Category: Prop Firms & Funding

Prop firms give traders access to larger capital in exchange for passing an evaluation and sharing profits. The model is legitimate. The details decide whether it is a real opportunity or an expensive test you are set up to fail.

Articles here cover how evaluations work, profit targets versus drawdown limits, the difference between static, trailing and end-of-day drawdown, consistency rules, payout structures and schedules, and the rules that quietly disqualify most accounts.

We also cover the trading side: how a funded account should be traded differently from your own, why the sizing that passes a challenge is smaller than most people use, and how to survive the first payout cycle instead of maximising the first week.

Our honest view is that a prop account is leverage on skill you already have, not a shortcut to it. If you are not profitable at small size on your own capital, an evaluation is a way to pay to find that out faster.

Educational coverage only. Read any firm rulebook in full before paying a fee.