I interviewed EVERY prop firm millionaire. Here’s exactly how they did it.

0:00 I've spoken to every single profom trader that's made more than a million dollars. I've spoken to profit traders that are all-time record holders on the leaderboard. I've spoken to profit traders that have made millions of dollars in payouts. And after all of these dozens of conversations from the best profit traders in the world, let me tell you one thing, and that is none of these traders found their success with prop firms and the millions of dollars that they made by trading a sensible, consistent, long-term strategy. They all traded aggressively with specific rules and specific strategies only for the prop firm game. When they trade their personal capital, it's a completely different system and a completely different strategy. But when they play in the prop firm arena, they follow a specific strategy, a specific plan, and a specific rule set. So, in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you the exact formula that you need to follow if you are a proper trader and you haven't

0:46 found consistency. This is the formula you need to follow to find success and profitability in prop trading. just like the rules of every single sevenf figureure payout trader from prop firms in the industry that I've had the honor of speaking to. So, with that being said, let's get into this video where I'm going to take you from a profit trader that's probably struggling and tired of blowing accounts and keep paying these prop firms and turn you into one of these traders that understands the rules of the game and will be well on their path to making six and even seven figures in payouts by following a specific strategy. So, the first thing to know is what does your equity curve look like? Depending on the type of trader you are, you will have a different type of equity curve. Now, let me break this down. So, the first equity curve you'll see is something like this where the overall trajectory is positive. It's fairly

1:32 linear. It's fairly consistent and reliable. And the key details to notice is that the losses are limited. They are not huge blowout losses. There are controlled losses and the wins are also capped. You don't have huge spikes. When you have a spike, it's probably backtoback wins. And therefore, you start to see that there's a fixed downside and a consistent and reliable upside. and connected over time with a high trade frequency, it's led to a positive outcome over time, a positive expectancy known as alpha. So when we have an equity curve like this, a positive expectancy, we can see that because of the high trade frequency, the good risk-to-reward, the limited downside, this is someone that is likely to be an intraday or intraession or scalp style trader, someone that is trading a risk-to-reward of 1 to three or 1:4 risk-to-reward where we can see that playing out. This was a 1 to3 risk-reward trade. This was a 1% loss.

2:18 And the losses are always the same size. They're not taking big bets of 3% 5% risk per trade. It's always 1% risk, 3% reward, and consistent trade frequency over time. So, this is a very desirable equity curve. This is something I would strive to have as a long-term trader who's trading personal capital. This is the goal. You have a good trade frequency, a positive risk-to-reward, controlled downside, and you allow your edge to play out over time. You allow the numbers to add up over the executions leading to positive outcomes. But the next type of trader will be something like this. Maybe at the end of the year they are still up, they are still positive, but it's completely different because you have big wins occasionally, a few times, maybe once or twice a month, but a lot of the time is spent doing nothing, nothing, nothing. And therefore, you start to see that you have a few portions of the month, a few

3:05 portions of the year that lead towards your profitability, but you have a lot more time during the year where nothing is happening. And this shows us that a swing trader that has a low trade execution would have an equity curve like this where once again their losses are controlled. They do take losses but they're always going to be in a controlled size. But then you have a lot of time of break even or losing trades and therefore a lot of time passing weeks and months where you're taking one trade every two weeks and maybe if you have three or four backto-back losses or break even trades that means for a couple of months you didn't make any progress. So when the winning trades come yes they're going to be nice healthy wins but they are spaced out. That's why a lot of traders do say that a swing traders that 20% of their year leads to 80% of their profits. Meaning two months of the year is responsible for the majority of their profits and the rest of the year becomes cruising.

