What is already sourced
- Official website or primary source178/192
- Trustpilot page identified112/192
- Legal entity mapped103/192
- Exact-name press / news search logged57/192
- Documented payout incidents42/192
PropRadar does not mix a fully verified profile with an entry added for monitoring. Each firm keeps a visible audit level, consulted sources and signals still needing reinforcement.
Six files reconstruct what changed, which source supports it and what remains unproven before an old brand is treated as active again.
A possible relaunch is no longer a purely theoretical claim, but it is not a verified current buying option. The US case was dismissed with prejudice in May 2025 as a case-ending sanction against the CFTC, and an Ontario court later returned access to most assets and client data. Those developments do not replace current program terms, jurisdiction checks, payout mechanics or a live checkout audit.
The site is active again, but an active checkout does not erase the interruption or prove that every legacy obligation was resolved. Financial press documented the March 2024 pause, incomplete recovery, outstanding payouts and account-restoration promises. Current legal terms identify a simulated service and broad enforcement discretion, so new offers and old claims must be evaluated separately.
Funded Engineer permanently ceased operations on July 15, 2024 and said it would file for bankruptcy after restructuring, cost cutting and investment efforts failed. The closure followed earlier technology and brokerage disruptions. The public announcement did not establish how every pending payout or refund would be treated.
No current operation is verified. SurgeTrader announced that it had closed and ceased all operations on May 24, 2024, one week after public reporting about the loss of its Match-Trader license. The former domain is now parked for sale, so old reviews and any new offer using the name require a fresh ownership check.
True Forex Funds permanently closed in May 2024 citing financial insolvency. The final closure followed a February platform-license interruption and an attempted cTrader restart. The firm also appeared on the CFTC RED List; that list identifies registration concerns and is not, by itself, a court finding of a legal violation.
No current operation should be inferred. Finance Magnates and FX News Group documented the immediate suspension of operations and new purchases on March 28, 2024. The exact Easton-linked structure and final treatment of every historical payout or refund remain incomplete in the public file.
This issue separates legal progress from operational readiness, then traces how platform, broker and technology dependencies became material closure risks for retail prop traders.
Every country where a tracked firm has a mapped entity. The bar shows the legal-file level PropRadar published for each firm there; country markers only come from official lists.
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95 more entities across 92 firms have no country identified yet. The bar shows the legal-file level PropRadar published for each firm registered there, not a rating of the country. None of these countries is on the FATF increased monitoring list (2026-10-30) or the EU tax list (Annex I) (2026-10-09).