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Getting Funded Course

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Getting funded is one of the most appealing paths for traders today—but it’s also one of the most misunderstood.

This course was designed to cut through the hype and help you build a realistic, sustainable path to passing prop firm challenges and holding onto your funded account long term.

A Beginner’s Guide to Prop Firms

In this guide, we’ll break down what prop firms are, how the funding process works, what the risks are, and how to decide if getting funded is the right move for you.
What Is a Prop Firm?
How Prop Firm Challenges Work
What Happens After You Get Funded?
The Truth About "100K" Funded Accounts
When Getting Funded Makes Sense

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The Complete Guide to Getting Funded

One of the biggest obstacles new traders face after finally reaching profitability, is being undercapitalized. With this in mind, here are some practical step by step ways to increase your chance of becoming funded, and sizing up your trading to be more significant.
8 step guide to getting funded

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How Long Does It Actually Take to Get Funded?

Getting funded is one of the biggest goals for aspiring traders — but most people underestimate the time, effort, and setbacks involved in getting there. This article outlines a realistic timeline, based on real-world data from funded traders and trading communities.
A breakdown of what the journey typically looks like
Why most traders don’t pass on their first try
What traders can do if they fail a challenge

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Why Most Traders Fail at Funding Programs—and What to Do Instead

Funding programs have surged in popularity, offering aspiring traders the chance to access large capital accounts after passing a skills-based evaluation. At first glance, this seems like an ideal shortcut to financial freedom. Most traders who dive into these programs do so prematurely, and the majority end up failing. Here's why, and more importantly, what you can do differently to increase your odds of long-term success.
The Allure of Getting Funded
The High Cost of Inexperience
When Are You Actually Ready?
What You Should Do Instead

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How to Choose a Legit Prop Firm

This guide outlines five major red flags that every trader should know before committing to a prop trading challenge. By recognizing these warning signs, traders can reduce the risk of wasting time, effort, and money on unreliable firms.
5 tips for choosing a legit prop firms

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Trailing Drawdown in Prop Trading

Trailing drawdown is one of the most misunderstood (and most commonly failed) rules in prop firm trading challenges. While many traders focus only on profit targets and daily loss limits, it’s often the drawdown rule that quietly disqualifies them — even when they’re in profit.
What trailing drawdown means
The difference between trailing drawdown vs static drawdown
Why prop firms use trailing drawdown in challenges
How to manage it so you don’t lose your account
Which prop firm account types to choose based on drawdown rules

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Instant Funding vs Evaluation Programs

In this guide, we’ll compare instant funding versus evaluation models side by side, break down the hidden costs, and show why evaluation accounts usually provide significantly more trading capital for the same fee.
what is instant funding?
what is an evaluation program?
Why Evaluation Programs Offer Better Value

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If you missed the original video, I’ll give you the short version here: discipline and emotional control are certainly required in trading, but they’re not the hardest part of becoming profitable.

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Leveraged trading in foreign currency contracts or other off-exchange products on margin carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for everyone. You may lose more than you invest. Price and performance data is provided for informational purposes only and is not investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

There is a significant degree of risk involved in trading securities. With respect to foreign exchange trading, there is considerable risk exposure, including but not limited to, leverage, creditworthiness, limited regulatory protection and market volatility that may substantially affect the price, or liquidity of a currency or currency pair. CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. The vast majority of retail client accounts lose money when trading in CFDs. You should consider whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
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