Funded Mode

Funded Mode simulates the experience of trading a funded prop firm account after passing the evaluation. It models trailing drawdowns, payout schedules, consistency requirements, and daily profit targets to estimate your expected income, time to each payout, and the probability of keeping the account alive through the full payout ladder.

Key Concepts

Trailing Drawdown

Most prop firms use a trailing drawdown, meaning the drawdown floor rises as your account reaches new equity highs. Once the floor has trailed up, it never comes back down, so a large winning day permanently reduces the buffer between your current balance and the breach level.

Edge Engine models this per your firm’s rules. The account is considered blown when the balance touches or crosses the drawdown floor.

Payout Cycles

Each time your account reaches the profit target for a payout, a withdrawal is processed and a new cycle begins. The account balance resets to the starting level (or per the firm’s specific reset rules), and the next cycle starts from there. This continues until either the account blows the drawdown limit or all configured payouts are completed.

Consistency Rule

Some firms require that no single trading day accounts for more than a defined percentage of your total cycle profit, commonly 50%. If your account hits the profit target but a single day made up too large a share of that profit, the sim keeps trading until the ratio clears. During this extra period the account remains at risk of a drawdown breach.

Running the Simulation

Configure your funded account settings in the Prop Firm section of the sidebar, including the account size, trailing drawdown, payout target, payout split, number of payouts, and any consistency rule. Select Funded mode and click Run Simulation. The number of simulations run is pulled from the Number of Simulations setting in the Simulation section (default 25,000; max 100,000). Higher counts improve the stability of completion rate and take-home percentile estimates, though they will increase computation time.

Understanding the Results

Top Stats

Four headline figures appear above the tabs:

• Full Completion Rate — the percentage of simulations where all configured payouts were collected; the best-case outcome rate
• Median Take-Home — the median total amount paid out across all simulations, including partial completions; shown alongside the maximum possible take-home if all payouts are collected
• Days to 1st Payout — the median number of trading days to reach the first payout, with the P90 shown as the slow-case; converted to approximate calendar days using your trading days per week setting
• Blown Before Done — the percentage of simulations that hit the drawdown floor before completing all payouts

Funded PA Tab

Take-Home Distribution

Shows the worst 10%, median, and best 10% total take-home across all simulations. The payout split percentage (your share of each payout) and the maximum possible take-home from the account are shown below.

Payouts Completed Before Account Closed

A histogram showing how many payouts each simulation collected before the account closed, either by completing all payouts, blowing the drawdown, or reaching the end of the simulation. Bars are color-coded: red for accounts that blew before collecting a single payout, teal for full completions, and amber for partial completions.

Payout Cycle Timing

• Median days per cycle — the typical trading days to complete one payout cycle, converted to approximate calendar days
• Days to 1st payout (median and P90) — how long the first payout takes in typical and slow-case simulations
• Approximate weeks to 1st payout — a quick calendar estimate

Firm Rules Impact

Shows how the firm’s specific rules affect outcomes:

• Consistency rule — if enabled, shows the percentage of simulations where the consistency rule delayed a payout, a reminder of the rule definition (e.g., no single day at or above 50% of total cycle profit), and how to clear it (keep trading until the ratio dilutes)
• Completion rate — the percentage of simulations that fully completed all payouts
• Blown before 1st payout — the percentage of simulations that never collected a single payout

Payout Breakdown by Cycle

A detailed table showing, for each payout slot in the ladder:

• % Reached — the percentage of simulations that survived long enough to attempt this payout, shown as a colored bar (green at or above 70%, amber at or above 35%, red below)
• Days (median) — median trading days to complete this cycle
• Days (P90) — the 90th percentile, representing the slow-case for this cycle
• Take-Home (median) — median payout amount for this cycle, with a P10 to P90 range shown below
• Cumulative — running total of median take-home through this payout

The table footer shows the cumulative median total if all cycles complete.

Daily Performance Benchmarks

These figures are derived from the funded account simulations and reflect what your trading actually looks like day-to-day inside the account. Compare these to your live trading journal. If your real numbers are within roughly 10%, your edge is performing as modeled.

• Net Avg / Day — average net P&L per trading day (with P10 and P90)
• Win Day % — the median percentage of days that close in profit
• Daily Profit Factor — gross profit on winning days divided by gross loss on losing days
• Avg Green Day / Avg Red Day — the typical size of a winning and losing day
• Lowest Balance Hit / Peak Balance Reached — the median floor and ceiling of the account balance during the simulation
• Floor Lock Rate — if your firm has a drawdown floor lock (a level at which the trailing drawdown stops trailing), this shows the percentage of simulations that reached it and the median/P90 trading days to get there

Blow-Up Timing

Shows when blown accounts died in the payout ladder. A bar for each payout slot indicates what percentage of the blown accounts failed at that stage. Accounts that blow before reaching the first payout are the most costly outcome; later blowups represent progressively more recovered capital.

Risk Optimizer Tab

The Funded Risk Optimizer scans a range of risk-per-trade values and finds the one that maximizes risk-adjusted take-home on your funded account, subject to a blow rate ceiling.

Risk Preference — a 0 to 100 slider that controls how aggressively the optimizer weights take-home vs. account survival. A setting of 0 is fully conservative; 100 is fully aggressive.

After clicking Run Optimizer, three headline figures appear:

• Optimal Risk / Trade — the risk level the optimizer recommends
• Your Current Risk — your currently configured funded risk per trade; the nearest tested level is marked on the chart
• Trailing DD — the drawdown limit of your funded account, shown for reference

The main chart plots Median Take-Home (left axis, green area) and Blow Rate % (right axis, dashed line) against each tested risk level, with a dashed red reference line marking the blow rate ceiling. A gold line shows the optimizer’s composite score at each risk level. Reference lines mark the optimal and current risk levels.

A secondary bar chart shows Days to First Payout by Risk — lower risk means slower cash flow; this chart helps you see the trade-off between safety and how quickly the account starts paying out.

The Full Results Table shows every tested risk level with: risk as a percentage of the trailing drawdown, completion rate, blow %, median take-home, P10 take-home, and median days to first payout.