Variance is generous!
You don’t need an edge to beat the prop-firm game. You don’t even need a strategy that makes money in the long run. All you need is something that can stay alive long enough for one of those inevitable hot streaks that random variance hands out to everyone eventually.
Even a coin-flip approach, or a mildly losing system, will still deliver runs of +20%, +30%, sometimes +50% or more. Those runs don’t care whether you have alpha; they just show up.
And when they do, they’re usually long enough to clear the evaluation phase, smash the profit target, scale the account, and let you pull one, two, maybe three payouts before the regression monster wakes up.
The prop firm model is brilliantly designed to let you cash in on exactly those streaks. The structure turns temporary luck into real money, while the firm quietly absorbs the long-term bleed that would kill any normal account.
Take that same zero-edge strategy, fund it with your own $50,000. You will slowly bleed that account to death by a thousand paper cuts.
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