Your journal tells you why you blew the account. This tells you before you do.
The Prop Firm Survival System is a 60-second pre-trade checkpoint for futures eval traders — it returns GO / CAUTION / NO-GO from your live floor and consistency headroom, before you enter the trade.
93% of traders fail prop firm challenges — and it's rarely the strategy.
The five ways evals actually die, from mining 300,000+ challenge accounts (FPFX 2026) and the reviews of traders who failed:
- Oversizing — position size set by hope, not by distance to your floor
- Trailing-floor breach — the floor follows your peak, so accounts blow up on green days
- Revenge trading — no personal stop, no session plan, tilt does the rest
- Rulebook gaps — consistency rules checked at payout, not during; rules that change the day you get funded
- Near-target death — 60% of failures happen in the first month or within 1–2% of the target
What's inside
Excel workbook — 6 sheets
START HERE — under-10-minute setup. CONFIG — the rule engine: every rule a setting (drawdown type, trailing basis, daily loss limit, profit target, consistency cap % and basis, risk caps, instrument $/point table), with Evaluation + Funded phase profiles and a verification log with last-verified dates. PRE-TRADE GATE — enter your standing + planned trade and get your live floor, distance-to-floor, remaining daily room, consistency headroom, and max contracts; verdict GO / CAUTION / NO-GO with reasons, in 60 seconds before entry. SESSION LOG — 200 daily rows with floor and consistency math automatic. DASHBOARD — standing vs every limit, gate compliance %, stop discipline, session-plan adherence. WEEKLY REVIEW — one structured agenda that ends in one fix for next week.
Survival Playbook — 11 pages, 10 protocols
The five failure modes. Know your floor. The gate ritual. Sizing-by-cushion. Consistency math. The personal stop. The near-target protocol. The phase-flip checklist. Rule-change maintenance. The weekly review. The process that keeps you inside the rules long enough for your strategy to work — carried in your head, not just the spreadsheet.
Why this isn't another tracker
Who it's for — and who should skip it
You're a futures prop-firm trader in evaluation or newly funded — especially an NQ / MNQ / ES / MES trader — at a firm like Apex, Topstep, TakeProfitTrader, Lucid, or any firm with trailing drawdown and consistency rules.
You're an options or stock challenge trader, or you're looking for a strategy or signals. There are no entries, no setups, and no promises in here.
The math
$39 is less than one eval reset fee. If the gate stops a single NO-GO trade that would have breached your floor, it has paid for itself several times over. One-time payment — the workbook + playbook, yours to keep.
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FAQ
What is the Prop Firm Survival System?
A decision-support workbook for futures prop-firm eval traders: a pre-trade gate (GO / CAUTION / NO-GO) plus a session log, compliance dashboard, and weekly review. It teaches a survival process around your strategy — no entries, no setups, no signals.
How is it different from a trading journal or tracker?
Journals and trackers record trades after they happen. The Survival System gates trades before entry — it checks your live floor, distance to floor, daily room, and consistency headroom against the rules you configured, then gives a verdict.
Which prop firms does it work with?
Any futures firm with trailing drawdown and consistency rules — Apex, Topstep, TakeProfitTrader, Lucid, and similar. Every rule is a configurable setting because firms change rules; the workbook includes a verification log and quarterly re-verification protocol.
Does it guarantee I'll pass the eval?
No. Nothing guarantees passing, funding, or payouts. It's a process that keeps you inside the rules long enough for your strategy to work.
What do I get for $39?
The Excel workbook (6 sheets) + the 11-page Survival Playbook PDF. One-time payment, digital download, all sales final (broken files fixed or refunded).
What's the free cheat sheet?
Know Your Floor — a 2-page PDF with the floor formula for every drawdown type, the peak trap, the consistency ceiling, and ten survival rules. Free, email required, via Gumroad. Get it here.
Who is this NOT for?
Options/stock challenge traders, and anyone wanting a strategy or signals.