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  "description": "Independent market structure research, S&P 500 & Mag 7 attribution, ATR position-sizing math, and prop rulebook updates.",
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      "id": "cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-23",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-23",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-23",
      "title": "Nasdaq-100 falls 2.9% as Meta falls 7%; Fed decision next Wednesday",
      "content_text": "Closes for Thursday 22 October: the Nasdaq-100 fell 2.90% and the S&P 500 fell 1.21%. Plus the week’s scheduled releases.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-23T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-23T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-22",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-22",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-22",
      "title": "Nasdaq-100 rises 1.1% as Tesla gains 3%; Fed decision next Wednesday",
      "content_text": "Closes for Wednesday 21 October: the Nasdaq-100 rose 1.13% and the S&P 500 rose 0.58%. Plus the week’s scheduled releases.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "prop-firm-hedging-copy-trading-and-shared-device-rules",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/prop-firm-hedging-copy-trading-and-shared-device-rules",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/prop-firm-hedging-copy-trading-and-shared-device-rules",
      "title": "Banned for linked accounts: prop firm rules on hedging and copying",
      "content_text": "What Topstep, MyFundedFutures and FundingPips prohibit on cross-account hedging, copy trading, shared devices and trading with other people, read on their own pages on 22 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "prop-firm-move-to-live-account-other-accounts",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/prop-firm-move-to-live-account-other-accounts",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/prop-firm-move-to-live-account-other-accounts",
      "title": "Called up to a live account: what happens to your other accounts",
      "content_text": "What Topstep and MyFundedFutures do with a trader’s other funded accounts, balances and profits when they move the trader to a live account, read on their own pages on 22 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "prop-firm-payout-buffer-minimum-consistency",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/prop-firm-payout-buffer-minimum-consistency",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/prop-firm-payout-buffer-minimum-consistency",
      "title": "Why you can’t withdraw yet: payout buffers, minimums and consistency",
      "content_text": "The conditions between a funded account’s profit and its first payout at Topstep, MyFundedFutures and Apex Trader Funding, read on their own pages on 22 October 2026, with the smallest first payout each allows on a 50K account.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-22T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-21",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-21",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-21",
      "title": "Nasdaq-100 falls 0.1% on Tuesday; Fed decision next Wednesday",
      "content_text": "Closes for Tuesday 20 October: the Nasdaq-100 fell 0.13% and the S&P 500 rose 0.28%. Plus the week’s scheduled releases.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "mag-7-sp500-nasdaq-index-point-attribution",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/mag-7-sp500-nasdaq-index-point-attribution",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/mag-7-sp500-nasdaq-index-point-attribution",
      "title": "How Eight Stocks Move the S&P 500: Weights on 19 October",
      "content_text": "On 19 October 2026 the eight largest companies in SPY made up 37.1% of the fund. A 1% move in Nvidia alone was worth about 6 S&P 500 points. Here is how to turn a weight into index points and into dollars on an E-mini contract.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "options-trading-expected-move-iv-rank-vertical-spreads",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/options-trading-expected-move-iv-rank-vertical-spreads",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/options-trading-expected-move-iv-rank-vertical-spreads",
      "title": "Reading Option Prices: Expected Move, IV Rank and Spreads",
      "content_text": "An option’s price tells you how big a move the market is pricing in. Here is how to turn implied volatility into an expected move, what IV rank measures, and how vertical spreads change the trade-off between cost, time decay and volatility.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "volatility-position-sizing-atr-turtle-tudor-jones",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/volatility-position-sizing-atr-turtle-tudor-jones",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/volatility-position-sizing-atr-turtle-tudor-jones",
      "title": "Sizing Positions by Volatility: The Turtle ‘N’ Method Explained",
      "content_text": "Trading the same number of shares or contracts in calm and volatile markets means taking very different dollar risk. The Turtle traders’ “N” method sizes each position so that a typical day’s move costs the same share of the account. Here is how it works.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "real-yields-breakevens-10-year-treasury",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/real-yields-breakevens-10-year-treasury",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/real-yields-breakevens-10-year-treasury",
