$100K/month in prop trading sounds insane until you break down the math.
20 trading days = roughly $5K/day across all accounts.
If copied across:
• 1 account = $5K/day
• 5 accounts = $1K/day each
• 10 accounts = $500/day each
• 20 accounts = $250/day each
Still hard. Most people will fail trying to scale to this. I have too.
And no, this doesn’t mean you should go buy 20 accounts immediately.
Start with one.
Get a payout.
Use the payout money to buy more accounts.
Scale with proof.
Keep your costs low.
That’s how you play the prop game.
took another round of payouts today.
≈$11,000 from apex (15 accounts at roughly $750 each) + another $2,000 (-10 % split) from topstep. none of these are particularly large payouts on an individual account. that's the point. you don't need massive payouts on one account.
you need a system that scales. but scaling does not mean buying 5, 10, 15 or 20 accounts on day one.
start with 1 account. get a payout. cover your costs. then use that payout to buy another account.
1 → 2 → 4 → 8...
scale with payouts, not with your own money. if an account blows, replace it with payout money, not money from your paycheck. keep your costs low. that's how you stay in the game.
that's how you win.
@Lyandro482007 I don’t trade CFD’s but I try to pass as soon as possible personally. You wanna wait for a good setup and pass it one trade if possible, risk half the total drawdown amount.
Do NOT buy multiple prop accounts right away.
Even if you’ve taken payouts before.
Especially then.
The payout curse is real.
You get paid, start buying bigger accounts, more resets, more subscriptions, and suddenly your costs eat your entire payout and then some.
Start with 1.
Get paid.
Add 1.
Repeat.
Blown? Reset to 1.
Keep your costs low.
most newer prop traders misunderstand evals.
don’t trade evals the same way you trade funded. most gurus saying that don’t even do it themselves.
use eval-appropriate size, pass fast, one account at a time, keep costs low, and then move to funded where you can actually get paid.
remember, you can’t make money from evals. you make money from funded accounts.
the objective is speed.
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@AbuThahir_12358 first account is probably getting nuked anyway, buy whatever you can afford.
apex accounts are pretty cheap. i’d probably recommend 50k accounts.
$100K/month in prop trading sounds insane until you break down the math.
20 trading days = roughly $5K/day across all accounts.
If copied across:
• 1 account = $5K/day
• 5 accounts = $1K/day each
• 10 accounts = $500/day each
• 20 accounts = $250/day each
Still hard. Most people will fail trying to scale to this. I have too.
And no, this doesn’t mean you should go buy 20 accounts immediately.
Start with one.
Get a payout.
Use the payout money to buy more accounts.
Scale with proof.
Keep your costs low.
That’s how you play the prop game.
@mTraderNDX that’s what a calendar looks like when you refuse to accept a losing day and then nuke everything in one day when you can’t revenge trade out of it anymore* there i fixed it for you.