Video library

The methodology on camera. Every video pairs with a full written guide — watch the short version, read the deep one.

Your trading hourly rate — the math nobody runs

2026 · hours vs profit

You count your profits. Do you count your hours? Six hours a day at the charts is 1,500 hours a year — divide your profit by that and the number gets ugly. The math, my actual day (about an hour of oversight), and what last quarter looked like at that pace.

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Q2 2026 results — how every bundle did

Why funded accounts blow right after the first payout

2026 · post-payout blow-up

A funded account is most likely to die in the one-to-two-week window right after the first payout, not during the grind. House money, size creep, and a trailing floor that quietly moved higher stack up at once — and why a pre-sized, mechanical system makes that moment a non-event.

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How often do prop firms actually pay out? (12,000 backtests)

2026 · payout frequency & survival

12,000 Monte Carlo backtests across 8 systematic portfolios, and the number most traders optimize for turned out to be the wrong one. Payout frequency and account survival pull against each other: the portfolios that pay out most often are usually the same ones that blow most often. The only exception is decorrelation.

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Why portfolios are sized off the drawdown limit

2026 · sizing & drawdown

The sizing flip that keeps funded accounts alive: size off the limit first, then let the return be whatever it is above that. With the Monte Carlo data showing how much of the hard floor each portfolio uses at its deepest.

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The Map is Wrong — the Puravida Edge manifesto

4:23 · manifesto

Why discretionary trading fails on prop accounts, and what a fully systematic, Monte Carlo validated approach looks like instead. The whole methodology in four minutes.

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