Eightcap Brings Its Simulated Trading Challenges to TradingView, Following FTMO’s Lead
Eightcap
added its simulated trading challenges to TradingView today (Thursday), letting
eligible clients run the broker’s evaluation product directly from the charting
platform’s interface.
The
Melbourne firm also started handing qualifying connected accounts a free
TradingView Plus subscription, which it renews each month as long as traders
keep meeting the criteria.
Eightcap
has been a TradingView partner since 2022, when it first let clients trade live
accounts straight from the platform’s charts. What is new is that Eightcap Challenges, its
prop-style product, now runs there too, bundled with the free-plan giveaway.
Eightcap
enters a lane that is already busy. TradingView counts more than 100 million
users and has become the default charting layer for retail traders, which is
exactly why funded-trader firms want their evaluations to live inside it rather
than in a separate window.
FTMO, one
of the biggest names in that business, lets traders execute simulated challenge
trades directly
from TradingView charts through OANDA, the retail broker it bought and folded into its group.
That route
has been live since 2025. Others reach TradingView by a different door, with
platforms such as TradeLocker and Match-Trader embedding TradingView’s charting
engine inside their own software, then running prop evaluations on top.
Eightcap
knows that model well, having become one of the first regulated
brokers to offer TradeLocker in January.
The
distinction in this week’s launch is where the trade actually happens. A
third-party prop firm usually needs a broker’s TradingView profile to plug
into, the way FTMO leans on OANDA.
Eightcap is
the broker and the challenge operator at once, so its evaluation connects to
TradingView’s own interface without a partner sitting in the middle.
The Broker Becomes Its Own
Prop Firm
That dual
role is a recent turn. In early 2024, Eightcap cut off the prop firms it had been
supplying with MetaTrader access, a decision that landed during a wider MetaQuotes crackdown on
prop-linked accounts and pushed several firms out of business.
It came
back with a product of its own, relaunching customizable Day Trader
Challenges in November and running them on its own infrastructure.
Adam Bock, head of Eightcap Tradesim
Adam Bock,
head of Eightcap Tradesim, said at the time the firm “wanted to create
something grounded in skill, not hype.”
Brokers
moving into prop-style evaluations, and prop firms buying brokers, have
reshaped the sector for two years. FTMO went the other way and purchased OANDA to gain a regulated
brokerage, while
several established brokers built prop arms of their own.
Eightcap
now sits on the broker side of that split, offering the evaluation itself.
Free Charts as the
Customer Hook
The second
piece of the launch is a straightforward acquisition play. Qualifying connected
accounts now receive a TradingView Plus plan at no cost, with no promo code or
checkout, and the plan renews monthly while the trader keeps meeting the
requirements.
The perk
lands as brokers compete to own the TradingView relationship rather than just
support it. For traders, the mechanics underneath do not change: the trading is
simulated, and real payouts follow only after an evaluation is passed under its
rules.
Eightcap
added its simulated trading challenges to TradingView today (Thursday), letting
eligible clients run the broker’s evaluation product directly from the charting
platform’s interface.
The
Melbourne firm also started handing qualifying connected accounts a free
TradingView Plus subscription, which it renews each month as long as traders
keep meeting the criteria.
Eightcap
has been a TradingView partner since 2022, when it first let clients trade live
accounts straight from the platform’s charts. What is new is that Eightcap Challenges, its
prop-style product, now runs there too, bundled with the free-plan giveaway.
Eightcap
enters a lane that is already busy. TradingView counts more than 100 million
users and has become the default charting layer for retail traders, which is
exactly why funded-trader firms want their evaluations to live inside it rather
than in a separate window.
FTMO, one
of the biggest names in that business, lets traders execute simulated challenge
trades directly
from TradingView charts through OANDA, the retail broker it bought and folded into its group.
That route
has been live since 2025. Others reach TradingView by a different door, with
platforms such as TradeLocker and Match-Trader embedding TradingView’s charting
engine inside their own software, then running prop evaluations on top.
Eightcap
knows that model well, having become one of the first regulated
brokers to offer TradeLocker in January.
The
distinction in this week’s launch is where the trade actually happens. A
third-party prop firm usually needs a broker’s TradingView profile to plug
into, the way FTMO leans on OANDA.
Eightcap is
the broker and the challenge operator at once, so its evaluation connects to
TradingView’s own interface without a partner sitting in the middle.
The Broker Becomes Its Own
Prop Firm
That dual
role is a recent turn. In early 2024, Eightcap cut off the prop firms it had been
supplying with MetaTrader access, a decision that landed during a wider MetaQuotes crackdown on
prop-linked accounts and pushed several firms out of business.
It came
back with a product of its own, relaunching customizable Day Trader
Challenges in November and running them on its own infrastructure.
Adam Bock, head of Eightcap Tradesim
Adam Bock,
head of Eightcap Tradesim, said at the time the firm “wanted to create
something grounded in skill, not hype.”
Brokers
moving into prop-style evaluations, and prop firms buying brokers, have
reshaped the sector for two years. FTMO went the other way and purchased OANDA to gain a regulated
brokerage, while
several established brokers built prop arms of their own.
Eightcap
now sits on the broker side of that split, offering the evaluation itself.
Free Charts as the
Customer Hook
The second
piece of the launch is a straightforward acquisition play. Qualifying connected
accounts now receive a TradingView Plus plan at no cost, with no promo code or
checkout, and the plan renews monthly while the trader keeps meeting the
requirements.
The perk
lands as brokers compete to own the TradingView relationship rather than just
support it. For traders, the mechanics underneath do not change: the trading is
simulated, and real payouts follow only after an evaluation is passed under its
rules.
