operating prop firm at smartproptrader.com.", "after": "Closed. smartproptrader.com returns HTTP 301 to fxnity.com.", "affects": "All accounts. The closure was announced ahead of the date, with a stated refund and resolution plan.", "note": "The closure itself is recorded in the shutdown tracker. This row records the domain change, re-checked 2026-08-05: anything still published about \"Smart Prop Trader\" now resolves to a different brand.", "sourceLabel": "Finance Magnates — Another prop firm announces closure in year that saw 50+ companies shutter", "sourceUrl": "https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/another-prop-firm-announces-closure-in-year-that-saw-50-companies-shutter/", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" }, { "firm": "MyFundedFutures", "slug": "myfundedfutures", "effectiveDate": "2024-10-15", "observedDate": "2026-07-31", "category": "affiliate", "scope": "all-accounts", "disclosure": "announced", "audience": "partner", "before": "An open affiliate programme with no lifetime-volume floor.", "after": "Every affiliate below 50 lifetime purchases removed, with accounts disabled from the end of October 2024. Sales were suspended in 21 countries at the same time.", "affects": "Existing affiliate partners below the threshold. Trader accounts were not affected by this change.", "note": "Partner-facing rather than trader-facing, and tagged as such. Included because the same unilateral-modification clause governs both sides of a prop firm’s contracts.", "sourceLabel": "Finance Magnates (via TradingView) — Prop firm MyFundedFutures overhauls affiliate program and suspends over 20 countries", "sourceUrl": "https://www.tradingview.com/news/financemagnates:751fbec6b094b:0-prop-firm-myfundedfutures-overhauls-affiliate-program-and-suspends-over-20-countries/", "checkedDate": "2026-08-05" } ] }