The transition from evaluation to live capital changes incentives. A practical plan for the first month.
Key takeaways
- Complete KYC and payout setup in week one.
- Trade smaller than you did in the evaluation for the first two weeks.
- Take an early payout to validate the process end to end.
Week one is administrative. Finish KYC, verify the bank account, read the funded-stage rulebook — which is often different from the evaluation rulebook — and note the payout cycle dates.
Weeks one and two should be deliberately small. The evaluation was a test; this is a job, and the psychological weight is different. Half-size trades for ten sessions reintroduce the same process with lower stakes.
Request an early payout as soon as you are eligible, even if the amount is modest. It validates the whole chain — profit calculation, invoice, TDS, bank credit — while the sums are small enough that a problem is only an inconvenience.
Then set a monthly rhythm: a fixed risk unit, a weekly review, a monthly payout, and a personal rule about what percentage of payouts you reinvest into your own capital base. Funded trading becomes a career at the point it becomes routine.
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