3:51 Now if you have a trader that is doing dynamic sizing that is doing bigger bets. They're not always doing 1% risk. Then you will start to have bigger calamities and more heightened wins because sometimes they risk 1% per trade but sometimes they risk 2% per trade, 3% per trade. So therefore a losing trade can be a bigger hit. And therefore some winning trades can be even bigger wins. Instead of 1 or 2% gain, now it's four, five, 6% gain in a single trade. So it becomes a more volatile curve. Once again, small windows of time lead to majority of the profit of the year. And the remainder of the year is just cruising or potentially spending a lot of time in draw down depending on the risk profile that they have. Now once again, this is a healthy equity curve over time. It's still got a positive expectancy. is just a lot more volatile,

4:36 but it is slow. It is conservative, and that's what a lot of people prefer because you don't need to be glued to the screen doing one trade every day like the scalper maybe has to. Now, the next equity curve that you may have is going to be someone like this. This is someone that is waiting for their A+ setups. And the A+ setups, they are so restricted. There's so many rules. There's so many criteras to wait for this high quality setup that when it presents, you know, it's going to be an 80% win rate. you know, it's going to be a high win rate strategy and it's going to be a high riskreward. But when you have high win rates, high risk reward, naturally you have low trade frequency. It's very rare. And that becomes the three factors that everyone has to dance. You either have a high trade frequency like in option one, but then you have a limited riskreward and a good win rate. Or option number two, you have a high win rate, you have an average riskreward, and you have a lower trade

5:23 frequency. Or you can have the high win rates, you can have the high riskreward, but you have a very low trade frequency. So depending how you mix and match, whether you're a swing or scalp, dynamic sizing or static sizing, static risk, all are going to lead to different types of growth equity curves. And this is clearly someone that has big payoffs. High risk-to-reward wins. When they win a trade, you might get a 1 to 10, 1 to 15 risk-to-reward, but the majority of the year is spent cruising, waiting for that high quality setup. And maybe a lot of them turn into break even trades or very small losses because they left a bit of exposure to give the trade breathing room. So this once again is a good equity curve. If you have a positive expectancy, there's stability. There's no shocks. There's no draw down. And in the end, all three of these lead to positive outcomes. It's just the psychology, the trade management, the risk management, and the trade frequency

6:08 will all be different despite maybe at the end of the year, all of them having the same P&L. By the way, there's going to be so many equity curve types. By the way, let me know if you're interested in me making a full video about all of the equity curve types, all of the pros and cons, and what you should look out for. I'll save that for another video, but this is to give you an idea that even if you have a 20% year, a 30% year, how you get there can look completely different based on different factors. Now, these are all positive outcomes. These are all desirable for a long-term trader who's trading live personal capital. They want stability. They want positive outcomes. They want control downside. Why? Because a trader that is trading this kind of way, they don't want to go through a draw down period because they have to climb back out of it. And even if you have a good window of performance, you have to recover your loss. So you might

6:55 spend months coming back to break even despite having to trade professionally with discipline, with good psychology and positive results. When you lose money, you have to get out of the hole and you have to follow good psychology over time. You have to have an edge in the first place. Do you even have a positive expectancy to allow the data to play out to then see positive returns? You know this is how a professional trader thinks and this is going to be the arena that majority of traders had to trade with until the prop firm industry emerged just a few years ago. Now when the prop industry emerged the problem becomes is that traders think I need to trade like this on a prop firm account. I have to take the same habits the same psychology the same trade management the same discipline the same edge and do it on a prof. And why? Because the logic is very sound. The professors will tell you, "Look, we'll give you $100,000 and as long as you can

7:40 prove profitability, we will let you trade that money and you can keep basically all of the profits. All you have to do is pay us a couple hundred." And that dream becomes so powerful because traders do the maths and they say, "Well, if I can do 5% return, but instead of doing it on my 10k personal capital, where I might go 10% negative, 20% negative, it doesn't matter." The prof said, "Even if I go 10% down, even if I lose $10,000, it doesn't matter. They're not going to charge me anything. I just have to pay for the fee." And then when I do make profit, if I make $10,000 profit, $20,000 profit, I get to keep 90%. This is the dream. And this is where they get you. They get you to think you have to trade sensibly, consistency over time. Show them a good edge. Show them the parameters that they want to see. And they say, "Hey, you got to use good risk management. Hey, you can't do more than 10% draw down. Hey, you can't do more than 5% loss in a

