Disclosure

Affiliate & Editorial Disclosure

At propfirmreviews.org, our primary commitment is to the trader. To maintain your trust, we operate with absolute transparency regarding how we evaluate proprietary trading firms, how we generate revenue, and where we draw the line to protect our editorial integrity.

Our Current Partnership Status

As of June 2026, propfirmreviews.org maintains zero active affiliate relationships or commercial partnerships with any prop firm featured on our site.

We have no signed partner agreements, tracking links, or commercial ties with major industry players, including but not limited to:

  • FTMO

  • Topstep

  • Apex Trader Funding

  • FundedNext

  • Take Profit Trader

  • Tradeify

  • My Funded Futures

  • Bulenox

  • Funding Pips

  • The5ers

  • Phidias

If and when we establish affiliate partnerships in the future, we will explicitly disclose the relationship on the specific firm review pages and update the comprehensive list on this disclosure page immediately.

The Core Principle: Editorial Independence

Our scoring system is built to be entirely immune to financial influence. We use a standardized, multi-dimensional methodology that evaluates firms across five core pillars: Rule Fairness, Payout Reliability, Pricing Structures, Platform Quality, and Regulatory/Trust Signals.

  • Fixed Ratings: A firm’s score is dictated solely by our data and testing. Becoming an affiliate partner will never result in a rating boost. If a poorly rated firm offers us a commercial partnership, their poor rating remains unchanged.

  • No Paid Placements: We do not sell “Top 10” slots, featured homepage banners, or any advertising package that alters our natural rankings. Any high ranking or positive highlight on our platform is earned through our objective evaluation criteria, never purchased.

For a deep dive into exactly how we calculate our ratings, please visit our Methodology Page.

Our Monetization Strategy

To keep our core directory and deep-dive reviews free for all traders, we plan to roll out three distinct revenue models sequentially:

  1. Selective Affiliate Agreements: We will only enter affiliate partnerships with firms that have already earned a high trust rating through our independent review process. If a top-tier firm provides an exclusive discount code for our readers, we may accept a referral commission. The partnership follows the high score; the score never follows the partnership.

  2. Vetted Newsletter Sponsorships: Our weekly industry briefing will eventually feature clearly labeled sponsored slots. We strictly vet these sponsors—if we wouldn’t comfortably recommend the firm in our directory, we will not sell them sponsorship space.

  3. Premium Analytical Tools (Long-Term): In future phases (targeted for 2027 and beyond), we intend to launch paid, high-value tools for advanced traders, such as proprietary payout-tracking dashboards and institutional-grade research reports.

Our Ethical Boundaries

To ensure absolute clarity, here is what propfirmreviews.org will never do:

  • We will never sell or auction off our leaderboard rankings.

  • We will never suppress, alter, or delete negative findings or critical reviews in exchange for a payout or partnership.

  • We will never publish fabricated, paid, or incentivized user reviews. All user feedback displayed on our firm profiles is transparently sourced from vetted, independent aggregators and explicitly credited.

  • We will never list unverified or deceptive discount codes. If a promotional code is visible on our site, it stems from a verified, active agreement.

Accountability

We hold ourselves to the highest standards, but we welcome your scrutiny. If you have questions about our disclosures, suspect an undisclosed commercial conflict, or want to challenge a specific review, please contact us directly. We are fully committed to answering your concerns openly.