Trading Strategies on Prop Firms
Detailed compatibility guides for 30 trading strategies across 45 prop firms. Find out exactly which rules apply to your style.
Prop Firm Specific
Specific strategies and risk management approaches designed to pass prop firm challenges while managing drawdown.
A disciplined approach of taking only one high-conviction trade per day to manage risk on prop challenges.
Running multiple funded accounts simultaneously — understanding prop firm rules on account stacking and scaling.
Using conservative risk (0.5-1% per trade) over time to compound gains while safely staying within prop firm drawdown rules.
Execution Style
Taking many small trades to capture tiny price movements, typically holding positions for seconds to minutes.
Using automated Expert Advisors or trading bots to execute strategies without manual intervention.
Automatically copying the trades of another trader's account.
Placing buy and sell orders at regular intervals above and below a set price to profit from volatility.
Using algorithms to execute hundreds or thousands of trades per second to capture tiny inefficiencies.
Hold Duration
Holding trades for days to weeks to capture medium-term price swings.
Opening and closing all positions within the same trading day, no overnight holds.
Holding trades for weeks to months to capture large macro moves.
Holding positions open overnight and through weekends — critical to understand prop firm swap and weekend policies.
Market Approach
Entering in the direction of established trends and holding until the trend reverses.
Entering trades when price breaks through key support/resistance levels with momentum.
Trading the assumption that prices will revert to their historical average after extreme moves.
Riding strong price momentum — entering after a move has started and exiting before it fades.
Borrowing in a low-interest currency to buy a high-interest currency, profiting from the rate differential.
Buying at support and selling at resistance when price is moving sideways within a defined range.
Instrument Focused
Trading gold specifically — strategies, timing, and risk management for XAUUSD on prop firm accounts.
Currency pair trading strategies on prop firm accounts — majors, minors, and exotics.
Trading Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies on prop firm accounts.
Trading stock indices like the US30, NAS100 and S&P500 on prop firm accounts.
Analysis Method
Making decisions based purely on price movements, candlestick patterns, and chart structure — no indicators.
Analysing real-time buy/sell orders and volume to anticipate where price will move next.
Using Fibonacci retracement and extension levels to identify entry, exit, and target zones.