Guides

Guides, priced and dated

Every guide on this site derives its numbers from the minimum-capital dataset — the same figures the checker uses — and carries a checked-on date. No guide ends at a broker.

How much money

Is it enough

The $25,000 rule is gone

Should you start

The loss numbers

The demo record

The cost stack

The prop-firm door

The family

ChallengeOdds

The verdict before you pay for a challenge

Expected cost to a first payout, and your style checked against the program's written rules. challengeodds.com

CheckBeforeDeposit

The verdict before you deposit

Your country × your broker: which entity holds your money, and what your own regulator says about the platform. checkbeforedeposit.com

Run the checker The PDT tracker

Before you start, take the whole path

The verdict gives you the arithmetic for your market and your capital. The Start-or-Wait Kit gives you the complete workbook: the demo-record audit (the 50-trade review grid), the staged capital plan up to your market's minimum viable capital, the 90-day learning plan week by week, and the real-cost tracker — the spreadsheet experienced traders build by hand, ready to fill in.

Included in the $39 Start-or-Wait Kit

See the Start-or-Wait Kit