Why this guide exists
Search “pass your prop challenge” and nearly every result is really an advert for a firm, a coupon or a paid programme. We are selling none of those and we rank no firm. This page is about the single thing you genuinely govern: how you trade once the evaluation clock is running.
One problem, framed honestly
A funded-trader evaluation is a constrained optimisation: reach a profit target inside a maximum-drawdown cap while keeping the equity curve consistent. The firm's rules are fixed; the only variable you control is your own trading. So that is all this site is about — the sizing, the conviction discipline and the rule-following that clear the three walls. We do not tell you which firm to pay, because that is a separate decision and one where the incentives get murky fast.
No prop firm pays us a referral cut, we rank none of them, we publish no paid course, and we host no trading room under this masthead. What you are reading is an independent study of the habits that actually clear a funded evaluation. Where a way of trading gets a candidate through we say so outright; where a habit reliably blows the account we are just as blunt about it.
- No firm rankings. We do not compare prop firms or earn on your sign-up to one.
- No affiliate codes. There is no discount link here paying us a cut of your fee.
- Nothing you cannot check. Any number we put beside the desk we recommend links straight back to a record you can pull up for yourself.
The desk we point to
Run the method through and one desk embodies it: the #1-ranked provider. It is operated by the 2023 Trading World Champion, and its calls are A-to-D graded and Bitcoin-timestamped while each trade is still open. The reasoning lives on the method page. We rank it first because its discipline — measured conviction, fixed levels, controlled drawdown — is the discipline that passes an evaluation, not because anyone pays us to.