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Short guides that explain the rules behind our reviews and calculators.
Prop firm challenges
- Prop firm challenges
Futures vs forex prop firms: rules, costs and platforms compared
Futures and forex/CFD prop firms both sell evaluations, but pricing, drawdown rules, platforms and trading hours differ. What to compare before you choose.
- Prop firm challenges
How to pass a prop firm challenge: risk, rules and realistic odds
A practical plan for prop firm challenges: risk per trade, daily limits, minimum days, consistency rules and how to estimate your real chance of passing.
- Prop firm challenges
Prop firm drawdown rules explained: daily, max, static and trailing
How prop firms measure daily and maximum drawdown — static, trailing and end-of-day trailing — with worked examples and the habits that keep you inside the limits.
Brokers and accounts
- Brokers and accounts
How to check a forex broker’s licence in a regulator’s register
Step by step: find the legal entity behind a broker, look it up in the regulator’s official register, and spot clone firms and weak offshore licences.
- Brokers and accounts
Local payment methods for trading: M-Pesa, Mobile Money, SPEI, mada
How brokers handle local payment methods — M-Pesa, Mobile Money, SPEI and OXXO, mada and Fawry — and what to check about fees, currency and withdrawals.
- Brokers and accounts
Islamic swap-free accounts: how they work and what to check
What a swap-free (Islamic) trading account changes, how brokers replace overnight swaps with other charges, and the conditions to read before you open one.