How We Score Forex Prop Firms

This page shows how Pip Standard turns published rules into the score on each card, so you can rebuild the order with your own weights.

Five criteria, one set of weights

• Payout policy, 35 percent.
• Trading rules, 25 percent.
• Cost of entry, 20 percent, measured by the fee refund alone: we publish no prices, so we do not score them.
• Profit split, 10 percent.
• Transparency, 10 percent.

Each is marked out of 10, and the weighted sum is the card score. Support, once worth 5 percent, was dropped: nothing about it can be measured.

How each point is earned

Payout policy. A stated processing time of 24 hours or less is worth 4 points, up to 2 business days 3, anything longer or vaguer 1. A remedy written down for a missed deadline is worth 3. The payout rhythm on the firm’s best plan adds 3 for on demand or every 7 days or less, 2 for every 8 to 14 days, 1 for monthly.

Trading rules. Eight checks at 1.25 points each: no best-day or consistency rule in the evaluation; none on at least one funded account; no deadline to pass; no minimum number of days to pass; news trading on the funded account; weekend holding on the funded account; EAs allowed; and, as the forex check, forex leverage published per asset class, at 1:100 or more in the evaluation. A news profit cap, a review of weekend gap trades or EAs allowed only while evaluated earn half a check.

Cost of entry. 10 for a refund worth more than the fee, 8 for the whole fee back with the first payout, 5 for the whole fee later or part of it, 0 for no refund.

Profit split. 9 for a default share of 90 percent or more, 8 for 85, 7 for 80, 5 below that, plus 1 when a 100 percent share is available through an add-on or a program, capped at 10.

Transparency. 10 to start, minus 1 for each “Not published” cell beyond the average across our tables. Only “its pages differ” markers in our tables count, 2 points each, down to 0.

When a rule is unclear

Each rule is marked on the most favorable plan the firm sells for it, since you choose the plan. When a firm gives two versions of a fact on its own pages, we score the less favorable one and label it “its pages differ” until the firm aligns them. A fact the firm does not publish scores 0.

Every firm’s score

Marks out of 10, calculated on 6 October 2026. Rows follow the exact score, which the Score column rounds: FunderPro, FundedNext and Goat Funded Trader all show 7.1, FXIFY and E8 Markets both 5.2.

Where the figures come from

We use only each firm’s own pages, never another comparison site, and store each figure with its page and the date we read it. We cannot see whether each withdrawal is paid or test fills on a simulated account, so the payout mark rates what the firm commits to in writing.

Partners and first place

Links to firms are commercial, and commissions fund Pip Standard. Meridian Funded, Tiger Funded and FXP are our direct commercial partners, and Meridian Funded ranks first under these weights because it holds the top mark on payout, fee refund, split and transparency, with 7.5 on rules: payouts processed within 12 hours, with +10% added to the next payout when that window is missed, and forex rules published in detail, from leverage per asset class to the profit cap around red-folder news. Its Step funded accounts do carry a best-day cap, and the tables show it. If you rank cost above payouts, your order may differ, which is why the weights are public.

How often we check

We re-read every figure in the tables within 30 days of the last check, or earlier when a firm announces a change, and recalculate the scores from them. Questions go to contact@nuestroshijos.do.