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Prop FirmsJune 2025 · 7 min readFEATURED

The Best Trading Journal for Prop Firm Traders in 2025

Most journals track your trades. The best ones track your mind. Here's what separates a good trading journal from one that actually helps funded traders pass challenges.

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FTMO9 min

7 FTMO Challenge Tips That 90% of Traders Ignore

Your strategy might be good enough to pass FTMO. Your mental state on your worst day might not be. Here are the 7 things that separate traders who pass from those who don't.

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Psychology6 min

Revenge Trading: How to Detect It Before It Destroys Your Account

Revenge trading is responsible for more funded account failures than any bad strategy. Learn how to recognize the patterns — and how to stop before the damage is done.

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Prop Firms8 min

Why 80% of Funded Traders Fail (And How to Be in the Other 20%)

Prop firm companies release their data every quarter. The pattern is always the same. It's not the strategy that fails — it's the psychology on bad days.

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Journaling5 min

5 Trading Journal Mistakes That Are Costing You Money

Keeping a journal that only logs entry and exit prices is better than nothing — but just barely. Here's what your journal is missing that actually builds edge.

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Risk Management7 min

How to Recover From a Drawdown Without Blowing Your Account

The drawdown isn't the problem. What you do after is. Most traders make their second-worst mistake immediately after their worst one. Here's the framework to break the cycle.

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