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Follow the ladder — LucidPro 25K now, add Topstep 50K Standard when the bank sustains it, add TradeDay Fast Pass 50K only with an 18-month runway. Everything else tested is a skip. Retire@3 stays the standing policy on every firm.

Six plans have now been run as full 5-eval + 5-funded fleets on the same trade books and the same historical start days, each retiring every funded account after its 3rd payout, each charged its own fees plus a $350/firm PickMyTrade allowance. The caps that bound this are per firm — 10 accounts / 5 funded at each firm — so the firms are additive and the question is never "which one" but "in what order, funded by what". The order below is the deliverable: each phase names the trigger that opens it and the gate that must clear before money moves. The green R in the composer still marks the study-recommended method for each account; hollow means your selection differs from it.

1. Phase 0now

   Run what you already own, and bank the rest.

   Trade the two pre-paid LucidPro 25K evals with the live eval method (P1 Fast reBreak, M1be) through the existing TV → PickMyTrade → Tradovate automation. Keep the funded LucidPro on the funded book (reBreak + $700 cap). Standing policy on every firm from day one: take payouts, intentionally breach after the 3rd (retire@3), never accept a live transition. Bank $2,000 opening + $500/month; every payout dollar above the renewal reserve sweeps to the brokerage — Phase 4 is continuous, not a later step.

   trigger none — this is the current state gate LucidPro's PickMyTrade permission is still pending in writing; the automation is running on an unanswered compliance question
2. Phase 1next 0–6 months

   Scale LucidPro to its per-firm cap — 5 evals + 5 funded, at Lucid.

   Whenever bank cash ≥ eval price + the monthly reserve, buy another LucidPro eval and promote passes as they land. The 10-account / 5-funded cap is per firm, so nothing here spends a slot at any other firm. Expect ~11 funded deaths and 5 deliberate retirements across a 12-month fleet year — that is normal, budget the replacements. If Lucid is all that ever runs, this alone is the $19,828/12m → $25,219/18m row above (median; a bad start quartile is nearer $500 at 12m).

   trigger bank cash ≥ eval price + monthly reserve → buy the next eval gate stop at 5 evals + 5 funded AT LUCID; a passed eval waiting in the queue still occupies one of the ten slots
3. Phase 2after the first 2–3 payouts land

   Add Topstep 50K Standard — the one recommended addition.

   #2 ranked, additive to Lucid (separate account pool, interference exactly zero), and the first challenger in this series to beat LucidPro on paired identical start days (+$917/start at 12m, +$1,859 at 18m). It also carries the best downside in the set (12m p25 $2,596). Run the live methods unchanged — Fast taper eval + reBreak + $700 cap funded — keep the cushion at $51,000, and then scale it to 5/5 exactly like Lucid.

   trigger bank sustainably above ~$3–5k after Lucid's subscriptions — typically once the first 2–3 payouts have landed gate before the first Topstep eval: re-confirm compliance in writing — automation is allowed but cloud-hosted automation is NOT, and APIs are banned on Live Funded; the copier path must be confirmed. Topstep's ruleset here is third-party-sourced and uncalibrated.
4. Phase 3only with an 18-month runway

   Add TradeDay Fast Pass 50K — last, never first.

   Third-ranked and it improves materially with runway ($11,228/12m → $18,694/18m) — but its 12-month p25 is −$2,384, so a bad start month ends the year having paid TradeDay more than it extracted. Hard rule: never as a first allocation. Policy is greedy payouts — request every cycle as soon as the five $150+ days clear and the cycle is net-profitable, rather than waiting for a bigger cheque an account may not live to collect. Under retire@3 expect ≈$3,212 cash per funded account against a hard lifetime ceiling of $3,600 (3 × $1,200). A 3-day payout-processing pause is modelled and priced in.

   trigger an 18-month runway is secured AND Lucid + Topstep payouts are already recycling into new evals gate get TradeDay's copier/automation permission in writing — copy trading is permitted (the only firm in the set that says so), but PickMyTrade specifically is unverified. The plan is uncalibrated and not TV-verified.
5. Phase 4continuous — from Phase 0 onward

   Compound the swept payouts in the own-money brokerage.

   Every swept payout dollar lands in the brokerage account and trades master_fund400 at flexR sizing — R = min(cap, max($200, 10% of balance)), cap laddering $400 below $10k → $600 to $15k → $800 above. Standalone from a $2,000 balance that measures +$3,218 median / 12m, p25 +$1,053, and 0% historical ruin across 500 start days — it converts the campaign's right tail into a floor rather than adding a new way to lose. Watch the fan on the Brokerage tab in Forward mode.

   trigger every payout, immediately — sweep everything above the renewal reserve gate the $2,000-balance anchor is measured at the $400 cap rung; the ladder's upper rungs raise risk with the balance and have no zero-ruin proof of their own

• MFF Rapid 25K — retire@3 truncates the one thing it had going (an uncapped payout stream); $4,202/12m on $5,445 of fees.
• Tradeify Select Flex 25K — marginal at $8,578/12m, and its published 3rd-payout live-transition trigger is exactly where retire@3 lands; staying provably compliant (retire@2 + a 9-payout lifetime cap) costs ≈$2.3k/12m.
• TradeDay Quick Pay 50K — the gross intraday trail kills 91.9% of funded accounts before payout 1 and 65.2% never pay at all; the median rests on the ~1-in-3 survivors, and its policy was chosen by sweep on the same path it is scored on. Mutually exclusive with Fast Pass anyway.
• 150K accounts (Lucid and Topstep) — at live sizing the median cohort never funds; 500 of 500 paired cohorts lose to their own smaller sibling, and the bridge cell proves it is the plan structure, not the sizing. Scale by adding siblings.
• Session transplants (Tokyo / London) — the edge is NY-only; Tokyo passed 0% of evals and won 0 of 127 paired starts.
• Added confluences, multi-entry re-arms, skip-rescans — all measured negative or ≈ fees. The live A+B method is at its tested optimum; leave it alone.

What to expect if the whole plan runs: ≈$61k over 12 months across the portfolio after every fee and the PMT allowance — but that is an all-cohort median on a ceiling-biased sim. The p25 is materially lower everywhere, and per-firm p25 for both TradeDay plans is negative at 12 months. Treat the ladder's order, not its total, as the actionable part.