Prop firm vs trading your own money — when does the breakeven flip?
$100k FTMO Phase 1: $540 eval + ~3 expected attempts → ~$1,620 total cost. Pass-rate assumption: 12%.
Self-funded $100k: $100,000.
Scalpers rodando 30+ trades/dia em FundingPips Zero: a regra de consistência te derruba, não o daily DD.
Cap de 15% best-day no profit total. Um dia de scalp oversized acima do cap invalida seu ciclo de payout mesmo numa semana lucrativa.
Matemática + workarounds:
FTMO vs FundingPips: same $100k. One has a static DD floor at $90k. The other has a trailing floor that starts at $95k.
Two different products. Same headline. Different equity curve consequences for the same trader.
A 60/40 strategy that 'looks great' has a non-trivial bust probability when you size it for a $100k FTMO. The calculator runs the gambler-ruin closed form on your inputs:
Operadores ICT/SMC: FTMO Phase 1 é a única mesa suportada onde static DD não pune holds multi-leg.
Mesas com trailing-DD (FundingPips, Apex, GetLeveraged) re-ancoram contra seu peak. Um paper-profit pullback num hold de 8h pode te fechar no floor.
Day 1: balance $100k, floor $97,500.
Day 4: balance $102k → floor moves to $99,500. The buffer is now $2,500, not $4,500.
Day 14: balance $106k → floor $103,500. Two losing days at -1% each and you're out.
Full walkthrough:
News-lockout EAs: which prop firms ban them, which allow them, and the workaround operators actually use.
Full breakdown in the blog post (link below).
ICT/SMC operators: FTMO Phase 1 is the only supported firm where static DD doesn't penalize your multi-leg holds.
Trailing-DD firms (FundingPips, Apex, GetLeveraged) re-anchor against your peak. A paper-profit pullback on an 8-hour hold can close you at the floor.
FundingPips Zero fecha a conta de $100k em $98.500 no dia 1.
Daily loss cap de 3% + trailing DD de 5% ancorado no seu maior saldo. Lucro move o floor — eles não movem ele de volta.
Rode a matemática contra seu próprio saldo:
Inputs: $100k. 0.5% risk. 30-pip stop. Apex. Lot size? 0.6. Not 1.
Apex's trailing $2,500 threshold caps you below the risk-only sizing on a $100k. The firm-mode calculator splits 'risk budget' vs 'firm cushion' and returns the smaller.
FundingPips Zero closes a $100k account at $98,500 on day one.
3% daily loss cap + 5% trailing DD anchored to your highest balance. Profit move the floor — they don't move it back.
Run the math against your own balance + risk:
Prop firm challenges are already hard.
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