      "title": "Real Yields vs. Breakevens: How to Read a Move in the 10-Year",
      "content_text": "The 10-year Treasury yield rose from 4.05% to 5.10% between 15 October 2025 and 15 October 2026. Almost all of that rise came from the real yield, not from inflation expectations. Here is how to split a yield move in two, using public FRED data.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "how-prop-firms-make-money",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-prop-firms-make-money",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-prop-firms-make-money",
      "title": "How Prop Firms Make Money: Fees, Resets and Sim Accounts",
      "content_text": "Evaluation-style prop firms earn most of their revenue from the fees traders pay to attempt a challenge, not from trading. Here is how evaluation fees, resets, activation fees and simulated funded accounts fit together.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "forex-central-bank-rate-differentials-dxy-and-spot-gold-playbook",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/forex-central-bank-rate-differentials-dxy-and-spot-gold-playbook",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/forex-central-bank-rate-differentials-dxy-and-spot-gold-playbook",
      "title": "Rate Differentials and FX: How Yields Move EUR/USD and USD/JPY",
      "content_text": "Short-term interest rate gaps between countries are one of the main forces behind major currency pairs. Here is how US Treasury yields relate to EUR/USD, USD/JPY and gold, when FX liquidity is deepest, and how to work out position size from a stop in pips.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "the-3000-profit-target-buffer-lock-math",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/the-3000-profit-target-buffer-lock-math",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/the-3000-profit-target-buffer-lock-math",
      "title": "The Real Cost of a First $1,000 Prop Payout",
      "content_text": "A $50K futures evaluation usually asks for $3,000 of profit. Withdrawing your first $1,000 takes more: at three firms whose rules we read on 21 October 2026, between $4,667 and $6,100 of profit in total, depending on the plan.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "intraday-trailing-vs-eod-drawdown-mechanics",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/intraday-trailing-vs-eod-drawdown-mechanics",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/intraday-trailing-vs-eod-drawdown-mechanics",
      "title": "Intraday vs End-of-Day Drawdown: Same Trade, Different Outcome",
      "content_text": "Take one Nasdaq futures trade that is up 80 points at best and closes at +45. Under an end-of-day trailing drawdown the trader keeps the full $2,000 of room. Under an intraday trailing drawdown, $1,300 is left. Here is why.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/consistency-rule-math-30-40-50-percent",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/consistency-rule-math-30-40-50-percent",
      "title": "How Consistency Rules Raise Your Profit Target",
      "content_text": "Under a consistency rule, no single day’s profit may exceed a set percentage of total profit. One big day therefore raises the total you need. On a 30% rule, a single $2,100 day lifts a $3,000 target to $7,000.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "sim-to-live-brokerage-graduation-cme-data-fees",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/sim-to-live-brokerage-graduation-cme-data-fees",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/sim-to-live-brokerage-graduation-cme-data-fees",
      "title": "What Happens When a Prop Trader Goes Live",
      "content_text": "Most US futures prop firms pay out from simulated accounts first. Some later move a trader to a live account, where orders reach the exchange. Here is what Topstep and MyFundedFutures say triggers that move and what changes when it happens.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "tier-1-macro-news-blackout-window-audit",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/tier-1-macro-news-blackout-window-audit",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/tier-1-macro-news-blackout-window-audit",
      "title": "Which Prop Firms Restrict Trading Around CPI, Jobs and the Fed",
      "content_text": "Several futures prop firms limit trading for a few minutes around major US releases such as CPI, the jobs report and Fed decisions, usually in funded accounts only. The rules differ in what they block: new positions, any open position, or orders filling. Here is what four firms’ own pages said on 21 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "kraken-breakout-acquisition-exchange-prop-era",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/kraken-breakout-acquisition-exchange-prop-era",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/kraken-breakout-acquisition-exchange-prop-era",
      "title": "Kraken Bought Breakout in 2025: What Exchange-Owned Prop Means",
      "content_text": "Kraken completed its purchase of crypto prop firm Breakout with effect from 1 September 2025, and FTMO closed its purchase of broker OANDA on 1 December 2025. A year on, here is what those deals said and what common ownership can and cannot change for traders.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "cftc-rule-441-sim-funded-payout-caps",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cftc-rule-441-sim-funded-payout-caps",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cftc-rule-441-sim-funded-payout-caps",
