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Risk Management

How to Calculate Position Size in Forex

Calculate forex lot size from your planned USD loss and stop distance, with clear XAUUSD and EURUSD examples and a free position-size calculator.

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Trading Discipline

Trading Discipline Checklist for Prop Firm Traders

Use a simple before-session, pre-trade, post-loss and end-of-day discipline checklist with a clear XAUUSD example for prop-firm traders.

Performance Analytics

Trading Expectancy Calculator: Check Your Average Result per Trade

Calculate historical trading expectancy from your winning trades, losing trades, average win, and average loss using a clear USD example.

Performance Analytics

Trading Performance Metrics: How to Read Your Numbers Together

Learn how to read win rate, average win and loss, profit factor, expectancy, drawdown, and your equity curve using one simple XAUUSD example.

Prop Firm Expenses and ROI

Prop Firm Payout Rules: What to Check Before Requesting a Payout

Check prop firm payout rules, eligibility conditions, profit share, fees, and account changes before you submit a funded account payout request.

Prop Firm Rules

Prop Firm Rules: What to Check Before You Buy a Challenge

Learn how to read prop firm rules, compare loss limits and restrictions, and build a one-page rule sheet before you buy a challenge.

Trading Journaling

Trading Journal Template for Prop Firm Traders

Use this practical trading journal template to record XAUUSD and forex setups, session context, rule compliance, emotions, screenshots, and review notes.

Trading Journaling

Monthly Trading Review Template: Compare Your Weeks

Copy a short monthly trading review sheet, compare four weekly notes, and see a filled XAUUSD example that keeps your plan-following separate from P&L.

Trading Journaling

Weekly Trading Review Template: What to Check Each Week

Use a simple weekly trading review template to check your trades, rule-following and one habit to test next week. See a filled-in XAUUSD example.

Prop Firm Rules

Are You Ready for a Prop Firm Challenge? Check Before You Pay

Before you pay for a prop firm challenge, check the exact rules and your own trading records. Use a simple readiness worksheet and XAUUSD example.

General Forex Education

Forex Trading for Beginners: What to Learn Before a Prop Firm Challenge

New to forex? Learn what a pair is, how trade risk works, and what to practise before considering a prop-firm challenge. Includes a simple example and next steps.

Risk Management

Forex Risk Management: What to Check Before a Trade

Plan risk for each forex trade, check your daily loss room, and understand what a stop-loss can and cannot do. See a clear fictional XAUUSD example.

AI Trading Coaching

How AI Finds Patterns in Your Trading Journal

See how to check an AI finding against your own trade records, with a simple XAUUSD example and clear limits on what a pattern can tell you.

AI Trading Coaching

How AI Can Help You Review Trading Discipline

Use your own trading journal to see where a decision changed. A simple XAUUSD example shows why following your plan matters more than one win or loss.

Tools and Calculators

Consistency Rule Calculator for Prop Firm Traders

Calculate a best-day or best-trade consistency percentage in USD, understand what changes the result, and compare it with your prop firm's exact rule.

AI Trading Coaching

AI Trading Coach for Prop Firm Traders: Check the Answer Against Your Journal

An AI trading coach can help you review trades you recorded. See an XAUUSD journal example, check the records behind an answer, and learn what the AI cannot know.

Prop Firm Expenses and ROI

Prop Firm ROI Calculator: Count Every Fee and Payout

Add your prop firm fees, resets and payouts in USD. See a simple ROI example that counts failed challenges too, and learn what the number leaves out.

Trading Discipline

How to Avoid Overtrading in a Prop Firm Challenge

Feel the urge to take another XAUUSD trade? Check your setup, session, confirmation and size before entry, then review any change without judging by P&L.

Trading Journaling

P&L Calendar for Traders: Read the Day Behind the Colour

See how to review a trading P&L calendar using a fictional XAUUSD week. Check the trades behind each day before judging your plan from profit or loss.

Trading Discipline

How to Write a Trading Rulebook You Can Actually Use

Write a trading rulebook you can check before an XAUUSD trade. See a filled prop-firm example, a simple template, and a way to review rule breaks.

Trading Psychology

How to Stop Revenge Trading After a Loss

Learn how to spot revenge trading after an XAUUSD loss, interrupt the urge to recover money, and check the next decision against your written plan.

Trading Psychology

How to Track Your Trading Emotions

Use one XAUUSD trade to record your feeling, urge, plan and action. Then review several entries without guessing that emotion caused the result.

Trading Discipline

Trading Discipline for Prop Firm Traders: Follow Your Plan, Then Review It

You do not need a perfect trading day. Use a simple plan, decision check and journal review to see whether your XAUUSD trades followed your own rules.

Trading Psychology

Trading Psychology for Prop Firm Traders: Notice What Changes Your Decisions

Feel rushed after a loss or a missed XAUUSD move? Compare your next decision with your trading plan and review the pattern without judging the result alone.

Trading Journaling

Funded Account Trading Journal: What Extra Should You Record?

Already keeping a trading journal? See what to add for a funded account: your exact rule source, pre-trade check, XAUUSD example and weekly review questions.

Trading Journaling

Prop Firm Trading Journal: What to Track and How to Review It

Build a simple prop firm trading journal, record an XAUUSD trade, and turn your entries into one useful weekly lesson.

Trading Journaling

What Should You Record in a Trading Journal?

Choose useful trading journal fields without making a long form. Follow one XAUUSD example to record your plan, action, result, and what to review next.

Risk Management

Daily Drawdown Calculator: Check Your Prop Firm Buffer

Use your prop firm's official daily floor and current equity to calculate the buffer left before the limit, with simple USD examples and rule checks.

Trading Psychology

How Emotions Affect Trading Decisions: A Practical Review

See how fear, frustration, FOMO, confidence, and boredom can change a forex trading decision—and how to review the change against your own plan.

Prop Firm Expenses and ROI

Prop Firm Expense Tracking: What to Record and Review

Track challenge purchases, renewals, activation costs, platform fees, refunds, and payouts in one simple USD expense log for clearer prop-firm reviews.

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