Pass the evaluation. Protect the account. Trade with a plan.

Futures prop trading offers traders an opportunity to pursue funded accounts without relying entirely on their own trading capital-but passing an evaluation is only the first challenge. The real test is developing the discipline, risk management, and trading process needed to protect a funded account and pursue consistent payouts over time.

The Prop Trader's Playbook is a practical guide to understanding the world of futures proprietary trading and building a structured approach to prop firm evaluations and funded accounts.

Whether you are preparing for your first prop firm evaluation or looking to improve your approach to managing a funded account, this book breaks down the essential concepts behind sustainable trading in straightforward, easy-to-understand terms.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

. Understand how futures markets and futures contracts work

. Navigate the mathematics behind prop firm evaluations and funded accounts

. Compare prop firms and account types based on the rules that matter most

. Understand drawdowns, profit targets, daily loss limits, and consistency requirements

. Build a practical risk management plan designed to help protect your account

. Use position sizing and contract selection to control exposure

. Develop a trading strategy with measurable, positive expectancy

. Understand the relationship between win rate, reward-to-risk, and long-term profitability

. Use technical concepts such as opening range breakouts, VWAP, momentum, and mean reversion

. Backtest a trading strategy before risking an evaluation or funded account

. Create a step-by-step plan for approaching a futures prop firm evaluation

. Protect a funded account during winning streaks, losing streaks, and drawdowns

. Develop a disciplined approach to pursuing consistent payouts

Successful prop trading is not about finding a shortcut or winning every trade. It is about managing risk well enough to stay in the game long enough for a proven edge to work.

Many traders become focused on passing an evaluation as quickly as possible. They increase position size, chase profits, and take unnecessary risks-only to lose the account they worked to earn. The Prop Trader's Playbook takes a different approach.

Rather than encouraging reckless trading or unrealistic expectations, this book focuses on the principles that matter most: preparation, positive expectancy, position sizing, backtesting, discipline, and risk management.

You'll learn why a profitable strategy can still fail when risk is too high, why winning every day is not necessary for consistency, how losing streaks should influence your position sizing, and why protecting a funded account can be more important than maximizing any single trading day.

The goal isn't simply to get funded. The goal is to develop a trading process capable of surviving after you do.

Written for aspiring futures traders, prop firm traders, and anyone interested in proprietary trading, this book provides a structured framework for approaching the markets with greater discipline and clarity.

If you're ready to move beyond guesswork, stop treating funded accounts like lottery tickets, and build a more systematic approach to futures trading, prop firm evaluations, funded accounts, risk management, position sizing, trading strategies, backtesting, and consistent payouts, The Prop Trader's Playbook is your guide to playing the long game.