Prop Farming 101 — Funded Accounts as a System
Before a farm there is a seat, so the course opens with one account read properly. Then: one funded account is an event. A farm is a loop built to be re-seeded from payouts, if and when they land — run under the firms' rules, with a ledger, a calendar and one structural rule: evaluations sync with evaluations, funded accounts with funded accounts.
Why This Course Matters
Almost everything written about prop firms stops at one account. This course is the second layer — the operator's view — and it is built with the fact that most evaluations fail, not around it.
One account, read properly — the prerequisite
01What Is a Prop Firm? Funded Trading, Explained4 min02Prop Firm vs Broker: What's the Difference?3 min03How a Prop Firm Evaluation Actually Works3 min04Trailing Drawdown Explained (the Rule That Ends Most Accounts)4 min05Daily Loss Limit vs Max Drawdown: Don't Confuse Them3 min06Why Most Traders Fail Prop Firm Challenges4 min07Risk Management for a Prop Firm Challenge (Survival First)4 min08Are Prop Firms Legit? An Honest, Plain-English Look4 min09How to Pass a Prop Firm Challenge (Survival First)3 min10Prop Firm Trading: Funded Accounts, Explained Without the Hype2 min11The Day the Reset Button Disappears2 min12You Already Passed the Hardest Test2 min13The Sandbox Was Never the Ocean2 min14The Profit Split That Quietly Costs You Everything2 min15Recess Is Over: From the Kiddie Pool to Your Own Capital2 min16You Stacked Accounts in Parallel — You Already Think Like a Desk2 min17The Floor That Ends the Day Before Your Emotions Do2 min18The Payout You Actually Keep2 min19The Bridge Between Funded and Free2 min20You've Been Rehearsing for This for Years2 min
The mental model
21What Is Prop Farming? Running Funded Accounts as a System3 min22Seed, Cashflow, Recycle: The Loop Behind a Prop Farm3 min23The Prop Firm Account Cap Is the Edge of the Field, Not a Wall3 min24A Payout Is Not Income Yet: The Ledger Mindset of a Prop Farm3 min25Prop Farming vs Passing Challenges: A Hobby and an Operation3 min
Two groups, never crossed
26Evals Sync With Evals, Fundeds With Fundeds: The Rule Behind a Prop Farm3 min27The Consistency Rule Is Why You Can't Copy a Funded Account Into an Evaluation3 min28Breach Can't Flow Uphill: How Separate Trees Contain a Blow-Up3 min29The Evaluation Group: Trading to Pass, Not to Earn3 min30The Funded Group: Treated Safer Than Evals3 min
The rulebook, read like an operator
31Prop Firm Rules Matrix: The Traps That End Farms4 min32Trailing Drawdown Across Many Accounts: One Rule, Ten Times3 min33News Blackouts as a Hard Breach: A Scheduled Release Is a Rule, Not a Risk3 min34The Lock Point: Why $52,100 Matters on a $50k Lucid Account3 min35Prop Firm Consistency Rules Compared: 50%, 40%, 30% and the Variants3 min36Can You Copy-Trade Your Own Prop Firm Accounts?3 min37Topstep Rules for Running Multiple Accounts (as We Read Them)4 min38Lucid Trading Rules for Running Multiple Accounts (as We Read Them)3 min
Operations
39How Many Evaluations Should You Run at Once?3 min40The Eval Calendar: Pacing Seeds So the Farm Doesn't Sync Its Failures3 min41Bookkeeping for a Prop Farm: The Per-Account Ledger3 min42Payout Cadence and the Buffer: Living Between Payouts3 min43Copying Across Prop Accounts: The Mechanics Nobody Explains3 min44When a Prop Firm Changes Its Rules Mid-Farm3 min
Futures, specifically
45Micro Contracts and Prop Farming: Why Micros Are the Unit3 min46The 4:10 Problem: Daily Close, Overnight Rules and Why Day-Goal Strategies Fit Prop Farming3 min47Sessions and the Prop Farm: Why Sunday Evening and Friday Afternoon Are Decisions3 min48Tick Value, Point Value and Your Daily Loss Limit3 min
Honesty and stewardship
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