Claim a free $10K Open account. Compete in Rooms, open a Daily Funded Session, and build toward funded capital up to $10M. No challenge, no card to start.
Daily Funded Session: one funded trading day for $29.95. Quality-scored profit can become withdrawable.
In our first 10 days. Built by Arizet Labs on A-Trader, a decade of live trading infrastructure.
Two steps. That’s the whole thing.
A real $10,000 account, yours in one second. No card, no upload, no challenge to pass. This is your base, you build your Rating and your track record on it from minute one.
Your free account is where it starts, but a profit sitting on it isn’t cash yet. You make it real on two tracks at once, and they work together: take payouts today on the account you already have, and build a funded career over time. Here’s exactly how.
Both run on the free $10K account you already have. A Daily Funded Session turns it into your own funded trading day; a Room is a live competition for a prize pool. Two ways to get paid this week, not someday.
This is real prop trading, not a challenge. Open a Daily Funded Session and trade your own one-day window. If your session ends profitable, Snap Quality reviews how the profit was made: drawdown, concentration, sizing, integrity. High-quality P&L can become withdrawable, with quality trading keeping up to 100%.
This is the competition. Enter a small Room of 10 to 40 traders, trade live with chat on a shared clock, and if you finish in the top places you take a cut of the prize pool, 3× to 14× your entry. Not your P&L, your placement against the field.
Payout eligibility depends on Snap Quality, risk controls, review, KYC, and the platform terms. A profitable session does not guarantee a payout.
When you’re ready for the long term, your Rating qualifies you to upgrade to a Junior, Pro, Elite, Master, or Legend membership. You pay a membership fee and trade real funded capital, $25K up to $10M, that grows 10% every month your Rating holds. Keep a Meritix-scored share up to 100%, with no reset and no requalification.
See the membership tiers →A walk through the actual member experience: your Rating and Quality Score, the dual-earning model, the daily P&L, a live Room payout structure, and the eligibility gates, all real, all working today.
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The Floor is where traders compete head-to-head in small live Rooms. Enter from your free Open account, trade your edge over a short window, and the top finishers take the pool. No challenge. No funded account required. Day one.
Multiples shown at a typical 30-trader field. Larger fields pay more, up to ~19× on a full Room.
Enter the same positions into as many Rooms as you like. Each Room scores your performance independently, so a single strong session can place in all of them at once. Your edge compounds across the field.
Rooms hold 20 to 40 traders, not twenty thousand. The top three to eight are paid. Placing isn't a jackpot, it's a realistic outcome for a trader with an edge.
Winners are ranked on risk-adjusted performance, return measured against drawdown, over the Room's window. Reckless size doesn't win. Disciplined edge does.
An illustration of what a strong day can look like for a trader placing across many Rooms, not a typical or guaranteed result. Earnings depend entirely on your performance, and most Rooms pay only the top finishers. The Floor rewards skill and consistency; it is not income.
A real Daily Room on The Desk: live leaderboard, real instruments, projected winnings updating by the second, and the room feed running alongside.
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No sudden Daily or Max Drawdown wipeouts.
Drawdown becomes a Meritix quality signal, not a career-ending event. And each cycle resets monthly, one bad month doesn't disqualify you, just like at institutional firms.
Funded Sessions and Rooms are how you earn today. Junior and above are how you build capital that compounds, the long game that makes The Desk a career, not a one-off.
Every trader starts at Open and earns their way up. Capital scales monthly with quality. Rating determines tier. Rooms and Meritix cycles run throughout, the shape of the journey is the same for everyone, only the pace differs.
Membership opens the ladder. Rating, trading quality, and qualifying Room participation unlock the capital. The trader does not buy a funded account, the trader earns eligibility through The Desk.
A $10K account to start, free for everyone. Trade live, compete in entry-level Rooms, build your Rating. Prove you belong on a bigger desk.
The funded path opens. Your capital grows 10% every month you sustain your Rating, automatically, with no additional fee, up to the tier ceiling.
The headline retail prop size, but earned through progression, not a one-shot challenge. $100K grows $10K/month to $200K in 10 months while your Rating sustains the tier.
