How to pass a prop firm challenge (what actually fails attempts)
By Aiobot · Oct 6, 2026
A prop challenge is a written contract: daily loss, max or trailing drawdown, sometimes a consistency cap, news window, and weekend hold. Attempts usually die because the trader never mapped remaining room, stacked 1% tickets into the daily line, or reversed after a loss. Read the current PDF first. Size from remaining room to the nearer line. Know whether trailing is end-of-day or intraday. Guard only enforces numbers you type, in Active, at broker midnight — it does not know a firm calendar and it does not guarantee a pass. This is not a firm review and not a pass-rate claim.
What actually fails a prop firm challenge?
Not a missing indicator. Common kill-shots:
- Never reading the current PDF (rules change; sales pages lie by omission).
- Sizing off the headline $100,000 instead of remaining room to the nearer of daily and max/trailing.
- Revenge trading after the first red ticket of the day.
- Breaking consistency, news, or weekend clauses the firm actually wrote.
Types of dollar lines (daily vs max vs trailing, equity vs balance) live on daily drawdown vs max drawdown. This URL owns the process, not a second copy of those definitions. Term: drawdown.
Aiobot does not rank firms and does not publish a pass rate.
What should you read in the PDF first?
- Daily loss basis (equity or balance) and the clock that starts the day.
- Max versus trailing floor, and whether trailing is end-of-day or intraday.
- Min days, profit target, consistency (often a cap on the best day as a share of total profit).
- News windows, weekend holding, EA / copy-trade bans if any.
- Whether hedging or martingale is forbidden — a platform feature is not a permission slip.
Copy those numbers onto a card. Do not trust a YouTube recap of last year’s plan.
How do you size so you do not spend the daily loss on one idea?
Use remaining room, then the lot formula. If the daily limit is 5% and 2% is already gone, new risk is 3% of the PDF’s basis, split across tickets you still intend to take. Full arithmetic: how to calculate lot size.
A trade-count cap stops a spiral; it is not the firm’s consistency rule.
What are consistency, news, and weekend rules?
Consistency: some firms fail you if one day is too large a slice of total profit, even if dollar drawdown is fine. Guard cannot encode that calendar.
News: a window around high-impact prints may forbid new tickets or count the slip as a breach. Guard does not subscribe to an economic calendar.
Weekend: holding Friday into Sunday can be banned or charged. That is a firm clause, not an MT5 default.
What is end-of-day versus intraday trailing?
End-of-day (EOD) trailing typically locks the floor from the day’s closing high (or the firm’s EOD snapshot). An intraday spike that gives back before the close may not lift the floor.
Intraday trailing can lift the floor tick by tick (or on every new equity high). A give-back that looks normal under EOD can breach an intraday trail.
Teaching numbers belong on the drawdown comparison ($100,000 start, $5,000 trail, peak $106,000 → floor near $101,000). Here the point is only: know which clock the PDF uses before you treat open profit as spendable.
Can software pass the challenge for you?
No. Guard can close you out when your daily loss, floating drawdown, or Max Daily Trades hits — only in Active, reset at broker midnight, on equity. That may be stricter or looser than the firm. It does not read a firm’s news window, a swing exception, or a consistency percentage.
You still choose entries. Promax still does not sell signals.
Aiobot does not guarantee you will pass, get funded, or keep a funded account.