8:26 day." And they force you to think you have to trade like this on the profit account. And why is that? because they know traders like this if they do make money it will take them a long time to make 20 30 40%. So then they know it's going to be a long duration to reach large payouts and more importantly they know that most traders want to be like this try to be like this but in reality more look like this. They maybe sometimes have winning periods but overall it's a break even or realistically a losing trend. Most traders, 95% of traders lose money. And yes, they might have winning periods. And that's what gets traders hooked because they see the hope, they see the potential, but over time, most traders are losing. So now, if the problems can convince you to say, "Risk in the same way you should be. Deploy the same account management, deploy the same psychology, and they know deep down that you have a curve that looks like this,

9:12 then of course they know you're going to keep buying account after account after account. and the small high that you feel on a winning period or a positive outcome. You say, "Okay, I passed a few challenges or maybe I got to pay out number one, but it's never enough to find consistent payouts. It's never enough to make enough money for you to change your life." And in the end, most traders, they will spend thousands of dollars, keep trying to buy accounts, and maybe they pass phase one and two over here. Maybe they reach one payout and then they keep buying accounts and losing. And they know long-term people will pay thousands of dollars to evaluations, but maybe only make a few hundred in payouts. So for them in the end, the profit made far more money from the trader despite everything seeming like it's in your favor. And by the way, the goal is to have a profitable strategy. But you can see already that even if you have a break even strategy or even a losing strategy, you can still

9:58 make payouts if you start to learn how to revolve accounts and play the game. But what I recommend you do is do a system health check. Whatever strategy you have right now, do a full inspection to know exactly the data, the blind spots, and even the strengths of your system. But what I've done for you is I've prepared it all into a system health check questionnaire. It's absolutely for free. You can do a full diagnostic on your strategy just by answering a few specific questions. It gives you a full diagnostic report on what's going well and what's going wrong. It's going to tell you exactly what you should be doing for the next 30 days to improve your specific strategy tailored for you. If this sounds interesting for you, click the link in the description. It's absolutely for free and it should help you along your way in your trading journey. And if you're looking for more one-on-one personalized help, meaning one-on-one coaching, daily live streams, Q&As's, and a full community and curriculum of a

10:44 proven strategy that's helped thousands of traders get funded and get payouts, click the link in the description to apply for WWA trading. And hopefully I'll see you on a Zoom call very soon. Okay, back to the video. Therefore, if you're a trader that knows you've never made 10% in a month, you've never made 50% in a year, you've never even made 20% in a year, you don't have a positive edge, then don't trade the way that they want you to trade. If you're a trader that doesn't have account management under control, psychology, you don't have that under control. You don't have years of market experience, then why play the game in the way that they want you to? Because it's not your money. It's all simulated funds and it's all a game. So, play the game under the rules that they tell you to play with, but maximize it. Follow a specific strategy. And therefore, even if you are a losing or break even trader, you can still make profits. And that's the key. Profs are not designed for traders to think long term. platform trading the game, the way

11:30 you win the game is even if you're a break even trader is the way you distribute and diversify your winning trades to make sure you lock in payouts even if you're going through a losing period. This is where it gets powerful and this is what I wanted to share with you. Now, before I show you exactly what you need to do, let me just remind you, I've spoken to all of the most successful profit traders in the industry. The guys that have made a million dollars in a single payout, the guys that have made $2 million in lifetime payouts, the guys that have made a million dollars in a single year. And let me describe some of these traders. One trader has been trading for 80 years and for 6 years they were losing money and they made a million dollars in a single year from profom trading and they didn't even have a profitable strategy. They just dialed in their psychology and knew how to maximize the game. They didn't have a working edge. Another trader did it at the age of 20. They made a million

