Prop Firms That Use DXtrade, and What US Traders Give Up on It

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We checked 17 prop firms (18 listings, counting Hola Prime’s forex and futures arms) that sell or are listed with DXtrade, on their own checkouts, help articles and terms.

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We checked 17 prop firms (18 listings, counting Hola Prime’s forex and futures arms) that sell or are listed with DXtrade, on their own checkouts, help articles and terms. Six sell a DXtrade account today that stays on DXtrade up to the first payout. Ranked by cost per $1,000 of overall loss room at $50K: Alpha Capital Group Alpha Pro 10% ($53.40, $267), BrightFunded 2-Step Classic ($66.68, €297), FXIFY Two Phase Classic ($75.80, $379), Velotrade CLASSIC 2-Step ($83.80, $419), Tradeify 247 2-Step ($116.67, $350) and AudaCity Capital Ability One ($133.00, $399). DXtrade is mostly the US route: Alpha Capital Group, BrightFunded, Tradeify 247 and AudaCity Capital send US residents to it because MetaTrader is barred, while FXIFY’s own pages disagree on US access. It is often the cut-down version: no EAs or copy trading at Alpha Capital Group, no API at BrightFunded, no bots at FXIFY, no working phone app at Tradeify 247. Lark Funding, Nordic Funder and Ment Funding sell DXtrade but never say the funded account stays on it. FTMO (March 24, 2026), Blueberry Funded (April 25, 2026), Breakout (by July 13, 2026), FTUK, For Traders and Hola Prime have all dropped DXtrade.

Freshness: checked October 2, 2026, with checkouts and platform pages re-read on October 4, 2026. BrightFunded’s euro price is converted at the ECB reference rate of October 2, 2026 (EUR/USD 1.1225). Firms change platforms and prices without notice, so re-check the checkout before you pay. Each Trustpilot figure carries the date it was read.

Quick answer on prop firms that use DXtrade

• Cheapest DXtrade loss room: Alpha Capital Group Alpha Pro 10%, $53.40 per $1,000, open to US residents.
• Static floor for US traders who pay in euros: BrightFunded 2-Step Classic, $66.68 per $1,000.
• Raw or all-in pricing on DXtrade: FXIFY Two Phase Classic, outside the US.
• Automation on DXtrade: Velotrade, the only ranked firm built entirely on DXtrade, with a free API on every account.
• Crypto on DXtrade from the US: Tradeify 247 2-Step, DXtrade only for US clients.
• US route stated in every footer: AudaCity Capital Ability One, with a funded-platform question to settle first.

Asking which brands “have” DXtrade gets the wrong answer more often than not. Of the 18 listings we checked, only six sell a DXtrade account that stays on DXtrade until a payout, three sell it at checkout without saying where the funded account runs, seven have dropped it, and two are listed for it without ever selling it on their current pages. The ranking below uses each firm’s cheapest DXtrade product on cost per $1,000 of loss room. If you trade cTrader or TradeLocker instead, the same checks are in prop firms that use cTrader and prop firms that use TradeLocker.

Prop firms that use DXtrade, ranked by cost

Six firms, one row each, cheapest per $1,000 of overall loss room first. “$50K list price” is the regular price with DXtrade chosen; none of the six charges extra for DXtrade. The second table keeps the same order and adds the terms that decide whether the account suits you.

Notes on this ranking: ^* BrightFunded and AudaCity Capital publish no activation fee and show none at checkout, but neither states that there is none. We counted $0. BrightFunded already costs $66.38 more than Alpha Capital Group for the same $5,000 of room, so no fee could move it up; the euro would have to rise about 14% against the dollar before it passed FXIFY. FXIFY’s Two Phase Standard ties the Classic at $75.80; we rank the Classic for its static floor. AudaCity Capital’s Ability Challenge would rank second at $65.80, but its terms put the live account on MT5, so it is not ranked. If Lark Funding confirmed that its funded account stays on DXtrade, its 1-Step Max at $64.83 would rank second; Nordic Funder’s Two-Step at $86.25 would rank fifth. Codes and promotions never set a rank; they appear in each firm’s section with their end dates.

