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For Traders - How To Pass A Trading Challenge in 2024
For Traders - How To Pass A Trading Challenge in 2024
a Trading
Challenge
in 2024
Everything you need to know about proprietary
trading challenges, how to pass them and get funded.
Contents 5
1—Contents
Understanding Proprietary Trading Firms 7
Swing or Intraday 47
Backtesting 51
Psychology 55
Closing Remarks 65
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Understanding Proprietary Trading Firms 7
1—Understanding
Proprietary Trading
Firms
Welcome to an exciting exploration of proprietary trading and
the many opportunities it offers. In this chapter, we will guide
you through the details of proprietary trading firms, explaining
their operations and highlighting the benefits our firm provides
for traders like yourself. Get ready to discover the untapped
potential of proprietary trading and how our firm can support
your trading journey.
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Understanding Proprietary Trading Firms 8
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Our Firm’s Operations 9
2—Our Firm’s
Operations
Successful proprietary firms excel in risk management and
effective capital allocation. Our firm prioritizes strict risk con
trols and employs advanced risk evaluation techniques. This
strategy not only protects the capital but also enables traders
to explore new opportunities and improve their returns. We
provide a secure and stable environment that allows traders to
focus on their trading goals.
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Our Firm’s Operations 10
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Unlocking Your Trading Potential with For Traders 11
3—Unlocking Your
Trading Potential with
For Traders
Undoubtedly, we all embark on our trading journeys fueled by
similar dreams and ambitions. The enticing promise of autono
my, wealth, luxurious vacations, and the possibility of earning
millions from a sunny beach. This vision serves as a powerful
motivation as we take our first steps, but the reality of trading
is often more complex.
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Unlocking Your Trading Potential with For Traders 12
The doors of the For Traders are always open, inviting you to
step in at any moment. But before you take the leap, immerse
yourself in this e-book, where we will provide you with the
precise blueprint to triumph over our challenge. Is there any
other proprietary trading firm that offers the same? You tell us.
4.3%
these pages condense
years of expertise into just
75 concise pages. Read
through to the end, and you
will undoubtedly navigate
your upcoming challenge Based on our data, an average full-time trader has a
with ease. monthly profit rate of 4.3%. With our 90% profit split,
that means taking home at least $2,150. And with our
Scaling Plan, the sky is the only limit.
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Mastering Our Challenge: Understanding the Rules 13
4—Mastering
Our Challenge:
Understanding the
Rules
In this chapter, our goal is to outline the regulations we have
established for our trading challenge and explain their under
lying objectives. You may be curious about the feasibility of
successfully completing the challenge, and we firmly believe
that the 710% profit target is attainable.
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Mastering Our Challenge: Understanding the Rules 14
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Key Ingredients to Conquer the Challenge 15
5—Key Ingredients
to Conquer the
Challenge
What elements are crucial for succeeding in the challenge? The
critical, most important factor is definitely discipline. Without
discipline, even experienced traders would struggle in the
challenge. You need to have discipline right from the start,
from the moment you make your first trade.
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Key Ingredients to Conquer the Challenge 16
Before you begin the challenge, there are certain things that
are necessary. These include having trading experience and
specific elements such as:
The good news is that this ebook will help you develop all
these important aspects of your trading performance. So, let’s
get started!
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Keep in mind
6—Why Do Many
Traders Stumble?
Lack of Preparedness
The main reason, and the most important one, is a lack of pre-
paredness. Many traders jump into a challenge without proper
preparation. They don’t have the necessary mental, technical,
and financial readiness.
Nervousness
Another important factor that affects traders during a chal-
lenge is nervousness. There is no magical solution to staying
calm while trading because it is inherently a stressful environ-
ment. The only way to combat nervousness is through your
trading experience, nothing more.
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Why Do Many Traders Stumble? 20
Negative Emotions
This aspect is extremely important and deserves your atten-
tion. Emotions and psychology play a significant role, account-
ing for 90% of your trading performance. Greed, fear, and
impatience have the power to undermine your challenge in a
matter of minutes.
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Why Do Many Traders Stumble? 21
Hasty Approach
This is a common issue. Many trad-
ers enter the challenge with the
mindset of wanting to conquer it as
quickly as possible, ideally within
5 days, so they don’t stress them-
selves in the following weeks.
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Why Do Many Traders Stumble? 22
We’re not asserting that making money with a 5% risk per trade
is impossible—it can happen. However, this approach leans
more towards gambling than trading, and a significant majority
99% of traders on our platform have ended up in negative
territory. Despite a single payout of, for example, $5000, they
often exhaust it on additional challenges, only to burn through
them before receiving another payout.
