Funded Account Risk Management: What Changes After You Pass
Passing an evaluation is not the end of risk management. Payout rules, drawdown, withdrawals and the value of keeping the account can change your priorities.
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Passing an evaluation is not the end of risk management. Payout rules, drawdown, withdrawals and the value of keeping the account can change your priorities.
Read article →A profit target is a finish line, not a reason to increase risk as you get closer to it. Pacing can protect the probability of completing the challenge.
Read article →Position sizing for a prop challenge should reflect the distance to the rule boundary and the losing streak your strategy can realistically produce.
Read article →Daily drawdown is a hard boundary, so your own daily stop should usually be designed as an operating buffer rather than the exact breach level.
Read article →Trailing drawdown can move the breach line upward as your account reaches new highs, changing the risk of giving profits back.
Read article →A prop firm risk plan should be written from the loss limits backwards, not improvised after a bad day begins.
Read article →Passing a prop firm challenge is less about forcing a profit target and more about surviving the rule set long enough for a real edge to show up.
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