Gen Z and millennial traders looking to take on riskier bets in the market told us why they can't stop opening up prop trading accounts.
Prop trading, short for proprietary trading, refers to trading in financial markets with a firm's money rather than on behalf of clients. Prop trading firms hire traders to speculate on the market and ...
Prop trading and hedge funds are both active investment approaches, but they differ in purpose, structure, and strategy. Proprietary trading (prop trading) involves firms or individual traders using ...
Diving into the world of proprietary trading can be both exhilarating and daunting. Known as “prop trading,” this niche in the financial sector involves firms trading their own capital to net profits ...
Prop trading is a popular method for traders to get funded and boost returns by opening larger positions. Trading using a funded account allows traders to access different capital tiers, often ...
In the high-stakes world of currency trading, particularly within the context of passing proprietary trading firms' evaluations, mastering risk management isn't just a best practice—it's a necessity.
In the dynamic realm of financial markets, the barriers to entry have long posed challenges for potential participants. However, in a notable development, proprietary trading firms have assumed a role ...
In the digital trading world, fortunes can shift in seconds. Technology has opened the doors to financial markets for all, but it has also unleashed a flood of information, much of it unreliable.
Crypto Fund Trader (CFT), the industry-leading proprietary trading firm focused exclusively on crypto, is excited to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Bybit, a leading global cryptocurrency ...
Back in 2006, Lawrence McDonald, a former Lehman Brothers bond trader, remembers, he asked an intern what he was doing during the winter break at the now bankrupt investment bank. The intern, who was ...
Opinion

Fake Trading Is Hard Work

A lot of the retail traders’ negative alpha comes from their leverage (it’s not that they never pick stuff that goes up, but rather that one losing trade wipes them out), so just trading against them ...