I like your challenge and your story in general.
Can i ask you, which of those platforms you'd think is the most legitimate and recommend the most? Topstep, E2T or something else even? Thanks
There are few differences between these companies:
I believe TST offers a non trailing DD during the combine and a trailing for the funded account.
I believe E2T recently also introduced something like this.
OneUpTrader is the only one that offers free data and no monthly fee.
With TST you have to pay for both step 1 and 2, the others have no step 2 or is free.
With E2T you have to pay for the data yourself and you are charged professional data fee.
The same goes for TST, you have to pay for professional data.
With LeeLoo and Apex you have to pay a monthly fee, i believe it is around $88 for data etc in the funded account.
In the end the evaluation accounts between these companies aren't too different from each other, so you will have to decide for yourself which one you want to try based on some of those differences i mentioned above, there probably are more but it has been a while since i have tried one of these.
If you are looking for a sale, LeeLoo, Apex and E2T have regular promotions. Apex currently has an 80% off code on their website.