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Choosing a Legitimate Proprietary Trading Firm
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What this lesson covers
Not every firm offering funded accounts intends to pay you. This lesson gives you a way to tell the difference. It covers the signs of a firm built to last, including how it is funded, whether payouts are documented and consistent, how long it has operated, and the quality of its support when something goes wrong. It then lists the warning signs: rules written vaguely enough to be reinterpreted later, targets that are close to impossible, payout terms that keep moving, and marketing that promises far more than the industry can deliver. Beyond safety, the lesson helps you match a firm to your own trading, since a firm with rules that suit a swing trader may be a poor fit for a scalper. A practical checklist ties it together.