Most accounts fail on a rule, not on a bad strategy. Start with the one that closes most accounts, and see how the same trades end differently.
Your account Loss floor
Still open: the account ended at $50,500, with the floor at $48,400.
A big intraday gain that isn't banked, then a red day. Example: $50,000 account, $2,000 max loss, floor stops rising at the starting balance. Firms set their own numbers.
How an account gets closed. Learn these first.
What you have to do to get funded and paid.
What it really costs, and what you keep.
How you're allowed to trade.
Our industry reports, free to read online or download as PDF.
What a prop firm evaluation really costs, which rules decide it, what the contracts allow and how much of the industry's money anyone can verify. 86 firms, 4,561 plans, 44 sourced closures.
Two live databases sit behind the reports. The prop firm closures page lists every sourced closure, pause and platform loss since 2024, and the regulation tracker logs what regulators and platform vendors have said and done.