Celebrating innovation, discipline, and the global proprietary trading community.
One day each year, the firms, traders, and professionals who move this industry forward pause to recognize the craft behind the markets. This is that day.
An industry that opened the markets deserves a day of its own.
Prop trading has grown into an important part of the modern financial ecosystem. It fosters innovation in trading technology, financial education, and risk management while creating real pathways for individuals to develop professional trading skills. Until now, there has never been a day dedicated to recognizing that work.
Access, Transformed
Over the years, prop firms have changed how aspiring traders reach the financial markets. Structured evaluations, disciplined risk frameworks, and modern technology have shaped a new generation of market participants and entrepreneurs.
Craft, Recognized
Behind every funded account is a discipline built over thousands of sessions. This day honors the firms that innovate, the traders who pursue excellence, and the professionals who support them every step of the way.
A Tradition, Established
National Prop Trading Day was established to celebrate these contributions and recognize the positive impact the proprietary trading community continues to have on the financial markets.
This day is for the work on the screen.
Every session comes down to a chart, a risk rule, and the discipline to follow it. September 28 is a pause to recognize that craft.
September 28 was selected as a neutral date during an active period in the trading calendar. It gives the community a fixed, annual moment to celebrate education, innovation, professional development, and responsible risk management.
The vision is simple: one tradition that brings together prop firms, traders, brokers, exchanges, technology providers, and educators, year after year.
What this day stands for.
National Prop Trading Day seeks to inspire, educate, and recognize the people and organizations that continue to move the industry forward. Seven commitments sit at its core.
Firms that move the industry.
Proprietary trading today spans futures, equities, and currencies, carried by evaluation firms, funding programs, and trading houses around the world. These are the firms joining National Prop Trading Day.
The voices who tell the industry's story.
Educators, streamers, and market commentators will help carry September 28. Host a live, film the craft, and publish under #PropTradingDay. These are the creators joining the day.
Run a live session on risk, psychology, or the discipline behind a funded account.
Show a day on the desk, a floor walkthrough, or the work that never makes the highlight reel.
Share a recap, interview, or essay and tag it #PropTradingDay so the industry can find it.
The platforms that move the industry.
National Prop Trading Day is presented with support from the infrastructure and platforms traders already work on every day.
Make the day your own.
Whether you run a firm, trade a funded account, or teach the next generation, there is a way to take part on September 28.
Open to everyone who moves the markets.
If you contribute to the proprietary trading industry, or simply care about it, this day belongs to you. Select a group to see how they take part.
Be part of a growing annual tradition.
Whether you are a trader, a firm, an educator, a technology provider, or simply someone passionate about the financial markets, you are welcome here. Together, we celebrate the industry, the professionals behind it, and the future of proprietary trading.