Futures Trading Commissions: What You Actually Pay Per Contract
The current per-contract rates, why a round turn is three separate charges, and the measurement that started this: 45 percent of the real trades on Aurafy are costed at a default nobody actually pays.
Trading Expectancy: The One Number That Says If Your Strategy Works
How to compute it, what a real edge actually looks like measured across live accounts, and why an expectancy above 0.5R is a broken stop rather than a discovery.
Futures Position Sizing: How Many Contracts Should You Trade?
Size from the stop, not the account. The tick-value arithmetic, why the one percent rule quietly kills funded accounts, and the two caps you have to run separately.
What Is a Good Win Rate for Futures Trading?
A win rate on its own tells you nothing. The break-even table for your own payoff ratio, why scratched trades quietly drag the number down, and how many trades you need before it means anything.
Why Your Journal P&L Does Not Match Your Broker
Three causes, in the order worth checking: an export taken while you were still in a trade, commissions the file never carried, and trades that were silently dropped. With the arithmetic that tells them apart.
Consistency Rule Explained (2026): Why Your Best Days Can Lock Out Your Best Months
How prop-firm consistency rules actually work: what the threshold means, when it dies (or doesn’t) at the funded gate, and why one big day can blow a profitable month.
Daily Loss Limit Explained (2026): The Rule That Ends Most Evaluations
The daily loss limit is the single most common reason funded accounts blow up. How it’s calculated, how it differs across firms, and how to actually trade under it.
Trailing Drawdown Explained (2026): Intraday vs EOD, and Where the Line Really Sits
The mechanic-level guide to trailing drawdown: how the line moves intraday vs at end of day, where it locks, and the give-back that quietly ends most evaluations.
Trade Replay vs Screen Recording (2026): What’s the Difference?
Tick-data trade replay and screen recording solve two different review problems. Why the best traders use both, and what each actually shows you.
Charts by TradingView, coming to Aurafy
Aurafy has licensed the TradingView Advanced Charts library. The bar-replay backtester and the per-trade detail chart will run on the same charting engine used across the industry.
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