One realistic trader. Eight real prop-firm rule sets, verified 2026-07. The same seeded Monte Carlo engine that powers our free simulator. Scroll — and watch which rule actually ends the account.
Modestly profitable, disciplined, consistent — the profile every firm says it wants. Every number in this tour is this same trader. Only the rules change.
Positive expectancy, sane size. Under a plain 10% static floor this profile passes ~91% of evaluations.
Apex's drawdown floor trails your best intraday mark. The pullback a static account absorbs becomes, here, the end of the evaluation. Swap only the drawdown mechanism — hold every other rule constant — and the price of trailing appears:
MyFundedFutures' end-of-day variant costs 14.1 pts the same way (81.3% → 67.2%). Full method in the study.
Run the same swap at Topstep — replace its trailing floor with a static one — and the pass rate moves by zero. The 2% daily limit and the 50% consistency check end or block the path before the floor is ever touched.
The drawdown label on the marketing page doesn't tell you which rule will actually end your evaluation. Rule sets interact.
Scale one input — risk per trade — and watch the archetypes separate. The static account degrades gracefully. The tight-rule accounts fall off a cliff: Topstep collapses from 69.6% to 6.0%.
Halving risk from 1.0% to 0.5% buys +44.7 pts at Topstep and only +9.2 at FTMO. Risk size and rule set are one joint decision, not two.
| Archetype | 0.5% | 1.0% | 1.5% | 2.0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTMO — static floor | 99.7 | 90.5 | 76.6 | 56.1 |
| Apex — intraday trailing | 95.4 | 75.4 | 59.6 | 49.0 |
| Topstep — EOD trail + daily 2% | 69.6 | 24.9 | 21.4 | 6.0 |
No single rule killed this trader — combinations did, and the binding rule changed from firm to firm. These odds are measured, seeded and reproducible. Yours are one free run away: your stats, the full rule set, in your browser, nothing uploaded.
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