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Understand the rules.
Trade with perspective.
Drawdown, position sizing and payout rules, explained with worked examples. Start with the mechanics behind your evaluation.
Drawdown math: why traders who are up on the day still breach
The daily floor doesn't reset from your starting balance — it anchors to your closed balance at 00:00 UTC, so floating profit is cushion and floating loss is buffer already spent. Worked examples of the mistake that ends most evaluations.
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Position sizing for prop evaluations: work backwards from the floor
Leverage doesn't blow accounts — position size does. A simple formula that derives your maximum size from the distance to your daily floor, with numbers for a $50K account.
Why prop firms have consistency rules (and exactly how ours works)
One lucky candle isn't a track record. What the 40% rule actually measures, why it protects honest traders, and how to clear it if one big win dominates your PnL.
These guides explain the mechanics. Your account’s rules and the current limits in your terminal govern your trades.