" If you hope to go to a prop firm, sit next to their #1 most profitable traders each day, and ask them direct questions on how they are trading and why => forgetaboutit." That's why they all come here to et , hoping some great trader will forget it's the internet and actually reveal something that isn't total marketing bs . fuggedaboutit
Don't get me wrong, I agree. for 500k+, you have a lot of options; However, if you're working with 50k, those points are still valid. I'm not sure where the 500k came from. I may have skipped over that but I posted that with the assumption that I don't know how much capital the OP has to invest. The benefits for prop are on the smaller account side. this is true for both leverage, rates and market access / execution speed.