TL;DR: Passing a Propr challenge is mostly a sizing problem: reach the profit target before equity touches the daily loss limit or the drawdown floor. Learn exactly how Propr measures those limits, replay your strategy against them from every possible start day, size for the worst day, forward-test on paper, and only then pay the fee. Our backtested plans pass 58–100% of historical starts, but out-of-sample evidence says to plan for far less.
What are the Propr challenge rules?
Propr is a crypto prop firm: you pay a fee, trade an evaluation account, and if you hit the profit target without breaking the loss limits you move to a funded account. There are four challenge types. The figures below come from Propr's rules page, checked in late September 2026; confirm them there before you start.
| Challenge | Profit target | Daily loss limit | Max drawdown | Fee for $10k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic 1-Step | +10% | 3% | 6% static | $110 |
| Turbo 1-Step | +9% | 3% | 3% static | $50 |
| Pro 1-Step | +12% | 3% | 5% static | $85 |
| Classic 2-Step | +5% (step 1), then +10% total | 5% | 8% trailing | $100 |
A few rules shape everything else:
- No time limit. You can take as long as you need.
- Funded accounts keep the same loss limits, with no profit target.
- Leverage caps: 10x on BTC, ETH and SOL; 2x on other crypto.
- Classic 2-Step carries over. Balance and high-water mark carry from step 1 into step 2, so in practice it is one run to +10%.
If you are unsure which of the four suits you, our comparison of Propr challenge types works through target, limits, fee and cost per pass side by side.
How does Propr measure the limits?
Many failed challenges fail on a measuring detail the trader did not model. Four matter.
The daily loss base is the 00:00 UTC balance. The daily limit is measured from the realised balance at the start of the UTC day, not from your initial balance. On a $10k Classic 1-Step account that has grown to $10,400, the 3% daily limit allows a $312 loss that day, measured from $10,400.
Breaches are judged on equity, at any moment. Open positions count. A wick that pushes equity through the floor for a few seconds fails the account, even if price recovers. The profit target is judged on equity too.
Static drawdown never moves. On the 1-Step challenges the floor is (1 − limit) × starting balance. For a $10k Classic 1-Step that is $9,400, forever.
Trailing drawdown follows the peak by a fixed dollar distance. On the Classic 2-Step the floor is the high-water mark minus 8% of the starting balance, so $800 on a $10k account. If equity peaks at $10,500, the floor is $9,700. Once the peak reaches $10,800, the floor sits at $10,000 and stops rising. Our guide to trailing vs static drawdown walks through more cases.
Step 1: Pick the challenge that fits your strategy
Match the rules to how your strategy loses. A strategy with occasional sharp losing days is a poor fit for any 1-Step challenge, because the 3% daily limit catches it first. A strategy with slow, grinding drawdowns fits the 2-Step's 5% daily limit better, but it has to survive a trailing floor. Turbo is cheap but has the tightest drawdown of the four: 3% static, the same size as its daily limit.
Step 2: Choose or build a strategy
You have two routes on Trigr.
- Use a house plan. Discover › Propr offers three plans per challenge: Fast, Balanced and Conservative. Each is a fixed set of published strategies with weights and a size multiple, shown with its backtest pass rate under Propr's rules, the range by start year, median and average days to pass, how failed attempts failed, and a live record.
- Build your own in the strategy builder, then backtest it. Give every strategy a defined exit: stops, trails or time stops put a ceiling on how long a loser can run.
Step 3: Run the rules check
When you deploy your own agent on Propr, Trigr replays the combined backtest with a fresh challenge started on every UTC day, against the account's real daily-loss and drawdown rules. It reports the worst day, the maximum drawdown measured the way Propr measures it, and pass statistics (a house plan skips this step: Trigr shows the plan's measured record and sizes every slot itself). One start date tells you almost nothing; a replay from hundreds shows how often the rules would have ended the attempt.
If any start breaches, you can press Optimize sizing, which shrinks positions over up to three re-runs per press until the backtest fits with a 0.5% margin under each limit. Treat that margin as a minimum. A strategy that fits by a hair on history is likely to breach live, where gaps and costs are worse. The backtesting docs explain how fees enter the engine.
