PropFlow

+$1,000,000 in total payouts secured YTD with Futures Prop Firms. As of December 23, 2025, I’ve officially crossed $1,000,000 in payouts for the year with over 100 payouts. My 2024 total payouts from prop firms was $110k. My 2025 goal was set at $200k. 95% of this was through Tradovate. 5% was through ProjectX. I do not use a third-party copier. Just good old Tradovate to copy trade per prop firm with many tabs open. I'm sharing this to inspire other part-time traders. I trade exclusively between 5-7am PST before getting the kids up and heading to work. I don't plan on going full-time because honestly, I think I'd see diminishing returns. This isn’t a flex. It’s the result of showing up every day and grinding through more than 100 payouts. I started futures prop trading in May 2024 after a friend introduced me. Seeing green P&Ls on X got me hooked. The concept clicked: use firm capital as leverage, and the risk of ruin is way lower than SPX trading where you can crush for 2 months then blow up in days. Then you quickly learn that Sim Environment to payout is the play. Full transparency on my payouts (attached). Without Apex, I wouldn't have hit the million-dollar mark. Love it or hate it, Apex lets you scale to 20 accounts. I went uncapped twice. In case you think I got lucky once, I did it again months later. Shoutouts to some of the best traders I've met that understand how to trade props: @FarmforAnswers, @OkalaNQT, @TraderYush, @ForexIke. For order flow education, follow @RIPS and @cammycapitalYT. For ICT concepts, follow @traderkane and @thebrianstonk. For finance/stock content, check out @Mr_Derivatives. To those still struggling: keep experimenting with what strategy clicks for you. We live in a time where people are literally live-streaming on YouTube and you can learn the WHY behind their trades. All the learning material you need is free on YouTube. We're not trading for hedge funds. You don't need to trade like the pros. I'm a demo retail trader who trades in a Sim Enviornment that learned how to get payouts. If I can do it while learning how to trade with toddlers who wake me up 3 times a night, then you can do it too. Shoutout to @prop_flow for their payout tracking tool. I'm not affiliated with them, but you can connect to Plaid and it tracks all your payouts and puts it in a nice graphic like the one I attached. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone.