Yes, he's not a fan of daytrading noise. But still the concepts do apply. Trading isn't about M1 and M5, I think it's missing the forest for the trees. That's my take on it, actually.
For daytrading those are the main timeframes. Some time ago I did the eval with Earn2Trade and fell flat. That's when I realised that my swing trading system was worthless on the small timeframes. Instead of backtesting on TV with only a few days of data, you can run a long backtest from MT4 with futures data. Any fx broker will give you a free demo acount.
Why don't you hone your skills with sim or paper trades? It costs me nothing and I can trade as big or small as I like. If I want to try real $, I trade live with a small $1K acc, which I did for a few months. Another thing, I can tell you @volpri's approach appears credible. With it, I could get a free Big Mac every day with a $5K account trading stock without leverage. It is a long long way from getting rich scalping a few ticks a trade but profitable none the less. Take care.
The 150k has the biggest difference between drawdown and profit goal. You may be better off taking a lower profit goal ? Edit: depends on which prop firm you're with
Its about the differential between the profit goal and drawdown. The Earn2Trade 25k eval has drawdown of $1,500 vs a goal of $1,750. Their 100k eval drawdown is 3.5k vs goal of 6k, almost double. I would choose the 25k eval as the easiest. With blusky it is $1,200 vs $1,500 and $2,500 vs $6,000