Congrats Matthew. The part of this story most people scroll past is the most important one: you blew the first eval and paid to keep it. That single decision is where the math actually flips. Every prop firm community has 1000 people who pass the course and 100 who blow the first eval. Of those 100, maybe 20 pay to keep the eval, and almost all of the funded accounts come from that 20. Not because they're smarter, but because they made the decision in advance that one bad eval was an event, not an answer. Same pattern shows up in every skill that pays out asymmetrically. The real cost wasn't the eval reset fee. The real cost was the version of yourself you would have become if you'd treated the first miss as the verdict. Trust the process is the slogan. Pay the reset fee and treat it as tuition is the actual move. Looking forward to the PA conversion thread next month.