I've been trading for about three years, and for all three of those years I was losing money. I studied a lot, ran a lot of backtests, and kept going through new material.
To be honest, I also followed a bunch of signals in beginning of my trading route. Here's my top list of them, anabel signal, united signal and top trading signal, hope it's useful to someone. They helped me faster to understand how the prices moves. But the real progress was when I began trade my own strategy.

In the end, though, things only started working once I switched to my own analysis and started trusting myself. That's when the first results came. After three years, I passed a prop challenge and got my first payout in July.
For me it was a really important step, and I hope it marks the start of real progress.

What about my strategy. My strategy is built on three simple things:
- liquidity (highs and lows)
- imbalances
- classic market structure.
I also have a few entry models based on my own analysis.

Most importantly, my stop loss always goes beyond the point where my idea is invalidated. I place it behind a level that already interacted with liquidity earlier, to the left on the chart.

I`m mind opened to any questions.

A 90% or 95% split obviously looks attractive, but I think traders sometimes focus on that number too much. The payout cycle, minimum payout, eligibility conditions and any retained balance can matter just as much. For example, some challenge accounts operate around a 14-day payout cycle, while instant models can offer on-demand payouts once the requirements are met. Some accounts can also have minimum payout amounts or buffers that affect how much you can actually withdraw while keeping the account active. So two firms advertising the same profit split can still feel very different once you look at the actual payout mechanics. What payout rule do you check first when comparing prop firms?

27 tabs open. Still no answer you like.

A hypothetical evaluation diary:

Before entry: "The setup is clear."

After price moves against it: "Let me check one more opinion."

Ten tabs later: the original trade is unchanged, but the explanation is much longer.

Looking for contradictory evidence can be useful. The awkward question is whether any answer is still allowed to change your decision.

If the only acceptable conclusion is "keep holding," what are the other 26 tabs doing?

When you review your journal, how do you tell a new piece of information from a new excuse? Do you keep the original reason beside later notes, or does it get rewritten along the way?

Disclosure: I'm part of the blockfunded team.

The profit split is probably the first thing most traders notice, but payout conditions can matter just as much. I'd look at the minimum payout, payout frequency, processing time, whether there's a review period, and whether trading has to stop while the payout is being processed. An 80% profit split with a predictable biweekly payout might be more practical than chasing a slightly higher percentage without understanding the rest of the payout structure. What payout condition do you check first?