Disliked{quote}-I think that a traditional prop is what it would need to be. 100% of all trades getting pushed to market means that they would need to financially-back every single trader with real money. A traditional prop approach would be necessary to ensure that only good traders make it through the screening process. Most traders fail, so the only way that I could see this working without doing a traditional prop approach, would be if the firm partnered with a B-book broker that agreed to pay out 100% of whatever profits the broker gains from trading...Ignored
The problem comes after, when they pass, if they had to smt customers (with real account), knowing that most blow up.
I have no clue if the 80/20 changed to something like 50/50 would be viable, together with a real account that had heavy commissions.
I mean, if the fees for "infrastructure" of the failed challenges would be enough to cover the winning traders and the busted accounts.
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