How we checked prop firms that use DXtrade

1. Firm pages only: each firm’s live checkout, platform FAQ, help articles and terms, read October 2, 2026 and re-read October 4, 2026. Directories, roundups and trade press were leads, never sources.
2. Per product and per stage: we graded the plan, not the brand, at evaluation, at the funded stage and at any live stage before the first payout.
3. The test: DXtrade must be selectable at checkout today for that plan, and the firm must say the funded account runs on DXtrade or continues on the same platform.
4. The cost measure: list price plus any DXtrade add-on plus any activation fee, divided by the overall maximum loss in dollars, times 1,000, at $50K. Never the daily loss limit, never a code price.
5. US access kept separate: a firm that bars US residents from DXtrade is still ranked, because losing one platform is not a country ban; where the firm’s pages disagree, we take the reading that costs you more.

Each firm’s cheapest DXtrade plan on that measure is the one ranked, so a dearer sticker can win when it buys more loss room: BrightFunded’s €297 2-Step Classic beats its €277 2-Step Bright for that reason. A live call-up, where the firm can move a trader to another account, is listed as a warning and never changes a rank. A dropped platform counts as dropped even when old accounts can keep trading on it.

What DXtrade is and who hosts it for prop firms

DXtrade is a trading platform made by Devexperts and licensed to brokers and prop firms, who run it on their own servers under their own names. It runs in a web browser, on desktop and on phones, and Devexperts builds a CFD version for forex, indices, metals and crypto CFDs plus a futures version. Who runs that copy decides the instruments, the logins and the support. For a plain definition, see our DXtrade explainer.

Three hosting patterns show up among the firms we checked:

• Shared host GooeyTrade: Nordic Funder says its platforms are “all integrated via GooeyTrade,” Lark Funding points its DXtrade users to trade.gooeytrade.com, and Hola Prime’s footer credited “Gooey Trade, GT Tech LLC” for DXtrade until the platform was dropped.
• A broker’s server: FXIFY’s DXtrade is “powered by Alchemy Markets,” and Alpha Capital Group runs every platform through ACG Markets, which it calls “a third-party FSA-regulated brokerage.”
• The firm’s own branded server: Velotrade (dx.velotrade.com), Tradeify 247 (dx.tradeify247.co) and AudaCity Capital (dx.audacity.capital). BrightFunded white-labels the apps as the “BrightFunded Trading App.”

The host matters because it sets what you can trade and how you log in. At Tradeify 247 the public DXtrade phone app does not accept the firm’s logins; at Breakout, the S&P 500, crude oil and silver were made “available exclusively on the Breakout Terminal and are not available on DXTrade” in August 2026, shortly before DXtrade sales stopped. Devexperts licenses software; it does not regulate anyone, and no firm here claims otherwise.

DXtrade is mostly the US route at prop firms

Most forex prop firms cannot give US residents MetaTrader, and DXtrade is what several of them offer instead. That makes the US question the first one to ask about any DXtrade account:

• Stated in writing: Alpha Capital Group (“for U.S. residents, the available platforms are cTrader*, DX Trade, and TradeLocker,” cTrader closed to new US customers), Tradeify 247 (“US-based traders can use DXTrade instead”) and AudaCity Capital (“U.S. residents may only participate via the DX Trade platform where permitted”).
• By exclusion: BrightFunded bars US persons from MT5 and cTrader, says nothing against DXtrade, and leaves the US off its restricted list.
• Firm pages disagree: FXIFY says “For US based clients, only DX and Trading View are offered” while its footer says it does not establish accounts for US residents. We do not count it.
• Not named at all: Velotrade, Lark Funding, Nordic Funder and Ment Funding sell DXtrade to a US IP but never mention the US; silence is not a yes.
• Taken away: FTUK listed DX Trade for US traders in December 2025 and dropped it by March 2026; FTMO’s US arm sells MT5 and TradingView only.

