Forensic analysis of real, anonymised trading data. Each post examines specific patterns, decisions, and outcomes from a dataset of 1,797 prop firm trades across 12 accounts. Pairs with the interactive Trader A demo at /tools/prop-firm-tracker/.
Trader C’s average loss was about $23. Their average win was about $15. Every losing trade cost more than every winning trade paid. They passed the first phase of a two-step prop-firm challenge anyway. That looks like it breaks the…
Trader B won 70.3% of their trades and lost the account. Trader A won 65.6% and passed. The trader who was right more often is the one who blew up. That is the whole lesson in two sentences, and most…
For the past 10 weeks, this series has dissected one trader’s 1,797 trades across 12 prop firm accounts. Every post landed a finding. Every finding turned into a rule. The previous post stacked all the rules together and showed the…
Trader A lost $3,103 across 1,797 trades in 17 months. This series has spent nine posts dissecting why. We have found that the trader was operating above the break-even line on win rate (51.3%). We have found that gold worked…
If you wanted to lose money in this dataset, the easiest way was to trade Bitcoin. If you wanted to make money, the easiest way was to trade the German DAX or US30, both of which the trader almost completely…
At 17:15 server time on a Thursday afternoon in late January 2026, Trader A clicked buy on gold for the 22nd consecutive time in 22 minutes. Every previous click in that sequence had lost money. Twenty-two trades. Twenty-two losses. $2,008.13…
Ask any retail trader which day of the week scares them most and you will get a consistent answer. Friday. The weekend-gap day. The day you should be flat by lunchtime, the day where central bank surprises slap any open…
Most trading advice tells you to cut losers fast and let winners run. Trader A, the anonymous prop firm trader whose 1,797 trades across 12 FundedNext accounts we have been dissecting in this series, followed half of that advice religiously.…
Six accounts passed. Six accounts breached. The trader was the same person. The platform was the same. The strategy was, in their own description, the same gold setup. By any reasonable expectation the outcomes should have clustered. They did not.…
You can win nine of your first ten prop firm trades, be up money on day one, and still blow the account a month later. We have the receipts. This is the third post in our forensic series on 1,797…
At 23:22 server time on a Wednesday night in late January 2026, Trader A clicked sell on a 0.01 lot silver position. Ten seconds later, before that first trade had moved a single tick, they clicked sell on gold. Then…
One change. Three seconds per trade. Twenty-nine thousand dollars in difference. This is part of our forensic series on 1,797 real prop firm trades from 12 anonymised accounts placed between September 2024 and March 2026. Six accounts passed. Six breached.…
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