What feeds our rankings — and what we keep off the record.
This page is PropFirmLion's public disclosure register: a line-by-line account of what goes into our reviews, scores, and payout tracking — and an honest list of what we don't publish, and why. No firm pays for placement on this register.
A commercial relationship with PropFirmLion (advertising, sponsorship, or affiliate terms) never determines ranking position, review outcome, or trust status. Sponsored content is always labeled separately from independent coverage. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm exact disclosure wording with legal before publishing]
Four rules our process can't break.
Everything below — rankings, reviews, the payout tracker — answers to these four lines. If a future feature can't satisfy all four, we don't ship it.
Placement isn't for sale.
No firm can buy a ranking position, a star rating, or a "verified" badge. Advertising and listing fees fund the platform — they don't touch the scoring logic.
Scores come from measurable inputs.
Rankings are informed by trader activity, submitted reviews, payout-related evidence, and platform usage data — not by our editorial opinion of a firm's "vibe."
We separate evidence from claims.
A firm telling us it pays out fast isn't the same as our tracker showing it. We weight verified, traceable evidence above self-reported marketing claims.
Disclosure has a floor, not a ceiling.
We publish our reasoning and inputs by default. We withhold specific mechanics only where publishing them would let bad actors reverse-engineer the system — see Section 03.
Every input to our scoring, stamped by status.
This is the actual register — every category of input we use, and whether we publish it in full, publish it partially, or keep it private. Nothing in this list is summarized away.
Ranking Inputs
REG / RANK-01–05Review Pipeline
REG / REV-01–04Commercial Relationships
REG / COM-01–03Why some rows say "withheld" instead of just publishing everything: a handful of inputs — exact scoring weights and fraud-detection thresholds, mainly — are the same kind of detail a spam operation would use to game the system if we handed it over. We'd rather explain our reasoning honestly and protect the register's integrity than publish a blueprint for manipulating it. Every other input defaults to open.
How we measure payouts without trusting firms' own numbers.
The payout tracker exists because marketing claims and actual payout behavior aren't always the same thing. Here's what feeds it and what doesn't.
What counts as a tracked payout
A payout enters the tracker only when a trader submits verifiable evidence — a payout confirmation, transaction reference, or statement — that we can cross-check. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm exact verification artifacts accepted]
Metrics shown per firm
Total tracked payouts, payout count, largest single payout, average payout size, and median time-to-payout — each recalculated as new evidence comes in, not fixed at submission.
Claims that don't make the tracker
Firm press releases, unverified social posts, and screenshots without a checkable reference number are excluded — they may be real, but we don't have a way to confirm them yet.
What this number can't tell you
The tracker reflects payouts traders chose to report to us, not every payout a firm has ever made. A lower count can mean fewer payouts, or just fewer reports — read it alongside reviews and rules, not alone.
What a high rank means — and what it explicitly doesn't.
A high rank does mean
A high rank does not mean
What happens before a firm appears on PropFirmLion at all.
Eligibility screen
We confirm the firm publishes its own rules, pricing, and payout terms publicly — firms that won't disclose basic terms on their own site don't proceed.
Pass / RejectCompliance & claims check
Marketing claims (payout speed, guarantees, profit splits) are checked against the firm's own published terms for consistency. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm internal compliance criteria]
Conditional listingInitial listing, unranked
The firm appears in our directory but doesn't enter ranked comparisons until it has enough independent trader activity to score.
ProvisionalOngoing re-evaluation
Rankings recalculate on a fixed cycle and whenever a material rule change, payout pattern shift, or verified dispute is reported.
ContinuousDirect answers to what people actually ask us.
Every material change to this page, dated.
This is a living document. Material changes to scope, methodology, or disclosure status are logged here — not edited away silently.
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