Funded trading, explained properly

Proprietary trading firms hand capital to traders who prove they can manage risk. These articles explain the model, the rules, and the traps, without selling you anything.

What is a funded account, and how do prop firms actually work?

You do not need capital, you need skill. Here is exactly how proprietary trading firms hand traders accounts of 10,000 to 200,000 dollars, how they make their money, and where the model is honest and where it is not.

15 July 2026 4 min read

The rules that fail people: how challenges are really judged

Most failed challenges are not failed by bad analysis. They are failed by a drawdown rule the trader never fully understood. Here is each rule, in plain language, with the exact mistake it catches.

18 July 2026 4 min read