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.TradingView Turns Into a Prop Trading StorefrontEightcap 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 FirmThat 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, 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 HookThe 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. This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.

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