It stops them from being the counterparty (i.e. it means that their interest and incentivization is with the customer rather than against him).
Really ...? Topstep is losing money on traders who are funded in the XFA and take payouts, Topstep profits from traders who are funded in a live account and take payouts.
I don't think anyone has even bothered asking the OP for his definition of what a 'Holy Grail' actually is? The obvious definition is something like 'high profits with low drawdowns and not many losing months and no tail risk of ruin' eg. 100%+ profit a year, no drawdown larger than 20%. 85%+ winning months. Some might only consider 100%+ a year with max 10% drawdowns. And 95% winning months. So OP what is your definition of Holy Grail?
My criteria is 100% profit in 1 month if not 1 week or 1 day. Max drawdown 10%? That's doable but that really depends on your your risk management and obeying system rules. 95% wining months? That's doable if you're following your system rules. Maybe you would like to hear what I'm doing to become a more discipline trader and follow my system rules? That's really more of the Holy Grail then any system.
If discipline is the Holy Grail secret alluded to in this thread's title, you are not going to get much money for it. Unless you want to become a psychological trading coach and sell seminars to room fulls of people, like 50 people a time paying $5000 a head.
It would be meditation. But it's a new form of meditation I've develop. What it does for me is summarized in this article: 26 Scientifically Proven Superhuman Benefits of Meditation https://www.highexistence.com/26-scientifically-proven-superhuman-benefits-of-meditation/ The benefit in relation to trading is -Better disclipline -Better emotional control -Also helpful with creativity and was crucial in developing the system like seeing the bigger picture The secret to my new form of meditation is that I do it in my sleep using an audio tone I called the Holy Frequency. Which is where I call my system the Holy Grail comes from.
This all good. However the market doesn't care about your meditation. It will still give you 10+ losing trades in a row sometimes. You are not going to make 100%+ a month from just meditation. You need a really holy grail method of actual trading to do that.
You want a million bux for a meditation tape and some algo signals you curve fitted to a year of data?