Funded Trader Survey

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What funded traders actually experience, in their own words.

Share what happened with your prop firm. The survey takes about 5-8 minutes and does not ask for your name or email. Your answers help BestProps show what traders are seeing with evaluations, payouts, rules, and firm trust.

5-8 minutes
No name or email

What The Survey Tracks

  • Evaluation experience

    Attempts, pass timing, fee spend, and the rules that caused problems.

  • Payout experience

    Whether traders were paid, how long it took, what method was used, and where requests got stuck.

  • Rule clarity

    Which rules traders understood before buying and which rules created confusion later.

  • Firm trust

    How traders rate the firms they have actually tried.

Take The Survey

Answer from your own experience. The survey is for funded traders, previously funded traders, and traders who have attempted prop firm evaluations. BestProps uses responses to publish summary findings, not individual answers.

1. Before we start

This survey is pseudonymous. We do not ask for your name, email, or IP address. Your submission gets a response ID you can use to request deletion. By continuing, you agree that BestProps may analyze and publish aggregated, anonymized results as described in the survey methodology. This survey is for research; it is not financial, legal, or tax advice.

Have you attempted at least one prop firm evaluation (any firm, any asset class)?

Which best describes your current status?

In which year did you last attempt an evaluation or trade a funded account?

2. About you

How long have you been actively trading (funded or not)?

What is your primary funded/evaluation asset class?

Where are you based?

Is trading your main source of income?

Roughly how many prop firm evaluations have you attempted in total, across all firms?

Roughly what was your total gross income from prop trading in the last 12 months (payouts received, before costs)?

3. Choosing a firm

Which firm do you currently (or most recently) hold a funded account or active evaluation with?

If other, which firm?

How many different prop firms have you tried (evaluation or funded)?

What mattered most when you chose your firm? Pick up to 3.

Where did you first hear about your firm?

How likely are you to recommend your firm to another trader? (0 = not at all, 10 = extremely likely)

4. Evaluations and pass rates

On which attempt did you first pass an evaluation (any firm)?

How long did it take you to pass your most recent successful evaluation, from starting that attempt?

Roughly how much have you spent on evaluation fees, resets, and activations in total, across all firms, lifetime?

What caused your most recent failed evaluation?

How fair did the evaluation process at your firm feel?

Optional: in one or two sentences, what is the single biggest thing firms get wrong about evaluations? (Free-text answers are never included in the public dataset.)

5. Payouts

Have you ever requested a payout from a funded account?

Thinking of your most recent payout request at your firm: what happened?

How long did your most recent completed payout take from request to money received?