THE FUNDED EDGE
Free
Prop futures · taught honestly

The stuff you find out after you’ve already paid for three evals.

NQ, ES, RTY, YM. Trailing drawdowns that count profit you never banked. Consistency rules that punish your best day. The business model behind your $49 eval fee. And three fully-specified, rules-based strategies built to survive all of it — with the math to validate them yourself.

14Modules
4Interactive tools
3Full strategies
Who this is for

You, probably

You’ve watched the YouTube videos. You know what an order block is. You might even have passed an eval — and then watched a funded account die to a rule you didn’t fully understand, on a trade that wasn’t even that bad.

This product exists because the prop futures space has a knowledge gap that nobody profits from closing: the firms profit when you don’t understand the rules, and the influencers profit when you stay hopeful. What’s left out is the unglamorous middle — drawdown mechanics, expectancy math, regime filters, payout pacing. That’s what this is.

No income claims. No “funded in 7 days” screenshots. If anything here makes trading sound easy, that’s a bug — report it to the risk disclosure.

Free tier

The foundation — free, fully

Pro

The deep end

Pro MODULE 04
VIX Regimes: The Filter Above Every Trade
What each VIX band means for range, stops, and strategy selection. Term structure, contango, and what spikes do to prop accounts.
Pro MODULE 05
Market Internals: TICK, ADD, Profile, Opening Types
Internals as context, not indicators. Read the day type in the first 30 minutes and know which playbook is even allowed.
Pro MODULE 06 · STRATEGY I
Regime-Filtered Opening Range Breakout
Full spec: entry, stop, target, time filter, regime filter, sizing — plus why it works and exactly when it stops working.
Pro MODULE 07 · STRATEGY II
VWAP First-Touch Fade
The balanced-day workhorse. Mean reversion with rules, not vibes — and the trend-day filter that keeps it alive.
Pro MODULE 08 · STRATEGY III
The 10:00 Index Divergence
Four correlated indices vote every morning. Trade the verdict, not the noise — NQ/ES/RTY/YM relative strength as a real edge.
Pro MODULE 09
The Rulebook Minefield: Firm-by-Firm Comparison
Topstep, Apex, MFFU, Tradeify, TakeProfitTrader — drawdown types, consistency rules, payout traps. Verified June 2026, dated, sourced.
Pro MODULE 10
Trailing-Drawdown Psychology
Trading under a moving floor is its own discipline. House-money fallacy, revenge interrupts, and journaling that actually changes behavior.
Pro MODULE 11
The Funded Survival Playbook
Payout pacing, the buffer game, multi-account strategy, when to scale, and why the eval and the funded account are two different sports.
Pro MODULE 12
Execution Mechanics
Order types, slippage reality, the news calendar, and the session clock — open vs lunch vs close, settlement windows, roll week.
Pro MODULE 13
Prop vs Live: Capital Efficiency, Taxes, When Each Makes Sense
The honest comparison: psychology, capital efficiency, tax treatment basics, and the decision framework.
Pro TOOL
True Cost of Funding Calculator
Eval fee × expected attempts × funded survival odds = what funding actually costs. Bring honesty to your budget.
Pro TOOL
Position Size Matrix
Per-firm drawdown, per-instrument stop distance → exact contract counts. Micros vs minis, mapped to your real risk budget.
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