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How much do day traders make? What real account data shows
Most day traders make nothing. They lose money. In one large study of real accounts, 97% of Brazilians who day traded futures for at least 300 days…
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FOMC and the stock market: What 261 Fed decision days show
Do stocks go up on Fed days? I took all 261 scheduled FOMC decisions from February 1994 to September 2026 and checked how the S&P 500 closed on each…
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Inside bar: What a breakout test on the S&P 500 shows
An inside bar is a bar whose high is lower and whose low is higher than the bar before it, so the whole day fits inside the previous one. Traders…
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Risk of ruin: How bet size decides if your account survives
Risk of ruin is the chance that a run of losses takes your account down to a point you can’t come back from. I simulated 1,000 trades, 10,000 times…
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Risk reward ratio: Why it means nothing without the win rate
The risk reward ratio compares what a trade can lose, from the entry to the stop, with what it can make, from the entry to the target. Risk $1 to…
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How do prop firms make money? A coin-flipper’s $50K challenge
Prop firms make most of their money from challenge fees, not from trading. At Topstep, even the funded account you earn by passing is simulated – the…