      "title": "What CFTC Rule 4.41 Does — and Doesn’t — Say About Sim Accounts",
      "content_text": "Prop firms often cite CFTC Rule 4.41 in their disclaimers. The rule governs advertising by commodity pool operators and trading advisors, including how simulated performance must be presented. It does not create “sim-funded” accounts or approve paying traders from them.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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      "id": "how-to-read-an-earnings-release-and-its-8-k",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-an-earnings-release-and-its-8-k",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-an-earnings-release-and-its-8-k",
      "title": "How to read an earnings release and its 8-K under Item 2.02",
      "content_text": "What Form 8-K Item 2.02 is, why an earnings release is \"furnished\" rather than \"filed\", and how to read GAAP and adjusted figures, using Johnson & Johnson's third-quarter 2026 filing as the worked example.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "realized-volatility-and-expected-move-maths",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/realized-volatility-and-expected-move-maths",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/realized-volatility-and-expected-move-maths",
      "title": "Realized volatility and expected-move maths, from daily closes",
      "content_text": "How realized volatility is computed from daily closes, how it turns into a one-day or one-month range, and how often the S&P 500 stayed inside that range from 22 July to 20 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
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      "id": "interest-rate-differentials-forward-points-central-banks",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/interest-rate-differentials-forward-points-central-banks",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/interest-rate-differentials-forward-points-central-banks",
      "title": "Rate gaps and FX forwards: the parity maths with official rates",
      "content_text": "How the gap between two central banks’ rates turns into a forward exchange rate and a daily carry, worked through with the banks’ own published rates and the ECB’s 20 October 2026 reference rates.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "cme-bitcoin-futures-positioning-cftc-tff-report",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cme-bitcoin-futures-positioning-cftc-tff-report",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cme-bitcoin-futures-positioning-cftc-tff-report",
      "title": "What the CFTC’s weekly report shows about CME bitcoin futures",
      "content_text": "How to read the Traders in Financial Futures report for CME Bitcoin futures: who the four trader groups are, what “reportable” means, and how to turn contracts into bitcoin. Worked with the report for Tuesday 13 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "futures-contract-months-rolls-and-roll-dates",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/futures-contract-months-rolls-and-roll-dates",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/futures-contract-months-rolls-and-roll-dates",
      "title": "Futures contract months and roll dates, from CME Group’s rules",
      "content_text": "How CME names contract months, when E-mini S&P 500 and WTI crude contracts stop trading, and what the roll does to volume and charts, with a worked example from 19 October 2026 closes.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "written-trading-plan-and-weekly-review",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/written-trading-plan-and-weekly-review",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/written-trading-plan-and-weekly-review",
      "title": "A written trading plan, and the weekly review that checks it",
      "content_text": "What a written trading plan usually contains, how a fixed risk cap turns into E-mini and Micro E-mini S&P 500 contract counts, and what a weekly review against the plan measures.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "beat-and-fall-why-good-results-can-send-a-stock-lower",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/beat-and-fall-why-good-results-can-send-a-stock-lower",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/beat-and-fall-why-good-results-can-send-a-stock-lower",
      "title": "Beat and fall: why good results can still send a stock lower",
      "content_text": "What a \"beat\" is measured against, and why a raised forecast does not settle the price reaction, using the 8-Ks that GE Aerospace, General Motors and 3M furnished before the open on 20 October 2026 and that day's Yahoo Finance closes.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "tracking-earnings-season-in-sec-edgar",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/tracking-earnings-season-in-sec-edgar",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/tracking-earnings-season-in-sec-edgar",
      "title": "How to track earnings season in SEC EDGAR, filing by filing",
      "content_text": "Earnings season leaves a trail on SEC EDGAR: Form 8-K filings that list Item 2.02. We show how to count them, using the first three weeks of October 2026 as the worked example.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "why-volatility-falls-after-earnings-amazon-july-2026",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/why-volatility-falls-after-earnings-amazon-july-2026",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/why-volatility-falls-after-earnings-amazon-july-2026",