The tests differ, too. Alpha Capital Group and AudaCity Capital go by residence, BrightFunded by citizenship, residence or living in the US, and Alpha also tells MT5 holders not to log in while travelling in the US. AudaCity’s checkout asks US residents to pick DXtrade but does not stop them choosing MT5, which leaves the consequence unstated. Our US prop firm restrictions page explains why losing MetaTrader does not amount to a country ban.

What you give up on DXtrade compared with MT5

At every ranked firm that sells both, the price, loss limits and payout rules were the same on DXtrade and MT5. What changes is what the platform lets you do:

• Bots and EAs: banned on DXtrade by name at Alpha Capital Group, BrightFunded and FXIFY, three of the four ranked forex firms that also sell MT5. AudaCity Capital’s pages contradict each other. Only Velotrade and Tradeify 247, both built for API trading, allow automation on DXtrade.
• API access: BrightFunded switches it off; Lark Funding has “not released a public API”; Velotrade gives REST and WebSocket access on every account but no FIX API.
• Copy trading: “not possible” on or from DX Trade accounts at Alpha Capital Group.
• Mobile: Tradeify 247 tells traders not to download the DXtrade app because it “does not work with Tradeify credentials”; its MT5 app does.
• Indicators and add-ons: FXIFY allows no custom indicators on DXtrade and did not offer its 50:1 leverage add-on there; Alpha Capital Group’s swap-free add-on is MT5 only.
• Products and instruments: FXIFY’s Lightning plan and Alpha Capital Group’s $2,500 Alpha Direct size are MT5 only. It runs the other way too: FXIFY’s crypto plans are DXtrade only.

For a manual trader none of this costs anything. For anyone running code, DXtrade at a forex prop firm usually means giving the code up, and US traders, who often have no other platform, feel it most.

The ranked DXtrade prop firms, firm by firm

In table order. Each section covers the same points: DXtrade at each stage, US rules, what DXtrade loses at that firm, the cost working, loss limits and payouts, commission and host, the main watch-out and the Trustpilot reading.

Alpha Capital Group sells the cheapest DXtrade loss room and lets US residents buy it

Alpha Capital Group puts DX Trade on every evaluation plan at the same price as MetaTrader 5: its price API returned $267 for the Alpha Pro 10% plan at $50K with either platform chosen, and the product page says there are “no activation fees.” 10% of $50,000 is $5,000 of static room, so the plan works out at $53.40 per $1,000, the lowest of any DXtrade product we ranked. It is also one of the few firms that writes the US answer down: “for U.S. residents, the available platforms are cTrader*, DX Trade, and TradeLocker,” with cTrader closed to new US customers.

Video: Alpha Capital Group’s channel has no DX Trade walkthrough; its newest upload explains Alpha Direct, a different product, so we left it out.

