# Platforms and futures — The Prop Standard

> The execution layer: MT4 and MT5, TradingView, NinjaTrader and Tradovate, and how futures evaluations differ.

**Source:** https://thepropstandard.com/guides/platforms-and-futures  
**Publisher:** The Prop Standard — independent analysis of the prop trading industry  
**Byline:** Editorial Team

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## What this guide covers

What you actually trade on, and how the platform shapes the rules. MT4 against MT5 for a funded account, where TradingView execution is permitted, NinjaTrader and Tradovate in futures programmes, where automation is allowed and where it voids an account, how exchange-traded futures bring data fees and session times into the rule set, and how execution costs eat a profit target.

Nothing has been published in this guide yet.

## The other guides

- [Passing evaluations](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/passing-evaluations) — The mechanics of getting funded and staying funded: the rule types that end accounts, and which one bites first.
- [Money and taxes](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/money-and-taxes) — Fees, splits, payouts and filings — what a funded account actually pays, and what it costs to get there.
- [Trust and risk](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/trust-and-risk) — Who you are handing your money to: registration, regulation, rule-change history and what happens when a firm closes.
- [Trader psychology and process](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/psychology-and-process) — The part that is not the rules: sizing risk against a limit you do not control, and the habits that survive it.