PsychologyNew
Drawdown Recovery: The Psychology of Trading After Losses
A framework for recovering from trading drawdowns – the cognitive traps, why revenge trading feels rational, and the concrete steps that actually restore performance.
Knowledge Hub
Knowledge Hub
Guides, rule breakdowns, and strategy notes to help you prepare for and pass your evaluation.
PlatformsNew
Copy Trading and EAs in Prop Firms: What Is Actually Allowed
Complete reference on automated strategies in prop firm accounts – which EAs and copy-trading approaches are permitted, which are banned, and why.
RiskNew
Consistency Rules: How Prop Firms Measure Disciplined Trading
A complete guide to consistency rules in prop firms – the math, the pitfalls, how to structure trading to pass, and why "one big winner" can actually hurt your account.
StrategyNew
Price Action Trading: Reading the Tape Without Indicators
A complete framework for price action trading – market structure, swing points, liquidity, order flow concepts, and how professional traders read charts without indicators.
StrategyNew
Multi-Timeframe Analysis: HTF Context, LTF Execution
Top-down analysis from weekly to intraday – how to align trades with higher-timeframe context, avoid counter-trend fights, and time entries on lower time frames.
StrategyNew
Mean Reversion Trading: Statistics, Setups, and Execution
Complete guide to mean reversion trading – the statistical basis, setups that work, regime filters, stop construction, and why the strategy fails when conditions shift.
StrategyNew
Breakout Trading Strategy: Entries, Filters, and False Breaks
Complete guide to trading breakouts – identifying valid levels, confirming with volume and ATR, filtering false breaks, and managing risk like a professional.
BasicsNew
Prop Firm Payouts: How the Money Actually Reaches You
A complete breakdown of how prop firm payouts work – profit splits, cycles, methods, KYC requirements, taxes, and delays to expect on your first funded payout.
BasicsNew
Pip Value Calculation: Forex, Gold, Indices, and Crypto
Step-by-step pip and tick value math for forex majors, cross pairs, gold, oil, indices, and crypto – so your position sizing is always accurate.
BasicsNew
Order Types Explained: Market, Limit, Stop, and Beyond
A complete reference on trading order types – market, limit, stop, stop-limit, OCO, trailing and iceberg – with execution mechanics and prop-firm usage notes.
RiskNew
Mistakes That Blow Prop Accounts: 12 Failure Modes and How to Avoid Them
A post-mortem of the twelve most common ways prop traders blow evaluation and funded accounts – the psychology, math, and defensive rules for each.
BasicsNew
Trading Plan Template: The 12 Sections Every Prop Trader Needs
A practical prop-trader trading plan template – markets, hours, setups, risk budget, journaling rules, review cadence, and the sections most skip.
ForexNew
Gold (XAUUSD) Trading Guide: Drivers, Sessions and Prop-Firm Rules
A complete guide to trading gold on prop-firm platforms: what moves XAUUSD, real yields and the dollar, active sessions, and prop-firm restrictions.
StrategyNew
Ichimoku Cloud Guide: Kinko Hyo Demystified for Prop Traders
A complete prop-trader guide to Ichimoku Kinko Hyo – the five lines, the cloud, and how Goichi Hosoda's system combines support, resistance, trend, and momentum into one chart.
StrategyNew
Chart Patterns Reference: Triangles, Flags, Head-and-Shoulders and What Works
A field guide to the 15 chart patterns that actually show up in backtests – head-and-shoulders, triangles, flags, wedges, cup-and-handle – with Bulkowski-style statistics and trading rules.
StrategyNew
MACD Indicator Guide: Crossovers, Histograms and Divergences
A complete guide to the MACD – Gerald Appel's moving-average convergence/divergence – including the formula, signal-line crossovers, histogram analysis, and zero-line strategies.
StrategyNew
Bollinger Bands Guide: Volatility, Squeezes, and the Mean-Reversion Myth
A complete guide to Bollinger Bands – how John Bollinger built them, what %B and bandwidth tell you, and why a band touch is not a sell signal.
