Education for futures traders
Futures and prop-firm trading guides
Understand the calculations, data, and failure modes behind common trading-platform workflows. Each guide is written for practical verification, not profit promises.
Explore the guides
How to copy trades across prop-firm accounts
Permissions, sizing, follower risk, divergence, monitoring, and recovery.
Trailing drawdown explained
Intraday, end-of-day, realized-only, and static thresholds with examples.
Prop-firm daily loss limits
Session windows, open P&L, fees, liquidation, and drawdown differences.
Order-flow trading glossary
Footprint, delta, CVD, absorption, imbalance, iceberg, sweep, POC, DOM, and tape.
How to use this library
Begin with the rule or data definition that governs the decision. A prop-firm label such as “daily loss” or “trailing threshold” is incomplete until the session, equity inputs, fees, reset, and consequence are known. An order-flow label is incomplete until the feed, aggregation, and measurement are known.
Then verify the current primary source. Prop programs and software pricing change. The guides link to official firm, vendor, exchange, and regulator pages and display the review date. Save rules that apply to an account, because a later web update may describe a different stage or offering.
Finally, test in simulation and preserve an independent recovery path. Software can reject, disconnect, or display a different calculation. Aeris provides simulated rule profiles, distance meters, checks, locks, flatten, and kill switch today; live Rithmic routing remains Coming soon.