• DXtrade by stage: DX Trade is a tile at checkout for Alpha One, Alpha Pro, Alpha Swing and Alpha Direct at $50K. The firm publishes no separate funded-stage platform sentence, but its US rule only works if the Qualified (funded) account runs on DX Trade, and its EA article says a feature must be “enabled and used during the evaluation” to carry onto the Qualified account. Payouts are made from that simulated Qualified account. A later Alpha Prime live stage runs on CQG, AgenaTrader and Alpha Trader, not DX Trade, but it only comes after payouts have been made.
• US traders: US residents can buy DX Trade or TradeLocker. Alpha’s country guide, dated June 30, 2026, says “DXtrade and TradeLocker are fully available to US traders.” The checkout code hides MetaTrader 5 and cTrader from a visitor it detects as American, and the firm adds that “Traders travelling to the U.S. must refrain from using their MetaTrader 5 accounts while staying there.”
• What DXtrade loses here: Automation and two add-ons. “EA functionality is not currently available for cTrader, DX Trade, or TradeLocker accounts,” and “copy trading on or from cTrader, DX Trade, and TradeLocker accounts is not possible.” The swap-free add-on and the checkout’s Enable EA option appear only for MetaTrader 5, and the $2,500 Alpha Direct size is MetaTrader 5 only. Price, leverage and commission do not change by platform.
• Cost at $50K: $267.00 list, no DXtrade surcharge, no activation fee, against $5,000.00 of overall loss room: $53.40 per $1,000. The code ALPHA20 takes the plan to $213.60 from October 1 to October 31, 2026. The Bi-Weekly payout version of the same plan lists at $297 ($59.40 per $1,000).
• Loss limits and payouts: The floor is $5,000 static at both stages. The daily limit is 5% ($2,500), measured on the higher of end-of-day balance or equity, and Qualified accounts at $50K and above also stop out any single asset at 2% open risk. On-Demand payouts need 2% gross profit ($1,000) and a 40% best-day rule applies; the split is 80%, or 90% with an add-on. Leverage is 1:100 on Alpha Pro.
• Commission and host: A Raw account pays “$2.5 per lot” each way, $5.00 a round turn on forex; the Standard account has no commission, and indices are commission-free on both. All Alpha platforms run through one broker: “We exclusively use ACG Markets, a third-party FSA-regulated brokerage,” in the firm’s words.
• Watch out for: The DX Trade account cannot run any EA, not even the risk-management tools MT5 users may get approved, and a 2-minute average trade-duration rule applies on Qualified accounts. An Alpha Prime review can follow a $40,000 single payout or five payouts from one account; declining it pays a final payout but ends your relationship with every Alpha Group brand.
• Choose it when: You trade by hand, you are a US resident locked out of MetaTrader, and you want a $5,000 static floor at the lowest cost per $1,000 here.
• Trustpilot: rating hidden behind Trustpilot’s “breach of our guidelines” banner, 21,822 reviews (read October 4, 2026).
• Further reading: Alpha Capital Group profile.

BrightFunded makes DXtrade its only US platform, and switches off automation on it

BrightFunded offers three platforms, “DXTrade, cTrader and MT5,” and bars US citizens, residents and anyone living in the US from the last two. Nothing in its platform article bars Americans from DXtrade, the US is missing from its restricted-country list, and our US-IP checkout offered DXtrade with no warning, so DXtrade is the US route by exclusion rather than by an explicit sentence. The 2-Step Classic costs €297 at $50K on every platform, which is $333.38 at the ECB rate of October 2, 2026 (EUR/USD 1.1225). Against a $5,000 static floor that is $66.68 per $1,000.

Video: “BrightFunded – Trading Platform – PC & Laptop Guide,” BrightFunded official YouTube channel, September 6, 2023. Source type: vendor-produced. Why selected: the firm’s own DXtrade desktop guide, linked from its help article as its DXtrade video tutorial; it dates from 2023, so the screens may have changed.

• DXtrade by stage: DXtrade is a radio button at checkout. A help article from March 17, 2026 explains how to switch “between your Challenges and Funded Accounts on DXTrade,” so the funded account sits on the same DXtrade login. The funded account is simulated and pays directly; there is no live stage.
• US traders: “If you are citizen, resident, or live in the US or UAE, MT5 will not be available for you due to local regulations,” and the same wording bars US persons from cTrader. DXtrade carries no such note. The firm never says in so many words that Americans may use DXtrade, which is why this row rests on exclusion.
• What DXtrade loses here: “Please note that API and automated trading are not supported on DXtrade.” EAs are allowed on MT5, so a US buyer loses automation entirely. TradingView is chart-only: “You cannot connect directly to TradingView, but you can add the chart on our DXtrade platform.” Price, leverage and the commission table are the same on all three platforms.
• Cost at $50K: €297 ($333.38) list, no DXtrade surcharge, no activation fee published (counted as none), against $5,000.00 of overall loss room: $66.68 per $1,000. A “Promo” banner offers €252.45 ($283.38) with the code RALLY15, no end date shown. The cheaper 2-Step Bright (€277) has only $4,000 of room, which works out dearer at $77.73 per $1,000.
• Loss limits and payouts: 10% of $50,000 is $5,000, static from the starting balance at both stages. The daily loss is 5% ($2,500) on equity including floating trades, and breaching it ends the account. The first reward comes 30 days after your first funded trade, then every 14 days, at an 80% split (90% with an add-on, up to 100% through the Scaling Plan). Leverage is 1:100 on forex, 1:40 on gold and commodities, 1:20 on indices and 1:5 on crypto.
• Commission and host: Commission is $3 a lot on currency pairs, nothing on indices and 0.024% of volume on crypto, the same on every platform. BrightFunded names no broker or host for its DXtrade server, and its terms say it “does not act as a financial broker.” A purchase can be refunded only “if you haven’t made any trades on the account yet.”
• Watch out for: The 30-day wait for the first reward is the longest of the ranked six, and a 5-minute news restriction applies. The firm’s 1-Step on DXtrade is not ranked: its floor trails the intraday equity peak including open profit.
• Choose it when: You trade from the US by hand, want a static floor, and are comfortable paying in euros.
• Trustpilot: rating hidden behind Trustpilot’s “breach of our guidelines” banner, 572 reviews (read October 3, 2026).
• Further reading: BrightFunded profile.

