Running the accounts
- Is a prop firm evaluation worth it for you? Published pass rates describe strangers. What your attempts have cost, what your own pass rate is, and whether your real daily results would clear the target.
- Tracking more than one prop account Why it gets hard at the third one, what a spreadsheet cannot do about it, and the handful of figures worth keeping in one place.
- What prop firms actually cost you Evaluation fees, resets, activation fees and commissions, set against what you have been paid — with a worked year that felt profitable and cleared $539.
The rules
- Prop firm drawdown rules, explained Static, end-of-day trailing and intraday trailing, one account run through each — plus when the floor stops trailing and what a payout does to your room.
- The prop firm consistency rule, explained Why an account can hit its target and still be refused a payout, and why the obvious fix — having a good day — makes it worse.
Reading your own trading
- What your trading does after a loss Revenge trading is not a mood, it is a sequence — how fast you got back in, how big, how deep into the session, how many losses back.
- Which of your setups actually works You run three or four. One is probably carrying the others — and a setup tagged after the fact is tagged by someone who knows how it ended.
- Are you cutting winners short and letting losers run? Your average hold time is one number covering two different behaviours. Split it by outcome and the pattern is hard to argue with.
- What time of day do you actually trade best? The answer is in your own record — if the table buckets on entry time, in exchange time, in windows narrow enough to separate the open from the hour after it.
- How to grade your own trades Grading by whether it won is circular. Grade the decision instead — ten things worth scoring, and why the thresholds have to be multiples of your own median.
- Using AI to analyse your trading Two of six models inverted a conclusion when asked to add up rows. What goes wrong pasting an export into an assistant, and how to hand one a document it can reason about.
- The trading metrics that actually matter Why win rate misleads, what expectancy and profit factor tell you instead, and why measuring per account throws the sample away.
- How to keep a trading journal you actually use Why journals get abandoned in the third week, the one question worth answering at the close, and how to score discipline rather than outcome.
- Why your trading journal is always out of date Manual entry, CSV exports and platform connections compared — and the capture failure that is completely silent.
Choptick is the tool behind these
Every prop account on one screen, each measured against its own firm’s rules, with your fills logged automatically and the totals — spend, payouts and net — across all of them.
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