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Prop Firms
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Read the guideWhat is a prop firm?
How they work, the upside, the risks: everything to know before getting started.
Read the guidePass a prop firm challenge
The strategies, money management and psychology to pass your challenge first try.
Read the guideProp firm: CFD or futures?
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Trading Psychology
FOMO in Trading: Why You Chase Price, and How to Overcome It
One vertical candle, a feed full of gain screenshots, and your plan is gone. Here is how FOMO works, what it really costs, and the concrete method to beat it.
Read the guideWhy you don't follow your trading plan, and how to stick to it
You know your rules by heart, and you still break them at the worst moment. Your trading plan is not the problem: you wrote it calm and you run it under emotion. Here is why that gap exists, what it costs you, and how to close it in 3 steps.
Read the guidePosition sizing psychology: why your trade size keeps creeping up
Just this once, you double up. Then after three wins. Then to win back a loss. Your position size drifts without you ever deciding it, and that drift is what blows up your account. Here is why, what it costs, and how to calculate your size in 4 steps.
Read the guideTaking profits too early in trading: why you do it and how to stop
You bank your winners fast and let your losers drag on. That reflex has a name, the disposition effect, and it eats away at your risk/reward ratio. Here is why you exit before your target, and how to let your winners run.
Read the guideProp Firm Challenge Psychology: Why Pressure Breaks Your Rules and How to Handle It
Behind the target, you overtrade. Close to passing, you freeze. How prop firm challenge pressure makes you break your own rules, and the method to keep your size and your setups all the way to the pass.
Read the guideFear of Pulling the Trigger in Trading: Why You Hesitate and How to Fix It
Hesitating before a trade is not a lack of courage, it is a lack of decisions made in advance. Size, stop, trigger rule: the method to execute your plan without freezing.
Read the guideTrading Journal: Why You Don't Keep One, and How to Actually Keep It
Every trader knows they should keep a trading journal. Almost nobody keeps one past two weeks. It is not a willpower problem, it is a method problem. Here is the method.
Read the guideOverconfidence in Trading: Why You Give It All Back After a Winning Streak
After three wins you double size, widen the stop, and the day is back to zero. Here is why a winning streak is more dangerous than a losing one, and how to get through it.
Read the guideOvertrading: Why You Take Too Many Trades, and How to Stop
Three trades planned, fourteen taken. Here is why your brain keeps pushing you to click, what overtrading really costs, and the concrete method to stop before the one trade too many.
Read the guideLosing Streak in Trading: Why It Happens and How to Recover
Four stops in a row and doubt creeps in. Here is why losing streaks are mathematically inevitable, and the method to get out without blowing up your account.
Read the guideRevenge Trading: Why You Chase Losses, and How to Stop
After a loss your brain does not want to trade, it wants to repair. Here is how revenge trading takes over, what it really costs, and the concrete method to break the spiral.
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