This is the amazing thing about life, it you sat down and ran the numbers, which no one does and requires me to do it for you, it's faster to put a small amount in an account and trade it up than rely on prop firm funding, where only the top 0.2% will ever make anything meaningful.
You have people throwing $1,000s at a prop firm with a 1 in 500 probability of making it successful, it used to be 1 in 200 a few years back but the advent of AI and endless data means more people trying and failing, but it's good for those 0.2%
Stock trading rarely has leverage or only up to 5x, Futures are effectively 50x and Forex is around 500x, the world wants to get rich quick via Forex and they almost all fail, yet you can make more faster trading stocks if you use that same 6mths to do something meaningful.
We made 70% last year on Boeing just going long at the lows when the algos signaled, or making +50% shorting Tesla at the highs when the algos signaled, and those were investment grade, with daytrading you can do those numbers in a quarter, or a month, or even a week with smaller capital amounts, which I've done myself using our platform.
We have over 10,000 pages of unique in-house content relating to everything financial markets from HFT to investing for retirement and UHNW, can you do these numbers, here's the little secret of everyone's knowledge in the financial markets, everything goes in cycles from seconds (actually milliseconds today because we have 100ms charts) to decades and beyond.
Any piece of 'success' the world provides is a view in to their success cycle, however that cycle at best is 20% of the time, usually only just 5% or 2% or 1%, and rarely (as in 1 in 500) can their success sustain above 20% of the time, their ignoring or going quiet the other 80%, I teach people trading Stocks using the content and the platform, we've had a couple of HNW come along and even they cannot sustain the cycles, we're trained to UHNW levels (that's 0.0027% or 1 in 36,000), sure you can make 1-2% per month which is the world's benchmark but I'm quite sure that's not what the question was about
