Prop Farming 101
One funded account is an event. A farm is a loop built to be re-seeded from payouts, if and when they land — seed an evaluation, take cashflow if a payout lands, recycle part of it into the next seed — run under the firms’ rules, with a ledger, a calendar, and one structural rule we have not seen written down anywhere else.
Evals sync with evals. Fundeds sync with fundeds.
An evaluation is trying to reach a target under a consistency rule — spread across days on purpose. A funded account is not trying to reach anything; it is trying to stay alive and pay on the firm’s schedule. Those are opposite objectives, so the two groups are two separate copy trees. No evaluation ever follows a funded account, and no funded account ever follows an evaluation.
The reason is risk, not tidiness: with two trees, a breach in one group cannot travel into the other — by construction, not by luck. Why, in full →
Seed, cashflow, recycle — to the edge of the field
An evaluation fee is a seed. If it passes, it becomes a funded seat. If that seat produces a payout that lands, part of the payout can buy the next seed. When a firm’s per-trader cap is reached, the next seeds go to a firm with compatible rules. What a farm multiplies, if anything, is the number of seats a repeatable process is allowed to run on — never the size of any one position.
Most evaluations fail. The farm is a structure built with that fact, not around it: it multiplies whatever process it is given, which is why every article in the series keeps pointing back to one account, traded well, for long enough to trust.
The rules matrix
Every firm you hold a seat at, one row; drawdown type, consistency after funding, hedging, copy freezes, news, inactivity, cap, one column each. Where two rows disagree, those seats do not share a copy tree.
The calendar
Seeds, resets, activations, payout windows, blackout releases, sessions. Evaluations bought on the same day fail on the same day, so the calendar staggers them on purpose.
The ledger
Seed cost, state, days in state, landed payouts, what each became. It yields the three numbers that decide whether the loop turns: attempts per pass, time to first payout, funded survival.
Seven units, fifty-two lessons
Read in order, or jump to the cluster that matches where you are. Every article carries the same disclaimer and the same rails.
The mental model
Why "farm" and not "scale": the loop of seed, cashflow and recycle, the cap as the edge of the field, and a payout as next season's seed rather than income.
Two groups, never crossed
Evaluations are trying to pass under a consistency rule. Funded accounts are trying to stay alive and pay. Opposite objectives — so they are two separate copy trees, and a breach in one cannot reach the other.
- Evals Sync With Evals, Fundeds With Fundeds: The Rule Behind a Prop Farm
- The Consistency Rule Is Why You Can't Copy a Funded Account Into an Evaluation
- Breach Can't Flow Uphill: How Separate Trees Contain a Blow-Up
- The Evaluation Group: Trading to Pass, Not to Earn
- The Funded Group: Treated Safer Than Evals
The rulebook, read like an operator
No-hedging clauses, drawdown that changes type between stages, copy freezes during payouts, news blackouts, consistency after funding — the terms that end farms, and how to keep a matrix of them.
- Prop Firm Rules Matrix: The Traps That End Farms
- Trailing Drawdown Across Many Accounts: One Rule, Ten Times
- News Blackouts as a Hard Breach: A Scheduled Release Is a Rule, Not a Risk
- The Lock Point: Why $52,100 Matters on a $50k Lucid Account
- Prop Firm Consistency Rules Compared: 50%, 40%, 30% and the Variants
- Can You Copy-Trade Your Own Prop Firm Accounts?
- Topstep Rules for Running Multiple Accounts (as We Read Them)
- Lucid Trading Rules for Running Multiple Accounts (as We Read Them)
Operations
How many evaluations to run, the calendar that keeps seeds from failing together, the ledger, the buffer between payouts, what a copier actually does, and the day a firm changes its rules.
- How Many Evaluations Should You Run at Once?
- The Eval Calendar: Pacing Seeds So the Farm Doesn't Sync Its Failures
- Bookkeeping for a Prop Farm: The Per-Account Ledger
- Payout Cadence and the Buffer: Living Between Payouts
- Copying Across Prop Accounts: The Mechanics Nobody Explains
- When a Prop Firm Changes Its Rules Mid-Farm
Futures, specifically
Micros as the unit, the daily close as a hard edge, the week's sessions, and the arithmetic that turns a dollar loss limit into contracts before you trade.
Honesty and stewardship
Most evaluations fail and the farm is built with that. Funded is not rich. Why we call it a farm. And the list of what is deliberately absent from every page in the series.
We build this, we do not sell it
Kingdom Portfolios earns trading capacity through prop firm evaluations rather than raising it, on accounts it owns and trades for itself. The account we build toward, the two phases, and the copier are described on the prop farm page — out of a firm’s published terms, mechanics, and the disciplines we hold, and nothing else. There is no program to join, no account we manage for anyone, and no result on this page or anywhere in the series.
If that is the kind of transparency you want to learn from, the series is free and the list of what it will never tell you is the most useful page in it. And if you are already profitable in props and wondering what comes after the firms, Leave the Sandbox is written for exactly that moment.
Drill the discipline before you pay a fee.
A farm multiplies whatever process it is given. The free demo challenge is where the process gets practised on simulated funds first — no fee, no pitch.
Education only. Nothing here is financial, investment, or trading advice, an offer, or a solicitation. No performance results of any kind are presented on this page or in the series, and nothing here should be read as a projection of what anyone would achieve. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Funded-account evaluations cost real money and most participants never pass or get paid.
Simulated trading. Prop firm evaluation and funded programs of this type are conducted in simulated-trading accounts on the firm’s platform. Account sizes referred to anywhere in the series are the firms’ nominal simulated balances, not capital held by Kingdom Portfolios or by any reader. Simulated results have inherent limitations and do not represent actual trading.
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