PROP FIRM / FUNDED ACCOUNT TRADING: The Funded Trader Playbook: How to Pass Evaluations, Control Drawdown, Protect Funded Capital, and Build a Sustainable Payout Process

Faramarz Kowsari approaches funded trading from a critical idea: a trader is not simply trading the market — the trader is operating inside a second market made of rules, drawdown limits, daily loss limits, profit targets, trailing thresholds, position restrictions, payout conditions, and behavioral pressure.

The book explains how to translate prop-firm rules into practical trading constraints, calculate usable risk rather than relying on nominal account size, control daily and maximum drawdown, size positions intelligently, manage consecutive losses and correlated exposure, and determine whether a trading strategy actually fits a particular funded-account structure.

Readers are guided through the full funded-trader lifecycle: choosing and evaluating a prop firm, understanding evaluation rules, designing a challenge plan, managing trading pace, handling high-impact news, avoiding target fixation and revenge trading, transitioning from evaluation mode to funded-account survival, building a payout buffer, deciding when to withdraw or compound, and scaling without destroying the risk architecture that created the funded account.

The book also includes practical tools such as a pre-market check, pre-trade rule gate, daily loss shutdown protocol, drawdown recovery protocol, challenge and funded-account risk planners, position-sizing worksheets, correlation exposure tracking, a prop-firm comparison scorecard, payout-buffer calculations, weekly performance reviews, and a rule-violation near-miss log.

Rather than promising shortcuts for passing trading challenges, The Funded Trader Playbook focuses on disciplined execution, risk survival, process quality, and the ability to remain eligible for the next high-quality trade.

Designed for prop-firm traders, funded-account traders, forex traders, futures traders, active market participants, and anyone preparing for a proprietary trading evaluation.