Why most evaluations fail
The five failures that end futures evaluations, in the order they happen: oversized entries, the trailing peak, no personal stop, flat time and revenge trading.
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Risk management: articles
Risk management for prop futures accounts: position sizing, Max Loss Limit planning, daily loss control and the buffer, with StarTrading catalogue numbers.
Daily loss limit explained for beginners
What a daily loss limit is on a futures prop account, soft versus hard, the amount by size on each StarTrading account, and how to set your own stop under it.
Intraday vs end-of-day trailing drawdown
How an intraday trailing drawdown differs from an end-of-day one, a worked day where the same trades fail one and not the other, and which accounts use each.
Micros vs minis: sizing a 50K account
Tick values of ES, NQ, CL and GC against their micros, and how to size positions on a 50K prop account from the room to the Max Loss Limit rather than the size.