Steven Kubik

Steven A. Kubik is the CEO and founder of Halcyon Trader Funding, a US-based proprietary trading firm built on a simple conviction: if a trader can prove consistent success, they deserve a genuine path to trading live capital with the firm's backing.

Before launching Halcyon in 2024, Steven spent nearly two decades trading the futures markets himself, including years using prop firms as a way to access larger pools of capital. That firsthand experience exposed what he saw as a broken system across the industry — firms with no direct route to live accounts, hurdles and restrictions standing between consistent traders and real funding, and successful traders being pushed out after a set number of payouts rather than developed for the long term.

His advice to traders is as practical as his approach to running a firm: slow down, define your risk, keep your position size in check, and remember the market will be there tomorrow. Steven believes prop trading, done right, offers genuine opportunity — giving traders who could never fund a large brokerage account a real means to access meaningful capital and build a trading career.