You connect a broker login. For a prop firm account, that is the login your firm gave you at its broker. Connect your broker shows how.
The brokers you can connect
Tradovate: your Tradovate username and password.
TopstepX: the username and password you sign in to TopstepX with.
Rithmic: your Rithmic username and password, plus your firm's system and a gateway.
Simulated: practice accounts, with no login at all. See Practise with simulated accounts.
Other platforms, such as NinjaTrader, can't be connected.
Prop firms on Rithmic
On Rithmic, your firm is the system you pick. These are the systems on offer: TopstepTrader, SpeedUp, TradeFundrr, UProfitTrader, Apex, Leeloo Trading, MES Capital, FundedFuturesNetwork, TheTradingPit, Bulenox, Neurostreet Funding, 10XFutures, 4PropTrader, DayTraders.com, Earn2Trade, LegendsTrading, LucidTrading, PropShopTrader, ThriveTrading, tradesea, tradesea-d and Tradeify.
Rithmic's own systems are there too: Rithmic Paper Trading, Rithmic 01, Rithmic 04 Colo and Rithmic Test. A system that isn't in the list can't be chosen. Rithmic systems and gateways helps you pick yours, and its gateway.
Demo and Live
Demo is the only environment you can choose. Prop firm evaluations and funded accounts trade there.
Live is on the form, for an account with your own money at the broker, but it is not switched on yet.
On Rithmic, the system you pick decides which accounts you trade. The connection is saved as Demo whichever system it is.
So for now, every Tradovate, TopstepX and Rithmic connection is marked PROP, and a Simulated one SIM. Your accounts explains the marks.
Your firm's rules still apply
The service doesn't know your firm's rules, so the limits it keeps are the ones you set, account by account: Daily loss limit and profit target. If your firm forbids holding both sides of a market, keep Anti-hedging on. If it asks for the IP address you trade from, see Register your service address with your prop firm.
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