Skip to content
helloweekends
helloweekends

News

A backlit laptop keyboard
Funded Futures Network ·

Funded Futures Network says it is buying PropEd; payouts run late

FFN emailed traders that it is acquiring PropEd Capital, naming a new CEO, and that payouts are late.

The Vltava River, Charles Bridge and Prague Castle in Prague
FTMO Futures ·

FTMO enters futures with EOD drawdown and 90/10 payouts

FTMO opened a futures program on September 17, 2026 with Growth and Pro plans on three platforms.

A financial data terminal with market screens and keyboard
Tradeify ·

Tradeify cuts Select Flex payout caps, raises two Select Daily caps

Select Flex caps drop and two Select Daily caps rise for Tradeify accounts bought from September 1.

Program code on a computer monitor
NinjaTrader ·

NinjaTrader launches AI Innovation Lab with Nina and an MCP server

NinjaTrader's new Innovation Lab adds the Nina assistant, an AI Strategy Builder and an MCP server.

Interior of the Chicago Board of Trade Building
The5ers Futures ·

The5ers Futures adds 22 CME single stock futures

The5ers says 22 single stock futures, among them Nvidia, Apple and Microsoft, are live on its futures accounts.

Art Deco lobby of the Chicago Board of Trade Building
CME ·

CME futures close early Monday for Labor Day, reopening at 5 p.m. CT

Equity and rate futures stop at midday Monday, September 7; energy and metals follow at 1:30 p.m. CT.

Charts and statistics on a laptop screen
FundedNext Futures ·

FundedNext claims $350M in payouts; on-chain tracker verifies 64%

The firm's counter combines CFD and futures, is self-reported, and an on-chain tracker matches only part of it.

Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey
My Forex Funds ·

MyForexFunds opens claims form for accounts frozen in August 2023

The firm opened a one-month submission form for Evaluation, Accelerated and Rapid accounts frozen in 2023.

A desk with a laptop and a calculator
MyFundedFutures ·

MyFundedFutures ends evaluation subscriptions, adds inactivity rule

New evaluations are one-time purchases from August 25, and an untraded account can be closed after seven days.

Allen H. Gould Trading Floor, a university trading room with monitors
Tradeify ·

Tradeify opens Forge limited drops with a $449 Select 300K evaluation

Tradeify's first Forge drop is a $300,000 Select evaluation at $449, limited to three per trader.

The New York Mercantile Exchange building at One North End Avenue, Manhattan
CME ·

CME delays 10-Barrel WTI weekend futures as CFTC review runs on

NYMEX's 10-barrel WTI contract will not list on August 30 while the CFTC's extended review runs to October 26.

Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse in the Chicago Loop
Alpha Futures ·

Judge denies Alpha Futures' injunction bid in NinjaTrader case

A judge denied Alpha Futures' preliminary injunction against NinjaTrader and sent the case to settlement talks.

Bridges over the Chicago River in downtown Chicago
Topstep ·

Topstep Labs sells a $3,000 fixed-payout challenge for $49

Topstep's $3K Challenge runs two rounds and pays a flat $3,000, after which the account closes.

A university trading room in Markin Hall, University of Lethbridge
Rev One Trading ·

Rev One Trading closes; founder moves to prediction markets

Angelo Ciaramello says the futures prop firm shut down the previous week, with no word on subscriptions.

Entrance to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C.
CFTC ·

CFTC proposes new CPO and CTA exemptions; comments due October 5

A CFTC proposal would exempt some SEC-registered advisers and double the Small Pool Exemption threshold.

A bank trading room with multi-monitor workstations in Salzburg, Austria
Bulenox ·

Bulenox adds Fast Track and Momentum, cuts master accounts to five

Bulenox put Fast Track and Momentum on sale August 17, ended monthly billing and capped masters at five.

A backlit laptop keyboard
Earn2Trade ·

Earn2Trade adds BlackArrow platform to all evaluations at no cost

Earn2Trade says BlackArrow, Nelogica's trading platform, is now available on all its evaluations at no extra cost.

The skyline of downtown Orlando, Florida
Take Profit Trader ·

Take Profit Trader cuts evaluation minimum to three trading days

New Take Profit Trader test accounts can pass in three trading days from August 17; existing tests keep five.

Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse and flagpole, Jacksonville, Florida
Topstep ·

Court stays discovery in McCrudden v. Topstep pending arbitration

A Florida magistrate judge paused discovery in the McCrudden suit until the arbitration motion is decided.

A university trading room with rows of desks and monitors
MyFundedFutures ·

MyFundedFutures adds Rapid EOD with end-of-day funded drawdown

MyFundedFutures started selling Rapid EOD on August 6, with end-of-day drawdown at every stage.

Close-up of a financial price chart on a screen
Lucid Trading ·

Lucid makes the daily loss limit a checkout option on LucidFlex

Lucid's LucidFlex now sets the daily loss limit at checkout, on for a lower price or off for a higher one.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, photographed in 2007
CME ·

CME reports record July volume of 27 million contracts a day, up 23%

CME Group reported record July volume of 27 million contracts a day, led by micro-sized contracts.

Chicago Board of Trade Building, a CME Group trading venue, in the Chicago Loop
CME ·

CME to launch E-nano equity index futures on August 24

CME announced four E-nano index contracts for August 24, sized below one Micro E-mini.

Frank R. Lautenberg U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey
Apex Trader Funding ·

Apex sues a funded trader over chargebacks

Apex Trader Funding sued a customer on July 29, 2026, alleging thousands of bad-faith card chargebacks.