12:16 dollars at the age of 20 following the same system. And of course, I've spoken to other traders who had $5 million in funding before they got banned. I've spoken to a couple of traders who have made a million dollars in a single payout and one trader who made $2 million in a single payout. And let me tell you, all of them play the prop firm game. Yes, they might have a good edge. Yes, they might have market experience. Yes, they might have a functioning strategy. But the reason they made these large payouts was not just that because there's plenty of traders that have good psychology, a working edge and have discipline and market experience. Plenty of traders, but those are not making the large payouts. Maybe they make 10, 20, 30k in payouts. But to really exploit the profone game, you got to follow a specific strategy. And that is going to be understanding that you need to treat it like this. Now, this is the equity curve that is a worst case scenario. If you have an equity curve that looks like

13:02 this, remember comparing it to the ones above. This one is you have a high trade frequency. You execute a lot. And the goal here is you don't need a 70% win rate. The idea is you try to be at a 40 to 50% win rate. It's a low win rate. But the goal here is when you bring down your win rate, naturally your trade frequency goes up. Because if I want to have a 90% win rate, then maybe I can only take one trade in a year, that perfect setup that fits all the rules. Maybe that's a 90% win rate setup. But if I bring my win rate down to 50%, 40%, then I can probably find a trade opportunity almost daily, especially if I'm looking at a few currency pairs or asset classes. So if I can find a high trade frequency, lower win rate but still controlled and a positive risk-to-reward, call it 1 to three risk-reward, then with these simple KPIs of a 40 to 50% win rate, a trade

13:47 frequency of 3 to five trades per week and a risk-to-reward of 1 to three on average and a specific risk strategy, then at the end of the period, if you have no edge, if you can now start and end at the same spot, you didn't have growth in your account, you were flat. That's fine because you will start to realize you have winning periods over here and losing periods over here. And when you start to break it down, you say, "Well, in the winning periods, I lock in payouts and in the losing periods I dismiss those accounts." And yes, it cost me a bit of money, but I'll show you why it still works. Because your goal here is not to have an edge. Your goal is to time winning periods, to have small portions of positive outcomes. If you can find a winning strategy for 2 weeks, that is enough for you to make 3 4% and lock in the payout. And at the end of the period, if you're

14:32 in a losing period, if you're break even, you can still make profit. Now, let me say the goal is to have something that looks like this, positive over time. But I would still modify this and say if you can be positive over time, but double your trade frequency, that is powerful because you are rewarded for executions. This is a game of trade frequency, average win rate, and good risk-to-reward because your goal is to execute as much as possible and diversify your accounts and exposure to profirms. Let me break this down if this is not making sense just yet. Because what I want to emphasize is these profom traders that are making crazy payouts, they maybe don't even have a working strategy. In fact, one of the traders I spoke to has made a million in payouts in a single year. He actually traded a live account, too, and he put $10,000. He grew it to $200,000 and blew it all in two weeks. This tells me there wasn't good psychology in place. There wasn't a

15:18 strategy in place cuz it went from high to bust and there wasn't good account management. So when a trader doesn't have a working strategy, good psychology, and everything dialed in, can still make a million dollars in payouts. That's when it's very clear to know you got to play the profit game, not necessarily be a professional long-term trader is different objectives. So before I get into the exact strategy, let me tell you some rules and conditions. Number one, every single trader that I spoke to that's made more than a million dollars in payouts, every single one of them has spent between $200 and $400,000 in evaluations. the going average risk-to-reward between how much people spend in evaluations and challenges versus how much they get in payouts, the risk-to-reward or the total evaluation fees versus the total payouts. That ratio is approximately 1 to 10 back in 2023 and back in 2024. Now, because the

