Understand the rules, manage your drawdown, and apply a clear trading strategy. A practical walkthrough from your first evaluation to funded trading and payouts.
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The objective: hit the profit target before you hit the drawdown limit. Keep your account above the limit as you work toward the target.
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Drawdown type
Illustrative presets. Enter your account’s actual target and drawdown; account size alone does not determine its rules.
Watch the evaluation · End-of-day drawdown
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| ACCOUNT | PROFIT TARGET | DRAWDOWN | TARGET ÷ DRAWDOWN |
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Failure level & daily limitConfirm what triggers a breach, whether open P&L counts, and any separate daily loss limit.
Trading requirementsCheck minimum days, consistency requirements, position limits, and restricted trading times.
When trailing stopsConfirm the balance where the failure level stops rising, if your account has a cap.
Funded account & payoutsRecheck the rules after passing: required buffer, qualifying days, withdrawal limits, and the balance left after a payout.
Understand what gets traders into trouble, then build a plan around it. Passing the evaluation is one step. Getting to payouts is the goal.
Illustrative journey. Bar lengths are not measured conversion rates.
One provider’s published 2025 results. Attempts and individual traders are different counts; these are not industry-wide rates.
The 51.8% figure counts people who reached funding in at least one attempt. The 33.3% payout figure uses funded participants as its denominator. These groups cannot be combined into a single payout funnel. The animation is a conceptual illustration and does not calculate a combined payout success rate. The reasons alongside are teaching topics, not measured causes or statistical rankings.
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