Disliked{quote} 100% disagree. The correct way to use these firms is to increase personal funding exponentially. If I can pay $500 for a challenge, flip the DD in stage 1 and 50% in stage 2, I'd have $1,500, instead I get the $500 refund and now have $10K loss to trade with...flip it again and with an 85-90% split, it's $8500-9,000, I would have $3K "non-withdrawable" (if I wish to continue tading) in a personal account. Instead, put the $8,500-9,000 in personal account Repeat, scale, etc.....until the personal account is capable of hitting your profit...Ignored
of course like i told, when at beginning or until medium level this special group of trading game people exist, that have advantages from prop trading games.
when you are a professional trader you have already many millions ( or lets say at least many 100k in account)! before an intelligent person would not call themself a very good trader, or he just dont know luck part or math to calculate value of a true edge (and then dont know the basics of trading too).
so a good trader will not have to build up personal account (because already done), that only happens when you are on a path to get a good trader (to reach your end or not). you get automatic rich on your path to a good trader, that so many forget (or you just are not there, so simple).