The bench
The tools around the trade: charting, data, journals, tax, copiers. Handpicked on one rule - we only list what we would use ourselves - and labeled honestly.
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Charting & analysis
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TradingView
The industry standard for web charts, Pine Script indicators and strategy testing. Free is enough to start; Pro removes the ad, alert and layout limits that matter for daily use.
NinjaTrader
Desktop futures platform with DOM, market replay and institutional-grade execution. The NQ scalper default. Free sim mode lets you learn the book without risk.
Bookmap
Order-flow heatmap that shows resting liquidity and large prints in real time โ where size actually sits, not just where candles closed.
Sierra Chart
Ultra-low-latency charting and execution. The professionals' choice for speed and stability, with a professionals' learning curve and a dated UI.
Quantower
Multi-asset terminal covering futures, stocks and crypto with DOM, footprint charts and advanced order types. The free core covers more than most paid tiers elsewhere.
ATAS
Cluster, footprint and market-profile volume analysis. For traders who have outgrown candlesticks and need to see who is absorbing whom.
DeepCharts
Next-generation charting with pattern recognition and AI-assisted technical analysis โ more scan-and-annotate than a full execution stack.
Indicators
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TradeScorer Forge
Our TradingView indicator for serious NQ scalpers: quantitative M1 signals, session context and rule-based execution support.
SMRT ALGO
A complete TradingView system rather than a loose indicator pack: 5-factor confluence entries with stop and two targets printed at signal time, plus a Smart Money toolkit (order blocks, FVGs). Claims no repaint. Works across crypto, forex, futures and stocks.
LuxAlgo
Broad TradingView toolkit plus its own AI charting platform. Breadth play: a large library of overlays, screeners and strategy tools, not a single NQ execution model.
Market data
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Databento
Institutional tick-by-tick historical data for NQ, ES and major futures โ pay-per-query or subscription. Excellent Python SDK for serious backtests.
Rithmic
Ultra-low-latency live data and order routing used by most US futures prop firms. Usually accessed through your firm, not bought retail.
Interactive Brokers
Full brokerage with live NQ data from low monthly exchange fees, plus a paper account. Cheapest path to exchange-fee data if you already trade there.
Journals & utilities
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Edgewonk
Deep process journal: tags, playbooks and psychological metrics that surface repeating mistakes. Built for discretionary traders who want to quantify an edge, not just log fills.
TraderSync
Auto-import from brokers, then pattern and performance analytics on the synced trades. Faster to start than Edgewonk if you want broker sync over a custom playbook.
Consistry
Consistry: a journal for prop traders. Auto-sync from MT4/5, cTrader, TopstepX, Match-Trader, DXtrade, TradeLocker, Tradovate and NinjaTrader, tracking of balance, equity and the trailing floor against each firm's own rule, and a GREEN/YELLOW/RED check before the order goes in. Free tier, no card, Premium is $15 a month.
Edgely
Prop-firm journal built around payouts: dashboard, prop-firm manager, session analytics and a mentor mode. Free, no card. Analytics and payout coaching rather than pre-trade rule lights.
Tradoshi
Zero-install journal: drop a broker HTML/CSV statement and get a one-minute recap โ revenge-trading signature, green-to-red, Oshi Score, P&L calendar. No card, no expiry. One synced broker included.
Risk & position sizing
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Drawdown Visualizer
See how trailing, static and EOD drawdown consume an account before you pick a firm whose model fights your style.
Payout Simulator
Split, targets, fees - what you actually keep from a funded month, per firm, per plan.
Cost to Fund
The full price of getting funded - evaluation, resets, activation, data - computed per firm from live pricing.
Trade copiers
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TradeSyncer
Low-latency copying across multiple prop firm accounts at once, for futures and forex.
ETP
Professional copier builds for NinjaTrader, Rithmic and major futures stacks โ more custom desk tooling than a self-serve SaaS.
Tradecopia
Self-serve trade copier aimed at prop traders, with multi-platform real-time replication.
TradersConnect
Multi-account copier with MT4, MT5 and cTrader support. More forex/CFD prop than NQ/Rithmic.
Affordable Indicators
One-time-purchase copier for NinjaTrader, TradingView, Tradovate and Rithmic, with prop-firm risk controls plus separate Orders and Executions modes โ no monthly subscription.
MimikTrader
MimikTrader is a cloud trade copier that mirrors every fill across your accounts, enforces your risk rules live, and journals every trade automatically. Cheaper solution than other cloud copiers.
Before copying across firms, read each rulebook: several firms restrict or prohibit copy trading across providers - a copier can pass an evaluation and forfeit a payout.
Tax & accounting
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TradeLog
Built for active futures and equity traders - wash-sale rules and Section 1256 handled properly for US traders.
Koinly
Crypto tax done well: 700+ exchanges, DeFi, staking, auto-import, 20+ countries.
CoinTracker
Crypto portfolio tracking and tax reports with clean imports and a familiar investor workflow. Less trader-specialized than Koinly.
Tax treatment of prop firm payouts varies by country and by how the firm pays you. These tools organize your records; they do not replace a professional for your jurisdiction.
Education
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PropScorer Academy
Our structured curriculum: prop firm mechanics, drawdown math, evaluation strategy and risk - two tracks, four levels, all dated.
Xeilos Academy
French trading school (Qualiopi, RNCP). Theory plus practice taught by European desk traders, focused on getting students funded at prop firms.
SMB Capital
Free video content from working New York prop traders - trader development done by people who actually hire traders.
Warrior Trading
Day trading education with live trading room and simulator. Useful for momentum process, less futures-specific than SMB.
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