Gidsen voor futures- en prop-firm-traders
Wat je moet weten om evaluaties te halen, payouts te krijgen en met data beter te worden: geen hype, uitgewerkte cijfers.
Deze gids is beschikbaar in het Engels en Spaans.
AI trading journal: ask Claude about your own futures trades
A chatbot that reads your real journal answers questions a spreadsheet never will. What to ask it, what to keep away from it and how to connect it in one minute.
How prop firm payouts work: rules, buffer and withdrawals
Getting paid by a prop firm comes with fine print: minimum days, a buffer you cannot touch and a liquidation threshold that does not drop when you withdraw. Every rule explained, with a worked example.
Funded (PA) accounts explained: sim vs live, rules, first weeks
Passing the evaluation does not hand you capital: it hands you an account, almost always simulated, with new rules and the cushion back at its minimum. What it really is, what changes and how to survive the first month.
How to calculate R multiples in futures: ES, MES, NQ and MNQ
R is what you risk at entry; the R multiple is how many times that risk you won or lost. It is the only unit that compares an MES trade with an NQ trade and a 50K account with a 150K one.
MAE and MFE explained: what they say about your stops and exits
P&L tells you how each trade ended; MAE and MFE tell you what happened along the way. With those two numbers you can see whether your stop is wider than it needs to be and how much of the move you leave on the table.
Best times to trade ES and NQ: the futures day, hour by hour
ES and NQ trade almost 23 hours a day, but no two hours are alike. What usually happens in each stretch, how it maps to European time and why your best hours are decided by your journal.
Trading journal template in Excel: columns and formulas
Twenty columns, a dozen formulas and two pivot tables: everything a spreadsheet needs to measure your futures trading, and the four places where it stops being enough.
Trailing drawdown explained: intraday vs end-of-day, and your real cushion
Trailing drawdown is not a fixed number: it chases your balance. Knowing when it rises and when it stops is the difference between passing an evaluation and blowing it with a winning trade.
A risk plan for prop firm accounts: the risk ladder and cutting size after losses
Risking "1% of the account" means nothing when the real capital is the cushion to the drawdown. The risk ladder decides size before the session, so you do not decide it in the heat of the moment.
The prop firm consistency rule: how it is calculated and how to plan your payout
Best day divided by total profit: that is the rule that delays a payout after one big day. The formula, a minimum-profit table and how to track it every session.
Futures position sizing: contracts, ticks and risk per trade
Contracts = risk ÷ (stop ticks × tick value). It is one division, yet almost nobody does it before entering. Here it is with real micro and mini examples, commissions included.
How to keep a futures trading journal (and what to measure)
What to log on every trade, what actually to measure (expectancy, profit factor, R, drawdown) and a 5-minute daily review routine you will not abandon.
How to export your NinjaTrader 8 trades (and what to do with them)
Trade Performance, the Executions tab or the SQLite database: what each NinjaTrader 8 export gives you, how to do it step by step and what to check before trusting the numbers.
Tag your setups and measure expectancy: how to know what actually works
A journal without setups measures your aggregate luck. With a closed list of tags and expectancy in R, it measures which specific idea makes you money and which takes it, with the sample size needed to believe it.
Micros vs minis: when to use each in a prop firm account
Ten micros equal one mini in exposure, but not in commissions, granularity or what your cushion can take. The choice is not about courage: it is arithmetic on the drawdown.
ES vs NQ correlation: why trading both at once is not diversification
A long in ES and another in NQ are not two ideas: they are the same idea with double the risk against the daily limit. How to read a correlation, with which window, and what to do before opening the second position.
Economic calendar for futures traders: which events move each market
FOMC, CPI, payrolls, EIA inventories, USDA reports, CFTC positioning: every market has its fixed dates. Which ones matter for what you trade, when they come out and what to do around them.
Wat futures beweegt, vóór de opening
Maandag, woensdag en vrijdag: de gebeurtenissen van de dag die ES, NQ, CL en GC bewegen, met tijdstip, en een korte tekst over trading en funded accounts. Geschreven door een trader die meerdere accounts tegelijk handelt.
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