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Prop Firm Secret Research Desk

Independent review profile

This desk exists to audit prop firms from a trader-survival perspective, not a marketing perspective. The priority is simple: expose the funded-stage rules, hidden traps, execution reality, and trust signals that actually change whether a trader can keep an account.

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What this profile is responsible for

Funded-stage audits Hidden rule extraction Execution and broker trust Rankings maintenance Structured review publishing

The Prop Firm Secret Research Desk writes and maintains reviews, updates structured data, recomputes firm scores, and keeps the public rankings aligned with the live scoring system. It is not a signal service, broker referral desk, or challenge-selling funnel.

Editorial standard

1. Fine print wins

If the homepage says one thing and the ToS says another, the legal or rule text becomes the authoritative interpretation.

2. Funded stage is the truth

Drawdown, profit split, funded pressure, and survivability are based on funded-stage conditions, not challenge marketing headlines.

3. Public evidence only

Broker, registration, Trustpilot, and rule claims must be grounded in public evidence that can be inspected or cited.

What gets checked in every serious review

Rule pressure

Funded drawdown type, max loss, and daily loss structure
Open-loss or floating-loss layers
Best-day, consistency, or one-sided-risk pressure
Minimum trading-day requirements and payout friction

Trust reality

Broker backing and named liquidity-provider evidence
Registration evidence, jurisdiction quality, and legal entity clarity
Operating history versus domain-age mismatch
Trustpilot scale, not just rating

How a firm review is maintained

Identity and structure

Confirm domain, canonical slug, logo/favicon source, legal entity trail, and whether the firm is broker-backed, liquidity-backed, or effectively virtual only.

Funded-stage extraction

Extract plans, funded drawdown, profit split, payout cadence, restrictions, and all trader-facing rules that affect long-term account retention.

Hidden-rule audit

Search the ToS, FAQ, help center, and legal pages for open-loss layers, payout discretion, best-day traps, dual-company structure, and similar buried risk.

Score recomputation

Recompute the live AI Score from the current methodology, refresh structured outputs, and push the updated result into the public rankings feed.

Conflict and disclosure stance

What this desk does not do

It does not score firms based on challenge discounts or marketing hype alone.
It does not treat challenge-phase values as main display truth for funded survivability.
It does not override legal disclosures with optimistic homepage copy.

What this desk is optimized for

Finding what firms bury.
Explaining rule pressure in plain trader language.
Keeping live rankings, detail pages, and methodology aligned.

Scoring Methodology Read the full live AI score algorithm and tie-breaker logic. Leaderboard Rankings See the live ordering of firms based on the current score system. Machine readable Rankings JSON Inspect the live public feed used by search engines and LLM agents.

Corrections and source updates

If you have a factual correction, updated rule page, verified registration source, or broker/liquidity evidence that changes a review, send it to hello@propfirmsecret.com. Useful submissions include the exact source URL, the changed clause or rule text, and the date the source was accessed.