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Notes from building this.

Futures automation, copy trading and the operational problems of running several accounts at once. Written from what the platform actually does rather than from a keyword list.

· Prop firms What is a prop firm, really? Prop firms fund traders who pass an evaluation. How the model works, where the firm's money actually comes from, and what to check before paying for one. · Prop firms The rule that ends most funded accounts. A trailing drawdown rises with your profit, so a good week leaves less room to be wrong than you started with. How it works, and the version that catches people. · Execution Slippage is not bad luck. Slippage is not random. It has specific causes, it is worse in predictable places, and on a thin edge it is the difference between a strategy working and not. · Contracts One tenth the size, most of the usefulness. Micro futures are one tenth of their full-size contract. What that changes about position sizing, prop firm accounts and whether the commission is worth it. · Testing A backtest is an argument. A forward test is evidence. A backtest is an argument. A forward test is evidence. What each actually proves, the four ways a backtest flatters itself, and how to run one honestly. · Analytics The return is the least useful number on the chart. The return is the least useful thing on an equity curve. What the slope, the flat spots and the shape of the drawdowns say about whether a strategy is real.

What gets written here

Three kinds of thing, and not much else. Mechanics — how execution, copying and prop-firm rules actually work, at the level of detail that changes what you do rather than the level that fills a page. Operations — the problems that only appear once you are running more than one account, which is where most of the avoidable losses live. And what we got wrong, when a change here caused something, because a platform that only publishes its wins is not telling you anything you can use.

What does not get written: rule tables for other firms that will be stale within a quarter, strategies with a return attached to them, or a post whose only purpose is to contain a keyword. If a page here does not answer a question someone actually had, it should not exist.

The documentation covers how to use the product, and the calculators cover the arithmetic. These are the things that did not belong in either.