Prop-firm rules, animated, with Topstep as the worked example, and the maths of passing honestly. 8 modules, each its own book, all open. The syllabus and goals are here now; lesson texts are being written from source material.
Book IPROP1 · Open
What you are actually buying
Goals
How prop firms make money, the Topstep ladder, what passing honestly means and the conduct rules that end the relationship.
Lessons
How prop firms make money · in preparation
The Topstep ladder: Combine → XFA → LFA, and Labs · in preparation
What "beating the prop firm" honestly means · in preparation
Prohibited conduct: the rules that end the relationship, not just the account · in preparation
Book IIPROP2 · Open
Rule mechanics, animated
Goals
The loss-limit floor, intraday breach, the XFA floor, the daily loss limit, consistency, position limits and real costs.
Lessons
The Maximum Loss Limit: an end-of-day floor that locks · in preparation
Breach is intraday: the trade that would have come back · in preparation
The XFA floor: from −D to 0, and what the first payout does · in preparation
The Daily Loss Limit: a pause, not a fail · in preparation
The 55% consistency target · in preparation
Position limits, the scaling plan and Tier 1 news windows · in preparation
What a trade really costs on TopstepX · in preparation
Book IIIPROP3 · Open
The math of passing
Goals
Pass probability as gambler's ruin, the edge cliff, sizing, the trailing floor, EV per attempt and the zero-edge placebo.
Lessons
Two barriers: the gambler's-ruin pass probability · in preparation
Pass probability vs edge: the cliff · in preparation
Size: cautious with an edge, bold without (and why "size up" is a trap) · in preparation
What the trailing floor costs · in preparation
EV per attempt: fees, months, activation, payouts · in preparation
The placebo: zero edge loses once costs are charged · in preparation
Retries, resets and Back2Funded: attempts are not independent · in preparation
Do you actually have an edge? Your win rate with honest uncertainty · in preparation
Book IVPROP4 · Open
Sizing against the trailing drawdown
Goals
Size from the cushion, not the balance: risk fractions, the one-micro floor, contracts from stop distance and Monte-Carlo.
Lessons
Cushion, not balance · in preparation
Risk as a fraction of cushion, and the one-micro floor · in preparation
From stop distance to contracts on NQ/MNQ · in preparation
Monte-Carlo your own trade list · in preparation
Book VPROP5 · Open
Daily process
Goals
A prop-adjusted plan before the session, path controls during it and a journal the model can use after.
Lessons
Pre-session: the prop-adjusted plan · in preparation
In-session path controls and the psychology of the floor · in preparation
Post-session: journal what the model needs · in preparation
Book VIPROP6 · Open
Funded: payouts, scaling and staying funded
Goals
Payout paths, when to withdraw, scaling to Live, and why several accounts are still one bet.
Lessons
Standard vs Consistency payout path · in preparation
When to withdraw: cash now vs cushion · in preparation
Scaling and the Live call-up · in preparation
Several accounts, one bet: copiers, correlated ruin and fees · in preparation
Book VIIPROP7 · Open
Choosing a plan
Goals
Match the account to your strategy, compare the Labs options and fill in your own decision worksheet.
Lessons
Match the account to the strategy · in preparation
Topstep Labs: Combines vs fixed-payout Challenges · in preparation
Your prop decision worksheet · in preparation
Book VIIIPROP8 · Open
Account killers and module project
Goals
Twelve ways accounts die, then a prop plan of your own tested against three synthetic traders.
Lessons
Twelve ways accounts die · in preparation
Module project: three synthetic traders, then your own prop plan · in preparation
