Every year, thousands of traders buy $100K prop firm evaluations — and the vast majority blow them in the first two weeks. The difference between the 5% who get funded and everyone else is rarely strategy. It is risk discipline: knowing your drawdown limits cold, sizing every position the same way, and treating the 30-day clock as a marathon, not a sprint.

Most $100K evaluations share the same skeleton: an 8–10% profit target, a 5% maximum daily loss, and a 10% maximum total drawdown, all inside a 30-day (sometimes 60-day) window with minimum trading days. Pass those gates without breaking a rule and the capital is yours. This guide gives you a week-by-week plan to do exactly that.