Data change log
Every material change to the data, the scoring, or a firm’s status — including the times we had it wrong.
Prop firm terms change without notice, and a comparison site that never appears to be wrong is either extraordinarily lucky or not telling you something. This log records changes that could have altered a reader’s decision: prices, rules, licensing status, eligibility, and changes to how the score itself works. Entries tagged “we were wrong” are our errors, not the firm’s.
- We were wrongAlpha Capital · FTMO · Moneta · Volt Funded · The5ers · ZoraFX
Six firms no longer shown as “regulated”
These firms were marked as licensed and carried a green “Regulated” badge. Checking the records showed the licence country was identical to the country of incorporation in every case — a company registration recorded as a financial licence. The5ers and ZoraFX both state in their own terms that they are not supervised by a financial regulator. Statuses are now “company registration only” or “not regulated”, each with a note explaining what that does and does not prove. No listed firm is currently financially regulated.
- We were wrongMoneta Funded
Instant plan prices were wrong by up to 9×
The $5K Instant account was listed at $350; it is $40. The 10K was $600, actually $80. The 50K was $2,750, actually $415. These came from a third-party aggregator when the firm was first added and were never confirmed against Moneta’s own checkout. Corrected from the firm directly, along with the previously missing 25K and 100K tiers.
- We were wrongAlpha Capital
Alpha One and Alpha Pro 8% prices corrected
Read from the firm’s own checkout. Alpha One moved from $50/$197/$297/$497/$997 to $47/$187/$277/$477/$947 across its five sizes; Alpha Pro 8% from $77/$247/$357/$577/$1,097 to $37/$177/$297/$527/$997. Same origin as the Moneta error — aggregator data that was never verified. Alpha Pro 6%, Alpha Pro 10% and Alpha Three could not be matched to a current product on the firm’s site and keep their older, unverified prices.
- Firm dataSitewide
Iran eligibility recorded for all 11 firms
Previously only four firms had any eligibility record. SGB, ZoraFX, Invest Prop, Propia, FundedNext and Volt Funded accept Iranian traders; Funding Pips, Alpha Capital, FTMO, The5ers and Moneta do not. Volt Funded had been marked as blocking Iran on 26 Aug based on a reading of its restricted-jurisdictions footer — that was wrong and has been reversed. Eligibility has never been an input to the TC Score.
- We were wrongSGB
Commission corrected to $4.50
Two tables disagreed: the live-spread page used $4.50 and the scoring data used $5.00, so the site quoted two different commissions for the same firm and the score charged SGB 50 cents per lot it does not take.
- Firm dataSitewide
322 rule corrections across all 11 firms
A full re-audit of every listed firm’s published rules: drawdown models, daily and total limits, consistency rules, per-trade risk caps, profit targets, payout terms and leverage. The largest single class of error was profit split — four firms were recorded at their marketed ceiling rather than the rate a trader actually starts on. SGB was the worst, listed at 87.9% when the real schedule is 75% on the first payout, 80% through the sixth, and 90% only from the seventh.
- MethodTC Score
Missing data no longer helps or harms a score
A blank field used to mean both “this firm has no such rule” and “nobody checked”, and the score treated the two inconsistently — an unchecked consistency rule scored as the best possible value while every other missing field scored as the worst. Unknown inputs are now excluded and the remaining weights rescaled. Because that is invisible in a single number, every score now also publishes a coverage percentage. Control for the change: Propia, the only firm with no unknowns at the time, moved 0.00.
- MethodTC Score
Gold leverage now scored on the metals tier, not the FX tier
The gold-capacity component was reading each firm’s FX leverage, which overstates it for every firm that caps metals separately — and several do it per plan rather than per firm. Metals leverage is now a separate field. Firms whose metals tier is not yet verified are excluded from that component rather than assumed.
- Firm dataSitewide
31 discontinued plans removed, 10 added
Plans that can no longer be bought were listed as available. The clearest case was Funding Pips “1 Step” — all six sizes of a model whose own help page is titled “1 Step Model (No Longer Offered)”, including a $200K size that never existed. FundedNext’s Stellar Instant line had to be rebuilt entirely: all four stored sizes were discontinued and four new ones introduced. Inventory went from 196 plans to 174.
- We were wrongZoraFX
Gold spread was recorded at half its real value
Stored as 20 points against a real 38. Spread carries 21% of the TC Score on its own, so the correction moved ZoraFX from 4th to 8th. The stale value survived because the firm renders its instrument data in a way automated checks cannot read, and because ZoraFX had been rotated off the live spread feed — nothing was contradicting it. The same exposure applies to every listed firm not currently on the feed.
- MethodSitewide
Every score now publishes its full working
Each firm page shows how its TC Score was reached: every component, the value recorded, the range across all listed firms, the weight it carried, and what lifts or holds the score down. The explanation is produced by the same database function that produces the score, so the two cannot drift apart.
Logo updates, index tuning and copy edits are real changes but nobody chose a firm because of them, so they are not listed here. Spotted something we have not caught? The corrections page explains how to tell us, and we review within 7 days.