16:05 profit and prices have changed, because there's now more restrictions and more denials, because there's more rules in place, it's harder to pass these accounts. It's harder to keep these accounts, and when you do get payouts, there's more likely to be denials. And if you get too many payouts, they're going to restrict and control you. So the golden era of profit trading was a few years ago. And that's why traders that spent $100,000 in challenges reached a million dollars in payouts. A 1:10 ratio. Those traders that I spoke to back then at the beginning of my podcast who were making a ton of money from prop firms, but they were getting a 10x in payouts from what they were paying into evaluations. And they were able to float 3 million, 4 million, $5 million in funding. But now in 2025, and specifically now in 2026, the rules have changed. The profit pricing has changed. Now there's more denials. There's more restrictions. So now what I found is the average trader who's made a million

16:51 dollars, they spent 200, 300, $400,000 in evaluations. Yes, it's still positive, but it's not a 10x anymore. Now it's more likely a 3x or a 4x. Still doable, still worth it, but a completely different conditions. So now you got to take it out of your mind. I'm going to buy one challenge. I'm going to slowly pass it. I'm going to trade it towards hundreds of thousands of dollars in payouts. Nobody's doing that. And that's what the profs want you to do. They want you to trade one account slowly, conservatively consistently and they'll put rules in your face, trip you up, and deny your payouts. So, why play the game in their terms? All of the traders that are finding success, they're putting large budgets, not from their pockets. They reinvest payouts. Maybe they put $5,000, they buy 20 accounts, and they lock in a 10k payout eventually. When they've locked in that 10k payout, they put it back into more

17:36 challenges. they get more payouts, they put it back into challenges and they recycle and reinvest until eventually they can get enough payouts to be so large compared to how much they paid to buy all of these evaluations. That's the formula. And what is clear to see also what used to be able to do 4 million $5 million in funding across 20 prop firms, that's not really doable anymore. Usually now the way to do it is you trade a few prop firms and you try and get max allocation on a few and you trade with the trusted ones. These guys that are trading big payouts now, they're not trading $5 million in aggregated funding. Maximum they do is $500,000, a million dollars, some even pushing it to $2 million. But you don't really see people floating$5 million, $6 million in funding back in the day like they used to. Why? Because there's less trusted firms because so many firms went bust because the business model got

18:22 tight. So, the industry has evolved, but the rules of the game stay the same. And my last recommendation to you is trade with prop firms that are trusted. Don't trade with the new prop firms are cheaper that look like they have more marketing stunts because there's always a price to pay. And even if they have cheaper prices, they're more likely to deny your payouts. They're more likely to put BS rules in your face to force you to fail. And they're more likely to do unethical things, maybe even scam you or put hurdles in your face to make sure you don't reach payouts. So don't trust these companies. Rather, stick with the top ones. The ones that have been around for years. The ones that have verified hundreds of millions of dollars in payouts. The ones that have good reputation. And most importantly, not these hidden prop firms that you don't know who owns it. That is just influencer ran as probably a cash grab. Think of longevity and trust. And bear in mind, I've spoken to all of the prom

19:07 CEOs. In fact, a lot of them are in Dubai. Some of them I've spoken to on Titans of Tomorrow. I have good relationships with the top prop firms and all of the CEOs. And let me tell you the reality behind the scenes. These guys, they're operating big businesses. Their businesses are worth hundreds of millions, some of them even crossing a billion dollars. When you have a company that is worth multiple nine figures, even 10 figures, you start to realize their goal is not to deny a 10K payout. Because if they deny a 10K payout wrongfully, that could mean it goes viral on the internet and people lose trust and they lose so much in business and their valuation naturally drops. So, their goal is not to deny payouts. Their goal is to ensure longevity in the business model and fair practice. So, when you see that the newer prop firms are more likely to be shady, they're more likely to do unethical practices versus the ones that have stood the test of time, who are thinking long-term and billiondollar empires, you'll start to

