Prop firm payout statistics

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What is the Capital Critic Payout Index?

The Capital Critic Payout Index is a single 0-to-100 reading of whether the prop firms we track are paying more or less than they normally do. It averages three equally weighted components measured against this dataset’s own history — volume, momentum, and breadth, the share of firms beating their own four-week average. It is not a sentiment gauge: every input is money that has already settled on a public blockchain, so the reading moves when cash moves rather than when opinion does. A reading below 40 means the week was quiet for this industry by its own standards; above 60 means it was busy. The week of October 19, 2026 reads 50 — Steady.

How much do prop firms pay out each week?

Prop firms tracked by Capital Critic have settled $1.7B on-chain across 158 complete weeks. Weekly volume has risen in every year we have tracked it, and the chart below shows every one of those weeks with a four-week average drawn over the top — weekly settlement is spiky enough that any single week reads as a trend if you let it. Use the average line for direction and the bars for what actually happened. The current week is excluded throughout: a partial week beside full ones reads as a collapse.

What is a typical prop firm payout worth?

A typical prop firm payout is best described by its distribution, not by an average: the bands below count every individual payout settled in the last 30 days, so the shape is exact rather than summarised. The average alone is the number most sites quote and it is the least useful one, because a handful of very large payouts drag it above what almost everybody actually receives.

Are prop firm payouts speeding up or slowing down?

Payout velocity is the last seven days measured against the preceding month’s weekly run rate — a simple ratio that says which way the payout economy is moving right now, where a total only says how big it is. It is stated as a comparison rather than a projection on purpose: this dataset records what has settled and has no business forecasting what will. Read it alongside the Payout Index above, which asks the same question against a longer history and adds how many firms are moving rather than just how much money.

Which prop firms actually pay out the money?

Payout concentration is how unevenly the total is split across the firms producing it, and in this industry it is severe: a handful of firms account for most of every verified dollar. The breakdown below covers the last 30 days, with the Herfindahl–Hirschman index — the standard measure competition regulators use — stated alongside it. This matters for reading every other figure on the page: a headline total that leans on three firms moves when one of them has a quiet week, which is exactly what the index’s breadth component exists to separate out.

Measured to Oct 26, 12:00 UTC, over the 30 days before it. Matches the 30-day leaderboard for the same hour.

How these numbers are produced