Funding Models
Firm Capital Prop Firms
Firm Capital Firms covers prop firms that fund traders directly with live firm capital (no SIM evaluation), profiled by proprietarytrading.com.
83 firms match this criteria
Firm-capital firms fund traders on real market capital — no simulator, no evaluation account, no SIM-to-live promotion step. Your P&L is real firm P&L from the first trade.
This is the classic proprietary trading model — closer to how professional prop desks operate than the challenge-based evaluation industry that grew up around retail traders. It typically comes with more selective onboarding, higher payout splits on live P&L, and a longer relationship with the firm.
The firms below fund on live firm capital rather than a SIM evaluation phase. If you're trying to move from retail evaluation firms to a genuine professional prop structure, this is the shortlist to start with.
How a firm qualifies
A firm qualifies when it runs at least one verified firm-capital desk. Structured program data decides membership. A secondary funding model is included when those programs do not already cover it; firms with no programs fall back to their primary and secondary labels.
Results use ProprietaryTrading.com's program and account-tier data where available, with firm-level data used as a fallback when appropriate. Firms with no stated value are excluded rather than counted as zero.
Full methodology →Industry statistics
What this group looks like
Auto-computed from proprietarytrading.com's firm database
- Typical profit split
- 50%
- Most common platforms
- Proprietary · Internal · Proprietary systems
Median across 28 firms
Proprietary (48) · Internal (28) · Proprietary systems (4)
| Firm | |
|---|---|
| Chicago Trading Company (CTC) Chicago, USA Firm Capital 3.5(1) | |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. New York, USA Firm Capital 3.5(1) | |
| Volant Trading New York, NY, USA Firm Capital 3.5(1) | |
| Point72 Asset Management Stamford, USA Firm Capital 3.3(2) | |
| SMB Capital New York, USA Firm Leverage + Firm Capital 3.0(8) | |
| Tower Research Capital New York, USA Firm Capital 2.8(7) | |
| Group One Trading Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital 2.5(50) | |
| TransMarket Group Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital 1.6(177) | |
| Akuna Capital Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| AQR Capital Management Greenwich, CT Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Aspect Capital London Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Balyasny Asset Management Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Belvedere Trading Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Brevan Howard St Helier Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Campbell & Company Baltimore, MD Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Capstone Investment Advisors New York, NY, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Capula Investment Management London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Citadel LLC Miami, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Citadel Securities Miami, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| DRW Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Dunn Capital Management Stuart, FL Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Eagle Seven Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Eclipse Trading Hong Kong Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Element Capital New York, NY, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| ExodusPoint Capital New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Five Rings New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Flow Traders Amsterdam, Netherlands Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| G-Research London Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Garda Capital Partners Wayzata, MN, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Gelber Group Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Geneva Trading Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Graham Global Investment Fund Rowayton, CT Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| GTS (Global Trading Systems) New York, NY, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| HC Technologies Chicago, IL Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Headlands Technologies Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Hudson River Trading New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| IMC Trading Amsterdam, Netherlands Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Jane Street New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Jump Trading Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Kershner Trading Group Austin, USA Firm Leverage + Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Liquid Capital Group Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Mako Trading London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Man AHL London Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Man Numeric Boston, MA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Marshall Wace London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Maven Securities London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Millennium Management New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Old Mission Capital Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Optiver Amsterdam, Netherlands Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| PDT Partners New York, NY Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| PEAK6 Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Pharo Management London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Quadrature Capital London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Quantlab Financial Houston, TX, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| QuantRes George Town Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Radix Trading Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Renaissance Technologies East Setauket, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Rokos Capital Management London Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| RSJ Securities Prague Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Schonfeld Strategic Advisors New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Spot Trading Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Squarepoint Capital New York/London Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Susquehanna International Group (SIG) Bala Cynwyd, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Symmetry Investments Hong Kong Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| The Voleon Group Berkeley, CA, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Tibra Capital Sydney, Australia Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| TJM Investments Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Tradebot Systems Kansas City, MO Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Trexquant Investment Stamford, CT Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Trillium New York, USA Firm Leverage + Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Two Sigma Securities New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Vatic Investments New York, NY, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Verition Fund Management Greenwich, CT, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Virtu Financial New York, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Vivcourt Trading Sydney Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Voloridge Investment Management Jupiter, FL Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Walleye Capital Minnetonka, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| WH Trading Chicago, IL, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Wintermute London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Winton Group London Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| Wolverine Trading Chicago, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| WorldQuant Old Greenwich, USA Firm Capital No trader reviews yet | |
| XTX Markets London, UK Firm Capital No trader reviews yet |
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