TradersYard has rolled out a new set of trading challenges built specifically for futures traders, marking a shift away from the FX and CFD-style rulebooks that dominate the retail prop space.
“We built these because most prop firms treat futures like an afterthought - same old fx/cfd rules slapped onto completely different instruments combined with unnecessary complex restrictions just to confuse users into failing their accs,” Manuel Sonnleithner, the Co-Founder and CEO of TradersYard, said.
The firm confirmed the launch of futures-based challenges as part of an expansion of its retail proprietary offering, saying the product targets traders who operate on exchange -traded derivatives and who have previously had to work within conditions designed for other asset classes.
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The rollout positions futures as a standalone segment inside TradersYard’s evaluation structure. According to the company, the new ruleset emerged after it observed that many prop trading providers apply the same framework across FX, CFDs and futures.
This practice, it said, often leaves futures strategies constrained by conditions that do not reflect contract size, tick value or margining. The launch aims to address those mismatches by introducing futures-specific parameters from the outset.
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Sonnleithner added that “futures need different risk management, different scaling logic, different everything,” highlighting the need for tailored challenge design.
“Futures need different risk management , different scaling logic, different everything. So we designed challenges specifically for how futures traders actually operate: position sizing that makes sense for leverage, drawdown rules and profit targets that align with typical futures moves and removal of most of the noise of weird rules other props throw at their clients.”
Focus on Position Sizing and Drawdowns
Sonnleithner also framed the changes as a response to trader feedback around opaque rules and non-market constraints. In his announcement, he said “traders who've been waiting for proper futures challenges – they’re live now,” signalling that the firm expects demand from participants who have avoided futures programmes under mixed-asset templates.
TradersYard is majorly owned by Andromeda Capital Partners Suisse, a Swiss-based private equity firm. It was founded by entrepreneurs Ingmar Mattus and Antonis Dessipris.
In Finance Magnates' prediction for the news year, futures-focused prop firms have become an attractive extension for CFD-based props, particularly in the US market. Established US names such as TopStep, Apex and MyFundedFutures dominate this segment, while newer entrants like FundedNext have also moved into futures. The5ers is likewise anticipated to roll out its own futures prop trading platform.
