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The Desk Path
Turn the skill into paid results: how a Daily Funded Session is scored, and how to build a trading record that compounds.
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CHAPTER 1
Trading The Desk
10 lessons- 01What a Daily Funded Session Actually IsOne trading day on funded capital, no evaluation, one rule, paid the same day. What you get, what it costs, and how a session really works on The Desk.Read →02The One Rule: The 7% Drawdown LineThe only way to fail a session, explained precisely: how the 7% line trails your session high, why it is set where it is, and how to trade with it instead of into it.Read →03The Daily Profit Score: Quality, Not Raw P&LWhy two traders up the same $300 get paid differently. What the 0 to 1000 score is, why The Desk grades quality instead of raw profit, and how it maps to your share.Read →04Drawdown Control: The Biggest Lever on Your ScoreThe factor that moves your score the most. What it measures, why shallow drawdown is hard to fake, and the habits that keep it low and your payout high.Read →05Position Size and Exposure: Peak Combined LeverageHow the score reads the most leverage you carried at once, why it sums all open trades rather than your biggest single one, and how to keep your peak controlled.Read →06Trade Count and ConcentrationHow the score tells a real sample of trading from one lucky bet, why profit spread across trades beats a single winner, and why symbol diversification was retired.Read →07Alpha Capture: The Guardrail FactorThe newest factor, explained slowly. How the score measures the movement you converted for your size and time, why it is a guardrail not a target, and who it actually affects.Read →08Windfall, Holding Time and News TimingThree factors that ask one question: is this profit repeatable, or a one-off? How the score reads outlier trades, sub-minute noise, and profit scraped from the news spike.Read →09The Skill and Anti-Gaming FamiliesBeneath the core factors: risk-adjusted return, win rate, expectancy and profit factor, plus the guardrails that catch layering, averaging down and robotic sizing.Read →10Reading Your Breakdown and Raising Your ShareThe most useful screen on The Desk. How to read your post-session breakdown like a coach's notes and work the factors in the order that raises your payout fastest.Read →
CHAPTER 2
Performance, Journaling & Career
10 lessons- 01The Trading Journal: Your Single Biggest EdgeWhat to record beyond entries and exits, journal templates, and how 90 days of honest data changes everything.Read →02Reading Your Own Statistics: Win Rate, R and Profit FactorThe core performance metrics decoded, healthy ranges by style, and the red flags that show up in numbers first.Read →03The Equity Curve: What Its Shape Says About YouSmooth grinds, streaky spikes and slow bleeds — diagnosing strategy and discipline problems from the curve alone.Read →04Reviewing Trades: The Weekly Deep-Dive ProtocolA one-hour weekly review ritual: screenshots, tags, best/worst analysis, and one improvement carried into next week.Read →05Trading Metrics That Predict Payout: Lessons From Scored SessionsWhat quality-scored funded trading reveals: the measurable behaviors — drawdown control, diversification, sizing — that separate paid traders.Read →06From $10K to Funded: A Realistic Progression PlanMilestones from first consistent month to funded capital: the metrics to hit at each stage and the patience the path demands.Read →07Part-Time Day Trading: Making Two Hours a Day CountStructuring a serious trading practice around a job: session choice, automation, and realistic expectations for growth.Read →08The Trader's Tech Stack: Platform, Journal, Alerts, BackupThe complete minimal toolkit and how the pieces connect, with redundancy for the moments that matter.Read →09Taxes, Records and the Business Side of TradingTreating trading as a business: record-keeping habits, cost tracking, and the questions to ask a tax professional early.Read →10Your First 100 Trades: A Curriculum, Not a VerdictReframing the first hundred trades as tuition: the learning goals per block of ten, and why P&L is the wrong scoreboard early.Read →
You reached the end of the curriculum.
Now put it to work. Build a record on a free $10K account, or trade a Daily Funded Session where a disciplined, profitable day pays out the same day.