Payouts & Taxes
Your First Week as a Funded Trader
You passed the evaluation. Here is how to handle the first week funded: new rules, smaller size, building a cushion and planning your first payout.
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Prop firm trading, risk, psychology and futures, explained by traders. No gurus. No gospel.
Platforms & Tools
Paper Trading on TradingView: Practice Like It's an Evaluation
How to set up TradingView paper trading, match it to a real prop firm evaluation, deal with delayed futures data and know when you are ready.
Prop Firm Trading
Prop Firm vs Your Own Account: Which Is Better?
Capped cost and big buying power, or full profit and full control. How prop firms and personal accounts compare on risk, rules, profit and taxes.
Trading Psychology
Overtrading: How to Spot It and Stop It
More trades usually means less money. Here is what overtrading is, what causes it, how to spot it in your journal and how to stop.
Futures Trading
Tick Value and Point Value in Futures, Explained
What ticks and points are, what they are worth for ES, NQ, MES, MNQ, CL and GC, and the one formula for futures profit and loss.
Prop Firm Trading
Futures vs Forex Prop Firms: Which Should You Choose?
How futures and forex prop firms differ on markets, platforms, drawdown rules and U.S. availability, and how to pick the right one for you.
Passing Evaluations
Prop Firm Consistency Rules, Explained (With Math)
How consistency rules work, the simple formula for how much profit you need, and how a daily profit cap keeps you from getting stuck.
Passing Evaluations
Prop Firm Daily Loss Limits, Explained
Hard vs soft limits, why open losses can count, when the day resets and how to set a personal daily stop that keeps you far from the line.
Prop Firm Trading
Are Prop Firms Legit? How to Tell Before You Pay
Some prop firms are legitimate and some have vanished overnight. Here is how the model works, what has gone wrong and the checklist to use before you pay.
Trading Psychology
Revenge Trading: Why It Happens and How to Stop
Revenge trading turns small, planned losses into account-ending ones. Here is why it happens, how to spot it and the rules that stop it.
Trading Psychology
Trading on Tilt: The Trading Psychology Guide
What tilt is, the four signs you are on it, what triggers it, and the simple rules that stop one bad trade from becoming ten.
Risk Management
Position Sizing for Futures, Step by Step
The four-step method to size any futures trade, with point values for ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, CL and GC, and worked examples.