A capital tier that moves beyond most direct-funded offers anywhere in the industry. Scales to half a million as your Rating holds.
The institutional-feeling milestone. $1M floor, $2M ceiling, earned through sustained Meritix quality across multiple cycles.
The rarest class. $5M floor, $10M ceiling, long-term record, elite Rating, elite Meritix quality. No equivalent exists at any prop firm in the industry.
The Desk can make a larger capital promise because the funded stage is not built on blunt flat splits alone. It is built on Meritix, the Desk's trading-quality and profit-share framework.
Meritix scores 23 signals across 5 score families: risk & sizing, engagement & consistency, performance quality, concentration, and three patent-pending behavioral signals. Each metric is normalized, weighted, and combined into a single composite Quality Score (0-1000, like a credit score for trading) that updates daily inside a cycle.
The relationship is direct: higher Quality Score → higher share. The exact Quality-Score-to-share mapping for each cycle is published in advance and locked at cycle open. The mechanism is reproducible and visible to the trader as they trade.
Grounded in historical funded trader data: traders in the top quality band were roughly 4× more likely to earn a payout than traders in the bottom band. Quality predicts outcomes, and on The Desk, it determines payouts too.
Meritix evaluates 23 trading-quality signals across 5 families, risk & sizing, engagement, performance, concentration, and proprietary behavioral signals. Your composite Quality Score determines your profit share. Here’s what a typical cycle looks like for a $10,000 funded month:
| Quality Score | Profit share | Trader keeps | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 | 100% | $10,000 | Theoretical top, perfect quality |
| 800 | ~80% | ~$8,000 | Top decile of funded traders |
| 650 | ~65% | ~$6,500 | Top quartile |
| 520 | ~52% | ~$5,200 | Median funded trader |
| 330 | ~33% | ~$3,300 | Bottom decile |
| < 400 | . | Recovery Mode | Quality erosion; cycle pauses, account does not close |
Discipline rewarded. Concentration penalized. Stop-pulling penalized hardest. Numbers shown are typical for a typical cycle. Your daily share moves with your Quality Score, better trading raises it, worse trading lowers it. The exact rate is shown in your dashboard each day.
Meritix is dynamic. Profit share is not a permanently fixed split. The Meritix Explained page covers the 23 metrics, the 5 quality families, Compound Risk Index, cycle mechanics, Recovery Mode, and the published methodology.
Open Tier is free and opens the moment you sign up. Your $10K account is one form away. No card, no upload, no challenge fee. Trade live, build your Rating, climb the ladder.
The Desk is intentionally simple. Traders can trade to build a record, compete in Rooms to rise faster, and earn greater access to funded capital as their Rating improves.
Trade anytime on The Desk to build history. Enter live Rooms on the Floor to compete publicly, pursue prize pools, and accelerate your Rating.
Your Desk Rating reflects repeatable performance, discipline, and competitive proof over time. Rooms carry more progression weight, and qualifying Room participation is required to unlock or upgrade funded capital.
Funded access begins at Junior. Capital can scale through Pro, Elite, Master, and Legend. Meritix reviews funded trading through cycles, protecting sustainability while rewarding professional-quality performance.
Traditional prop programs often turn Daily or Max Drawdown into an instant account-ending event. The Desk takes a more professional approach: drawdown becomes a major quality signal inside Meritix, not a one-click career reset.
The promise is not “risk does not matter.” The promise is “risk is handled professionally, continuously, and transparently, without deleting the trader’s entire career after one bad stretch.”
A prop firm shows you the entry fee. It doesn't show you the odds. Even using a firm's own published numbers, most traders pay for the evaluation more than once before they ever reach funding, if they reach it at all.
Sources: $25K evaluation fees of roughly $150–$300 per attempt reflect publicly listed prices across major prop firms (varies by firm and promotion, verify at checkout). Pass-to-funded and payout rates are from Topstep's published 2025 Trader Performance Statistics: 16.8% of trading combines reached the funded level, and 33.3% of funded participants received a payout. Independent industry estimates of challenge pass rates are often lower (commonly 5–12%), which would make the real cost of reaching funding higher, not lower.
