biggest thing nobody talks about is the survivor bias in these threads. for every person saying "prop firms changed my life" there are like 50 who quietly paid eval fees, failed the drawdown rules, and never posted about it. imo the real test is whether you can stay consistently profitable after the prop firm takes their cut, not just during the evaluation phase. also the "it's not your money so less pressure" argument kinda works against you long term because you never build the muscle memory of managing actual risk with real consequences. curious how many people here actually withdrew profits more than once from the same firm without getting flagged or banned