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    Prop Trading

    Prop trading software: your rulebook, enforced.

    Prop Trading is TradeCore's funded-account module for FX/CFD brokers: sell one-, two- and three-step challenges and instant funding, catch rule violations in real time, scale and pay funded traders. On MT5, TradeCore's plugin enforces the rules on the trading server.

    Run it free

    100+ brokerages run on TradeCore, including MultiBank Group, AvaTrade, IC Markets, FP Markets and Trade Nation.

    A trader is a client

    Why run prop trading inside the broker CRM?

    Because a funded trader is a client. BrokerIQ is TradeCore's modular CRM and back-office product line for FX/CFD brokers. Prop Trading runs natively on the BrokerIQ CRM core, or standalone on your existing CRM with two-way sync.

    A BrokerIQ module

    Prop Trading — challenges, evaluation, funding, payouts

    Where the trader’s record lives

    On the BrokerIQ CRM core

    One data layer

    The BrokerIQ CRM core
    Prop Trading

    The funded trader is the client record your team already verifies, funds and supports — marked as a prop trader in the CRM.

    On your existing CRM

    Two-way sync over APIs and webhooks

    Your CRM
    Prop Trading

    Prop Trading keeps the challenges, evaluations, violations, funded accounts and payouts; your CRM stays the client record of truth. Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive live today; in-house CRMs supported.

    What it reads and writes

    The rulebook

    What trading rules can a prop firm enforce?

    Six rules on every phase and ten more on the template, written in a six-step builder with no developer. A Prop Trading template is saved as a draft, reviewed on one screen, and goes on sale only when someone activates it.

    A Prop Trading challenge template is built in six steps: Basic info — The challenge's name, the description a trader sees, the brand it belongs to, and which of the four types it is — one-step, two-step, three-step or instant funding. Account config — The demo backend the evaluation runs on, its trading group, leverage, currency, account size and price — and, separately, the group and leverage the funded account gets. Trading rules — Profit share, minimum payout amount and payout schedule; the consistency rule; whether positions may be held over the weekend; and whether a violation disqualifies automatically or waits for review. Advanced rules — Risk per trade, the stop-loss timer, stop-loss removal prevention, the overnight cutoff, minimum holding period, qualifying days, the soft-breach budget and the payout limits. Phase config — Each phase's own targets and limits — and, where a phase needs a different account behaviour, its own trading group and leverage. Review — The whole rulebook on one screen before it is saved as a draft. A template goes live only when it is activated.

    Every Prop Trading challenge phase sets six rules for itself: Profit target — The percentage the trader has to make to pass this phase. Max daily loss — The most the account may lose in a single day, as a percentage of its starting balance. Max total drawdown — The floor the account may never go through for the whole phase. Drawdown basis — Static measures the floor from the starting balance. Trailing measures it from the account's peak, so the floor rises as the trader makes money. Minimum trading days — How many days the trader has to actually trade, so nobody passes on one lucky position. Time limit — How long the phase may run. Leave it empty and the phase has no deadline. A phase can also override trading group and leverage.

    Every Prop Trading challenge template sets ten rules of its own: Risk per trade — Caps how much of the account a single trade may put at risk. The soft limit is a warning threshold that records a soft breach; the optional hard limit is a violation. Soft-breach budget — Sets how many soft breaches a trader is allowed before the next one becomes a hard violation — so a first mistake is a warning, not the end of the challenge. Stop-loss timer — Requires a stop-loss to be on the position within a set number of seconds of it being opened. Stop-loss removal prevention — Stops a trader deleting the stop-loss once it has been set. Overnight cutoff — Flags positions still open past a cutoff time — set as a clock time in a named timezone, not as an offset, so the rule means the same thing in every market. Minimum holding period — Rejects trades closed faster than a set number of seconds, which is how scalping and latency strategies are kept out of an evaluation. Qualifying day — Makes a day count towards the minimum trading days only if it clears a minimum profit — and can be enforced on the funded account too, not just during evaluation. Weekend holding — Allows or forbids carrying positions through the weekend. Consistency rule — Caps how much of a trader's total profit one day — or one trade — may account for, so nobody passes on a single outsized win. Both are configurable, and either can be extended to the funded account. Violation behaviour — Decides what a breach does: disqualify the account automatically — the violation is still recorded — or hold it for a person to review.

