Here's how much money I've spent so far on evals in 2026.

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Apex Trader Funding

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The creator uses radical financial transparency, showing both high losses and high gains, which builds trust and authority in the high-stakes prop trading niche.

Summary

The creator breaks down his high expenses from various trading evaluation firms to justify his spending by highlighting his significant total payouts and daily profit potential. He uses his personal trading dashboard and email payout notifications to demonstrate the profitability of his prop firm trading strategy.

Structure

1Breakdown of high evaluation expenses
2Comparison of costs vs total payouts
3Demonstration of daily profit potential
4Summary of total payouts received

Product placement

(a) Apex Trader Funding ACTS: the creator shows email notifications of payouts from this firm to justify his expenses. (b) The Backroom APPEARS: the creator's own trading club dashboard is the background for his expense breakdown. (c) Lucid, TopstepX, Tradeify, FuturesElite, Fundednext APPEAR: listed as expense items in the creator's ledger. (d) TradeSync APPEARS: the app interface is shown to display trading performance data. Removing these would change the video's context as they provide the evidence for his financial claims.

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$90k on evals… hurts to see . . . #expenses #trading #evalcost #propfirms #angustrades

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The Backroom Expenses / Write-offs $89,683.27 Apex Trader Funding Evals + Activation Fee $30,889.70 Lucid $28,772.60 Live Account $11,000.00 TopstepX $7,450.00 Tradeify Evals / Resets $6,994.70 FuturesElite $3,130.82 Fundednext $1,446.25 Net (2026) If you lose more than you gain: 2026's loss was a net... auto-calc, or enter an overnade rate, in Filing estimate what that loss could be worth back on taxes. Postkasser Innboks Apex Trader Funding PA Payout Approved [Logo] <https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapex-trader-funding.com> [...] Micro E MNQ1! app.tradesync Discord angus @angustrades2 Orbs Balance Join Stage Watch Stream [...] 100,000 in a day $25k PAYOUT Track your payouts You verified your identity You can now withdraw payouts quicker Congratulations! We sent 64 payouts totalling $122,500.00 For Rise account. We also sent you an email confirmation.

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Here's how much money I've spent so far on evals in 2026. And as you guys can see, it's not looking pretty. $89,683 on evals alone. That includes 28,000 from Lucid and an $11,000 loss on a live account that I ran back in, what is it, back in fucking January with AMP. 7.5k with Topstep, 7k with Tradeify, 3k with FuturesElite, and 1.5k on Fundednext. Now, this might look really fucking ugly to the blind eye, and that's until you account for the fact that Apex has probably paid me about $150 to $200,000 in payouts alone this year. Not only that, but these accounts allow me to have huge fucking days just like this, making me over 80 to 90 to probably even $100,000 in a day. And yes, 100 fucking thousand in a day. I took another $25,000 payout from my live account. I've taken a total of 64 payouts and $122.5k from Tradeify, and so on, so forth. And that's the ROI of prop firm trading, baby.