Bitcoin’s 500-Day Rule Has History on Its Side – Will it Last?
For more than a decade, Bitcoin investors have searched for patterns that might help make sense of the cryptocurrency’s wild boom and bust cycles. The so-called 500-day rule, the observation that Bitcoin has historically peaked roughly 500 to 550 days after each halving, has become one of the most talked about of those patterns.
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Retail Trading’s Gap: 63% Confidence, 42% Knowledge
Retail investors who follow social media answered 42% of a knowledge quiz correctly, yet 63% called their own knowledge high. Prop trading firms now sell the missing part: education, risk limits, and AI tools. Regulators warn the same model can earn most when traders keep failing.
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The End of ‘Skin in the Game’: How Funded Capital Is Rewriting Retail Finance
The prevailing sentiment when trading was simple and cold: you need to risk your money to participate in the financial markets. So when retail investing got big, millions of people stepped in, lured by zero-commission platforms and social media hype.
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The Crypto Shakeout Investors Should Actually Welcome
Anyone who remembers Pets.com knows how this story usually ends. A flood of capital chases a new technology, dozens of companies launch on little more than a pitch deck, and then the money dries up and only the ones with actual customers survive.
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How The Best Traders Don’t Predict Markets and Survive Being Wrong
Trading is marketed as a contest of foresight. Gurus announce where Bitcoin, gold or the S&P 500 will move next, and profitable trades are presented as proof of superior insight. Professional trading is less cinematic.
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Can Perpetual Futures Bridge the Gap Between Crypto and TradFi?
For most of its history, the relationship between crypto and traditional finance has been fairly one-sided. Wall Street invented the products, and crypto eventually adopted them. Exchange-traded funds, institutional custody, sophisticated derivatives structures, all of it originated in traditional markets before making its way into digital assets.
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How Retail Traders Can Leverage a Crypto Recovery With Someone Else’s Capital
Crypto trading has offered retail investors nearly unlimited freedom and almost no protection from themselves. Markets operate around the clock, prices move violently within minutes, and leverage can turn a small position into either a windfall or a wiped-out account
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6 Signs a Prop Firm Is Betting on Traders, Not Failure
The prop trading boom has opened professional-style funding to traders who don’t work inside a bank or hedge fund. But traders should be wary, as not every prop firm genuinely wants its traders to succeed.
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Prop Trading Is Democratizing Wall Street’s Playbook
For decades, Wall Street’s real edge wasn’t only money, but its mastery of the tricks of the trade. Behind closed doors, banks, hedge funds, and trading desks trained their traders with elite strategies, disciplined risk frameworks, and deep market insight, while everyday investors were left navigating the markets alone
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Leveraged Cup Awards $20,000 Grand Prize in Global Trading Competition
LEVERAGED, a proprietary trading firm empowering anyone to become a trader, announced the conclusion of the 2026 Leveraged Cup, a worldwide trading competition where participants competed to secure the highest percentage return regardless of account size.
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Why Bitcoin Still Reacts to Geopolitical Risk
For decades, standard financial literacy programs have prescribed a reliable, albeit static, formula: track your spending, build a rainy-day fund, and allocate a fixed percentage of your paycheck to passive index funds. It is a defensive framework designed for wealth preservation and basic financial stability.
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The 90% Myth
The often stated adage that 90% of retail traders lose money is common wisdom in the world of retail investing. It's widely quoted in trading forums, debates, and videos so often that it has essentially become an accepted fact. Yet the number itself is less important than the underlying dilemma: why do so many traders fail in the first place?
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