Introduction Passing Phase 1 of a funded challenge is a genuine achievement. You hit the profit target. You managed your drawdown. You proved you can execute. Then Phase 2 begins — and within days, the account is gone. This pattern is so common it has its own name in trading

Introduction You followed every rule. You respected your daily loss limit. You never held a losing position past your stop. And yet, your account was still disqualified. If this has happened to you, there’s a good chance intraday trailing drawdown was the cause — a rule that catches experienced traders

Introduction You nailed a $1,200 trading day. Account up. Confidence high. Challenge almost done. Then the email arrives: your account has been flagged. Challenge failed. Sound impossible? It happens every single day across the prop firm industry — and most traders never saw it coming. The culprit: a rule called