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Swing Trading vs. Day Trading in Prop Challenges: Comparing Strategies and the Hybrid Approach
Compare the benefits and risks of day trading and swing trading in Funded Accounts. Learn about overnight gap risk, consistency rules, hybrid strategies, and three factors for choosing your trading style.
Crypto Funding Rates: How to Read Market Sentiment and Use Funding as a Trading Signal
Learn what crypto funding rates are, why they exist, and how to interpret them. High positive and negative funding, price-funding divergences, and a practical monitoring routine.
Trading Journal for Prop Traders: Essential Fields, Performance Analysis, and Pre-Trade Checklist
Learn how to keep a trading journal that helps you improve. A/B/C trade grading, performance analysis by setup and session, pre-trade checklists, and managing losing streaks.
Nearly 30 Years of Trading, Blown Accounts, and a Bet on Monero: Why Yuri Is Happy with 1% a Month
Over nearly 30 years in the markets, Yuri blew several accounts and traded with leverage as high as 25x. Today he aims for around 1% a month and has already received 3 payouts totaling $914 at Hash Hedge.
Altcoins vs. BTC and ETH: What to Trade During a Prop Challenge
Learn how to choose crypto assets for a prop trading Challenge. Compare BTC, ETH, and altcoins, understand liquidity and volatility risks, avoid correlated positions, and build a trading watchlist.
News Trading on a Funded Account: Macro Events, Crypto Catalysts, and Risk Management
Learn which news events move crypto markets, how to trade news using fade and momentum strategies, and how to manage risk during a prop trading Challenge. Covers FOMC, CPI, NFP, and crypto-specific catalysts.
Multi-Timeframe Analysis in Crypto: How to Find Better Entry Points
Learn how to use higher, intermediate, and lower timeframes to identify market direction, entry zones, and trade triggers. A practical framework for Funded Traders.
How an Engineer from Côte d’Ivoire Became a Trader and Earned $7,422 on Hash Hedge
Adama moved from Côte d’Ivoire to Russia to study, works as a civil engineer, and has made a living from trading for the past 3-4 years. On Hash Hedge he has received 3 payouts totaling $7,422.
Overtrading in a Prop Challenge: 4 Triggers, How to Measure It, and Systematic Protection
Overtrading is one of the main reasons traders fail despite having a working strategy. 4 common triggers – boredom, urgency, revenge trading, and overconfidence – plus how to measure and limit overtrading and how it interacts with consistency rules.
Crypto Trading Sessions: When to Enter the Market and When to Stay Out
4 crypto trading sessions, Kill Zones, weekly market structure, their impact on order blocks and FVGs, and session management on a Funded Account.
Premium and Discount Zones in Crypto: How to Identify Cheap and Expensive Prices Based on Market Structure
What equilibrium, premium, and discount mean in Smart Money concepts. The OTE zone, its connection with order blocks and FVGs, and how to apply it in trends and ranges on a Funded Account.
Risk-to-Reward Ratio in Prop Evaluation: Setting Targets Based on Market Structure
Why the “minimum 1:2 R:R” rule doesn’t always work in real trading. How to set targets based on market structure, use partial profit-taking, and account for the consistency rule.
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