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Drawdown Rules Explained for Prop Firm Traders
Understand drawdown rules in prop trading: daily loss limits, max drawdown, and trailing drawdown, with worked examples, calculations, and tips
5 Oct 2026
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Research for funded traders
Strategies, risk formulas and platform guides, written against real prop-firm rules.
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Instrument License Requirements for Prop Traders
You've found a platform offering the CFDs, forex pairs, or commodity derivatives you want to trade. The marketing looks professional, but you can't tell whether the…
4 Oct 2026
Risk Management Formulas for Prop Traders
Position size equals your allowed account risk divided by the dollar risk per unit, then reduced until it fits the prop firm's 5% daily loss limit…
3 Oct 2026
8 Prop Trading Strategies for Funded Accounts
A strategy can look profitable on a personal account and still fail a funded evaluation. Stop distance, news exposure, holding time, trade frequency, and recovery behaviour…
2 Oct 2026
Best Algorithmic Trading Platforms: 7 Picks
The most popular advice about the best algorithmic trading platform is usually wrong because it assumes every trader needs the same workflow. A funded trader may…
1 Oct 2026
How to Do Algorithmic Trading That Actually Works
About 90% of retail algorithmic traders fail to beat a simple buy-and-hold S&P 500 benchmark in their first year, according to a 2026 retail algorithmic trading…
30 Sep 2026
Are Trading Bots Profitable? An Honest 2026 Breakdown
Most retail trading bots underperform in live conditions, and a 2025 analysis of 2,800 retail algorithmic accounts found that 73% underperformed the S&P 500 buy-and-hold benchmark…
29 Sep 2026
Risks of Algorithmic Trading and How to Manage Them
Most advice about the risks of algorithmic trading starts with “check your code” and “avoid overfitting.” Those warnings matter, but they miss the danger that destroys…
28 Sep 2026
News Trading EA: A Practical Setup and Risk Guide
You've watched a news trading EA produce a clean backtest, then lose money on the first live CPI or Non-Farm Payrolls release. The strategy looked right,…
27 Sep 2026
News Trading Forex Strategy: A Practical Playbook
You've watched an NFP, CPI, or central-bank release send EUR/USD through a huge candle, clicked in, and then discovered that the price moved in your direction…
26 Sep 2026
8 Copy Trading Risks Every Trader Should Know
Copy trading isn't a shortcut around market risk. A follower can receive worse fills, inherit hidden borrowed exposure, and breach account rules before understanding what happened.…
25 Sep 2026
Profit Split Method Explained for Prop Traders
You've hit a profitable month, opened the payout page, and discovered that the headline account size doesn't tell you what you'll receive. The profit split method…
24 Sep 2026
Algorithmic Trading Forex: A Practical 2026 Guide
You've traded manually for a few months, and now you want to automate EUR/USD. Then the practical questions appear: should you use MT5, cTrader, or Python,…
23 Sep 2026