StrategyNew
RSI and Momentum Indicators: What They Measure and What They Miss
A full guide to RSI, Stochastic, CCI, and Williams %R – the math behind momentum oscillators, and how pros use them in trending and ranging markets.
BasicsNew
Options Basics for Prop Traders: Calls, Puts and the Greeks
How options work in plain English, what the Greeks actually measure, and whether prop-firm evaluations permit option structures at all.
StrategyNew
Volume Analysis Guide: OBV, VWAP, Delta and Volume Profile
How to read volume data that actually means something in futures and stocks, why FX "volume" is fake, and the four tools professionals rely on.
ForexNew
Trading Session Times: London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney
Why the London-New York overlap drives 70% of FX volume, what each session actually trades, and how to align your strategy with when liquidity lives.
BasicsNew
Prop Firm Scaling Plans: How Capital Grows After You Pass
How scaling plans actually work, why the advertised maximum is rarely reached, and the math of compounding capital across a prop firm career.
StrategyNew
Fibonacci Retracement Guide: The Levels That Actually Matter
Why 61.8% is the only magic level, how to draw retracements without cherry-picking the swing, and what academic studies say about Fibonacci performance.
StrategyNew
Support and Resistance Trading: Levels, Zones and Liquidity
How professional traders identify real levels, why most retail support lines fail, and the liquidity mechanics behind the breakouts and fake-outs.
StrategyNew
Backtesting Strategies: The 2026 Guide to Honest Results
Why most backtests are lies, the seven biases that corrupt results, and how to build a walk-forward test that survives contact with a live market.
ForexNew
Forex Correlation Strategies: Reading the Hidden Portfolio
Why your five independent trades are actually one, how to measure pair correlation properly, and the three strategies that exploit currency co-movement.
ForexNew
Economic Calendar Guide: How to Read Releases and Filter Noise
The high-impact releases that actually move markets, how surprise indices work, and the release windows where prop-firm evaluations quietly die.
RiskNew
Risk-Reward Ratio Explained: R-Multiples and Expected Value
Why a 3:1 risk-reward ratio is not automatically profitable, how R-multiples turn any strategy into numbers, and how to compute expected value before risking a cent.
RiskNew
Leverage and Margin Explained: How They Actually Work in 2026
Leverage and margin explained for prop firm traders – how the math works, how jurisdictions limit it (ESMA, CFTC, ASIC), and why leverage is not your risk.
ForexNew
Trading News Releases: NFP, FOMC, CPI – A Survival Guide
How the three biggest economic events – NFP, FOMC and CPI – move FX and index futures, plus the exact rules prop firms apply to news-window trading.
ComparisonsNew
Day Trading vs Swing Trading: The 2026 Prop-Firm Comparison
Day trading vs swing trading for prop firm traders – holding periods, capital needs, tax treatment, psychology, and which style fits which temperament.
PsychologyNew
Trading Journal Template: What to Track and How to Review
A complete trading journal template – the 12 fields to log per trade, the weekly review protocol, and the mistakes that turn journals into graveyards.
StrategyNew
Moving Averages Guide: SMA, EMA, WMA and How to Use Them
A rigorous moving averages guide for traders – SMA vs EMA vs WMA vs HMA, the right period to use, crossover systems, and the traps that fool beginners.
StrategyNew
Candlestick Patterns Guide: The 14 Patterns That Actually Work
The 14 candlestick patterns a prop-firm trader should actually memorize – with anatomy, statistical evidence, context rules, and the traps that fool beginners.
RiskNew
Stop-Loss Placement Strategies: Technical, Volatility and Time
Five stop-loss placement methods – technical, ATR-volatility, money-based, time-based and chandelier – with worked examples and when each one breaks.
ForexNew
Best Forex Pairs for Prop Trading: Majors, Minors and Crosses
A data-driven ranking of the FX pairs prop-firm traders should actually trade – by liquidity, spread cost, session behaviour and evaluation-rule friendliness.
