The rules behind the cascade, and where they lead if you follow them.
A fluid roadmap for building real wealth off prop-firm accounts, slow and steady, without betting it on any one firm's rules staying the same. It's a living document — firms change their rules, so the specifics get monitored and updated over time. Three versions of the plan follow. Plan A rotates early, banking gains before any real trigger fires — smoother, but it leaves some payout runway on the table. Plan B rides each firm to its actual limit before moving on — squeezes more out of each account, but rides closer to the real trigger lines, including on the firms with weaker reputations. Plan C optimizes for something different entirely: the fastest, cheapest path to a first payout — useful as a quick proof-of-concept, not a replacement for the long-term core.
Every number below — the $3,000 graduation target, the $4,100 first payout, the $2,500 payouts after that, and the default $100/$150/$200/$300 daily goals — assumes a $50K Lucid Pro Evaluation account. Other account sizes are available, with their own thresholds and payouts. Support for picking your exact account type is coming soon.
Ten prop-firm accounts, activated one at a time, each carrying the next. Figures below are for a $50K Lucid Pro Evaluation account.
Account #1 begins in Eval status. Every account after it starts as "Not Started" until it's unlocked.
Every active account shares the same dollar target each trading day, based on how many accounts you've unlocked so far — see the table below. Miss it or beat it, the cumulative profit is what matters.
Once an account's cumulative profit reaches $3,000, it graduates from Eval to Funded. This happens once per account, the first time through.
Once funded, that account's first payout needs $4,100 cumulative profit and pays out $2,000. Every payout after that only needs $2,500 cumulative profit and pays $2,500. Reaching an account's very first payout is what unlocks the next account in line — though you still have to go add it yourself.
After its 4th payout, that account is maxed out and marked Resting while you go purchase a fresh one. It's capped one payout short of Lucid's own 5-payout live-transition trigger on purpose — taking a 5th payout moves that account onto its live-funded track and closes every other simulated account on the household, which would end the cascade. The new account starts the whole process over: evaluate up to $3,000 to get funded, $4,100 for its first $2,000 payout, then $2,500 for every payout after that. Rinse and repeat.
Each account you add compounds the ones before it. By the time all ten are unlocked, you're copy-trading your daily goal across the full cascade.
Scales up automatically as more accounts unlock — applied to every active account that day. Figures below default to a $50K Lucid Pro Evaluation account, but every goal is editable: set your own numbers and the projection below updates instantly.
| Accounts unlocked | Daily goal |
|---|---|
| 0 – 2 | $ |
| 3 – 5 | $ |
| 6 – 9 | $ |
| 10 (fully unlocked) | $ |
Where the plan leads if you stick to it — hover the chart for any given month.
This assumes perfect execution: hitting the daily goal every single trading day, and adding each new account the moment it's eligible. Real trading has losing days, red weeks, and accounts you haven't gotten around to buying yet. Treat this as a best-case ceiling, not a forecast.
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Figures throughout are based on a $50K Lucid Pro Evaluation account. Other account sizes are available — support for picking your own is coming soon.
Picking one bulk-fills all 10 cascade slots with that plan's firms and account types, using each firm's real researched numbers. Full descriptions are on the Start Here page.
Picking a plan is retroactive — it changes the $ figures your whole cascade history is computed against, including days you've already logged.
Trading day —
Accounts you've added, in order — up to 10 total. Thresholds shown assume a $50K Lucid Pro Evaluation account.
Every Kaizen takeaway you've logged, most recent first.
Aggregated across every Tradovate Performance export you've uploaded on a trading day. This is the dataset the Trade Analyzer will eventually read from.
The platforms this system runs on, people worth learning from, and a starting point for the basics.
Charting and market analysis.
Execution platform this system trades on.
Direct links to account purchases and firm rules will live here.
Coming soonVideo links for traders just getting started will live here.
Coming soonThis is where the AI coach will live — reading the history on the Trade Data page to spot patterns in your trading and coach you toward the next win.
Once it's live, the AI coach will pull straight from your Trade Data — no extra setup needed on your end.
Ranked by consecutive daily wins — closing within 10% of your day's goal — not by who made the most.
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