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How Proprietary Trading Differs from Personal Trading
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What this lesson covers
Trading firm capital is not simply trading your own account with a larger balance. This lesson works through the differences in structure, strategy and psychology. Structurally there are rules you did not write and a drawdown limit that ends the account if you cross it. Strategically that changes position sizing, how many trades you take and how you handle a losing run. Psychologically the pressure moves: the money is not yours, but the opportunity is, and traders respond to that in ways they do not expect. The lesson also examines how incentives line up in each model, since a firm that only profits when you profit behaves very differently from one that does not. It closes by asking which model actually supports the way you want to grow.