Passing a funded challenge is a risk-management problem, not a signal problem. The rules, the math, and what gets you banned.
Your style has to fit the firm's rules. How swing and intraday interact with drawdown types, news bans, and overnight-hold restrictions.
Signals are allowed in most prop challenges — copy-trading isn't. Where the line sits firm by firm, and the account rules that actually get traders banned.
Daily, max and trailing drawdown — what each rule means, how prop firms actually calculate them, and the fixed-risk math that keeps you inside the limits.
Overtrading is the #1 reason traders fail prop challenges. The drawdown math behind it — and how fewer, fixed-risk setups get you funded.
The alert features that get traders funded — fixed risk, selective frequency, manual execution — and the red flags that get you disqualified.