The 1% Rule Isn't Optional

[PropScalpDesk]

Funded lower than personal is the right hierarchy. Losing the seat is the real risk; the fee is just a line item.

Personal near 1%, evals and funded around half — same band I use. Frequency plus fat R is how accounts die without a legendary blow-up.

[FXS Prop Desk]

The frequency trap is the clearest way to explain the 1% rule to someone who thinks it is overcautious. A scalper taking eight or ten trades a day sees in a single month the number of trades a swing trader sees in a year, so the losing streak that is "rare" on paper turns up on a Tuesday. One addition to the backward sizing point: the stop distance should come from structure, and the lot size from the stop, never the reverse. If the lot is chosen first, the stop gets squeezed to fit, and the 1% becomes an illusion that only holds until the first spike.