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PropMinMax converts changing firm rules into a comparable dataset. Rankings are algorithmic, adjustable, and independent of affiliate relationships—but every model still contains assumptions. This page makes ours explicit.
01 · Data
How firm data is sourced
We prefer first-party material: official rulebooks, help centers, pricing pages, account agreements, and direct support clarification. Marketing summaries are used only when the underlying rule is not available elsewhere and are labeled by their limitations.
Records are standardized into common fields so unlike plan language can be compared. A “daily payout” claim, for example, is stored separately from the minimum days required before the first request. Promotional discounts are time-sensitive and do not change the underlying plan rules.
Primary source
Official rules and contractual documentation
Cross-check
Pricing, help center, and plan-specific pages
Review date
Timestamp and revisit when rules change
02 · Ranking
What the default score measures
The Priority Score is the sum of normalized metric contributions. There is no paid placement or manual score override. Users can change every weight, so the ranking is a decision model—not a universal “best firm” list.
Default weights total 100. A zero weight removes that factor. Because several metrics are nonlinear or tiered, a 15% weight means the factor can contribute up to roughly fifteen points; it does not mean the underlying real-world outcome is fifteen percent more likely.
Modeled monthly withdrawable capacity divided by selected all-in cost. Normalized against the highest value in the current comparison set.
Rewards lower structural friction across drawdown, buffer, consistency, withdrawal restrictions, and daily loss limits.
Rewards shorter published minimum paths, bounded from 2 to 14 days and curved so early improvements matter more.
Compares all-in cost with the account’s maximum-loss cushion rather than nominal account size.
Static receives full credit, EOD 90%, and intraday 55% under the default model.
Rewards no rule or less restrictive percentages; first-payout-only rules receive partial credit.
Rewards plans without a common half-withdrawal restriction.
Uses published opportunities per 30 days and caps the modeled value at 20.
Uses the trader side of the published split.
Small convenience credit for accelerated processing after eligibility.
Credit when the rules can eventually permit withdrawal of all eligible profit.
Tiered credit for scaling room; one or two accounts can receive a negative contribution.
Rewards plans without a separate daily loss limit.
Small credit for immediate post-pass activation.
Rewards plans without contract-size scaling restrictions.
03 · Scenario model
How payout-to-cost works
The payout-to-cost ratio compares modeled monthly withdrawable capacity with the selected all-in account cost. It creates a consistent way to compare how much published payout capacity each dollar of account cost can access under the same assumptions.
For capped plans, capacity uses the cap’s actual cycle—per payout, cycle, week, or month—and the published payout opportunities. Tiered caps are weighted toward earlier payouts because fewer accounts reach later tiers. For uncapped plans, a comparison requires an explicit assumption.
of nominal account size per modeled payout
of nominal size as the monthly capacity ceiling
This is a capacity model for comparison. It assumes the trader becomes eligible for the modeled requests. It does not estimate skill, pass probability, account survival, payout approval, or actual earnings.
04 · Difficulty
What Payout Difficulty means
Payout Difficulty is a 0–100 score for structural rule friction. It combines drawdown behavior, buffer width, consistency, withdrawal restrictions, and daily loss limits. Higher means the rules create more obstacles to repeatable eligibility.
It does not measure corporate solvency, customer support, payout speed after approval, or the chance that a specific request is denied. We use the phrase “difficulty,” not “reliability,” for that reason.
05 · Independence
Editorial and affiliate policy
PropMinMax may earn a commission when a visitor purchases through certain links or codes. Affiliate availability does not change inclusion, field values, default weights, or rank. Firms cannot buy a score, remove a warning, or suppress a correction.
Guides are written to explain the decisions the product asks traders to make. When an outside idea inspires an article, we credit and link the source while creating our own analysis. Rules and numeric claims are checked against dated first-party sources whenever possible. Unverified claims are labeled or excluded.
Payout evidence is stored separately from plan scoring. A dated company report can establish what that company says it paid, to how many traders, and how quickly; it cannot establish an individual trader's probability of payout or prove that every program performs equally. We label company-reported data, link the original source, preserve its reporting period, and do not treat it as audited. A payout leaderboard will require comparable recurring periods and definitions across multiple firms.
06 · Accountability
Updates and corrections
Prop rules move faster than ordinary editorial content. Every material correction should identify the affected field, the source used, and the date reviewed. Firm-submitted changes are evidence to investigate, not automatic edits.
If you find an error, include the account name, the field that looks wrong, and an official source. We review the underlying record rather than only the visible sentence. Material guide corrections update the “last updated” date; stylistic changes do not.