PILLAR GUIDE · 15 MIN
Position sizing against a drawdown
The calculation that keeps evaluations alive. How to derive size from the distance to your breach level, why the usual percentage-of-balance rule fails on funded accounts, and a full worked routine for forex and futures.
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GUIDE · 3 MIN
How long a challenge really takes
Realistic timelines once minimum trading days, sensible risk and the absence of a time limit are all accounted for.
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GUIDE · 6 MIN
One-step vs two-step evaluations
What each structure actually tests, which one is genuinely easier once you compare the target against the drawdown, and how to choose on your own equity curve rather than on the advertised phase count.
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GUIDE · 6 MIN
What to do after a failed challenge
A structured post-mortem: how to tell whether the account was lost to variance, to sizing or to a rule you misread, and what each of those three answers should cost you next.
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GUIDE · 5 MIN
Resets: worth it or not?
When paying to restart the same evaluation beats buying a new one, what a reset does and does not restore, and how four cheap resets quietly cost more than the funded account you were chasing.
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GUIDE · 2 MIN
Trading plans that survive a challenge
What a plan needs to contain when the rules are external, and the specific clauses that keep an evaluation alive.
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GUIDE · 6 MIN
Risk per trade for a 10% target
What risk level a typical evaluation target actually requires once you also have to survive a normal losing run, and how to tell when the target is simply not reachable at survivable risk.
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GUIDE · 2 MIN
Journaling during an evaluation
What to record so that a failed evaluation produces a usable diagnosis rather than a vague feeling that it went badly.
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GUIDE · 2 MIN
Passing on a small account
Why the smallest evaluation is usually the right first purchase, and what changes about execution when the account is $10K rather than $100K.
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GUIDE · 5 MIN
Why most traders fail phase two
The specific behaviours that appear after the hard part is done, why the easier phase catches so many people, and a checklist for the first day of verification.
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GUIDE · 5 MIN
Instant funding without a challenge
What you give up in exchange for skipping the evaluation, how profit withholding actually works, and the specific cases where paying more up front is genuinely the better deal.
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