19:54 see why would you trust these ones. And my recommendations, stick with the top five prop firms. And the reality is, I think the sweet spot in funding is a million dollars. You don't need more than a million dollars. And if you do get more than a million dollars, it comes with more headaches and more logistics, and it's not the way to do it. I'm going to show you exactly the strategy, but let me tell you the firms to stick with is go for max allocation with three firms. My most recommended would be Funded Next to Alpha Capital. Then I'd also put FTMO in that category because they are the gold standard. They've been around for so long. They are trusted. And then I also look towards funding pips and the fivers. If you stick with these five firms, you don't need to look anywhere else. You can get large amount of funding with stable rules and reliable firms. And because I have good friendships and relationships with all of these firms and because they understand the power of this YouTube channel and they understand the power of my podcast, I've been able to negotiate the best deals in the

20:39 industry. So, if you look in the link in the description, I'm going to leave some exclusive prop firm discounts for you where you'll be able to get the best prices and the best conditions if you use the link and the discount code that I have for you. And again, I did this to fight for you guys, my audience, to make sure you're working with the right prop firms. And by the way, a video like this where I'm exposing how to make as much money as possible with prop firms. Naturally, the proper owners are not going to be happy about this. So, trust me when I say I'm making this video for you to help you along your journey after speaking to the best profit traders in the world. And I've also helped thousands of traders make payouts or get funded. I understand this industry and the game very well, but I'm here for you guys. I'm going to speak to my friends that are profit owners and say, "Hey, take care of my audience. Give them a good discount code. Take care of them. But in the end, I'm always going to be on your side." And this video is obviously proof of that. So, let's get into the details of the exact strategy you need to follow to maximize payouts

21:26 and not play the profit game in the way that the profoms want you to play it, rather the way you should be playing it. Still following all the rules though. Okay. And here we have it. I call this the revolving door strategy. Now, I'm going to break down exactly what this is, but the goal of this is to amplify your winning periods and minimize the effect of your losing periods. And what this looks like is if I have all of these lines represents funded accounts. So, let's assume each one of these is 100k accounts. So, therefore, each row is going to be one account. So, this is account number 1, 2, 3, four, and five. So, total we have $500,000 in funding. So, therefore, with five accounts of $100,000 each, and we spaced it out during week intervals, week 1, week 2, week three. Now, what most traders think is if I've got $500,000 in funding, I'm going to trade all $500,000 at the same time because if I get 2 3% on $500,000,

22:15 that could be like a 15k payout, a 20k payout, and I could probably do that in a month. So, they try and make a large payout because they've got a large amount of funding. That was their goal. They worked hard to get funded in the first place, and now they want to hit it big right away. And that's why if you trade in that way, which is what the prop firms want you to do, they'll help you merge these accounts. They help you reach this max allocation status. They do this so that you trade it all at the same time. Because there is a very prominent statistic that the traders that finally get funded that do not reach a payout is because they blew that account within a week. Even if it took them weeks to get funded, even if they traded for months slowly, conservatively, controlled risk, they traded very sensibly during the evaluation period. But when they get funded, all the rules go out the window. The emotions get spiked. They're probably feeling overconfident because they got a certificate because they got funded. Now they told their friends they

23:01 are on a high and now they are chasing the big payout and therefore all of these emotions mean that they blow the account and mess it all up in a very short amount of time. This is what the data shows. So therefore it makes all sense to break it up instead of trading everything at the same time. Start one account on week one and then add another one on week two and add another one on week three. So it's going to take you five weeks for all accounts to finally be live. But then if you keep all of these accounts live that means from the fifth week onwards that means all five accounts are being traded all together copy traded. Now this becomes a problem because if you make 5% gain perfect you got a 5% payout 25k across 500k in funding. But if you go 5% down now you're 25k down across all these accounts. That's pretty significant. Or if you go through a losing period and your emotions get the better of you and you blow it then you blow all five

