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The Mistakes That Fail a Prop Evaluation
3:14 · 8 chapters · Forex lessons, part 83
What you'll learn
Most prop challenges fail on two things: trades that are too big and the trade after a big loss. Fix those first.
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- Key point 1
- Why risking 2% or more per trade can breach a 5% daily loss limit
- Key point 2
- Why the trade after a big loss is where most accounts are breached
- Key point 3
- How open-trade risk, correlated pairs and news can hide risk
- Key point 4
- How platform errors like an extra zero in the lot size end challenges
- Key point 5
- A five-question checklist to run before every trade
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