    A Prop Trading template moves through three states: Draft — Authored and saved, visible to nobody. Nothing can enrol against it. Active — On sale in the brand's catalogue. The template carries its live enrolment count, so nothing in use is ever edited blind. Archived — Off sale, with its history intact — and reactivated later if the offer comes back.

    New challenge template

    Challenge type

    One-step

    1 phase

    Two-step

    2 phases

    Three-step

    3 phases

    Instant funding

    No evaluation

    Name
    Brand
    Description
    One-step challenge
    1 phase
    A single evaluation. Pass it, and funding is one action away.
    Two-step challenge
    2 phases
    Evaluation then verification, each with its own targets and limits.
    Three-step challenge
    3 phases
    Three graded phases, each with its own targets and limits.
    Instant funding challenge
    No evaluation
    The trader is funded on purchase and trades under the funded rulebook from day one.

    A first mistakedoesn't have to end the challenge.

    Risk per trade carries a soft warning threshold and an optional hard limit, and the soft-breach budget sets how many warnings a trader gets before the next breach is a violation.

    Evaluations run on all eight platforms. Prop Trading evaluates challenges on every trading platform integrated with the BrokerIQ CRM — MT4, MT5, cTrader, DXtrade, MatchTrader, TradeLocker, ScaleTrade and TraderEvolution — and each template names its evaluation account’s backend, group and leverage.

    On the server

    How are challenge violations detected and reviewed?

    On MT5, TradeCore’s own plugin enforces the rules on the trading server, so a breach is caught where the trade happens. Every violation stores the value detected next to the threshold it broke — and on a template that holds breaches for review, it waits for an operator to confirm it or override it in writing.

    Evaluation in progress

    Phase 1 —

    Profit progress /
    Drawdown from peak /
    Drawdown from start /
    Worst daily loss /
    Trading days /

    Current balance

    Peak balance

    Drawdown from peak and drawdown from start are kept as separate readings. A phase with a trailing floor is measured against the first; a static floor against the second.

    Violations queue

    Every breach, with the number that caused it

    Detected

    —

    Threshold

    —

    Consistency

    Overridden — reason written

    Detected

    Threshold

    Weekend holding

    Confirmed

    Detected

    Threshold

    Six violation types

    • Daily loss
    • Total drawdown
    • Consistency
    • Time limit
    • Weekend holding
    • Manual

    Prop Trading records six violation types: Daily loss — The account lost more in one day than the phase allows. Total drawdown — The account went through the phase's floor, measured static or trailing as the phase is configured. Consistency — One day or one trade accounted for more of the profit than the consistency rule permits. Time limit — The phase ran past its deadline without the profit target being met. Weekend holding — A position was carried through the weekend on a template that forbids it. Manual — An operator raised the breach themselves — the recorded route for anything the automated rules cannot see.

    Resolving one

    1. Detected against a threshold

      Every violation records the value that was measured next to the limit it broke, so the dispute is about a number both sides can see.

    2. Confirmed or overturned by a person

      On a template that holds breaches for review, a violation sits pending until an operator confirms it or overrides it. Overriding takes a written reason.

    3. Signed and dated

      The reviewer's name and the time of the decision are stored on the violation. TradeCore never deletes the record.

    Nothing is ever deleted. The reviewer, the reason and the time stay on a Prop Trading violation for as long as the account exists — the same permanent audit trail as every client record in the BrokerIQ CRM.

    Funded & paid

    Passed, funded, paid — one record

    Passing and funding are two states, and moving between them is an explicit action. The funded account runs on its own group and leverage, climbs a scaling ladder with published requirements, and is paid on the schedule its template sets.

