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Practical research for futures prop traders. No recycled “best firm” lists—just the mechanics, assumptions, and tradeoffs behind the numbers.
The True Cost of Getting Funded
A practical way to measure evaluation fees, resets, activation costs, failed attempts, and the payout required to break even.
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Static, EOD, and Intraday Drawdown—Without the Marketing
See exactly when each drawdown moves, what can breach an account, and why two accounts with the same max loss can carry very different risk.
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Payout Math: Why the Profit Split Is Rarely the Deciding Number
Compare payout caps, cadence, buffers, consistency rules, and splits as one withdrawal system instead of chasing a headline percentage.
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The Payout Loop: Farming Prop Firm Payouts Without a Trading Edge
A step-by-step playbook for sizing asymmetric stops and targets to produce positive-EV payouts on the right plan — no directional skill required. What to run, what to skip, and what it actually is.
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Scaling Multiple Prop Accounts Without Multiplying One Mistake
A risk-first framework for adding accounts, choosing compatible rules, controlling correlation, and deciding when scaling should stop.
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Building a Prop Firm Stack: Engine, Anchor, Scaling, and Booster
A practical way to assign each account a job, avoid duplicated risk, and expand only after the current layer has paid for itself.
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Our definitions for payout, risk, account, and scoring terminology.
Scoring Methodology
Every default weight, assumption, source rule, and limitation.
Strategy Playbooks
Risk-first ways to apply the research to a real prop operation.