Your traders should not need a second dashboard
Most firms build a separate trader portal to show equity, targets and drawdown. It is the most expensive screen in the business - and the terminal already has the data.
The PropExecutor Team · · 6 min read
Frequently asked questions
- Does a prop firm need a trader dashboard?
- Traders need to know four things at any moment: equity, progress to the profit target, remaining daily drawdown and remaining maximum drawdown. Whether that lives in a separate portal or inside the terminal is your choice - the data is the same, and the terminal already has it.
- What does it cost to build a trader dashboard?
- Design, front end, an API integration against your platform, hosting, and then maintenance every time a rule changes. Firms routinely spend more on the dashboard than on the platform underneath it.
- What does the trader dashboard show?
- Equity, balance, target progress, drawdown headroom, rule status and the performance charts a funded trader expects - all live, and all inside the same login as the terminal.
- Do I have to build a trader dashboard myself?
- No. A prop dashboard ships inside every account, so there is no portal to build or integrate. It is usually the most expensive thing firms end up building twice, and here it is included.
- Does the dashboard update in real time?
- Yes. Equity, target and drawdown move on every tick, and rule status changes the instant the engine passes or breaches an account, so a trader always knows exactly where they stand.
- Is the dashboard on every account or just some?
- Every account, on every plan, including the $129 entry plan. It is not a premium tier - it is the default.
- Why does a built-in dashboard matter for conversions?
- Traders trust a firm that shows them their numbers clearly and instantly. A firm with no dashboard, or a bolted-on one, feels risky and traders leave; a clean, live dashboard is one of the first things a serious trader checks.
- Can traders see the dashboard on mobile?
- Yes. The dashboard is part of the terminal experience your traders sign in to, and higher plans add a mobile app so more of that experience carries your brand.
- Does the dashboard cost extra?
- No. It is a platform feature included on every plan, not a metered add-on, and it applies to every account at no additional cost.
- Can I put my own brand on the dashboard?
- Yes. The dashboard sits inside your branded terminal, so it carries your name, logo and colours - traders see your firm on every tick, not a third-party platform.
Here is a pattern that repeats in almost every new prop firm. The platform gets bought, the challenge gets designed, the first traders arrive - and then support starts answering the same question every day: how much drawdown do I have left?
So the firm builds a dashboard. A designer, a front-end developer, an integration against the platform's API, a deployment, and a maintenance bill that never ends because every rule change touches it.
What a trader actually needs to see
Four numbers, live:
- Equity against the starting balance.
- Progress to the profit target.
- Daily drawdown headroom - how much room is left today.
- Maximum drawdown headroom - how much room is left at all.
Plus the rule set they are being judged under, and a record of what the rule engine decided and when. That is the entire product. Everything else on a typical trader portal is packaging.
Why it usually ends up as a separate app
Because the platform underneath was built for retail brokerage, not for evaluations. A retail terminal has no concept of a profit target or a daily loss limit, so the numbers do not exist inside it and have to be computed somewhere else and shown somewhere else. The separate portal is a symptom of the platform being the wrong shape for the job.
What changes when it is inside the executor
On PropExecutor every trading account carries its own prop desk in the same window as the terminal, behind the same login. A trader clicks one tab across from the chart and sees equity, target progress, drawdown headroom and the frozen rule set they are being judged against.
Three things follow from that:
- Support volume drops, because the answer is one click away from where the trader already is.
- Nothing drifts. The dashboard is not a second system reading an API on a delay; it is the same session, the same data, the same instant.
- Nothing to build. Create an account type and the dashboard for every account under it already exists.
Your operators get the firm-wide view of the same data: every account, its trader, its equity, how close it is to passing, its status - and when an account passes or breaches, the roster, the counters and the rule engine log move together.
This is the part of PropExecutor nobody else ships, and it is why the comparison usually ends here.
See it running, or start from $129 - one payment, no setup fee, no monthly licence.
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The PropExecutor Team
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We build PropExecutor: prop firm software that lets anyone launch a fully branded firm from $129, paid once, with a real-time rule engine and a dashboard in every trading account. These guides come from the same product we ship. About PropExecutor