23:47 accounts. You go from $500,000 in funding to zero in very short amount of time. And by the way, I've spoken to traders, even successful traders who made a lot in payouts, who faced exactly this, who had a million dollars in funding and lost it all and had to waste two months again trying to build up their funding. Once again, you don't want to have this opportunity cost of wasted time. So, sure, if you traded all five accounts and you got a big payout and you got a big winning period, sure, you would have felt it across five accounts. Now, maybe you only feel it across two or three. Sure, okay, you're not efficient on that side. That's the cons. But what is the pros? The pros is your losing period is not felt on all five accounts. If you blow one account, it means you didn't blow five accounts and therefore you don't have to waste another two, three months trying to get funded again. You are in the game longer and your losses are diversified on a few accounts. So therefore, the cost of not having your full payout on all of the

24:34 funding is so worth it when you realize you can have longevity and a strategy in place. Now, this is where it gets interesting. So the way you do this is you trade intervals. You have four weeks on where you have an opportunity to reach your payouts and then you have one week off. That means on week one, you're only trading 100K. Week two, you're trading 200K. Week three, you're trading 300K. Week four, you have a lot of exposure, 400K. That means at the start of week 1, you're trading 100K. Start of week two, you're trading 200K. Start of week three, you're trading 300K. Start of week four, you drop the first account, and now you're trading back down to 300K. And then the next week is going to be this one starts again. This is where you have a lot of exposure, 500K, and then you drop another account, 400K. So that means when everything is up and running, you'll be floating between three and four and $500,000 in funding. If you want to be even more conservative, I'd say do two weeks off.

25:21 So it's four weeks on, two weeks off. That means you will never cross more than $400,000 in funding. So therefore, you're diversified. But I know a lot of people are not patient enough for that or disciplined enough. So I've done four weeks on, one week off. Now the benefit of this becomes it's not just about having limited accounts being traded. It's about the spacing out of it. So now let's say you have equity curve that looks something like this. So overall in a positive direction, we've had account growth, but we've also had a long period of nothing going on. We've had an extended losing period. So, let's break it down on what it would look like. If you were trading all 500K at the same time, then you would have had a high, maybe you lock in a payout, then a huge losing period, maybe even blowing some accounts, and then a nice winning period once again, and a bit static. So, that alone could be enough to get payouts. But when it amplifies is when you start to have this winning period, yes, this felt on just a couple of these accounts. But then the rule I have for this is

26:07 whenever an account reaches 3%, lock in the payout. 3% equals lock in the payout. Meaning this 3% run, you lock in the payouts. Exactly then. So these three accounts now are going to be temporarily offline and that means you're locking in the payout. Now when you face this losing period, these accounts are maybe offline and you started trading this new account and this new account over here. So now when it comes back to this winning period over here, now account number one is back online. Account number two is obviously online. Account number three is online. And therefore account number four and five where yes, you had a recovery. Maybe it didn't keep up with the losing period. So these accounts might be break even. This account might be break even. That's fine because this account only really experienced the up period and it was basically offline from here all the way to back here. So it didn't feel this window of losing period

26:53 associated from here to here it didn't feel it. So that minus 2% it didn't have. So when it started back again over here it felt all of this appreciation. So it can lock in another 3%. So that means the losing periods are minimized on some accounts and some accounts maybe you face it entirely but you can pause these accounts or maybe slowly bring it back to break even. But if you're always locking in payoffs at 3%, eventually if you allow time to play out and an average edge, you'll consistently reach the 3% threshold over time on multiple accounts. And the certain accounts, they will fizzle down into draw down and maybe you can throw them away. And this is the key. You don't get emotional about every account. You're revolving and cycling and you're actively moving. Remember, everybody that's made a million dollars in payouts, purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of evaluations, multiple six figures in evaluations, meaning they're trading

27:38 constantly new accounts and blowing accounts constantly. That's okay. The goal here is if you have $500,000 in funding, have another $500,000 just about to pass phase 2, 1% away. So that if these accounts you decide, okay, I'm blowing that one. This one's not looking good. I don't want the stress. you put it to a side and then you start trading two or three new accounts and you just need 1% more to pass. So when it's passed, you bring it back online and you throw it into the revolving door strategy. Meaning, okay, it cost you $500, but now you have a fresh account that you've passed and now if you get another winning period like this one instead of like account number three, you have to go into the draw down like we faced over here and then slowly recover over time. Forget all of that. At this point, you bring the new account, you try and get funded in this appreciation over here. And then now that new account is funded and this is

