Prop Firm and Broker Status Tracker
This page tracks prop firms and brokers that have closed, paused trading, merged, or drawn action from a regulator. We maintain it because traders lose money to firms that quietly stop paying, and because that information is scattered across Discord servers, Reddit threads and deleted websites.
Last checked: 1 October 2026. Every entry below links to our full review, where the evidence and dates are set out at length.
Closed or ceased trading
These firms are no longer operating. Do not buy an evaluation or deposit funds with any of them.
| Firm | Status | Date / checked | What happened | Full review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOT4X | Closed | 1 Oct 2025 | Ceased operations. ASIC licence revoked; deposits and trading disabled; no new clients. kot4x.com still carries the firm’s own notice that it is no longer operating, with support@kot4x.com given for residual queries (re-checked 6 Oct 2026). | Read |
| CLMarkets | Closed | 10 Jul 2025 | Core Liquidity Markets Pty Ltd had its ABN cancelled and is being deregistered. clmarkets.com is parked for sale. | Read |
| Nova Funding | Defunct | Suspended 2024, domain re-checked 6 Oct 2026 | nova-funding.com no longer belongs to the firm. It has redirected to more than one unrelated commercial site since the suspension and currently lands on a hospitality site, so treat any page under this name as not the prop firm. Trustpilot 2.2 from 4,468 reviews, dominated by payout-delay complaints. | Read |
| Funded FX (MyFundedFX) | Ceased prop trading | Feb 2026, domain re-checked 6 Oct 2026 | No longer selling evaluations. myfundedfx.com now carries a notice that Seacrest Markets is no longer operating. | Read |
| Seacrest Funded (formerly MyFundedFX) | Ceased prop trading | Feb 2026, domain re-checked 6 Oct 2026 | No longer sells evaluations. seacrestfunded.com now redirects to a parking host rather than a live site. | Read |
| Vital Markets | Ceased operations | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | vitalmarkets.com carries the firm’s own notice that it is no longer operating, with support@vitalmarkets.com for residual queries. No tier-1 licence was ever found. | Read |
| GMI Edge | Ceased operations | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | Global Market Index LLC (SVG) and GMI Global Market Index Limited (St. Lucia) have ceased all trading activities and business operations, per the notice on gmiedge.com. No new clients; final stages of an orderly wind-down. Existing clients are directed to app.gmimarkets.com to review their accounts. | Read |
| Axiance | Offline | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | The axiance.com domain still has no DNS record. Trustpilot carries scam allegations; several reviewers link the brand to EverFX and Aureium. | Read |
| TriumphFX | Appears shut down | Checked 25 Sep 2026 | No DNS resolution. | Read |
| Arctic Funding | Closed | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | arcticfunding.com still has no DNS record. Customers report a shutdown and Trustpilot carries warnings. | Read |
| Be Funding | Closed | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | befunding.io has no DNS record and support is unresponsive. Trust score 37/100 with unresolved complaints. | Read |
| 1of1 Funding | Inactive | Reports 2024–2025 | Brand domain offline; multiple shutdown reports; Traders Union score 2.7. | Read |
| Leveled Up Traders | Domain sold | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | leveleduptraders.com no longer belongs to the firm — it now serves an unrelated online gambling site. Treat the brand as defunct. | Read |
| N2Trade | Gone | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | No DNS record on n2trade.com or n2trade.io, and our review of the brand has been removed. Nothing of the business remains online. | — |
| OptionFair | Domain sold | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | optionfair.com now redirects to a HugeDomains for-sale listing. The binary-options brand is gone and our review of it has been removed. | — |
Winding down, paused, or unverifiable
These are not confirmed closures, but each has a reason to stop and check before paying anything — a wind-down notice, a paused service, a dead website, or a suspended review profile.
