Prop Firm Target Calculator
Enter your evaluation account size, profit target, risk per trade and reward ratio. See the profit you need, what each win earns, and how many winners it takes to pass.
Free tool · No sign-up · Updated July 2026
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Path to pass
Estimates for planning only — verify against your broker. Nothing here is financial advice.
How the prop firm target calculator works
Passing a prop-firm evaluation is a math problem before it's a trading problem. Given the profit target, your per-trade risk and your reward-to-risk ratio, there's a fixed number of winning trades that gets you there — and a fixed number of losers that ends the account. This calculator lays out both so you can plan a realistic, rule-abiding path.
- Your dollar profit target is the account size times the target percentage the firm requires.
- Each winning trade earns your risk-per-trade amount times your reward-to-risk ratio.
- Dividing the target by per-win profit gives the number of clean winners to pass; the max loss line shows how much room the drawdown rule gives you.
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Go beyond the numbers. These free TradeOlogy Academy lessons cover the theory behind this calculator.
Risk Management Foundations
Passing an evaluation is a risk game — this is the foundation that keeps accounts alive.
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Size so a normal losing streak stays inside the daily-loss and drawdown limits.
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Prop Firm Target Calculator — FAQ
How many trades does it take to pass a prop challenge?
It depends entirely on your risk and reward per trade. Risking 1% at 2:1 means each win adds 2% — so a 10% target needs about five clean winning trades. Bigger risk passes faster but breaches the drawdown rule faster too; this tool shows the trade-off.
Why not just risk more to pass quickly?
Because evaluations have daily-loss and max-drawdown limits designed to catch exactly that. Larger risk shortens the path to the target and to a blown account in equal measure. Passing consistently means sizing so a normal losing streak stays inside the rules.
What actually fails most evaluations?
Rule breaches, not a lack of skill — hitting the daily-loss limit or max drawdown, often after over-sizing to catch up. Tracking your drawdown and daily P&L in real numbers (the kind an automated journal surfaces) is what keeps a funded account alive.