Guides
Crypto prop trading guides.
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What is a crypto prop firm?
A crypto prop firm sells evaluations: you trade a simulated account under published rules, and passing leads to a simulated funded account with rewards.
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How a crypto trading challenge works
What Classic 1-Step and 2-Step ask for, what the terminal shows, and what happens when you pass or breach a crypto trading challenge.
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Crypto prop firm rules, explained
Profit target, daily loss, max loss, trading days, consistency and prohibited strategies: what each rule means, with the amounts on a 10K account.
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How payouts in bitcoin work
A prop firm that pays in bitcoin: when you can request a reward on a funded account, how much it can be, what is checked and how it is paid.
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How to pass a crypto prop firm challenge
Passing is a budget: daily room, total room, trading days and the consistency rule. How to plan a challenge around each one, with our numbers.
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Daily drawdown vs max drawdown
Two loss floors, measured differently: one resets every day, one never moves. Two worked examples show which one ends an account, and when.
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Static vs trailing drawdown
Two accounts with the same max loss can have very different room. What static, end-of-day and intraday trailing drawdown mean, and which one we use.
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The consistency rule and minimum trading days
Why one big day raises the target instead of failing you, how the effective target is computed, and what counts as a trading day.
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How to choose a crypto prop firm account size
What changes between a small and a large challenge and what stays the same: fees, targets and loss room in dollars, payout caps and position sizes.
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Perpetual futures in a prop challenge: leverage, funding and liquidation
How perpetual futures work in a simulated prop account: mark price, margin and leverage caps, funding, fees, and why a breach comes before liquidation.
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Weekends, nights and news: trading crypto around the clock
Crypto never closes. What that means for holding positions overnight and at weekends, the daily reset, funding times and trading through news.
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Prop firm challenge or your own money: what you risk in each
A challenge caps your loss at the fee and caps your reward by the rules; your own account caps neither. Cost, risk, rules and rewards, side by side.
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Identity verification (KYC) for prop firm payouts
When you verify your identity, which documents you need, who reviews them, how the files are stored, and what else must be in place before a reward.
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Paying for a prop firm challenge with bitcoin
Priced in US dollars, paid in bitcoin through a BTCPay Server invoice: the checkout steps, and what happens if a payment is late, short or too large.