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Everything you need to know. Nothing you don't.
11 short lessons in four tracks — about 43 minutes end to end. Written for someone who has never automated a trade and for someone who has run bots for years. Videos and the ranked prop-firm list live here too.
If you have never automated a trade — or never traded futures — read these first. Plain English, no jargon left unexplained.
Videos · Start here
Darnell's video walkthroughs for this track are being moved over from Discord. Until they land here, they are pinned in the server.
Prop firms
The firms we recommend, in order.
Ranked 1 to 3 the way it is posted in Discord, with the reasoning and the criteria we judge every firm against.
Darnell's ranked prop firms
Order as posted in Discord
The 1–2–3 list with the reasoning behind each pick is being published here from the Discord post. It changes when a firm changes its rules or payout behaviour, so the server has the current order today.
See the list in Discord →How the ranking is judged
- 1
Payout reliability
Do they pay on time, every time, without moving the goalposts after you pass?
- 2
Rules you can automate
Trailing vs end-of-day drawdown, consistency rules, news restrictions — the fewer surprises, the better an algo does.
- 3
Copy-friendly
Do they allow copying across your own accounts and running automated strategies at all? Some ban it outright.
- 4
Data & platform
Rithmic or Tradovate feeds, NinjaTrader supported, API access for hosted execution.
- 5
Reset & activation cost
What a bad week actually costs you in resets, activation fees and monthly data.
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