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Guides for traders who verify first
Plain-English guides on broker safety, prop firm rules, risk and trading psychology. General education, never advice, and never paid for by the firms we write about.
Market Sentiment Indicators: Read VIX, Puts, and Breadth Together
Read the VIX, put call ratio, and market breadth together through a worked trade example, then see how Verify.Trading turns signals into practical checks.
Risk management
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Slippage in Trading: 4 Steps to Measure Fill Costs
Measure trading slippage by comparing each fill with the midpoint, then log order types and timing to improve backtests and position sizing.
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Prop Firm Challenges: 10 Checks to Avoid a Costly Rule Breach
Match your strategy to a prop firm's rules, manage drawdown, and use 10 checks to avoid disqualification and prepare successfully for a funded account.
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How to check if a broker is FCA regulated
A step-by-step guide to checking a broker on the FCA Register: find the firm reference number, confirm permissions, spot clone firms and read the warning list.
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Prop firm challenge rules that catch traders out
Daily drawdown, trailing drawdown, news trading limits and consistency rules explained, with a worked example and a checklist to run before you buy a challenge.
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Position sizing: how much to risk per trade
How to size a trade from your balance, risk percentage and stop distance, with a worked forex example and why recovering a loss is harder than making one.
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How to tell a scam broker from a real one
Warning signs of a scam broker or clone firm, a checklist you can run in ten minutes, and what to do if you have already sent money to one.
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FSCS, CySEC ICF and client money protection explained
What the FSCS and the CySEC Investor Compensation Fund actually cover, what segregated client money does, and why the legal entity holding your account matters.
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What is drawdown and how to manage it
Drawdown explained: how it is measured, why recovery needs bigger gains than the loss, how prop firms use daily and trailing limits, and practical ways to control it.
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Risk to reward and win rate: what the maths says
How risk to reward ratio and win rate combine into expectancy, the break-even win rate at each ratio, and why a high ratio alone does not make a trade good.
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How to keep a trading journal that you will actually use
What to record, how often to review, and how to turn a trading journal into a record of your habits, with a simple template for each session.
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Revenge trading and tilt: how to stop
What revenge trading and tilt look like, the triggers behind them, and a set of rules and routines that interrupt the pattern before it costs you an account.
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How to trade around economic news
Which economic releases move markets, what happens to spreads and stops around them, and how to plan a session and follow a prop firm news rule using a calendar.
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Run a free check against regulator records, with the source shown.