Inside My Prop Firm Dashboard: Strategy, Rules & Payouts

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]All right, you guys, welcome to a new video. If you're new here, my name is Reuben. Today I wanted to break down some of the key things that I do to build an account up to this balance in 3 days. What I'm risking, what my approach is. You might be looking at this going, "Wow, there's a lot of trades there. The win percentage is not even 50%." I want to start this video by saying that this is not financial advice, and what I do personally may or may not work for you.

[00:00:18]So, you have to look at your own circumstances and consider what risk you're willing to put on. But let's get straight into it. Looking at the stats, the total P&L is about $5,000. The win percentage rate is about 45%. My average win to loss is over a 1:2, and the profit factor is a 1.92. Now, if we scroll down a little bit, you're going to see a few things. You're going to see a few stats that I want to talk through.

[00:00:39]The first is the average win duration, it's 15 minutes. The average loss duration is 4 minutes. A big part of how I'm trading these funded accounts is I go aggressive, aggressive, aggressive the first 1, 2, 3 days, and then I aim to get base hits for the remaining two.

[00:00:52]Think about it this way, based on mathematics, if all you need is five winning days to get the payout of $150 or more, if you can build a balance big enough in the first 3 days, you should almost be guaranteed a payout providing you stick to the rule of taking one trade a day or max loss limit of 150 to 200 on the remaining last 2 days. And that's exactly what I'm going to do here, I'm going to document for you guys so you can see the process. Now, this is really important here, too, because I'm not holding my losers for that long. I'm starting off with a small position, and then I pyramid into that position. So, if we go down to all the trades that I've taken, even just having a look at some of this stuff here, notice how a lot of these trades are one mini contract. They're one mini contract. So, I'm starting one and potentially pyramiding in with two, with three, sometimes even more if I wanted to, but I'm waiting for the market to show its edge. Like I'm waiting for the market to show me, "Hey Reuben, like I want to go down. I want to go higher." And we'll talk today about some things that I like to use, you know, my strategy, my system, and how I like to approach the market as well. But the average winning trade is 608, the average losing trade is 257. So, again, I'm holding the position for a lot longer than maybe a lot of people would, and I'm making sure that I'm not just going for one-to-ones with this particular account. I'm trying to hold those winners. I'm trying to let those winners run, and being confident in my system. I've done the the one-to-ones, the one-to-1.5s, no partials. Partials, it all works. It all works. And so, what I realized pretty soon after I started becoming profitable was the fact that you need to find a system that works for you, and you can slowly tweak things, but if you tweak one thing, you're just going to stick to that one tweak for about 3 to 4 weeks, and then move on to the next to see how it affects your results. How it also affects your psychology. You know, are you happy with the one-to-one?

[00:02:28]Do you want to go for more? Are you happy holding, or would you rather just be one and done and call it a day?

[00:02:33]Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. You know, sometimes I'll be risking quite a lot. I'll take four losers in a row, three losers in a row, and the account's gone, but what you need to remember, guys, is that if you're profitable, if you have a system, if you have an edge, it's all mathematics.

[00:02:46]So, you could spend $2,000 on evaluations, but you could pull out $10,000. You're still profitable. So, it's a mathematical equation, and it's a business. A business requires expenses.

[00:02:57]All right, so what I wanted to do here is just quickly break down my approach to trading prop firms and evaluations, and my mindset with trading this. Now, again, it doesn't have to be what you do. This is just personally what I like to do.

[00:03:07]So, for me, evaluations, it's either a pass or fail.

[00:03:12]For me, personally, I don't like spending too much time on evals. I either pass or fail them in two or three days. That's it. I keep it nice and short and sweet. The reason for that is I want to have as much time as possible on the funded account to actually potentially make money. So, for me, this is a pass or fail. So, for example, you could get one, two, three, four, five, six evals, and out of those six evals, if we move those forward, maybe only three pass, right? So, you've got three passed. And then out of those three passed accounts, that means you've got three funded accounts. Even just getting one or two of those to pay out is sufficient to be profitable and to make money, provided your payouts are big enough. Obviously, if you're only getting, you know, $200 payouts or $500 payouts, you're not going to, you know, make up the money you've lost from investing in the evaluations, but this is a system I like to implement. When I have a funded account, what I like to do with a funded account is days 1 to 3, depending how big my days are, I like to go aggressive. Now, what does this mean for me? I take more than one trade. If I win, I take another trade if I like it. If I lose, I take another trade. Because for me, with a funded account, the longer it goes on, the longer you trade any account, a funded account, a personal account, an evaluation, the longer the time goes on, the more chance there is that I'm going to tilt, I'm going to make a mistake, or you're going to make a mistake. So, what I like to do is I like to limit the time that I actually have to trade properly. So, for me, I trade three proper days, all right? So, I trade aggressive on three proper days. And then what I do for the remaining 2 days, I just aim for a base hit. That base hit, it's simply the function of those 2 days, the last 2 days of this account, uh to simply get the base hit, walk away, take a small losing day, walk away. Because eventually, I know, with a buffer of $5,000, eventually, I'm going to take two winning days, and eventually, I'm going to get that payout. Does that make sense? So, I try to limit the need to trade, and I try to limit how aggressive I have to be for a long period of time, because obviously, the more aggressive you are, you can't keep winning, winning, winning, winning, winning day in, day out, day out. So, you have to actually make sure that you're limiting that as as exposure. The funded account is then when I can branch into different avenues. So, this is one avenue here, so go aggressive days 1 to 3, and that works, right? That system works. That in itself could be something that you do if it works for you, and you can make money that way. Other ways that I like to trade funded accounts is you can just take base hits, all right? So, you aim for anywhere from 200 to say $600 per day, and that's it. And you keep it going until you're at a balance that you want to take a payout at. For me, it has to be minimum $2,000.

