Serving over 750,000 traders, prop firm FundingPips unveiled its new brand focused entirely on the futures market, FundingTicks, in early March. The service is still being tested, and its creators appear to be actively responding to community feedback.

As a result, they've added the Tradovate trading platform to their lineup along with the ability to copy other investors' transactions.

FundingPips for CFDs, FundingTicks for Futures

The announcement that FundingTicks officially launched appeared on March 7 and was promoted as "the future of futures." The firm offers clients the option of instant funding or going through a 1-step evaluation program where a funded account worth $100,000 is available for $286.

The company has just expanded its existing offering by adding the Tradovate trading platform to its lineup of previous platforms, which included TradingView and the popular futures platform NinjaTrader.

"Start trading your accounts now on Tradovate alongside NinjaTrader and TradingView," FundingTicks commented on social media.

The same day, another update appeared, introducing the option to copy trade movements on funded accounts of other prop firm clients.

"Copy trading is now allowed across all your FundingTicks accounts. That means you can copy trades across up to six 50K accounts or three 100K accounts," the prop firm announced.

Prop Firms Opening Up to the Futures Market

FundingPips's move toward the futures market and the creation of a separate brand, FundingTicks, confirms a new trend we've been observing in the prop trading industry in recent quarters.

At the beginning of 2025, after completing the beta phase and gathering 100,000 interested traders, FXIFY's futures-dedicated branch appeared on the market.

FunderPro made a similar move in mid-November, and a month earlier, Traddoo did the same by partnering with TradersLaunch. The controversial firm The Funded Trader previously announced the same move by launching The Funded Futures.

The pioneer of this solution, however, is MyFundedFX, which was the first to move toward a separate futures brand, MyFundedFutures.

What's behind these decisions by a growing number of firms? They may be a response to restrictions from early 2024, including MetaQuotes' regulatory overhaul and limitations on serving US clients. The futures market, unlike CFD, may allow for the bypassing of these restrictions.

Another solution is obtaining their own brokerage license, which FundingPips decided to do in mid-March. This allowed the prop firm to offer MetaTrader to its clients again after a year-long break.

Source: Finance Magnates