    • Every 7 days
    • Every 14 days
    • Every 30 days
    • On demand

    Enrolment

    1. Pending activation
    2. Active
    3. Passed
    4. Funded
    5. orFailedCancelled

    Funded account

    Account size
    —
    Profit split
    —
    Lifetime P&L
    —
    Scaling tier
    —
    Total paid out
    —
    Last payout
    —

    Scaling check — the next tier

    • Minimum profit—
    • Minimum trading days—
    • Consecutive payouts—

    Payout request

    Requested amount
    —
    Trader's share
    —
    Firm's share
    —
    Balance at request
    —
    Profit at request
    —
    Payment reference
    —
    1. Pending
    2. Approved
    3. Paid
    4. Rejected

    The check gives its reasons

    A scaling check names every requirement a trader has met and every one they have not, next to the numbers it read.

    • Minimum profit
    • Minimum trading days
    • Consecutive payouts
    • Account size
    • Profit share

    A person signs every step

    Funding, promotion and payout are explicit actions by your team, and every rejection carries a written reason.

    • Activate funding
    • Approve a promotion
    • Approve a payout
    • Reason on every rejection

    Floors under every payout

    Each template sets the minimums a payout request has to clear before it can be made.

    • Minimum payout amount
    • Minimum payout percentage
    • First-payout waiting period

    The fee comes in and the split goes out on your rails. Prop Trading challenge fees and profit-split payouts move through the payment providers your brokerage already runs — 100+ PSPs and 300+ payment methods in the BrokerIQ CRM.

    The trader's view

    What does a prop trader see in your portal?

    Prop Trading adds a prop dashboard to your white-label client portal. Traders buy a challenge, follow every phase against its limits, see each breach with the number that caused it, and request payouts — without emailing your desk.

    Prop Trading adds a prop dashboard to the broker’s white-label client portal, in four areas.

    The challenge store lists every challenge on sale, filtered by type and account size, each card showing its profit targets, daily and total drawdown limits, minimum trading days, profit split and price — and the trader checks out without leaving the portal.

    My Challenges shows each phase's balance, peak balance, profit and loss and trading days, progress against the profit target, daily loss and drawdown, the soft breaches used, and a violation history with the value that breached and the limit.

    The funded account view shows the current balance, total profit, total payouts, the amount available for payout, current equity and the trader's and firm's profit split.

    The payouts area lets a funded trader request a payout up to the amount available and follow every request from pending to paid.

    Your brokerage · client portal

    Prop Trading

    1. 1Choose & pay›
    2. 2Pass the challenge›
    3. 3Get funded

    Profit target
    Max daily drawdown
    Max total drawdown
    Min trading days
    Profit split
    Buy

    Profit target
    Max daily drawdown
    Max total drawdown
    Min trading days
    Profit split
    Buy

    Profit target
    Max daily drawdown
    Max total drawdown
    Min trading days
    Profit split
    Buy

    Bought inside your portal

    The trader picks a challenge, adds add-ons and a coupon, and pays through your payment providers in the same checkout.

    • Filters by type and size
    • Platform choice
    • Add-ons
    • Coupon codes
    • Your PSPs

    Every phase against its limits

    Each phase shows the numbers the rules are measured on, so a trader sees a limit coming before they break it.

    • Balance
    • Peak balance
    • Profit target
    • Daily loss
    • Drawdown used
    • Soft breaches

    Breaches with their numbers

    A violation reaches the trader as it reaches your team: its type, the value that breached, the limit and the date.

    • Violation history
    • Detected vs limit
    • Status
    • Open the web terminal
    • Download the platform

    One portal, one login. The Prop Trading dashboard sits inside the white-label client portal that ships with the BrokerIQ CRM, so the trader who buys a challenge verifies, deposits and opens their trading platform from the same account.

    Selling it

    A challenge sells like a product

    A challenge is a product with a price, so Prop Trading treats it like one. Add-ons are priced as a percentage of the challenge, coupons carry usage caps and expiry dates, and a coupon can belong to a partner — which makes a discount campaign an attribution record too.