FXIFY lets you choose raw or all-in pricing on DXtrade, but says DXtrade runs no bots

FXIFY sells DXtrade “as an additional platform, powered by Alchemy Markets,” and prices it the same as MT5: $379 for the Two Phase Classic at $50K. Its 10% static floor is $5,000, so the cost is $75.80 per $1,000. The Two Phase Standard costs the same $379 for the same $5,000 and ties on our measure; we rank the Classic because its floor never moves, while the Standard trails your closed-balance high until it locks at the start balance. FXIFY is also the only ranked firm whose checkout lets you pick the price feed on DXtrade, raw spreads plus commission or all-in.

Video: “How to Trade Your FXIFY Account Inside TradingView,” FXIFY official YouTube channel, September 30, 2025. Source type: vendor-produced. Why selected: FXIFY’s own TradingView walkthrough, which says a DX Trade challenge or funded login works on TradingView with the same credentials; no official DXtrade setup video exists on the channel.

• DXtrade by stage: DXtrade is a checkout option on the One, Two and Three Phase plans. FXIFY’s platform FAQ says that on reaching the funded stage with no trades placed “you can request change from MT5 to DX trade or TradingView,” and its Two Phase card lists “MT5, DXTrade or TradingView” for every phase including Funded. The funded account pays directly.
• US traders: The firm’s pages disagree, so we do not count FXIFY as a US route. The footer on every page says “We do not establish accounts to residents of certain jurisdictions including the United States.” Its FAQs say “For US based clients, only DX and Trading View are offered,” and our US-IP checkout showed exactly those two platforms with no residency box to tick. Until FXIFY reconciles the two, a US resident is relying on the narrower reading at their own risk.
• What DXtrade loses here: “DXtrade does not support trading bots,” and “you cannot add custom indicators into DXtrade” (it offers 90 built-in ones). The 50:1 leverage add-on did not appear on the DXtrade checkout, and the Lightning plan sells on MT5 only. The reverse also happens: FXIFY’s crypto plans are DXtrade-only.
• Cost at $50K: $379.00 list, no DXtrade surcharge, no activation fee, against $5,000.00 of overall loss room: $75.80 per $1,000. REWARD25 takes 25% off to $284.25, with the banner reading “Expires: 31st October 2026.” A 40% FIFTY40 flash sale on $50K accounts ended on October 2, 2026.
• Loss limits and payouts: The Classic floor is $5,000 static at both stages. The daily limit is 4% of the prior-day 5 PM EST balance ($2,000). The funded stage adds a 25% consistency rule; payouts come every 14 days at 80% or monthly at 100%, and the Classic fee is not refunded. The Standard refunds its fee with the first payout. Base leverage is 30:1 on forex and gold.
• Commission and host: On the Raw feed commission is $6 a lot on forex, metals and indices and 0.35% round turn on stock CFDs; the All-In feed has no commission except on stocks. FXIFY names FXPIG as its partner broker and price feed.
• Watch out for: FXIFY enforces its prohibited-strategy rules: eleven or more dated 2026 reviews describe account terminations, and the firm’s own reply on October 4, 2026 said “your account was found utilising a prohibited strategy.” Platform changes are allowed only before a trade is placed in the current phase.
• Choose it when: You live outside the US, trade by hand, and want a choice between raw and all-in pricing on DXtrade.
• Trustpilot: 4.3 out of 5 on 6,373 reviews (read October 4, 2026).
• Further reading: FXIFY profile and FXIFY rules summary.

