Gold finished the week near $4,070 an ounce, up more than 4%, its strongest weekly gain since August. A weaker dollar, falling yields and a sharp drop in oil did the work....
Tech stocks had their worst day in months on Thursday, November 5, as fears of tougher rules on AI data centers hit chip makers hardest. The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.52% and the...
The Topstep Trading Combine is a paid, simulated evaluation. You trade a practice account, reach a profit target without breaking the loss rules, and, if you pass, move to an Express Funded...
October's CPI report arrives on Tuesday, November 10, at 8:30 a.m. ET, which is 7:00 p.m. in India. It is the last inflation reading before the Federal Reserve meets on December 8...
The US added 165,000 jobs in October, more than double the roughly 65,000 economists expected, and traders now see a December Fed rate hike as likely. Here are the four things worth...
If you just signed up for Topstep and opened TopstepX for the first time, the screen can feel overwhelming. However, once you understand the layout, placing trades and setting stop losses becomes...
Every blueprint in this series says the same thing: "trade only pre-planned setups from your playbook." However, that advice is useless if you don't actually have a playbook. Consequently, this article fixes...
You did it. Five payout cycles completed, roughly $8,000–$9,000 extracted, and now Lucid is moving you to a live account. This is the milestone most funded traders never reach—and yet, almost nobody...
You know the rules. You know the math. However, knowing the rules and having a day-by-day operating structure are two completely different things. Most funded traders fail not because they misunderstand the...
If you read that sentence three times and still weren't 100% sure what you'd actually receive, you're not alone. Prop firm payout language confuses almost everyone at first. However, the math is...
The LucidFlex funded account has the simplest payout system in the futures prop industry: 90/10 split in your favor, no daily loss limit, no consistency rule, no buffer balance, and no fixed...
Congratulations—you passed the LucidFlex evaluation. However, here's the statistic nobody posts on Instagram: most funded traders never take a single payout. They pass the hard part, and then they blow the funded...
The LucidFlex evaluation is one of the most trader-friendly futures evaluations available: one-time fee, no monthly rebilling, no daily loss limit, and no time pressure whatsoever. However, "friendly rules" don't pass accounts—structure...
So you've failed CFD challenges and futures evaluations. Before you spiral into "maybe trading isn't for me," understand something important: you didn't fail because of the products. You failed because you split...