    Checkout ·

    Challenge price

    Add-ons, priced as a share of the challenge

    Total

    What a coupon code controls

    Fixed or percentage
    A flat discount in the challenge's currency, or a percentage off the price.
    Validity window
    A start and an end date, after which the code stops working.
    Total usage cap
    How many times the code may be redeemed across everyone.
    Per-trader cap
    How many times one trader may use it.
    Partner attribution
    A code can belong to a partner, so a discount campaign is also an attribution record.
    Template scope
    A code can be restricted to named challenge templates rather than the whole catalogue.

    An add-on is priced as a percentage of the challenge it belongs to.

    A catalogue per brand

    Challenge templates belong to a brand, so two prop firms run from one BrokerIQ instance without seeing each other's offers.

    • Per-brand catalogue
    • Your sort order
    • Draft · Active · Archived

    Purchases become enrolments

    A challenge bought on your own site becomes an enrolment automatically, or waits for a person to review it — set per template.

    • Auto-provisioned
    • Held for review
    • Set per template

    Fixed after the sale, too

    An operator can move an enrolment onto a different template, or apply a coupon after the purchase.

    • Apply a coupon later
    • Move to another template
    • Cancel an enrolment

    Partners earn on challenge sales. Prop Challenge is one of the IB Suite’s three commission categories, so a partner is paid on the challenges their referred traders buy — from the same commission ledger as their trading commission.

    Plans

    Prop challenges on every plan

    TradeCore's free plan and Core both run Prop Trading's basic edition: one challenge template on sale at a time, with the full rulebook, violation review, funding, scaling and payouts. The full module, €1,500 a month on TradeCore's Core plan, puts every challenge template on sale at once and enforces the rules on the MT5 server with TradeCore's own plugin.

    Basic edition

    Included

    On TradeCore's free plan (€0) and on Core

    • One challenge template on saleAny of the four types — one-step, two-step, three-step or instant funding — authored in the six-step builder.
    • The full rulebookSix rules per phase and ten per template, from risk per trade and the soft-breach budget to the consistency rule.
    • Every breach on the recordEvery breach stored against the threshold it broke — disqualified automatically, or held for a person to confirm or override in writing, as the template sets.
    • Funding, scaling and payoutsFunded accounts, scaling tiers with a check that gives its reasons, and profit-split payouts every 7, 14 or 30 days or on demand.

    Full module

    €1,500 a month

    An add-on on TradeCore's Core plan

    • Every challenge template on sale at onceOne-step, two-step, three-step and instant-funding challenges side by side, each account size its own template.
    • Rules enforced on the MT5 serverTradeCore's own MT5 prop plugin enforces profit target, drawdown, daily loss and time limits on the trading server itself.
    • Everything in the basic editionThe same rulebook, violation review, funding, scaling and payouts — on every template.

    One price list, published. Prop Trading’s basic edition comes with TradeCore’s free plan (€0) and Core (€2,500 a month, flat); the full module is one add-on line on the same published price list — no per-trader, per-trade or setup fees.

    Inventory

    What’s inside Prop Trading

    Every part of Prop Trading, by area — authoring, rules, evaluation, funding, payouts, the trader’s view, selling and governance.

    Authoring

    The six-step builder, four challenge types and a template lifecycle, with a catalogue per brand.

    • Six-step challenge template builder — basic info, account config, trading rules, advanced rules, phase config, review
    • Four challenge types: one-step, two-step, three-step and instant funding
    • Draft → Active → Archived template lifecycle, with reactivation
    • Live enrolment count on every template, so nothing in use is edited blind
    • Per-brand challenge catalogue with its own sort priority
    • Demo backend, trading group, leverage, currency, account size and price per template
    • Separate trading group and leverage for the funded account

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Authoring

    The six-step builder, four challenge types and a template lifecycle, with a catalogue per brand.

    • Six-step challenge template builder — basic info, account config, trading rules, advanced rules, phase config, review
    • Four challenge types: one-step, two-step, three-step and instant funding
    • Draft → Active → Archived template lifecycle, with reactivation
    • Live enrolment count on every template, so nothing in use is edited blind
    • Per-brand challenge catalogue with its own sort priority
    • Demo backend, trading group, leverage, currency, account size and price per template
    • Separate trading group and leverage for the funded account

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Rules

    Six rules on every phase and ten on the template, from drawdown basis to violation behaviour.