PlatformsNew
MT4 vs MT5 vs cTrader vs TradingView: 2026 Platform Guide
A side-by-side of the five platforms prop firms offer in 2026 – MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView and NinjaTrader – covering execution, scripting, assets and cost.
RiskNew
Position Sizing Calculators – The 2026 Guide with Worked Examples
The math behind every position sizing calculator – fixed-fractional, fixed-ratio, ATR-based, Kelly – with FX, futures and crypto worked examples and the common pitfalls.
BasicsNew
Choosing a Prop Firm: The 2026 Due-Diligence Checklist
A vendor-neutral due-diligence checklist for choosing a prop firm – corporate registration, payout proof, rulebook quality, platform, broker, terms risk.
PsychologyNew
Trading Psychology for Prop Firm Evaluations: The Operator's Manual
Loss aversion, revenge trading, FOMO and the disposition effect – the mental patterns that kill evaluations, plus protocols to override them.
RiskNew
Drawdown Types Explained: Static, Trailing, EOD and Max
The four drawdown rules prop firms use – static, trailing, end-of-day, and maximum – with the exact math of how each triggers and how to size around them.
ComparisonsNew
Forex vs Crypto: A 2026 Side-by-Side for Active Traders
Forex vs crypto compared head-to-head: liquidity, leverage, session structure, fees, regulation, volatility and which suits which trader in 2026.
StrategyNew
How to Pass a Prop Firm Evaluation in 2026: A Systematic Plan
A data-driven plan for passing prop firm evaluations: target math, daily-loss pacing, position sizing, news rules and common disqualifier traps.
Strategy
Risk Management for Prop Traders: Sizing, R-Multiples, Kelly
The math behind position sizing, R-multiples and fractional Kelly – applied to funded-account drawdown rules, with worked examples on a $50K evaluation.
Basics
The Complete Funded-Account Guide: Rules, Drawdown, Payouts
How funded trading accounts work: evaluation structures, the three drawdown types, rule traps that fail most traders, and how payouts actually reach your bank.
Basics
What Is Prop Trading? A 2026 Guide to Proprietary Trading Firms
Prop trading firms give traders access to simulated or firm capital for a share of profits. Learn how modern remote prop firms work and how to pick a legitimate one.
Your learning path
Four stages from first evaluation to consistent simulated Performance Rewards.
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Learn the basics
Understand how evaluations work, what the rules measure, and how rewards are paid.
2
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Pick the right program for your market, experience level, and budget.
3
Prepare your edge
Build a strategy that respects drawdown caps and hits Evaluation Goals without overexposing.
4
Pass and grow
Follow the rules, trade consistently, and work toward your first Performance Reward.
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Learn Prop Trading Fundamentals
If you are new to prop trading, our educational materials cover the essential concepts you need to understand before purchasing your first challenge. Learn how simulated funded evaluation accounts work, what drawdown limits mean in practice, how Reward Coefficients are calculated, and what strategies are most effective for evaluation-based trading. Understanding these fundamentals significantly increases your chances of passing your challenge and becoming a funded Participant.
Trading Strategy Guides
- Scalping: Techniques for capturing small price movements with high-frequency trades. Best practices for execution speed and risk management on short timeframes.
- Day Trading: Strategies for opening and closing positions within a single session. Includes guides on market structure analysis, volume profiling, and intraday momentum trading.
- Swing Trading: Approaches for holding positions over multiple days to capture medium-term trends. Covers chart patterns, Fibonacci analysis, and position sizing for multi-day holds.
- News Trading: How to trade around economic releases, central bank decisions, and geopolitical events. Includes an economic calendar integration guide.
Risk Management Essentials
Risk management is the foundation of successful prop trading. Our knowledge base covers position sizing formulas, drawdown management strategies, the psychology of loss recovery, and practical frameworks for staying within NEOM Funded challenge limits. We also provide guides on using our free trading calculators for precise risk calculations before every trade.
Platform Tutorials
Detailed guides for setting up and using MetaTrader 5. From basic order placement to advanced charting and Expert Advisor configuration, our tutorials help you master your chosen platform before your evaluation begins.
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