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The Anatomy of Grave Mistakes During a Challenge 23
7—The Anatomy
of Grave Mistakes
During a Challenge
Let’s explore some of the most significant mistakes through a
real-world example of one of our traders at the For Traders and
his first trading challenge. Let’s begin!
To make matters
worse, he was also
going through a
painful breakup,
leaving him emo-
tionally vulnerable.
It was the worst
possible environment
for a beginner trader.
Nevertheless, he
started the challenge
with a 1% risk expo-
sure per trade, an
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Always stick to your plan
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The Anatomy of Grave Mistakes During a Challenge 26
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Mastering the Art of Trading Journaling 27
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Mastering the Art of Trading Journaling 28
Applying Journaling
to Trading
Journaling can be implemented
in your trading routine in two
distinct ways: noting your
emotions during live trading
and documenting the technical
aspects of your trades. Let’s
begin with emotions.
Why did I close the trade before it hit my target profit? Did
fear that the trade might not reach my target profit and reverse
direction, hitting my stop loss or break-even point instead,
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The first question that came to mind was, ‘Why can’t we trade
in accordance with our plan? Is it greed?’ The candid answer
was yes. So, the next inquiry was, ‘How do we tackle this? Can
we simply switch off our greed?’ The hard truth is no, as greed
is an intrinsic part of human behavior. However, we can control
it to limit its impact on our trading. But how? One possible solu-
tion could be reducing the risk on subsequent trades for the
day to curtail potential losses. Or, we could decide to cease
trading for the day.
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Mastering the Art of Trading Journaling 32
The specific conditions from your trading plan that were satis-
fied, prompting a particular trade.
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Mastering the Art of Trading Journaling 33
It’s important to record not only your backtesting but also live
trading performance. Some trading plans might yield excellent
results in backtesting but falter during live trading. For in-
stance, you may have a strategy based on entering when a 1M
bullish or bearish engulfing appears in a target area.
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Mastering the Art of Trading Journaling 34
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Streamlining Your Trading Journal 35
9—Streamlining Your
Trading Journal
As time progresses, you might discover that maintaining a daily
journal is not exactly the most exciting task. As traders at For
Traders, we’ve experienced this first-hand and have endeav-
ored to provide a solution: An automated trading journal.
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Streamlining Your Trading Journal 36
The win rate is the second critical factor for assessing your
trading profitability. It’s a simple calculation where you quantify
all your trades and express the proportion of successful trades.
Our automated trading journal conveniently undertakes this
task for you.
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Streamlining Your Trading Journal 37
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Streamlining Your Trading Journal 38
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Risk management is key
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Crafting Your Trading Plan 41
10—Crafting Your
Trading Plan
A trading plan can be described in various ways, but for the
purpose of our guide, we’ll define a trading plan as a technical
blueprint that directs your actions during live trading or back-
testing. It usually consists of elements such as:
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Crafting Your Trading Plan 42
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Crafting Your Trading Plan 43
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Crafting Your Trading Plan 44
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Formulating Your Trading Strategy 45
11—Formulating Your
Trading Strategy
With a trading plan in place and an understanding of the im-
portance of journaling, it’s now time to compile a guide that will
help you craft a comprehensive trading strategy. This strategy
will be key in achieving profitable trans and paging the fading
challenge. Let’s dive in!
Risk Management
In this section, your journal entries should serve as a mirror,
reflecting your personal rules for trading. These could include:
‘If I achieve two consecutive profits, I refrain from trading for
the remainder of the day,’ or ‘After three successive losses, I
stop trading for the day.’ You might also decide to lower your
risk exposure after two wins or increase it following two losses.
And so forth.
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Formulating Your Trading Strategy 46
Psychology
In addition, it’s essential to include
some psychological guidelines in
your trading strategy. Adhering to
these rules will help you successful-
ly navigate your funding challenge
and manage live trading on your funded account. For instance:
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Swing or Intraday 47
12—Swing or Intraday
At a certain point in your trading journey, you will need to
decide between two trading styles: Swing or Intraday. While
being a scalper is an option, we’ll discuss that later. Most trad-
ers typically fall into either the Swing or Intraday category. The
main distinction between these two styles lies in their ap-
proach. Swing trading involves fewer trades, primarily utilizing
higher time frames such as 15 minutes and above, and holding
trades for an extended period.