    • Per phase: profit target, max daily loss, max total drawdown, drawdown basis, minimum trading days, time limit
    • Static or trailing drawdown, chosen per phase
    • Per-phase overrides for trading group and leverage
    • Risk per trade with a soft warning threshold and an optional hard limit
    • A soft-breach budget before a soft breach becomes a violation
    • Stop-loss timer and stop-loss removal prevention
    • Overnight cutoff set as a clock time in a named timezone
    • Minimum holding period in seconds
    • Qualifying-day minimum profit, optionally enforced on the funded account
    • Consistency rule by day or by trade, optionally enforced on the funded account
    • Weekend holding allowed or forbidden
    • Violation behaviour: automatic disqualification or held for review

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Evaluation

    Live phase readings, six violation types and a signed review of every breach.

    • Evaluations on all eight integrated trading platforms: MT4, MT5, cTrader, DXtrade, MatchTrader, TradeLocker, ScaleTrade, TraderEvolution
    • On MT5, rules enforced on the trading server by TradeCore's own prop plugin
    • Live phase readings: profit progress, drawdown from peak, drawdown from start, worst daily loss, trading days, current and peak balance
    • Six violation types: daily loss, total drawdown, consistency, time limit, weekend holding, manual
    • Every violation records the detected value against the threshold it broke
    • Every breach creates a violation record: decided at once on an auto-disqualify template, or pending → confirmed or overridden on a review template, with a written reason on an override
    • Reviewer and timestamp stored on every decision
    • Operators raise a manual violation for anything the automated rules cannot see

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Funding & scaling

    Six enrolment states, the funded account record and scaling tiers with a check that explains itself.

    • Six enrolment states: pending activation, active, passed, funded, failed, cancelled
    • Operator actions: advance phase, activate funding, mark failed with a reason, modify, cancel
    • Funded account carries size, profit split, lifetime P&L, tier, total paid out and last payout date
    • Scaling tiers with their own account size and profit share
    • Three tier requirements: minimum profit, minimum trading days, consecutive payouts
    • Eligibility check returns every requirement met and unmet, with the metrics it read
    • Promotions requested, then approved or rejected by a person — rejections carry a reason

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Payouts

    Four schedules, three floors and a payout record that snapshots the account.

    • Schedules: every 7 days, every 14 days, every 30 days, or on demand
    • Minimum payout amount and minimum payout as a percentage of balance
    • First-payout waiting period after funding
    • Every payout splits into the trader's share and the firm's share
    • Account balance and total profit snapshotted at the moment of request
    • Pending → approved → paid, or rejected with a written reason
    • Payment reference written back once the money has moved

    TradeCore Prop Trading — The trader's view

    A prop dashboard in your white-label client portal: store, challenges, funded account and payouts.

    • A prop dashboard inside the white-label client portal, in four areas: Challenge Store, My Challenges, Funded Account, Payouts
    • Challenge store filtered by challenge type and account size, each card showing targets, drawdown limits, minimum trading days, profit split and price
    • Checkout inside the portal: platform choice, add-ons, coupon codes and payment through the broker's payment providers
    • Per phase: balance, peak balance, profit and loss, trading days, and progress against profit target, daily loss and drawdown
    • Soft breaches used, against the template's budget
    • Violation history with type, the value that breached, the limit, the date and the status
    • Open the web terminal or download the trading platform from the challenge
    • Funded account: current balance, total profit, total payouts, amount available for payout, profit split
    • Payout requests and payout history in the same screen

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Selling it

    Add-ons priced as a share of the challenge, coupons with their own limits, and partner attribution.

    • Add-ons priced as a percentage of the challenge price
    • Four add-on kinds: better profit share, more drawdown, fewer trading days, time extension
    • Coupon codes, fixed amount or percentage, in the challenge's currency
    • Coupon validity window, total usage cap and per-trader cap
    • Coupons attributable to a partner and restricted to named templates
    • Storefront purchases auto-provisioned or held for manual review, per template
    • Prop Challenge commissions through the IB Suite

    TradeCore Prop Trading — Governance

    One client record, the platform's audit trail, and a written reason on every refusal.

