Prop Trading Guides
Start at zero or sharpen an edge — structured, no-hype guides to challenges, rules, risk, payouts, and even launching your own firm.
How Funded Trading Actually Works
Challenges, funded accounts and profit splits explained from zero — the full lifecycle of a prop program.
Challenge Types: Instant, 1-Step, 2-Step & 3-Step
Which evaluation path fits you — and why an Instant Funding account is a completely different decision than a 2-Step.
Trading Rules That Trip People Up
Trailing drawdown, consistency rules and news-trading limits — the fine print that fails most traders.
Position Sizing & Risk on a Funded Account
A repeatable framework for lot size, daily loss limits and surviving the drawdown intraday.
Getting Paid: Payout Cycles & On-Chain Proofs
First-payout timing, split changes, and how to verify a firm’s payouts yourself on the blockchain via Rise.
Spotting a Firm That Might Stop Paying
The warning signs — pricing that’s too good, opaque rules, drying-up payouts — before you risk a challenge fee.
Comparing Firms Like an Analyst
Normalise pricing, weight the rules, and build your own product-level scorecard across any set of firms.
Start a Prop Firm: What It Actually Takes
The real steps, vendors and costs to launch a firm — what a platform provider includes, and what you still have to source.