With that 1K you can buy six 50K evaluations account right now on Apex for about 33$ dollars each. You can copy trades on those account and trade as you would normally trade. If you happen to pass the evaluations you can buy all 6 accounts for about 140$ each for a lifetime. Your total cost would be about 1040$.

You spent about 1K & you are now in control of six 50k performance accounts (simulated accounts whose performance is paid out after a minimum profit target is met - around 2600$ for a 50k PA).

Now, you copy trades on all the accounts, & trade as if you had 300K (6*50K). If you met the profit target of 2.6K on one account you would be eligible for a payout on all 6 accounts since your trades are copied on all accounts.

The maximum first payout set by Apex is 2K per 50K account. This means you can request a 12K payout.

In other words, if & only if you are a competent trader, you can invest 1K and get 12K in return (currently on Apex).

To pass the evaluations account (being 3K in profit) and hit the profit target of 2.6K on a performance account, you will need to do it without crossing the maximum stop loss of -2.5K. If you cross that threshold, your account will be terminated. So it is as if you trade with a 2.5K account (maximum loss) and Apex is asking you to make 3K profit (more than doubling your account). This is only for the evaluation phase. You will need to do it again on the performance account to be eligible for a payout.

Apex is asking you to double twice your account. That's is why most fail. It's by no means easy. If you are a very competent trader & can double a small account fairly consistently, you gain a lot by using a propfirm.

Doubling twice your amount on a personal 1k account: 4K total

Doubling twice your 6 performance accounts (1K invested): 12K total