How to pass prop firm challenges without guessing
The challenge cluster covers the math and execution behind getting funded: FTMO plans, position sizing, rule cheatsheets, and journal workflows built for challenge accounts.
How to Pass FTMO
Build an FTMO 1-Step or 2-Step plan around exact objectives, live loss buffers, tested setups, daily reconciliation, and current official rules.
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FTMO Challenge Explained: Rules, Math and Common Mistakes
Build an FTMO 1-Step or 2-Step plan around exact objectives, live loss buffers, tested setups, daily reconciliation, and current official rules.
Position Sizing for Prop Firms: Why 1% Risk Beats 3%
Size prop firm trades from the exact daily or trailing loss floor, open risk, stop distance, instrument value, and execution reserve—not the account label.
Prop Firm Rules Cheatsheet 2026: Every Rule, One Page
Compare exact 100K evaluation programs with server-rendered prices, targets, loss rules, days, payouts, restrictions, sources and verified dates.
Notion Prop Firm Tracker: FTMO, TopStep & More (2026)
Build a rule-aware Notion prop firm tracker with exact program inputs, linked databases, drawdown logic, verified dates, and fail-closed alerts.
Which Prop Firm Fits Your Trading? 5 Firms Compared (2026)
Compare five exact prop programs by market, loss mechanics, objectives and funded path—then replay your own trades to find profile-relative rule fit.
Prop Firm Drawdown Tracker: The Buffer You Must See (2026)
Build a prop-firm drawdown tracker around the exact active floor, rule-counted account value, usable buffer, open risk, and verified program source.
Why You Failed Your Prop Firm Challenge: 3 Patterns (2026)
Reconstruct a failed prop firm challenge through 3 observable patterns, identify the first preventable break, and test one control before a retake.
Would You Pass FTMO? Simulate Before You Pay (2026)
Replay reconciled trades against the exact FTMO 1-Step or 2-Step rule state, find the first binding rule, and test untouched periods before purchase.
Save Money on FTMO Challenges: Replay Before You Pay
Replay one exact FTMO program against your own trades before checkout. Calculate avoided attempts with canonical prices, visible exclusions, and no invented pass-rate average.
FTMO Journal Worked Scenario: -8.7% to +11.2%
A reconciled FTMO 2-Step Phase 1 journal scenario compares 80 trades ending at -8.7% with a separate 52-trade, 18-day attempt ending at +11.2%.
Consistency Rule: How to Track It and Stay Compliant
Calculate a prop-firm consistency rule correctly, compare current Topstep, FTMO and Apex program stages, and see why deliberate losses never fix the ratio.
FundedNext Journal: Stellar Challenge Tracker (2026)
Track exact FundedNext Stellar 1-Step or 2-Step rules, server-day loss state, phase evidence, imports, and conditional rewards without stale hardcoded terms.
The5%ers Trading Journal: Stay Funded Guide (2026)
Build a The5ers High Stakes New journal around the exact phase, static and daily loss boundaries, profitable-day evidence, provider clock and data completeness.
Best FTMO Trading Journal: Track Rules & Stats (2026)
Build an FTMO journal around exact 1-Step or 2-Step rules, reset-time equity, loss-floor state, reconciled trades, source timestamps, and daily review evidence.
TopStep Trading Journal: Pass the Combine (2026)
Build a Topstep journal that tracks the EOD-trailing MLL, 55% consistency, TopstepX imports, optional DLL, and correct CT trading-day state.
Prop Firm Drawdown Rules Explained: Static vs Trailing vs Daily (2026)
Understand static, end-of-day trailing, real-time trailing and daily loss rules, then compare exact FTMO, Topstep and Apex program scopes.
Questions about this topic
What is the fastest way to use these challenge guides?
Start with the FTMO plan or rules cheatsheet, then use the position sizing guide and the tracker pages to turn the theory into a repeatable routine.
Are these challenge guides only for FTMO?
No. FTMO is a common reference point, but the sizing, rule tracking, and challenge workflows apply to other funded trader programs too.
Why group these pages separately?
Challenge pages solve a different search intent from reviews and comparisons. They focus on passing rules, not picking a firm.
Read the evidence, check the sources, and apply the guide to your own trading.