Prop Firm Playbook: David Grant’s Ten Step Framework

Prop Firm Playbook is a new title from David Grant, who brings more than thirty years across financial markets, investment analysis, asset management and systematic trading.

What the Book Actually Covers

The spine is a ten step blueprint, and it runs further down the road than most trading books bother to go.

• Establish your edge. 
• Understand the operating framework. 
• Choose the right prop firm. 
• Pass the challenge. 
• Manage funded capital. 
• Withdraw profits. 
• Reinvest part of those profits. 
• Acquire additional funded capital. 
• Diversify the operation. 
• Repeat and improve.

Note where that sequence starts and where it ends. Passing a challenge is step four of ten. Most material in this space treats it as the finish line.

The book runs to twenty chapters plus an introduction and afterword, opening on how the prop firm model works and closing with a due diligence checklist for assessing firms. There is also a research and sources section, which is rarer in this category than it should be.

Who It Is Actually For

Grant aims it at four groups, and they are worth separating.

1. Traders preparing for a first serious challenge, who need the framework before they need tactics.
2. Traders who keep failing challenges or losing funded accounts. The largest group in this industry, and the one least served by content assuming the problem is strategy.
3. Funded traders chasing consistency rather than another pass.
4. And traders thinking past the payout, which is where the reinvestment and diversification steps come in.

If you want entry signals, this is not that book.

Why Our Name Is On It

Kyle Davies, our COO, endorsed it for a specific reason worth repeating. The book pushes traders to look past discount codes and headline account sizes when choosing a firm.

We have an obvious interest in that argument, so weigh it accordingly. We also think it is right, and we have made the same point ourselves in less flattering language. A 200,000 dollar account with a trailing drawdown you have not understood is worse than a 25,000 dollar account whose rules you have read properly.

The due diligence chapter is the part most directly useful regardless of which firm you end up with, including ones that are not us.

What It Costs

Pricing sits well above the usual trading book range, which you should know before clicking through. On the UK Amazon listing the Kindle edition is 49.99 pounds, paperback 69.99 and hardback 89.99. An online edition at 49.99 is listed as coming soon.

Whether that value is your call, and it depends largely on what a failed challenge costs you. The book is sold as education rather than personalised financial advice and makes no profit claims.

Conclusion – Prop Firm Playbook: David Grant’s Ten Step Framework

The Prop Firm Playbook treats funded trading as an operation to build rather than a test to pass, and the ten step structure reflects that throughout. Judge the contents yourself at propfirmplaybook.com.

FAQ – Prop Firm Playbook: David Grant’s Ten Step Framework

1. Who wrote the Prop Firm Playbook?

David Grant, with more than thirty years across financial markets, investment analysis, asset management and systematic trading.

2. Is this a strategy book?

No. It covers establishing an edge rather than handing you one, then spends most of its length on firm selection, challenge execution, funded account management, payouts and scaling.

3. Is TTT Markets connected to the book?

Yes. Our Chief Operations Officer is quoted on the back cover and on the book’s website, so treat this page as an endorsement rather than an independent review.

We have helped thousands of traders reach funding at TTT Markets from account sizes of $5k upwards to $500k. Check out our programs. 

Additional resources:

The Prop Firm Playbook by David Grant | The Ten-Step blueprint for serious prop-firm traders