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Intro to Prop Firms & How They Work
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What this lesson covers
A proprietary trading firm gives capital to traders who can prove they know what they are doing, and keeps a share of the profit. This lesson explains how that arrangement actually works. It separates prop firms from brokers, which is the confusion most newcomers arrive with, and shows why the two make money in completely different ways. It then covers the funding process itself: the evaluation, the objectives a trader has to meet, the rules that protect the firm's capital, and the profit split that follows. It also looks at the arrangement from the firm's side, including why prop firms exist at all, what qualities they are looking for, and the risk they carry when they back a trader they have never met.