Trading for a living is a capital problem before it is a skill problem. Run these numbers honestly first.
Evaluation rules are not arbitrary obstacles. Read them as a specification and the pass rate changes.
What happens to your order after you click buy, and why the answer changes how you should trade.
Choosing a counterparty is a credit decision, not a marketing comparison. These are the questions that actually matter.
Twenty trades tell you almost nothing. Here is roughly what it takes before a result means something.
Abandoning a working system during a normal drawdown is the most expensive mistake in discretionary trading. Here is the test.
Professionals spend a minority of their week trading. Here is what the rest of it is for.
Elaborate journals get abandoned in three weeks. This one records the only fields that change behaviour.
Twelve minutes before the session, run through this. It is short because long checklists do not get used.