The 2025 Annual Prop Trading Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Proprietary Trading

Prop-Firms.com has unveiled its highly anticipated 2025 Annual Prop Trading Awards, a definitive review of the world’s leading proprietary trading firms. This year’s awards evaluated the top 30 firms using a comprehensive, data-driven methodology, highlighting those that excelled in key areas such as affordability, platform quality, challenge structures, and profit-sharing models.

With global interest in proprietary trading surging by 607% over the last four years, these awards offer traders valuable insights into the industry’s best options and emerging trends.

Methodology: A Data-Driven Evaluation

Prop-Firms.com’s rankings focused on what traders prioritize most:

• Realistic profit targets
• Transparent drawdown limits
• Broad market access

By weighing these factors alongside trading costs, software usability, and payout policies, the evaluation provided a balanced, trader-centric view of the top-performing proprietary trading firms.

The resulting rankings were divided into several categories to recognize firms excelling in different aspects:

• Best Prop Firm Overall
• Platform-Specific Awards
• Challenge and Account Awards
• Market-Specific Awards
• Performance and Strategy Awards
• Community and Transparency Awards

Meet The Winners: Top Prop Firms of 2025

The list of the top prop firms are:

1. DNA Funded – Best Prop Trading Firm Overall
2. IC Funded – Top Forex Prop Firm
3. Oanda Prop Trader – Prop Firm for Beginners
4. Blueberry Funded – 100+ Financial Markets
5. Topstep – Best Futures Prop Firm
6. FTMO – Good Scaling Plan
7. FundedNext – Good TradingView Prop Firm
8. Funded Trading Plus – Profit Share to 100%
9. ThinkCapital – Good TradingView Prop Firm
10. The Funded Trader – Good Social Trading Community

The list of the best prop firms for forex trading is the following:

1. IC Funded – Best Forex Prop Firm Overall
2. DNA Funded – Low Commission Fees
3. Blueberry Funded – Fastest Evaluation Process
4. OANDA – Best for Beginner Forex Traders
5. FundedNext – Best Scaling Plan for Funded Traders
6. FTMO – Most Trusted Prop Firm
7. Funded Trading Plus – Instant Funding Challenges
8. FXIFY – Good Challenge Add Ons
9. The 5ers – Strong Forex Trading Community
10. Maven – Lowest Challenge Fees

For the full Prop Trading Awards, rankings and insights, visit Prop-Firms.com.