Beginner here – best prop firms to start with?

Hi everyone,

I’m starting my journey with prop firms next week, and as a beginner I’d really appreciate some recommendations.

I’ve already looked at a few different offers, but I’d rather hear suggestions from more experienced traders.

Which prop firms are the easiest to pass in terms of challenge conditions? I know most of them share similar basic rules, but I’m mainly focused on capital protection. For example, I like the idea of EOD drawdown since it seems safer and helps prevent blowing the account too quickly.

I trade using NinjaTrader 8 and plan to use market profile and order flow. If a prop firm doesn’t support NinjaTrader, I’ll simply use it for timing my entries and execute trades directly in the platform required by the prop firm. My goal is to avoid paying premium prices just because NinjaTrader support is included.

I’m not fully familiar with all the details yet, but my main goal is to avoid large upfront costs (like activation fees, if those apply).

Long story short: I don’t want to invest too much money at the beginning, since it’s realistic to expect I might fail the first attempts.

Any advice or personal experience would be really helpful. Thanks!