There are two ways to blow an evaluation. You never had a real edge, or you had one and threw it away on a bad afternoon near the loss limit. Most traders can't honestly tell which one keeps happening to them. EdgeFound can.
The layer that tells you why you keep ending up near the line. It runs the statistics on your own trades to show whether your edge is actually good enough to survive a drawdown rule, and it tracks the discipline breaks that blow evaluations (revenge trades, oversizing near the target, the mistakes you repeat) so you can see them and stop. Works with FTMO, Apex, Topstep, and any account you can sync from MT5 or import as a CSV.
It is not a live compliance dashboard. It will not watch your open drawdown tick toward FTMO's daily limit in real time and flash red. Tools like TradesViz and PropJournal do that, and if that live guard-rail is what you need, use one of them. EdgeFound works upstream of that : it tells you why you keep getting close to the limit in the first place.
There are really only two, and they need opposite fixes, which is why getting the diagnosis wrong is so expensive.
The first is that the edge isn't there. No real advantage, or one too thin to survive a rule that punishes the drawdown path and not just where you end up. Another evaluation won't fix this. You can fail it ten times running, because the thing being tested was never going to pass, and every reset fee is money spent confirming it.
The second is the one everyone pictures. You took two stops early, you were down near the daily loss limit, and instead of closing the laptop you doubled up to get it back. The edge was fine. A discipline break ended the run, and it cost you the account and the reset fee anyway.
From the inside, both feel identical. You failed, again, and you can't quite say why. A compliance dashboard won't settle it. It watches how close you are to the line today ; it can't tell you whether your edge is real, or whether you take a revenge trade 60% of the time in the half hour after a stop. EdgeFound runs that analysis on your own trades and tells you which of the two keeps ending your runs. The fix depends entirely on the answer.
Demon Watch tracks the mistakes you keep repeating and surfaces them as evidence, not narrative blame. "You have taken 14 revenge trades in the last 60 sessions, average loss 0.8R, and they account for most of the drawdown that ended your last two evaluations." Once you can see a pattern that specific, you can break it. The Forge scores your adherence to your own plan, trade by trade, so the discipline itself becomes something you can watch improve.
A strategy that makes money over a year can still fail an evaluation, because the rules punish the drawdown path, not just the endpoint. EdgeFound runs the statistical work on your own trades (Wilson confidence intervals, Monte Carlo projection, conditional probability across your setups) and tells you, in plain sentences, which setups are real and which are luck. For a funded trader that is the difference between scaling with confidence and scaling into a setup that was never working.
Most evaluation-ending losses happen around scheduled volatility you could have seen coming. EdgeFound stamps every trade with the macro regime and the calendar via MacroMap Research, so you stop walking into a high-impact print without clocking it. Over a funded account, avoiding a handful of those is the whole game.
The discipline that actually holds is the kind baked into a routine you'll still run on a bad day. The Daily Flow is that routine, four steps : Morning Prep (bias, macro brief, a pause checklist for the days you shouldn't trade), Trail of Thoughts during the session, a per-trade review on the close scored against your plan, and a short evening reflection. Five minutes on a normal day. The pause checklist alone has saved more accounts than any indicator.
EdgeFound will never tell you it can get you funded or keep you funded. No tool can, and anyone promising it is selling you something. What it does is give you the truth about your own trading, which is the only thing that actually moves the needle on an evaluation. Built by a discretionary trader with a background in applied mathematics, having passed CFA Level II, who manages a proprietary book for a law firm and trades his own account daily.
Two honest limitations, because you should know them before you decide.
If your problem is staying inside the rules on a screen today, those tools win. If your problem is that you keep ending up at the line and you want to know why and fix it, that is EdgeFound.
Find out in five minutes a day.