28:24 all upside now. So now instead of now going from down to back up to positive now this new account just feels positive. It just feels this up period. So now what you did was you made it efficient. So now instead of going from 0 to minus3 back to zero and you wasted weeks doing it. Now you binned one account. Okay you lost $500 which was the cost of this account. But then the new account you now got it funded. You reached 3% payout and you locked in $3,000. So, it cost you $500 to bin that account, but you made $3,000 payout locked in 2.5K. This is way more efficient when you have $500,000 in funding and another $500,000 about to pass phase 2 that are backup accounts so you don't have downtime. And then you recycle accounts whenever you need to and you always have your pipeline fresh. 3% lock in a payout. Don't try and get

29:10 5% 10% because you're probably more likely to blow that account or reach 5% and then fizzle back down to 2%. It's inefficient. The system is 3% lock in the payouts go offline. When it's a losing period, bin the accounts, bring the phase 2 accounts back to funded, cycle them in fresh, and you're just playing the riskreward game of evaluation cost versus payout at 3%. This is the formula. Yes, it's going to cost you money, but the first payouts that you get doesn't go to your pocket like the prop firms want you to do. You reinvest. You reinvest. you reinvest to the point where you have $500,000 in funded accounts, another $500,000 at phase 2, and then another couple hundred,000 maybe just past phase one. So, you're always locked and loaded and ready to go, and you're reinvesting, reinvesting, and getting payouts. And over time, this compounds so that you reach a point where all of your account

29:56 purchases come from payouts, not from your pocket. So, then you're playing with the house's money. You are risk-f free. So, then you can get really aggressive with it and really scale it up. And another rule I have for you is you don't want to waste time getting funded. So that's why all of the traders that I've spoken to that made a lot of money with prop firms, they do the max daily draw down as a single risk in a single trade. Meaning no 0.5% risk per trade, not 0.25% risk per trade. They do 4% 4.5% risk per trade only in the evaluations. Why? Because they're playing with the house's money. They're playing with the payouts. It's not their money. So then they get a payout. They get three more challenges and they try and pass it in one or two trades. 4% risk. You get a 1 to2. You get a 1 to three. You've already locked in phase one. So that means in the space of just three, four or five trading days, you can get completely funded. Now you're

30:42 not having all of this time wasted of months trying to get funded. You're playing a game. It's cycling through accounts. You're playing the revolving door strategy and you're optimizing the stats in your favor. This is what the guys have done that have reached large payouts. This is what I encourage my students to do to maximize their returns. And the benefit is even if you have an average edge, it's not really going anywhere. The winning periods are amplified. The losing periods are minimized. And therefore, you're just playing lock in payouts and dismiss accounts. Lock in payouts, dismiss accounts. It's a game. Yes, it's expensive, but you're playing the riskto-reward of your valuations versus payouts. Not trying to get one account and scaling it up endlessly towards payouts and hoping that 100k account you can make 50% return and make a 50k payout. No. High capital. Revolve it, systematize it, and play the game. This

31:29 is what people are doing. This is what I'd recommend you to do. do it with the top firms and when you get to the live account, trade with 1% risk per trade in the evaluations, high risk in the funded account, conservative and scale like that. And again, I have the links in the description for you for my most recommended firms with a nice discount so that you can start your journey with the strategy, making sure you're working with the right firms. And by the way, if you don't have a strategy to follow right now, watch this video that I made recently where I give a full strategy breakdown with this in mind. If you don't have a system in place, I've given the exact checklist and rules of a profitable datab strategy that I've given you everything that you need to know about for free. Just make sure you watch this next video so you can implement this strategy with a working edge. And as I always say, for this to pay off, you need to have some restrictions, some systems in place. And that's why I always say a restricted

32:15 trader is a profitable trader.