Start at zero or sharpen an edge — structured, no-hype guides to challenges, rules, risk, payouts, and even launching your own firm.
Challenges, funded accounts and profit splits explained from zero — the full lifecycle of a prop program.
Which evaluation path fits you — and why an Instant Funding account is a completely different decision than a 2-Step.
Trailing drawdown, consistency rules and news-trading limits — the fine print that fails most traders.
A repeatable framework for lot size, daily loss limits and surviving the drawdown intraday.
First-payout timing, split changes, and how to verify a firm’s payouts yourself on the blockchain via Rise.
The warning signs — pricing that’s too good, opaque rules, drying-up payouts — before you risk a challenge fee.
Normalise pricing, weight the rules, and build your own product-level scorecard across any set of firms.
The real steps, vendors and costs to launch a firm — what a platform provider includes, and what you still have to source.