Octrado, a proprietary-trading platform, has published a new study on the scale and dynamics of retail prop-trading, including its own market-size estimate built from combined bottom-up and top-down modelling.
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Because the segment still lacks unified public statistics — it blends proprietary platforms, licensed brokers, technology providers and differently branded funded-account programmes — Octrado’s analysis draws on market-infrastructure data, regulated-market macro figures, platform metrics and provider samples. On that basis, the study puts the primary prop-trading market, the direct annual revenue of prop firms, at USD 4.0 to 4.5 billion, and the broader ecosystem value, which adds downstream brokerage fees and notionally allocated capital, at around USD 20 billion. For comparison, media-cited figures place the retail prop sector near USD 12 billion.
The study frames prop-trading as a fast-growing new layer of capital access rather than an isolated product. Retail trading apps now count more than 100 million users a year, growing at roughly 20% CAGR (WEF/BCG), while global OTC FX turnover reached USD 9.6 trillion a day in April 2025, up 28% on 2022 (BIS). Platform data reflects the same momentum: the cTrader ecosystem alone lists more than 40 prop firms, over 500 active challenges and more than 500,000 prop traders. Octrado describes prop-trading as a new organisational layer built on top of existing brokerage infrastructure, in which the entry filter is no longer a trader’s own capital but proven risk discipline.
Growth, however, comes with hard selection. Sample data from FPFX Tech indicates about 14% of accounts pass the evaluation and only 7% of all participants reach a payout. The study concludes that prop-trading democratises access to opportunity, not to outcomes, and that transparency, stable infrastructure and clear legal boundaries will decide the sector’s next phase.
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Octrado is a dynamic investment company built on transparency, innovation, and professional trader support. Rather than developing our own proprietary platform, we rely on the globally trusted MetaTrader 5 (MT5) environment, allowing our clients to trade on a stable, proven, and technologically advanced system recognized worldwide.
Octrado LTD. is a limited liability company regulated as a Securities Dealer by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority of Seychelles (“FSA”) with license number SD013 and with company number 8417634-1 to carry out certain categories of financial investment business as permitted under the Seychelles Securities Act 2007.
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