*Note: Prop funds will usually provide you with a demo account that you trade on their behalf – they may tell you it’s a real account, although more commonly they now refer to it as “simulated trading” – always read the small print in the T&C’s because these Prop Firms very rarely offer trading with real funds (“A-Book”) and most often they work with what is known as “B-Book” brokers…this means that even if you are issued with real funds to trade, in any positions that you take, the broker is on the other side of the trade and your funds may never actually be exposed to the real market…

Indeed, some of the Prop Firms may submit your demo account into their own proprietary systems from which they may then indeed trade with real funds for their benefit…so, indirectly, they do provide you with real funds to trade with, but they filter and control the manner of real trading in their own way and through their own risk-mitigated systems.  I’m telling you this, because you may not otherwise easily establish this truth (although, ever since a major shake-up in the industry in 2024, this fact is now much more well known and accepted, although knowledge thereof is sparking constant change and renovation in the way prop Funds operate, most of which is likely to be of benefit to the Trader going forward).  Don’t let this distract you though, because these Prop Firms do indeed pay you back with real money and at very healthy profit splits, provided that your account is profitable and meets their trading conditions/rules.  Check it out, it’s worth it!