How to keep a trading journal that actually improves your results
A practical framework for journaling every trade — what to record, how to review it, and the mistakes that turn a journal into a diary nobody reads.
Read guideSurviving prop-firm drawdown: daily loss vs. trailing max drawdown
The two limits that end most funded accounts, how trailing, static and end-of-day drawdown actually work, and how to trade so you never breach them.
Read guideUnderstanding R-multiples: the only fair way to compare your trades
Why dollars lie, how to express every trade as a multiple of the risk you took, and how R-multiples reveal your real expectancy.
Read guideThe three discipline mistakes that blow prop accounts
Revenge trading, trading the wrong session, and moving your stop — the three behaviors behind most failed accounts, and how to catch each one in your own data.
Read guidePosition sizing for funded accounts, done right
How to turn a fixed risk-per-trade into the correct position size for futures and forex, with worked examples in contracts, ticks and pips.
Read guideTrading sessions explained: when your edge actually shows up
Asia, London and New York — how the trading day is structured, why smart-money setups cluster in specific windows, and how to find your own best hours.
Read guideProp firm consistency rules explained: why your best day can cost you the payout
How consistency rules cap a single day’s share of your profit, the arithmetic that decides whether you are compliant, and why the day that breaks the rule is always already traded.
Read guideProp firm payout rules explained: what actually stands between profit and money
Minimum trading days, qualifying-day thresholds, profit buffers and payout cycles — the requirements that decide when a green funded account can actually be withdrawn from.
Read guideTurn the theory into a habit
Edgekeeper is the journal these guides describe — setups, prop rules, R-multiples and session stats, tracked automatically. Free to start, no card.
On a funded account? Read the rules that end them, firm by firm, in the prop firm rules directory — FTMO, Topstep, Apex, MyFundedFutures and Bulenox.