👀 Your weekly prop firm roundup is here. Markets under pressure

Hi everyone, it’s Kieran. Another crazy week is in the books and it’s time to do it all over again. Let’s get into it.

📢 Firm Announcements

• Funded Futures Family is rolling out major upgrades: up to 5 accounts per user, metals trading enabled, no payout windows, and new Premier Plus structure.

• Alpha Capital Group launched a new mobile app for tracking funded accounts and performance.

• Funded Trader Markets increased crypto payout limits to $10K per payout and clarified leverage tiers across crypto pairs.

• FXIFY launched a new low cost Instant Funding Lite model with significantly reduced entry pricing.

• Finotive Funding introduced a weekend holding add on and expanded local payment rails across Southeast Asia.

• Goat Funded Futures now allows news trading and holding, alongside updated rules shaped by trader feedback.

• My Crypto Funding enabled 24/7 weekend trading support but temporarily paused payouts during Rise migration.

• HolaPrime rolled out broad product upgrades including higher leverage, higher max loss limits, improved payout splits, and removal of activation fees.

• Crypto Fund Trader now publishes daily proof of reserves, allowing traders to verify payout liquidity in real time.

• Breakout launched aggregated footprint charts and instant payout request functionality across its platform.

• PipFarm introduced a swap free add on with a 3 day grace period plus new profit share enhancements.

• Maven Trading expanded into 24/7 gold trading and launched WenCrypto, a new crypto focused trading platform.

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🕜 Red Folder News

Here are this week’s red folder news events. A quiet week on the calendar. Headline risk is of course very high, due to events in Iran.

📈 Markets

S&P 500 breakdown

SPX has finally closed outside the summer range. Futures red again this morning.

Fear & Greed - “Buy when there’s blood in the streets”

Markets tend to reward doing the hard thing. Typically buying equities when market sentiment is ‘extreme fear’ results in outperformance over the long term. Couple this with a structural breakdown, contrarian longs look interesting. High risk, high reward.

Bitcoin Fear and Greed

Bitcoin has been one of the best performing assets throughout the war in Iran, so far refusing to sell-off significantly. If contrarian longs look interesting to you, playing them in Bitcoin rather than equities might be a better play.

Gold as an uncertainty hedge?

Nope. Last week saw the biggest outflows from gold since October 2025. Gold futures -6% this morning (and Silver -9%!)

OK let’s get this week started, have a good one!

Kieran

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