A prop firm (proprietary trading firm) gives you access to a large funded trading account (for example $10K – $300K+) without using your personal credit.

You pay a one-time evaluation fee (usually a few hundred dollars) and trade the firm’s capital. If you follow the rules and hit the target, the firm funds you and you keep 80–90% of the profits.

No personal credit checks. No loans. No debt.
You’re simply renting access to big buying power for pennies on the dollar.

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🚫 Why Most People Fail Prop Firm Challenges

• They over-leverage trying to “pass fast”.
• They trade with fear and greed, not a system.
• They break daily / max drawdown rules and lose the account.

Prop firms actually make most of their money from failed evaluations, not from paying out winners. Emotional, manual trading feeds that business model.

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🤖 How Empire OS Changes That

Empire OS is a rules-based, fully automated gold strategy designed to:

• Trade only when all conditions are met (no emotional entries).
• Stay within strict drawdown and risk limits.
• Target realistic monthly returns with very low max drawdown.

Instead of gambling evaluations manually, you’re plugging into a proven system that trades the prop firm capital for you.

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💰 Funding Paths & Typical Pricing (Approx.)

Account Size	1-Phase Eval	2-Phase Eval	Instant Funding (No Eval)
$10,000	$100 – $130	$80 – $100	$180 – $220
$25,000	$140 – $170	$400 – $550	$250 – $280
$50,000	$700 – $950	$550 – $650	$300 – $350
$100,000	$1,700 – $1,900	$1,000 – $1,200	$850 – $950
$200,000	$2,400 – $3,000	$1,400 – $1,700	$1,200 – $1,400
$300,000	$3,000 – $3,800	$1,400 – $1,700	N/A

Prices vary slightly by firm, discounts, and promotions. Empire OS integrates with multiple 1-phase, 2-phase, and instant-funding partners.

Empire OS is built around typical prop-firm rules – profit targets, max drawdown, and daily loss limits – and keeps the same risk profile whether you’re trading $10K or $300K.

Account Size	Target ≈ 10%	Max Drawdown ≈ 10%	Daily Drawdown ≈ 5%	Typical XAUUSD Contracts
$10,000	$1,000	$1,000	$500	2
$25,000	$2,500	$2,500	$1,250	5
$50,000	$5,000	$5,000	$2,500	10
$100,000	$10,000	$10,000	$5,000	20
$200,000	$20,000	$20,000	$10,000	40
$300,000	$30,000	$30,000	$15,000	60

Empire OS keeps the **same relative risk** on every account size so you can scale from one account to many accounts without changing your core settings.

The goal of Empire OS is **consistent, low-stress progression**, not lottery-style trading. It aims to pass evaluations while protecting the account.

Funding Path	Evaluation Period (Max)	Description
1-Phase Challenge	≈ 30 Days	Single profit target. Usually higher fee but faster route.
2-Phase Challenge	≈ 60 Days	Two separate targets to prove consistency and risk control.
Instant Funding	0 Days	No evaluation. Start trading funded capital immediately (payout schedule depends on the firm).

Under normal market conditions, Empire OS aims to reach typical prop-firm targets in about 30–40 days with a controlled max drawdown, so you can get funded and then focus on scaling, not guessing.