Velotrade runs on nothing but its own DXtrade server, with a free API on every account

Velotrade is the only ranked firm where DXtrade is not one option among several: “Velotrade runs on DXtrade, the professional multi-asset trading platform,” on its own server at dx.velotrade.com, with a free read-only guest login at dx.velotrade.com/guest so you can try it before paying. The CLASSIC 2-Step costs $419 one-time at $50K, and “The challenge fee is the only payment you make.” Its 10% static floor is $5,000, so the cost is $83.80 per $1,000.

Video: Velotrade’s channel has no DXtrade walkthrough; its newest upload is a talk on who takes the other side of a trade, so we left it out.

• DXtrade by stage: “Every Velotrade challenge is a DXtrade simulated account with real market prices, using the same interface as the funded account.” Funded accounts are simulated and pay directly; there is no live stage.
• US traders: No Velotrade page names the United States. Its restricted list covers sanctioned places such as North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba and Crimea, the US is not on it, and our US-IP checkout priced every plan. The terms also exclude places “where local regulations prohibit such services,” which the firm does not apply to the US either way, so treat US access as likely but unconfirmed in writing.
• What DXtrade loses here: Nothing, because there is no MT5 version to lose against. The flip side: “EAs written for MT4 or MT5 will not connect natively,” so MetaTrader code must be bridged or rewritten for the DXtrade API, and “FIX API is not available.”
• Cost at $50K: $419.00 list, no DXtrade surcharge, no activation fee, against $5,000.00 of overall loss room: $83.80 per $1,000. A banner offers $335 with the code ALGO2026 (20% off), marked “Limited time only” with no end date shown.
• Loss limits and payouts: The floor is $5,000 static at both stages and “does not move.” The daily loss is 5% of the balance at 00:30 UTC, checked against live equity. The first payout comes 14 calendar days after your first funded trade and after five qualifying days of at least 0.8% realised profit; the split is 80% (90% with an add-on), the minimum is $100, and there is no consistency rule. Leverage on major currency pairs is 50x in the challenge and 30x once funded.
• Commission and host: Velotrade quotes raw spreads with no markup and charges commission instead: 0.004% of notional per side on forex, about $4.49 a side on one lot of EURUSD at 1.1225, 0.01% on commodities and 0.03% on crypto, indices and single stocks. It names no liquidity provider beyond “Tier-1 exchanges and liquidity providers,” and its stock prices track KuCoin USDT perpetuals, traded around the clock.
• Watch out for: The first and second payouts are capped at 20 times the fee you paid, $8,380 at list, and “Any balance exceeding the Payout Cap is forfeited.” The terms also say a funded account is “not guaranteed, regardless of Evaluation performance.”
• Choose it when: You want to automate on DXtrade with a free REST or WebSocket API and accept a payout cap on the first two withdrawals.
• Trustpilot: rating hidden behind Trustpilot’s “breach of our guidelines” banner, 8 reviews (read October 4, 2026).
• Further reading: our cheapest crypto prop firms guide.

Tradeify 247 gives US crypto traders DXtrade only, and its DXtrade has no working app

Tradeify 247 is a crypto firm that lets you choose DXtrade or MetaTrader 5 at checkout, at the same price on both: its 2-Step lists at $350 one-time at $50K. In the US the choice disappears: “MetaTrader 5 is not available to traders in the United States. US-based traders can use DXTrade instead.” The 6% static floor is $3,000, which puts the plan at $116.67 per $1