Most people in fraternities don ' t refer to them as frats . Sorry if I offended you or came off as a dick . <| sep |> Yeah , that ' s good advice . I spent a while doing combines and never paid much attention to the FTP rules . Then I found out the hard way that your combine ' s daily drawdown limit suddenly becomes your FTP weekly limit . You ' re trading overleveraged and gotta pass the combine , then FTP , then the first 10 days of funding . Then you still have to build yourself a big enough cushion to have some room to breath . All with almost no drawdown at all ! It ' s doable , but it ' s not easy at all . I ' ve never made it past FTP , but I don ' t regret trying because it really taught me a lot and it ' s a good way to transition into futures with only a few tendies of initial risk .