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Choosing a Prop Firm
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What Account Size Should You Actually Buy?
Bigger is not better and cheapest is not safest. A method for picking the account size your strategy can actually trade, in three questions.
Choosing a firmProp Firms for Part-Time Traders: Rules That Fit Around a Job
If you can only trade two sessions a week, time limits and minimum trading days decide everything. How to pick a programme that fits a real schedule.
Choosing a firmOil and Commodities on a Funded Account: What Changes
Commodities bring contract rollovers, inventory-report volatility and wider spreads. The three things that catch out traders coming from FX.
Choosing a firmProp Firms for Beginners: What Actually Matters on Your First Account
The right first evaluation is cheap to fail, generous on drawdown and free of deadlines. A guide to picking one without wasting three attempts learning that.
Choosing a firmProp Firms for Algo Traders: What to Confirm Before You Deploy
Running an EA on a funded account is normal. Getting it reviewed and voided is also normal. Seven things to confirm in writing before you deploy.
Choosing a firmProp Firms for Swing Traders: Weekend Rules and Wide Stops
Swing trading needs three things from a prop firm: weekend holding, no news restriction and balance-based drawdown. Two of the three are commonly missing.
Choosing a firmWhat Actually Makes a Prop Firm Challenge Easy to Pass?
"Easiest" is not the lowest target — it is the best ratio of target to drawdown, with no clock. Five variables that decide difficulty, ranked.
Choosing a firmProp Firms for Scalpers: The 6 Rules That Make or Break It
Scalping survives or dies on execution and rule wording, not on the growth target. What to verify before you buy an evaluation as a scalper.
Choosing a firmSpreads and Commissions: The Cost That Decides Tight Targets
Execution cost is a fixed tax on every trade and it scales with frequency. How to work out what spread is really costing you against a growth target.
Choosing a firmCrypto on a Funded Account: Weekend Risk and Volatility Sizing
Crypto trades when the rest of your account's rules assume markets are closed. What that means for weekend exposure, sizing and daily loss measurement.
Choosing a firmMT5 Prop Firms: What the Platform Actually Changes
MetaTrader 5 is the default for a reason. What it gives a funded trader over MT4 and web platforms, and the three settings to configure on day one.
Choosing a firmTrading Indices on a Funded Account: Gaps, Swaps and Session Risk
Index CFDs behave differently to FX in the three ways a funded account cares about most: overnight gaps, swap costs and cash-session liquidity.
Choosing a firmForex on a Funded Account: Pairs, Sessions and Spread Drag
FX is the default market for funded accounts. Which pairs suit a rule-bound account, which sessions to trade, and how much spread costs against your target.
Choosing a firmTrading Gold on a Funded Account: Spreads, Stops and Daily Limits
XAUUSD moves enough in an hour to breach a daily limit. What to check about spread, leverage and stop sizing before you take gold onto a funded account.
Choosing a firmProp Firms by Country: What Actually Changes Where You Live
Your location affects payment rails, verification and tax far more than the trading rules. What to check before buying from outside a firm's home market.
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