What you paid
What you received
Nothing leaves your browser. The prefilled numbers are an example, not a benchmark — replace them with yours.
Why this number stays hidden
Fees are paid one at a time, months apart, on a card. Payouts arrive in visible lumps. So the memory of prop trading is shaped by the lumps, and the running total of $150 charges never gets added up.
Resets are where it turns: they feel like a small fix on the way back to a target you were nearly at, and they are the fastest-growing line in most traders' ledgers. If resets are more than a third of everything you have spent, the problem is not the account — it is the sizing that keeps ending them.
What to do with the answer
If you are behind
Stop buying accounts for a month. The cheapest evaluation is the one you do not reset, and nothing about a new account fixes the reason the last one failed.
If you are level
Change one variable, not five. Usually size: most traders are one contract away from profitable, in the smaller direction.
If you are ahead
Write down what the profitable accounts had in common — size, session, firm, drawdown type — and buy more of that, not more of everything.
Either way
Log fees per account from now on. Propbook keeps fees and payouts on each account so this calculation is never a guess again.
Keep the ledger without thinking about it
Every Propbook account carries its own fees and payouts, so your real return is on screen instead of in your head. Free, no card.
Open Propbook →FAQ
How much do prop firm evaluations really cost?
It depends far less on the advertised fee than on how many resets you buy. A $150 evaluation reset four times is a $600 evaluation, and the reset is the number traders leave out when they estimate their spending.
What is a good return on prop firm fees?
Anything above zero puts you in a minority. The useful benchmark is not a percentage, it is direction: are your payouts growing faster than your fees, quarter after quarter?
Should I count monthly platform and data fees?
Yes. Activation fees, monthly account fees and market data are real money leaving your bank for the same activity. Leaving them out is how a losing operation looks breakeven.
What is a profit split?
The share of your profit you keep at payout — commonly 80% to 100% at futures firms, 80% to 90% at CFD firms. The calculator applies it to profit you have not withdrawn yet, so you can see what is actually coming.
Does this calculator store anything?
No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Propbook itself can keep the same ledger per account, automatically, if you want it remembered.