Strategy
Prop Firm Challenge Calculator
Find your optimal risk per trade to minimize cost and time to funding.
Challenge
Money
Challenge Fee:
Funded Account Size:
Profit Split:
Simulate Results
Simulated results as following
Pass Probability
Percentage of challenges you're likely to successfully pass...
Expected Attempts
How many attempts you'll likely need to pass the challenge...
90% Attempts
Minimum attempts needed for a 90% success chance...
Expected Trades To Funded
Total number of trades you’ll likely need across all attempts to get funded...
90% Trades
Trades required to be 90% certain you’ll reach funding...
Expected Cost (Gross)
Projected challenge spend before refunds...
90% Budget (Gross)
Budget needed to be 90% confident you’ll pass...
Break-Even On Funded
Profits on funded account required to cover challenge costs...
Expected Months To Funded
Estimated months to reach funding based on trades per month...
Evaluation planning guide
Use this prop firm pass calculator to plan the full futures evaluation, not just the fee. The goal is to pressure-test pass rate, payout recovery, drawdown fit, and the time it may take to get funded before you commit to a challenge.
Pass-Rate Planning
Pass probability becomes useful only when it is based on your real win rate, average R, and trade frequency. This calculator turns those inputs into expected attempts and 90% attempts so you can judge whether a futures prop firm challenge actually fits your edge.
- Use recent strategy data, not your best month.
- Check expected attempts before assuming the lowest fee is the lowest real cost.
Payout Break-Even
Challenge fees matter, but payout split and break-even profit matter more. The calculator helps you estimate how much funded profit is needed to recover challenge spend and how long it may take before the account starts paying for itself.
- Compare gross challenge cost with the break-even funded result.
- Use payout split and account size to judge how attractive a deal really is.
Drawdown Fit
Static and trailing drawdown do not behave the same way. A setup that looks fine on a static model can become tight on trailing drawdown once risk per trade is applied. Running both scenarios helps you avoid picking a firm structure that fights your strategy.
- Test your plan against both drawdown types before buying.
- Use risk per trade to see when the rules become too tight for your style.
Timeline To Funded
A realistic timeline matters because capital planning is part of the decision. Expected trades, expected months, and 90% trade counts show whether a challenge can be passed on your normal schedule or whether it will likely require more time and resets than expected.
- Use trades per month to model a realistic route to funded status.
- Plan for patience, not just the fastest possible pass scenario.