Step 4: Size for the worst day
On the Classic and Pro 1-Step at aggressive (Fast) sizes, the 3% daily limit ends most failed attempts. At Balanced sizes, and on Turbo at any size, drawdown fails more starts. In our backtests of the Classic 1-Step Fast plan, 36% of starts failed on the daily limit and only 4% on total drawdown. Budget your worst plausible day, not your average one:
- Count positions that can lose together. Several crypto perps hitting their stops on the same day behave like one large position.
- Keep leverage low. Our best results came at 1–3x. At 10x, a round trip of about 17 bps in costs takes about 1.7% of the account per trade.
- Remember that smaller size makes you slower, not more likely to pass, unless the strategy has an edge. The position sizing guide covers the arithmetic.
Step 5: Forward-test on paper
A failed challenge costs a real fee, so run the same strategies on a paper agent first. Paper agents fill at live Hyperliquid prices and charge trading and builder fees, but model no slippage or funding. That makes them a check on behaviour (does the agent trade when the backtest says it should, are the worst days similar) rather than a forecast. See paper trading a crypto bot for what to compare.
Step 6: Deploy
Paste your Propr API key (it starts with pk_live_). Trigr keeps it in its execution vault. The key can trade but cannot withdraw, because Propr's API offers no withdrawals, and Propr custodies the funds. Each agent trades one Propr account, with up to six strategy slots on different assets. If you used a house plan, "Deploy on Propr" opens the agent builder with the plan loaded and the server sizes every slot. The trading agents docs cover setup in detail.
What do the plans' pass rates actually mean?
Here are the three Classic 1-Step plans. Each figure comes from a fresh challenge started on every UTC day since 2023-07-24 (since 2024-04-02 for Conservative), each given up to 365 days under Propr's exact rules, with data through 2026-09-29.
| Classic 1-Step plan | Backtest pass | 90% interval | Median / avg days to pass | Failed on daily loss | Failed on drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast | 60% | 54–69% | 20 / 24 | 36% | 4% |
| Balanced | 87% | 78–95% | 53 / 69 | 2% | 11% |
| Conservative | 99.8% | 99.8–100% | 193 / 185 | 0% | 0.2% |
Read these as upper bounds. They are in-sample: the plans were chosen with the 2025 data visible. Consecutive start days share most of their price path, so 798 starts (545 for Conservative) are not 798 independent tries, and the 90% interval (a block bootstrap) still understates the uncertainty.
When our team picked candidates using only 2020–2023 starts and scored them on 2025–26 starts, picks that looked like 40–80% in-sample plateaued at about 25–34% out of sample (median around 30%) within a 180-day window. With a one-year window and small sizes, the bands rose to roughly 34–45% for plans passing in 2–5 weeks and about 54% for plans passing in 5–12 weeks. A realistic planning figure for the slowest, smallest-size tier is 40–55%, not 90–100%. For context, a strategy with no edge at all passes a Classic 1-Step at most about 37.5% of the time, before costs. The pass-rate deep dive has all twelve plans and the full out-of-sample results.
The live record started on 2026-09-30. As of 2026-10-05, each plan has 6 forward challenges running, none breached and none finished. A live pass rate appears once 90 forward challenges have run their full 365-day window, so not before late 2027. A plan is hidden if that rate is under 50%, or earlier if more than half of at least 90 started challenges have already breached.
What should you do after you pass?
A funded account keeps the same daily and drawdown limits, with no target to stop at. A strategy with no real edge keeps gambling, and the randomness that got it over the line can breach the funded account. Before you pass, decide whether you will keep the strategy running, cut its size, or switch to something with a longer, out-of-sample record.
How Trigr fits in
Trigr gives you the pieces this process needs: house plans measured under Propr's exact rules, a rules check that replays any agent you build yourself from every start day, Optimize sizing, paper agents for forward testing, and Propr agents that trade your challenge account through a trade-only key. Live trading on Propr is available on every Trigr subscription, including Free; house plans that use Trigr Advanced strategies need a subscription with the Advanced library, as the pricing page shows. None of it removes the risk. A backtest fit is evidence, not a promise, and a single bad day can end a challenge.