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Swing or Intraday 48
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Which Symbol to Trade 49
13—Which Symbol
to Trade
When devising a trading strategy, a pivotal question arises:
which symbol should I trade? The answer isn’t straightforward,
but we can offer some insights. Over 90% of traders who
successfully navigate our challenge and receive payouts typ-
ically trade one of these three symbols: EURUSD, USDJPY, or
XAUUSD. Additional symbols commonly traded by our Funded
Traders include Dow Jones, NAS100, and GBPUSD.
Nevertheless, this
doesn’t imply that
trading EURGBP or
SPX500 will render you
unprofitable. Quite the
contrary, profitability
isn’t strictly determined
by the pair you choose.
While the pair isn’t
the sole determining
factor, it still holds
significance.
Therefore, we recom-
mend experimenting with as many pairs as possible initially
and then narrowing down your focus to 13 that align best with
your entry criteria and patterns, ultimately offering the highest
win rate or Risk-Reward Ratio (RRR.
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Which Symbol to Trade 50
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Backtesting 51
14—Backtesting
The components we’ve discussed thus far form the founda-
tional elements of your trading strategy before you embark on
any trading challenge. This strategy, along with your trading
plan, serve as a reliable guide, instilling confidence when you
trade live under stressful conditions. They represent a tried-
and-tested approach, a strategy you have validated through
extensive backtesting and the proven profitability of which you
have witnessed.
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Backtesting 52
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Risk Management and Essential Guidelines 53
15—Risk Management
and Essential
Guidelines
In this chapter, we’re going to share some invaluable rules that
have served us well in successfully navigating various chal-
lenges. The first rule we’d like to underscore is the significance
of proper risk management. Grounded in our personal expe-
rience (although it might not universally apply), we’ve found
a risk management method that keeps us entirely composed
during funding challenges.
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Risk Management and Essential Guidelines 54
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Psychology 55
16—Psychology
Tackling Emotions
At the heart of our discussion is the formidable challenge that
turns profitable trading in a live environment into a strenuous
task: emotions.
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Psychology 56
Navigating Fear
Another prevalent emotion in trading is fear. Fear can consid-
erably dent your profitability as it might deter you from capital-
izing on high-quality setups following a few losses or dissuade
you from entering
another profitable trade
after a winning streak.
Overcoming fear is not
a simple task, and total
avoidance may not even
be feasible. However,
there are strategies
you can leverage to
curtail fear.
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Psychology 57
Moreover, your trading plan itself can help confront the fear of
losses. When you possess a well-defined trading plan that you
trust, it offers a sense of security and minimizes fear. Knowing
that your plan has undergone thorough testing and boasts a
positive expectancy can instill you with the confidence to exe-
cute trades without being excessively swayed by fear.
Managing Overtrading
Another common issue encountered during the funding
challenge involves two interconnected problems: hastiness
and overtrading.
Frankly, this strategy seldom works, and it’s more likely that
this approach, coupled with risking too much on a single trade,
will swiftly deplete your funding challenge. Even if you were to
conquer the challenge with just one trade, it would bear a clos-
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Psychology 58
Guidelines for
Maintaining Emotional
Stability
The worst thing you can do is
resign from your job to undertake
the challenge. This approach never
works for a simple reason: it places
double the pressure on you. Not only do you face the possibili-
ty of failing the challenge, but you’ve also already quit your job,
meaning if you don’t secure the trading capital, you’ll have no
other source of income.
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Decrease Risk Per Trade: When you adjust your risk per trade
from 0.5% to 0.1%, your
trading experience will
undergo a significant
transformation. Always
remember that trading
should be approached
objectively and without
substantial emotional
attachment. Consider
which scenario is more
likely to foster an objec-
tive state of mind: risk-
ing a significant portion
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Learn from your past trades
“Journaling enables
you to evaluate the
efficacy of your
trading plan under
real-world pressures.”
Psychology 62
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Five Pillars of Triumphing in the Funding Challenge 63
17—Five Pillars of
Triumphing in the
Funding Challenge
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Five Pillars of Triumphing in the Funding Challenge 64
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Closing Remarks 65
18—Closing Remarks
As we draw our e-book, “How to Triumph in the Funding
Challenge,” to a close, we express our profound apprecia-
tion for your companionship on this insightful journey. We
sincerely hope that the strategies and advice imparted here
will serve you well as you undertake the enthralling For
Traders Challenge.
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Closing Remarks 66
Once again, our deepest thanks, and may you always find
fortune in the fluctuations of the markets!
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