Running Multiple Prop Firm Evaluations

How to split risk across several futures prop firm evaluations instead of blowing them all up on the same trade idea.

1. Why Traders Stack Evaluations

People run multiple evals at once to:

  • Get more funded buying power
  • Diversify across firms (Apex, Topstep, Bulenox, etc.)
  • Exploit discounts and cheap resets

The downside: if you trade them all the same way, one bad day can take all of them out together. First make sure you actually understand the basic rules in How Prop Firm Evaluations Work.

2. The Split-Risk Rule

Core idea:

  • Never risk the full “idea” across every evaluation at the same time.
  • Every trade idea has a total risk budget that gets split.

For example, if your max risk on a setup is $150, you can:

  • Risk $75 on eval A
  • Risk $75 on eval B

or

  • Risk $100 on eval A
  • Risk $50 on eval B

This sits on top of the risk math from Risk Per Trade for Small Accounts.

3. One Shared Plan, Different Aggression Levels

Instead of trading all accounts the same way:

  • Pick one account as the “conservative anchor.”
  • Let the other one or two be slightly more aggressive versions of the same plan.

Example with two $50k evals:

  • Account A: 1 contract, strict daily loss from Prop Evaluation Game Plan.
  • Account B: 1–2 contracts, same setups, slightly wider profit target.

4. Daily Loss Limits Per Account

You already know to cap daily loss using Daily Loss Limits & Resets. With multiple evals, you also cap the combined daily loss.

Example with two evals:

  • Account A daily loss: $250
  • Account B daily loss: $250
  • Combined hard stop for the day: $400–$450 max

If total realized loss across both hits that number, everything shuts down for the day.

5. Staggered Start Dates

Do not start five accounts on the same day and trade them identically.

  • Start Account A this week.
  • Start Account B 1–2 weeks later.
  • Start Account C only after at least one is close to target.

That way one early blow-up or reset does not hit all of them at once.

6. Copy-Paste vs Manual Execution

Two execution options:

  • Manual – you place similar trades in each account separately.
  • Copy trade – some platforms let you mirror orders.

Whatever you use, the rule stays the same: total risk across all accounts on a single idea cannot exceed your max risk for that idea.

7. When to Drop Back to Fewer Accounts

You do not have to keep every evaluation alive forever. Drop accounts when:

  • Resets are eating more than 20–30% of your monthly budget
  • You are consistently failing at the same rule in multiple firms

At that point, you have a discipline problem, not an “insufficient number of evals” problem. Fix the mistakes first using Common Evaluation Mistakes.

8. After You Pass Several Evaluations

Once multiple accounts are funded:

  • Use Scaling After Funding to size up based on cushion.
  • Keep at least one account extremely conservative.
  • Let other accounts be the “experiments” for new ideas or slightly larger size.

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