| Firm | Status | Date / checked | What happened | Full review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FundingTicks | Winding down | Support stated until 31 Jan | The firm posted a notice describing this as a strategic decision. Do not buy a new evaluation. | Read |
| Lionheart Funding | Domain listed for sale | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | Previously logged as paused after the MT5 crackdown. lionheartfunding.com now serves a parking stub that redirects to a GoDaddy for-sale listing for the domain, so treat the firm as closed rather than paused. | Read |
| The Funded Pro | Could not be verified | Re-checked 6 Oct 2026 | thefundedpro.com still does not load: its TLS certificate remains expired, so its terms cannot be read. Separate business from FunderPro. | Read |
| Guardeer Funding | Could not be verified | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | guardeerfunding.com still serves a maintenance page promising the site will be “live right after Wednesday”, carrying a 2025 copyright — the same notice has been up for about a year. Trustpilot reviews disabled; earlier reviews included scam reports. | Read |
| Paradise Capital | Domain parked | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | paradisecapital.ai resolves but serves only a parking stub with no site behind it. Trustpilot 3.5 from 540 reviews with payout complaints in recent feedback. | Read |
| Express Funded | Website down | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | expressfunded.com resolves but returns a 404 with no site behind it. Payout complaints reported. Our own review advises against it. | Read |
| Direct Funded Trader | Trading, Trustpilot rating suspended | Domain checked 6 Oct 2026 | directfundedtrader.com is live and selling. The Trustpilot suspension is from our earlier review and we could not re-check it on this pass. Verify the firm is operating before funding. | Read |
| Dominion Funding | Trading, Trustpilot rating suspended | Domain checked 6 Oct 2026 | dominionfunding.trade is live and selling challenges on cTrader, MT5 and TradingView. The Trustpilot suspension is from our earlier review and we could not re-check it on this pass. Verify the firm is operating before funding. | Read |
Merged or rebranded
These firms still exist, but not under the name you may be searching for.
| Firm | Status | Date / checked | What happened | Full review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trading Funds | Merged into FTUK | 18 Apr 2026 | Same accounts and rules. Legacy accounts keep a 90% profit split; new FTUK accounts start at 80%. Existing payouts honoured. | Read |
| TD Ameritrade | Retired into Charles Schwab | May 2024 | Accounts moved to Schwab. thinkorswim continues under Schwab. | Read |
Regulator action or warning
These firms are still trading. Each has had a licence cancelled, surrendered, or has been the subject of a regulator warning or clone-firm notice. That does not make them fraudulent, but it changes what protection you have if something goes wrong.
| Firm | Status | Date / checked | What happened | Full review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICM Capital (ICM.com) | FCA authorisation cancelled | Apr 2026 | Exited UK retail around 2023, so FSCS cover has ended. Now licensed by the UAE SCA in Dubai under offshore terms. | Read |
| T4Trade | UK FCA warning | Jan 2026 | Offshore FSA-regulated. Check its current status in your jurisdiction before depositing. | Read |
| IUX | CySEC flagged iux.com in the EU | Jul 2025 | Also carries reports of delayed withdrawals. | Read |
| Orbex | Dropped its CySEC licence | 2025 | Now operates under Mauritius FSC and Seychelles FSA oversight only, reducing client protection. | Read |
| TenTrade | Flagged as a CySEC clone | Domain checked 6 Oct 2026 | tentrade.com is live and trading. Tier-3 Seychelles FSA oversight rather than FCA or ASIC. | Read |
| Vault Markets | Domain listed for sale | Checked 6 Oct 2026 | vaultmarkets.com now serves a parking stub that redirects to a GoDaddy for-sale listing, so the brand appears to have stopped trading on top of the existing concerns: FSCA status indirect at best, poor Trustpilot record. | Read |
| Fortuna Markets | Unregulated | Registered 2023 | St. Lucia registration with no financial licence and no tier-1 oversight. Reports of funds disappearing. | Read |
How we check
Each entry is confirmed against at least one primary source before it is listed: a regulator register (ASIC, FCA, CySEC, FSCA), a company register such as the Australian Business Register, the firm’s own announcement, or a verifiable technical fact such as a domain that no longer resolves or a certificate that has expired.
We record the date of the event where the firm or the regulator published one, and the date we checked where no official date exists. Where a status rests on user reports rather than an official source — payout complaints, for example — we say so rather than presenting it as established fact.
We do not list a firm here because it is unpopular, because its reviews are mixed, or because a competitor says so.
If something here is wrong
If you represent a firm listed above and your status has changed, or if you believe an entry is inaccurate, contact us and we will re-check it against the same sources. Corrections are made on evidence, not on request.
Cite this page
This tracker is maintained as a public record. You are welcome to cite or quote it, and a link back is appreciated but not required. Suggested citation:
Top30ForexBrokers, Prop Firm and Broker Status Tracker, 32 firms tracked, last reviewed 6 October 2026. https://top30forexbrokers.com/prop-firm-status-tracker/
Current version: 32 firms — 15 closed, 8 winding down or unverifiable, 2 merged, 7 under regulator action. Every entry had its domain re-tested on 6 October 2026: DNS resolution, HTTP response, redirect destination and the firm’s own on-site notice where one exists. If you are a journalist or researcher and need the underlying source list for a specific firm, contact us and we will send the references we used.
This page is informational. It is not financial advice, and it is not a judgement on any firm’s solvency or conduct beyond what the cited sources establish. Always verify a firm’s current licence with the relevant regulator before depositing.