{"id":5790,"date":"2026-04-21T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/?post_type=glossary&p=5790"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:48:44","slug":"what-is-a-funded-trader","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/zh\/resources\/glossary\/what-is-a-funded-trader\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Funded Trader? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

A <\/span>funded trader<\/b> is a trader who has successfully completed a prop firm’s evaluation and has been granted access to the firm’s capital to trade live markets. The trader operates within the firm’s guidelines and receives a percentage of any profits they generate, without using their own money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Becoming a funded trader is the primary objective for most people who enter the prop firm space. It allows a trader to operate at a significantly larger account size than they could personally afford, which increases the financial impact of a strong trading strategy. Profit splits for funded traders typically fall between 70 and 90 percent, depending on the firm and program.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maintaining a funded account requires consistent adherence to the firm’s trading rules. This includes staying within loss limits, managing position sizes appropriately, and avoiding any strategies that the firm has restricted. Many firms also offer account scaling programs, where traders who demonstrate consistent profitability over time are given access to progressively larger amounts of capital.<\/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-5790","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-category-trader-glossary"],"acf":{"target_keyword":"Funded Trader","glossary_post_image":"","key_takeaway":"Key Takeaway","key_takeaway_description":"A funded trader uses the firm's capital to trade and receives a share of any profits. No personal funds are at risk, and account sizes can grow over time based on performance.","faq":"How much can a funded trader earn?<\/strong>\r\nIt depends on the account size, the profit split, and the trader's performance.\r\n\r\nCan a funded trader trade full time?<\/strong>\r\nMany funded traders do trade as their primary source of income. Whether that is realistic depends on consistent profitability and the size of the funded account.\r\n\r\nWhat disqualifies a funded trader from keeping their account?<\/strong>\r\nThe most common reasons are exceeding the max drawdown, breaching the daily loss limit, using prohibited strategies, or violating the firm's trading rules in any other way.\r\n\r\n "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-category?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}