Across the prop trading industry, CFD/FX and futures alike, the same patterns repeat: fixed account sizes, hard breach rules, capped profit splits, and "scaling" plans that take a year of perfect trading to unlock 25% more capital. The Desk does it differently.
| Feature | The Desk | FTMO | Topstep | Apex | FundedNext |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry cost | $49/mo Junior tier | $250 one-time $25K challenge | $49/mo + $149 activation $50K Combine | $197 + $99 $50K eval | $200 one-time $25K Stellar |
| Capital ceiling | $10M Legend tier | $2M via scaling, ~2 years | $150K per account, no scaling | $150K but 20 parallel accts | $4M scales, slowly |
| Capital growth | +10%/month automatic with rating | +25% every 4 months 4 payouts + 10% profit | None fixed allocation | None fixed per tier | +25% periodically consistency-gated |
| Drawdown breach | Never just changes Meritix share | 5% daily / 10% max breach = account closed | Trailing MLL breach = account closed | Trailing $2K, $3K breach = account closed | 3% daily / 6% max breach = account closed |
| Profit split | Up to 100% by Meritix score | 80% → 90% via scaling plan | 90% flat after activation | 100% but 6-payout max per acct | 80-90% tier-dependent |
| Quality bonus | Yes. Meritix skill earns more share | No flat split for everyone | No flat split for everyone | No flat split for everyone | No flat split for everyone |
| Public Rating | Yes ELO-style career score | No | No | No | No |
| Rooms / competitions | Built-in multi-cadence leaderboards | No | No | No | No |
Industry data as of April 2026. Fees and rules vary by promotion, plan, and region; figures shown are standard published rates excluding promotional discounts. The Desk's monthly subscription includes platform access, Room participation, Meritix scoring, and automatic capital scaling at no additional cost.
The Desk is not another challenge and not simply another instant-funded account. It is a sustained capital career with progression, public proof, and a funded model designed to last.
The difference is simple: traditional prop firms sell a challenge, instant-funded firms sell account access, and The Desk builds a trader through competition, progression, and earned capital.
A challenge asks: “Can you survive our rules?”
The Desk asks: “Can you become someone worthy of more capital?”
A-Trader is Arizet's pro-grade trading platform, the same execution and risk infrastructure already running underneath multiple prop firms today. Desk members get the full platformplus access to the entire A-Trader apps marketplace: production-grade tools across discovery, risk, analytics, and behavior, all unlocked through your tier.
The terminal below is a preview-grade slice of A-Trader, not the full platform. The real A-Trader you'll trade on as a Desk member ships with the full Market Watch and depth-of-book, every order type, the apps marketplace, your live Rating, and custom chart layouts. What you see here streams live prices but runs demo execution. Click around. Press BUY or SELL. Feel the workflow.
Live prices · Demo execution · Free $10K Open account on signup
The first cohort is forming now. This is the moment to get close, meet the earliest traders, see the Floor fill up in real time, and have a say in where The Desk goes next.
Where it's actually happening. Trade alongside the first members, get founder updates before anyone else, and help shape The Desk before launch.
Join the Discord →Launch news, Floor results, and payout proof as it happens. The fastest way to stay on top of everything as The Desk goes live.
Follow on X →Five focused pages cover how The Desk works, the Rating system, the Meritix quality engine, full pricing, and every question traders ask.
Trading sessions, Floor competition, Ratings, tiers, capital unlocks, and the monthly funded cycle.
Open page →The long-term career score that opens tier eligibility lanes. ELO-style scale, attached to your trader profile.
Open page →The quality engine. Profit share, monthly cycle reset, automatic capital growth, payout protection.
Open page →Open, Junior, Pro, Elite, Master, Legend, and what each tier unlocks.
Open page →How capital unlocks, how cycles reset, no-wipeout drawdowns, and what to expect month to month.
Open page →Every Desk career starts at Open. Your $10K account opens the moment you sign up. No card, no upload, no waiting. Build your Rating from minute one.
Open Tier is free, opens instantly, asks nothing of you except your name and email. Take your seat. Start trading.
Trade. Compete. Build your Rating. Unlock more capital. Stay in the game through drawdowns. Let Meritix reward the quality of your funded trading.