Guides
Short and computed rather than written to fill a page. Each one takes something the industry states as advice and turns it into a number you can check — what your broker charges, which authority actually licenses it, and whether a challenge is survivable at the risk you trade.
How to pass a prop firm challenge
ComputedNot advice — arithmetic. Your win rate and the firm’s drawdown decide the odds before you pay the fee, and at 1% risk per trade most programmes are already lost.
Where your platform hides what you are paying
Start hereThree places MetaTrader shows your spread, commission and swap, ranked by how much you can trust them — and the two conventions that make people enter a figure ten times too large.
How to check a broker in two minutes
A four-step check against the regulators’ own registers, and the reason it is worth doing: the licence on the website often belongs to a different company from the one holding your money.