We get pitched by funding firms basically every week. Logo swaps, "exclusive" discount codes, flat fees to slap a banner on the dashboard. The pitch is always the same: pay us, we'll send you traders.
We said no to all of them.
Not because the money's bad — because the second we take a check to recommend a firm, our recommendation is worthless. The whole point of Bidness is that you can trust what's on the screen. A paid placement is just an ad wearing a partnership's clothes.
So we built the Partners wall on one rule: vouched, not bought. Every name on it is a firm, tool, or community we'd actually put our own capital and reputation behind. A slot can't be purchased. It has to be earned.
Today, the first funding partner earned it. Say hello to FuturesElite.
What it is
FuturesElite runs evaluation-to-funded and instant futures accounts on the ProjectX platform — the same kind of prop setup a lot of you are already grinding on other firms. The headline terms:
- $25K to $100K account sizes
- No daily drawdown limit — the rule that quietly kills more evals than anything else
- Keep up to 90% of profits
- Both evaluation (prove it, then get funded) and instant (skip the eval) paths
If you've ever blown a perfectly good account because a normal red morning tripped a daily loss limit before the trade thesis even played out, the "no daily DD" part is the one to read twice.
Why it actually fits Bidness
This isn't a random logo. It slots directly into how a lot of you already use the platform.
The Paper Trading terminal on Bidness mirrors real prop eval rules — trailing drawdown, profit targets, minimum days, the consistency math. The intended path was always: practice the eval here, on simulated money, until you can pass it in your sleep — then go put real skin in the game. FuturesElite is the other end of that bridge. Rehearse the eval on Bidness, take the funded shot on a firm we'd actually use.
That's the only reason it's on the wall. It closes a loop we'd already built.
The honest part
We're not going to pretend a funded account is free money, because it isn't. Prop accounts are hard. Most people fail evals not because the firm is rigged but because they oversize after a win, trail their stops into noise, or revenge-trade a red day. (We've watched the data. We've been the data.) A great firm with great terms still hands you a loaded account and a set of rules — what you do with it is on you.
So: read the rules before you fund anything. Know the consistency requirements. Trade the account like it's the last one you'll ever get, because at most firms, it kind of is. Futures are leveraged and you can lose more than you think, fast.
If you've put in the reps and you're ready for a real shot, FuturesElite is where we'd send you first.
Disclosure: The link above is an affiliate link. If you open an account through it, Bidness may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Placement on our Partners page is editorial — firms are not charged for a slot. Bidness is an information and intelligence platform, not a broker, advisor, or prop firm. Nothing here is financial advice. Trading futures and other leveraged products carries substantial risk of loss.