    • Every prop trader is a client record, marked as a prop trader in the CRM
    • The same audit trail as every other BrokerIQ module — TradeCore never deletes data
    • Violation overrides, scaling rejections and payout rejections all carry a written reason
    • Challenge catalogues kept apart per brand
    Comparison

    How does Prop Trading compare to standalone prop-firm platforms?

    Unlike standalone prop-firm platforms, TradeCore runs the challenge inside the brokerage — one client record, one audit trail, one commission ledger — with six rules per phase and ten more per template, and on MT5 the rules enforced on the trading server.

    CapabilityBrokerIQTradeCoreStandalone prop-firm platformsBuilding it in-house
    Where the rules are enforced
    On the MT5 trading server, by TradeCore's own prop plugin
    Evaluated from trade data after the fact
    Whatever the first build checked
    Depth of the rulebook
    Six rules per phase plus ten template-level rules — risk per trade, stop-loss timing, overnight cutoff, minimum holding period, qualifying days, consistency
    The headline rules — target, daily loss, drawdown, trading days
    Whatever was coded for the first challenge
    Where the trader's record lives
    The same CRM as the brokerage — one client record, one KYC file, one audit trail
    A second admin panel with its own user list
    A database nobody outside engineering can query
    Disputed breaches
    Detected value stored against the threshold it broke; overturned only with a written reason, signed and dated
    A pass/fail flag and a support ticket
    A manual database edit
    Scaling
    Tiers with account size, profit share and three requirements; the eligibility check returns every reason it said no
    A tier table and a manual promotion
    Built later, if at all
    The payout record
    Trader's share and firm's share on one record, balance and profit snapshotted at request time, payment reference written back
    A payout list and an export
    A spreadsheet
    Discounting and add-ons
    Add-ons priced as a percentage of the challenge; coupons with validity windows, usage caps and per-trader caps
    Discount codes
    Hard-coded price changes
    Partner attribution
    Coupons attributable to a partner, and Prop Challenge commissions through the IB Suite
    A separate affiliate tool to reconcile against
    None
    Multi-brand
    A challenge catalogue per brand, with its own ordering, from one instance
    One catalogue per platform
    Re-architecture
    YesPartlyNo

    Competitor columns describe categories of product, not named vendors.

    FAQ

    Questions about Prop Trading

    What brokers ask before they sell their first challenge on TradeCore.

    A prop trading platform for brokers runs funded-account programmes: it sells evaluation challenges, enforces the rules a trader has to meet, and pays out a share of the profit to the ones who pass. TradeCore's Prop Trading module does that inside BrokerIQ, so the funded trader is a client record with the same KYC file, payments and audit trail as every other client.

    Yes, in its basic edition. TradeCore's free plan and Core both run Prop Trading with one challenge template on sale at a time, and the free plan itself has no time limit. The full module is €1,500 a month on TradeCore's Core plan: every challenge template on sale at once, and the rules enforced on the MT5 server by TradeCore's own plugin.

    Yes. Prop Trading runs natively on the BrokerIQ CRM core, or standalone on the CRM you already run with two-way sync over APIs and webhooks. Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive are live today, and in-house CRMs are supported. Standalone Prop Trading runs on TradeCore's Core plan.

    Static drawdown measures the account's floor from its starting balance, so the floor never moves. Trailing drawdown measures it from the account's peak balance, so the floor rises as the trader makes money. TradeCore sets the basis per phase, and records both readings on every account so a disputed breach can be checked against either.

    Every violation stores the value that was detected next to the threshold it broke, so the conversation is about a number both sides can see — and the trader sees the same pair in their portal. Where the template holds breaches for review, a violation sits pending until an operator confirms it or overrides it, and an override takes a written reason. The reviewer and the time are stored on the record.

    Yes. Prop Challenge is one of the IB Suite's three commission categories, alongside Trade-Based and CPA: partners earn on the challenges their referred clients buy, through the same commission ledger as their trading commission. Prop Challenge commissions run on TradeCore's Core plan.

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