At TPT we’re constantly looking for ways to get you payouts faster. Just a few weeks ago we released a major improvement in the speed of payout for Tradovate users. Now we’ve improved the speed to...
TPT’s program and payout policy have always been built around one idea: traders should be able to access their profits quickly. Day-1 and daily eligibility, no caps, no funded consistency rules. That...
For a futures trader comparing prop firms, the Take Profit Trader vs Apex matchup tends to come up early. Both firms launched in 2021, both have funded large communities of futures traders, and both...
A new trader learning active trading soon reaches a fork in the road. One camp favors stocks because they are familiar. The other favors futures because the market was built around short holding...
Nearly every trader remembers opening a chart for the first time and seeing a wall of green and red shapes that clearly meant something, with no obvious explanation of what. Each of those shapes is a...
Search the word tick and most results describe a small parasitic insect, not a term used in financial markets. In futures trading, the term means something entirely different, and it is one of the...
A position is open, and the price is moving the wrong way. The exit is either a decision made live, under pressure, or an instruction that was left in the market before the trade began. A stop-loss...
One of the first questions new traders ask is a simple one: when is the futures market open? The answer tends to surprise people. Unlike the stock market, with its familiar opening bell and afternoon...
A single E-mini S&P 500 contract can carry a notional value of roughly $250,000 when the index sits near 5,000. The margin required to hold it is often a small fraction of that figure. That gap...
Day trading holds a particular appeal: positions open and close within a single session, and the results of a morning’s work are often visible by the closing bell. That immediacy draws many newcomers...
The question "Is day trading gambling?" comes up often enough that most traders have heard it at least once, sometimes from friends or family who worry about the risk involved. The comparison is...
If you're a futures trader looking at prop firms, Take Profit Trader and Topstep have almost certainly made your shortlist. Both have been around for more than five years and have earned the trust of...