Trading strategy
10![The Consistency Rule Specifically Targets Trend-Following: What 10,000 Runs on a Real EA Showed [Opinion]](/og/en/consistency-rule-simulation-2026.png)
The Consistency Rule Specifically Targets Trend-Following: What 10,000 Runs on a Real EA Showed [Opinion]
We connected a real EA to Fintokei's server and compared over-trading, trend-following, and one-sided betting with risk sized equally. Without a consistency rule, trend-following wins outright (70.4%), but the more profit concentrates in big wins, the harder it gets cut down — the purest trend-following setup dropped to a 0.0% pass rate at a 20% threshold. This gives a structural explanation for the observation that "winners cluster at firms with loose consistency rules."
![Does Averaging Down Beat the Consistency Rule? What a Real EA Backtest and a Rulebook Review Actually Show [Opinion]](/og/en/nanpin-consistency-rule-2026.png)
Does Averaging Down Beat the Consistency Rule? What a Real EA Backtest and a Rulebook Review Actually Show [Opinion]
Averaging down (nanpin/DCA) turned out to be genuinely immune to the consistency rule. But at a 13.2% pass rate, it's useless on its own. Adding a stop-loss raises that to 41.2% while keeping the immunity — but it still falls short of trend-following's 52.9%. Checking the actual rulebooks, what's banned isn't averaging down itself — it's doubling your lot size.
![[Beginner's Guide] What Is Prop Account Rotation? Why Dropping the 'All-In on One Account' Habit Raises Your Survival Rate](/og/en/prop-firm-account-rotation-beginners.png)
[Beginner's Guide] What Is Prop Account Rotation? Why Dropping the 'All-In on One Account' Habit Raises Your Survival Rate
A beginner-friendly guide to 'rotation trading' — the way out of the trap of going all-in on one account and blowing it on a drawdown breach. Run several challenges at once, keep funded accounts on the bench, and activate them one at a time. A gentle walkthrough, with a diagram and step-by-step process, for building payouts steadily without letting emotion take over.
Best Trading Hours & Session Strategy for Prop Firms | Full Guide with JST Conversion
A guide to the trading hours that matter for prop firm challenges. Why the London-NY overlap (from around 22:00 JST) is best, the optimal hours per currency (USD/EUR/JPY), what to avoid — rollover, thin liquidity, the 2 minutes around news — plus JST conversion and daylight saving time pitfalls, all backed by volume and volatility data.
The Blueprint for Passing a Prop Firm Challenge: What Overseas Data Reveals About Passing on 'Discipline, Not Strategy'
A blueprint for passing a prop firm challenge, built on primary overseas data (FPFX, official FTMO sources, Swiset). Covers risking 0.5-1% per trade, sizing lots backward from an assumed losing streak, how to use the daily loss limit, and why you shouldn't rush the profit target — concrete ways to build the 'discipline' that raises your pass rate.
How to Protect Your Funded Account and Maximize Payouts | The "Real Game" Design That People Who Fail After Passing Overlook
Passing isn't the finish line in prop trading — only about 7% of traders who reach Funded actually get paid (FPFX, 300,000 accounts). Explained with overseas data: the trailing-DD trap, the flow of your first payout, how consistency rules hold payouts hostage, scaling conditions, and how to maximize payouts.
![High-variance strategies are the ones suited to prop firms | Why you should deliberately NOT bring a low-variance edge like goto-bi trading [Opinion]](/og/en/prop-firm-high-variance-strategy-fit.png)
High-variance strategies are the ones suited to prop firms | Why you should deliberately NOT bring a low-variance edge like goto-bi trading [Opinion]
A prop firm's payoff is like a call option: losses are capped at the challenge fee, while the upside is large once funded. That's why a strategy's variance (volatility) becomes an asset. Meanwhile, a low-variance, high-win-rate edge like goto-bi trading doesn't need insurance — you're better off running it with your own capital. This piece works through that structure.
Trading Psychology for Prop Firms: A Science-Based Approach to Discipline Without Relying on Willpower
A science-based look at prop trading psychology: the brain mechanism that makes you take on too much risk after a loss (cortisol +70%), peer-reviewed data showing that traders who trade more lose more, "if-then rules" that beat willpower, and how to avoid outcome bias by judging yourself on process. Reproducible fixes, not motivational talk.
Trading Styles and Setups That Suit Prop Firm Evaluations: Why 'Discipline' Decides the Outcome More Than the Strategy
An analysis, using overseas data, of which trading styles pass prop evaluations more easily. Covers the strengths and weaknesses of trend-following, breakout, range, and mean-reversion strategies, cautions for scalping/swing trading, how to think about win rate × RR, and prohibited strategies. Explains why disciplined, consistent execution of a validated edge matters more than which strategy you pick.
Consistency rule fully explained: how it's calculated, which firms use it, and techniques to avoid tripping it
Explains the prop firm consistency rule from the formula up: the difference between 20%/30%/40% thresholds, which firms use it, and lot-sizing and day-spreading techniques to avoid violating it.