Drop in your starting equity and a realistic monthly return. See how the math compounds over 12 or 36 months — with or without monthly contributions. Free, no email gate.
Final equity = Principal × (1 + r)^n, with optional monthly contribution rolled in before each period's return. Compounding is multiplicative: a 4%/month return becomes not 48%/year but 60.1%/year, because each month grows the base for the next.
$5,000 starting balance, 4%/month, 24 months, no contributions: final equity = $5,000 × (1.04)^24 = $12,815. That's a 156% total return — compelling, but only if drawdown stays inside your pain threshold.
Over 3-6 months, sure. Over 12+ months on a live account, almost no one does it without taking concentration risk that eventually hands it back. Plan around 2-5% monthly for serious capital.
No — it assumes a constant monthly return. Real returns have variance. Use this as an upper bound, not a forecast. The Prop Firm calculator does Monte Carlo simulation for realistic path distributions.