Quick answer: “Trader Kane” (publicly named by Business Insider as Kane Simons) is an NQ futures day trader and co-founder of The Lab, a trading education community. His system, “The Lab Model,” combines standard ICT/Smart Money concepts (SMT divergence, inversion Fair Value Gaps, premium/discount) with three things that are distinctly his: NQ-only execution with ES
Retail prop trading has grown into a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Pass rates on most evaluations run between 5% and 15%. Do the math and most funded traders pay for more than one challenge before an account ever goes live. That raises a real question every April. Can any of
ORB AI is a free, open-source TradingView indicator that scores every opening range breakout across seven factors and cross-checks it against a self-learning KNN engine — instead of firing on a single range-break condition.
Prop firm consistency rules are the rule set’s hidden landmine. You can hit every profit target, keep your drawdown spotless, and trade for weeks without a single loss, then watch your payout request bounce because one breakout Monday handed you 60% of your account’s total profit. Just 33.3% of funded traders ever receive a payout,
A question has sat unanswered in r/algotrading since December 2024: is there an actual list of prop firm with public trading API ? Not marketing pages, not “we support automation,” but an actual breakdown of who has a real API, who hides behind a broker’s platform, and who has nothing at all. The honest answer
Premium and discount zones are one of the simplest ideas in trading — price above the midpoint of a range is “expensive,” price below it is “cheap.” The problem is that almost every trader draws that range differently. Load the same chart on three different laptops and you’ll get three different premium/discount maps, because everyone
Only 14% of prop firm challenge takers ever reach a funded account, and just 7% collect a payout. Once you clear that bar, the obvious next move is scaling the same proven strategy across two, five, or twenty funded accounts instead of one. That’s where prop firm copy trading gets complicated. The same execution technology
The best TradingView indicators span free and premium tiers: the built-in Public Library for free community scripts, PickMyTrade’s own free open-source AI and order-flow scripts, LuxAlgo for premium smart-money and trend tools, Zeiierman for advanced order-flow analysis, BigBeluga for algorithmic momentum signals, and Flux Charts for a multi-market premium suite. Overall, this guide covers what
Getting funded is only half the job. The other half is actually getting paid. That’s where most My Funded Futures traders hit questions like for payout. Which plan pays daily? What’s this buffer everyone mentions? And will one big green day break the consistency rule? Here’s the short version. The My Funded Futures payout system
I hit this wall the first time I tried to wire a strategy straight into Tradovate: the account had to be live and funded to $1,000 before Tradovate would even let me subscribe to API access. No sim credit, no eval account, no exceptions. If you just ran into the same message, you’re not missing
