{"id":5782,"date":"2026-04-20T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=5782"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:50:21","slug":"what-is-proprietary-trading","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/resources\/glossary\/what-is-proprietary-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es el Trading Propietario? Gu\u00eda Completa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>El trading propietario<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> significa que una empresa opera en los mercados financieros utilizando su propio dinero, no dinero perteneciente a los clientes. Una <\/span><b>firma de trading de fondeo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> obtiene sus ingresos directamente de esas operaciones. Cuando las operaciones son rentables, la empresa gana. Cuando no lo son, la empresa absorbe la p\u00e9rdida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esto es diferente de c\u00f3mo opera una corredur\u00eda o un fondo de inversi\u00f3n. Una corredur\u00eda gana comisiones por las transacciones de los clientes, independientemente de si esos clientes ganan dinero. Una empresa de prop trading solo obtiene beneficios cuando sus traders rinden bien. Ese v\u00ednculo directo entre el rendimiento del trader y los ingresos de la empresa es una de las razones clave por las que el modelo de empresa de prop trading se ha vuelto tan popular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El trading propietario estuvo una vez limitado a las mesas internas de grandes instituciones financieras. Con el tiempo, surgieron empresas de prop trading independientes que permitieron a los traders minoristas acceder al capital de la empresa a trav\u00e9s de programas estructurados. Hoy en d\u00eda, traders de todos los or\u00edgenes pueden solicitar estos programas, pasar una evaluaci\u00f3n y comenzar a operar con capital de nivel profesional sin necesidad de trabajar en un banco o instituci\u00f3n financiera.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"glossary-category":[131],"class_list":["post-5782","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-category-trader-glossary"],"acf":{"target_keyword":"Proprietary Trading","glossary_post_image":"","key_takeaway":"Key Takeaway","key_takeaway_description":"Proprietary trading means using a firm's own money to trade. 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You typically need to pass an evaluation to demonstrate that you can trade consistently while managing risk within defined limits.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-category?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}