[00:05:43]I'm not going to take a payout before that. It's just not worth the ROI. So, that's for me what I like to do.

[00:05:48]Aggressive works when you got experience. The bottom base here one works when you first starting out. And there's many ways you can kind of fluctuate that, but that's personally what I like to do. To me, I don't care for blowing account. I don't care for blowing eval because for me it's a mathematical game and I know my edge works. Building on from that, you've got to also appreciate the fact that everyone's different. Like you can do something like this. My win rate here is quite low. Like typically it's about 60%. Sometimes it could be 80%, 55%, but it proves to you guys that you don't need to have a crazy high win rate to be profitable. If you look at my other videos, I'll tag them down below, different, you know, prop firm challenges I've done and and funded accounts. The purpose for me of a funded account is not to keep the account for 100 days, 200 days, 6 months, 1 year.

[00:06:30]That's not my purpose. And everyone's goal is different. My purpose is to buy a funded account, buy multiple funded accounts, whatever it might be, pass the evaluations, and at the end of the month, ideally pull out more money than I've spent on evaluations and funded accounts. If I blow an account, it's okay if I follow my rules. If I lose an eval, it's okay. Right? And you get to a point in trading that you realize that you need money to make money and you need to be able to reinvest things to actually make more money in the long run. You can't approach trading from a perspective of I really need this money, I really need this to work because if that's you, and I've been there, it's going to be very hard to stick to your rules and very hard to stick to the process because all your mind is going to be doing is thinking about making that money. It's really, really important. And just a quick side track here, if you haven't joined the free Discord, the link to that will be in the description below. I'll post sometimes analysis on there with the community.

[00:07:19]You can ask me questions. I'm available.

[00:07:21]And here's an example of how I trade. A lot of people ask, "How do you trade Ribbon? Like what's your system? What's your strategy?"

[00:07:26]If I had to simplify it in a few sentences, right? I use three letters or three principles. The first is A, the second is R, the third is T. So, I look for key areas in the market where we can react from. Fair value gaps, ranges, or after sweeping liquidity. It could also be a combination.

[00:07:42]If we engage on those areas, I look for a reaction. The reaction could be an inverse fair value gap. It could be a change in the state delivery. It also could just be a few up candles, a few down candles. So, I'm very flexible on that. And the third is T, which is target or time. So, if I can have my trade inside of a macro window, which is fine, that's great. And also want to have low resistance to target. So, for example, have a look on the screen here if I just zoom out. This is an example of how I like to trade. These two blue lines are optimal trade entry. So, it's the discount of the range. We have low resistance liquidity on top. And I've mentioned this with the Discord community as to what I want to see. What did the market do? We end up using that range to push higher. So, again, range higher, range low, fair value gap paired with discount, low resistance, take the trade roughly in the macro, and happy days. And it's as simple as that. That's all I do. It's repeatable. The system's repeatable. If we go back here, you're going to see that so many people are using the same system. So many people using the same system to take shorts, to take longs, whatever it might be. And people use this in my Discord.

[00:08:43]If you're from my Discord, welcome to the video. But people use this to trade any session. Like you could trade Asian session. You can trade New York session.

[00:08:50]We have people trading the PM session. I might trade the the Asian and the London session. So, it's versatile. And that's what I need you guys to appreciate. Like with trading, whether it's the statistics, whether it's how you actually trade in the market, whether it's what community you're a part of, at the end of the day, you need to find a combination of these things that that suits you and that works for you. And just know you don't have to be very rigid. You can float around a little bit, but once you find something that works, once you find a way of approaching the market, a way of, you know, risk to reward or, you know, system or strategy that works, stick to it. Stick to it, collect data on it, become comfortable with it. And again, guys, I appreciate all your support. I will be going away soon to Thailand. So, the times of the videos or live streams are going to come back.

[00:09:34]But the times could change. And I hope you guys enjoy this video. Until next time, peace. All the best.