Disliked{quote} It is not a matter of going deep in DD, as the DD is the actual account. I have posted too many times about this, it actually makes my head hurt that people cannot grasp it. I can give you a 1 million dollar account with a 4K DD. The one million is irrelevant, all of your risk must be based on the 4K as that is your "risk of ruin". In your own personal account, risk of ruin would be 100% of your equity. So if you risk 1% per trade, risk of ruin 100 trades, however, that 1% must be based on allowable DD with the prop. So when the 5%ers gives...Ignored
For the 5ers account you paid €300 for a nominal $100k (4k real) account. Using your figures in step 1 you have to make 5k or 125%. Once you made it you get 2.5k after split and they upgrade you to a 125k (5k) account.
On your own account you made €375 so your own account is at €675. No split.
At completion of stage 5 with the 5ers you get upgraded to a 10k account and got 18750 in split so far. Your €300 would be €17300 without split. That is the point from when on you are better off on your own if you can keep up the 125% steps. But I guess after completing 5 stages you'll be able.
So the best strategy is is to get your 300 back, grow the initial stages as fast as you can, then abandon the account and continue on your own from somewhere around step 5. Or you can keep it and grow it to a 4M/160k account a by which stage you have gotten a split of 743.5k and your 300 account is now 291M. By the way you can copy the trades from your own account onto the 5ers account, so you get all the split with no additional work meanwhile your own account is compounding infinitely.
So, the 5ers is still a good 3rd choice.
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