Trading Basics
Self-Funded Futures Trading Guide
Trading with Your Own Capital
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Trading Basics
Start here: how futures markets work, contracts and accounts, choosing a platform, demo trading, prop firms and self-funded trading before your first trade.
20 lessons
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Trading Basics
Risk Management for Self-Funded Traders
Protecting Your Capital
Trading Basics
Top 5 Futures Brokers 2024-2025
Comprehensive Broker Comparison
Trading Basics
What is a Prop Firm?
How prop firm evaluations, funded accounts, profit splits, and drawdown rules actually work, and what it takes to pass.
Trading Basics
Prop Firm Rules Explained
How drawdown limits, daily loss caps, and trading restrictions actually work, and what gets a funded account terminated.
Trading BasicsBeginner
What Is Trading? A Beginner’s Guide
What trading really means, how it differs from investing, the main markets, and why most beginners lose money before learning risk management.
Trading BasicsIntermediate
Understanding Financial Markets: The Fundamentals
How markets set prices, who the major players are, and what actually drives price movements.
Trading BasicsExpert
CFDs vs Futures: The Key Differences
Compare CFDs and Futures trading to understand which instrument better suits your trading style, capital, and goals. Learn the pros and cons…
Trading BasicsIntermediate
Who Moves the Markets? Understanding Market Participants
A look at who actually moves markets: retail traders, institutions, hedge funds, and market makers, and why it matters for your trades.
Trading BasicsBeginner
Introduction to American Index Futures: NQ, ES, YM Explained
NQ, ES, and YM are the three index futures contracts we trade, and why they suit SMC and Order Flow analysis.