About
Who is behind PropWorld.
PropWorld (propworld.org) is independent prop-trading analytics: third-party website-traffic estimates, payouts verified by Payout Junction, TrustPilot reputation history and its own Payout Reliability Score (PRS) for a curated set of prop firms — the ones its operator trades with. It is not a prop firm, a broker or a funding provider.
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Who runs it
PropWorld is built and run by one independent trader who funds accounts at the firms listed here. The site is a one-person operation: the data pipeline, the published formula and the editorial reviews are all the operator's, and so is the responsibility for getting them right.
What PropWorld is not
It is not a prop firm, a broker, a funding provider or a signal service, and it does not sell challenges or accounts. It does not audit firms or verify their finances, and nothing on the site is investment advice or a recommendation to buy an evaluation.
How the firms are chosen
The board lists 18 firms: the ones the operator actually trades with. It is a curated shortlist, not a directory, so a firm you have heard of may not be here — its absence says nothing about it. Firms cannot pay to be added or removed, and the list changes only when the operator's view of a firm changes. The reasoning is set out on the methodology page.
Where the numbers come from
Website traffic is a third-party monthly estimate of visits to each firm's public website — not the firm's own analytics. Payout figures are tracked and verified by Payout Junction, an independent service; PropWorld republishes them, keeps the history and links each firm to its source record. Payout Junction covers 14 of the 18 firms on the board and 44 firms in all; a firm it does not cover shows no payout figures here, which is a coverage gap and not a finding about the firm. Ratings are TrustPilot's, snapshotted monthly, and the Payout Reliability Score (PRS) is PropWorld's own published formula. Every method and its limits are on the methodology page.
How PropWorld makes money
Some outbound links to firms are affiliate links and some firms list discount codes; if you sign up through one, PropWorld may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships never touch the numbers: traffic, payout and reputation figures come from data sources, and no firm can pay to change a figure, a score or a position on the board.
Report an error
If a figure looks wrong, it may well be — data sources change, scrapers break and firms rebrand. Send the page and the figure to PropWorld on X. We check the source and correct or withdraw the figure, and we say so on the page it affected.
Quick answers
- Is PropWorld a prop firm?
- No. PropWorld (propworld.org) is an independent analytics site run by one trader. It is not a prop firm, a broker, a funding provider or a signal service, it sells no challenges or accounts, and it is unrelated to the real-estate site of the same name.
- Who runs PropWorld?
- One independent trader who funds accounts at the firms listed, and who is deliberately not named on the site. The data pipeline, the published Payout Reliability Score (PRS) formula and the editorial reviews are the operator's own work, and so is the responsibility for getting them right.
- Where do PropWorld's numbers come from?
- Website traffic is a third-party monthly estimate of visits to each firm's public website, not the firm's own analytics. Payout figures are verified and published by Payout Junction and republished here with a link to each source record (it covers 14 of the 18 firms listed). Ratings are TrustPilot's, snapshotted monthly. The Payout Reliability Score (PRS) is PropWorld's own published formula.
- Is PropWorld a directory of every prop firm?
- No. It lists 18 firms, the ones the operator trades with. A firm's absence from the site says nothing about that firm, and the list changes only when the operator's view of a firm changes.
- Can a firm pay to be listed or to improve its figures?
- No. Some outbound links are affiliate links and some firms list discount codes, and neither touches the data: traffic, payout and reputation figures come from their sources, and no commercial arrangement changes a figure, a score or a position on the board.
- How do I report an error on PropWorld?
- Send the page and the figure to PropWorld on X. The source is checked, the figure is corrected or withdrawn, and the correction is noted on the page it affected.
Entity reference: PropWorld (propworld.org), prop-trading analytics — not the real-estate site of the same name.