Trader Match scores your trading style against real firm rules — the same engine will expand to brokers, strategies, and courses over time. Answer the questions below; the ledger re-ranks live, and firms that break a hard rule for your style are marked excluded rather than hidden, so you can see exactly why.
Brokers, strategies, and courses are coming soon — your trader profile carries over automatically, so you won't start from scratch.
Trader Match uses a two-tier, rules-based scoring model — not a black box, and not a paid placement list. Every firm in the dataset is scored the same way, using the same public logic described below. The engine is built category-first: prop firms are live today, brokers/strategies/courses follow the same framework later.
If a firm structurally can't support how you trade, it's excluded from your ranking entirely rather than buried at the bottom. Excluded firms still show in the ledger, greyed out, with the specific reason.
| Filter | Excludes when |
|---|---|
| Instruments | None of your selected instruments are offered |
| Overnight holding | You require it and the firm doesn't allow it |
| Weekend holding | You require it and the firm doesn't allow it |
| News trading | You require it and the firm restricts it |
| EA / algo trading | You require it and the firm doesn't allow it |
| Evaluation type | You require instant/1-step/2-step and the firm doesn't offer it |
Surviving firms are scored on fit. Weights below are approximate maximums per factor — a firm doesn't need to win every category to rank highly, but drawdown headroom and your stated priority carry the most weight.
| Factor | Max points |
|---|---|
| Drawdown headroom (adjusted for your risk-per-trade and loss behaviour) | 18 |
| Stated priority match (payout speed / split / cost / scaling) | 18 |
| Instrument coverage | 16 |
| Account size availability | 10 |
| Platform match | 8 |
| Leverage comfort match | 6 |
| Track record fit (eval type suited to experience) | 5 |
| Style-specific nuance (min trading days, weekend fit) | 4 |
Prop Readiness doesn't ask new questions — it's computed from the same trader-profile answers that power matching (risk per trade, loss behaviour, drawdown comfort, track record) plus a consistency check across your stated style and behaviour. Three components, averaged with risk management and psychology weighted slightly higher than raw consistency:
| Component | Weight |
|---|---|
| Risk management (position sizing, drawdown awareness) | 35% |
| Psychology (behaviour under losses, track record under pressure) | 35% |
| Consistency (do your stated style and behaviour agree) | 30% |
This is a self-report proxy, not a verified trading history. It's meant to prompt honest reflection before spending money on an evaluation, not to gatekeep — a low score comes with a suggested pathway, not a refusal.
Traders Temple may earn a referral commission when you open an account with a firm through this tool. That relationship never affects a firm's score or rank — the scoring model above runs identically regardless of which firms pay commission, and firms cannot pay for a better position. Commission only ever determines which firms we prioritise onboarding into the dataset in the first place. Every score breakdown includes an explicit line confirming commission wasn't a factor.
Prop firm rules change often. This dataset is checked and updated on a recurring basis, but you should always confirm current drawdown limits, targets, and payout terms directly with the firm before funding an account.