Operator record

The rules on this site were not read from the outside.

Everything the lab publishes about prop firm rules stands on its method and its data, and you can check both. This page answers a smaller question that the method cannot answer: whether the person who wrote it has sat inside these systems herself.

TopstepApex Trader FundingTakeProfit Trader BulenoxMy Funded Futures

Evaluations and funded accounts

Five firms, five different rule systems. That is the part that matters here: a trailing drawdown at one firm is not the trailing drawdown at another, and the breakdowns on this site were written with that difference in hand.

Topstep Trading Combine passed, Certified Funded Trader — 22 Nov 2023 See certificate
Apex Trader Funding Certificate of Funding, Rithmic account $250K 20 Jun 2024 See certificate
TakeProfit Trader Evaluation passed, Professional Funded Trader — 2 Jul 2024 See certificate
Bulenox Qualification Program completed $100K 17 Jul 2024 See certificate
My Funded Futures Challenge completed $50K 21 Aug 2024 See certificate
My Funded Futures Challenge completed, Builder $25K 8 Sep 2026 See certificate
Payouts · funded account
Payouts, verified

The funded stage was reached and money was withdrawn to a bank, on the firm’s own certificate. These are payouts from a simulated funded account, which is how this firm operates, so the money is real and the market exposure is not. Kept here as proof the writer has traded these programs and been paid, not as a performance claim or a guide to what any trader should expect.

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Why this is on the site at all

The lab publishes figures measured from real futures bars, and every one of them is checkable: the sample, the method and the code are on the page beside the number. That is where its credibility is supposed to come from, and it is the only place a reader should take it from.

But the prop firm breakdowns make a different kind of claim. They say a rule behaves a certain way in practice, that a trailing drawdown moves at a moment the dashboard does not show you, that a consistency cap is measured against a base most people never check. A dataset cannot demonstrate that the writer has been through it. This page can, and that is all it is for.

Name on the certificates: Michal Peretz, who runs the lab. One QR code has been blurred because it resolves to a private account record. Nothing else has been altered.

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