      "title": "Why volatility falls after earnings, worked with Amazon’s July report",
      "content_text": "How one earnings-day move can dominate a stock’s variance, and why volatility measures drop once the event has passed. Worked with Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs daily closes around their 2026 releases.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "ecb-euro-reference-rates-daily-fixing-and-crosses",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/ecb-euro-reference-rates-daily-fixing-and-crosses",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/ecb-euro-reference-rates-daily-fixing-and-crosses",
      "title": "How the ECB sets its daily euro reference rates, and their limits",
      "content_text": "What the ECB’s euro foreign exchange reference rates are, how the daily fixing is set, and how to invert them and build dollar crosses, worked through with the rates for 20 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-to-read-the-us-cpi-report",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-us-cpi-report",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-us-cpi-report",
      "title": "How to read the US CPI report, using the September 2026 figures",
      "content_text": "What the monthly Consumer Price Index release contains, why its two headline rates use different index series, and how to redo them from BLS index levels, worked through with the September 2026 report.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-to-read-the-us-jobs-report-payrolls-and-unemployment",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-us-jobs-report-payrolls-and-unemployment",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-us-jobs-report-payrolls-and-unemployment",
      "title": "Reading the US jobs report, from payrolls to the unemployment rate",
      "content_text": "What the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes in the monthly Employment Situation report, how its two surveys differ, and how revisions and sampling error change the reading. Worked with the September 2026 report, released on 2 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-to-read-the-fed-dot-plot-and-economic-projections",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-fed-dot-plot-and-economic-projections",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-fed-dot-plot-and-economic-projections",
      "title": "How to read the Fed’s dot plot and Summary of Economic Projections",
      "content_text": "What the Fed’s quarterly projections and its dot plot show, and what they do not, worked through with the September 2026 projections, the June set before it and the target range on FRED.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-to-read-cftc-commitments-of-traders-report",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-cftc-commitments-of-traders-report",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-cftc-commitments-of-traders-report",
      "title": "How to read the CFTC Commitments of Traders report, with gold and oil",
      "content_text": "What the Legacy, Disaggregated and Traders in Financial Futures reports each cover, how the trader groups map onto each other, and a worked example with COMEX gold and NYMEX WTI crude for 13 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "trading-week-review-market-context-small-samples",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/trading-week-review-market-context-small-samples",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/trading-week-review-market-context-small-samples",
      "title": "Reviewing a trading week against what the market actually did",
      "content_text": "The market half of a weekly review, worked with the S&P 500 and E-mini futures for 12 to 16 October 2026 and the official calendars for that week, and why a week or two of trades says little about an edge.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "bitcoin-daily-weekly-close-utc-and-cme-weekend-trading",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/bitcoin-daily-weekly-close-utc-and-cme-weekend-trading",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/bitcoin-daily-weekly-close-utc-and-cme-weekend-trading",
      "title": "Bitcoin’s daily and weekly close, and how CME books the weekend",
      "content_text": "Bitcoin never stops trading, so a “close” is a choice of clock and venue. We explain the UTC day used for spot BTC-USD, CME’s afternoon settlement in Chicago and its weekend trade dates, with weeks and weekends from September and October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "bitcoin-futures-basis-cme-spot-cash-and-carry",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/bitcoin-futures-basis-cme-spot-cash-and-carry",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/bitcoin-futures-basis-cme-spot-cash-and-carry",
      "title": "How to compute the bitcoin futures basis from CME and spot closes",
      "content_text": "What the gap between CME bitcoin futures and the spot price is, why it closes at expiry, and how to annualise it and set it against Treasury bill and SOFR rates. Worked with Yahoo Finance daily closes for 19 October 2026 and three earlier dates.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "futures-margin-initial-maintenance-mark-to-market",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/futures-margin-initial-maintenance-mark-to-market",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/futures-margin-initial-maintenance-mark-to-market",
      "title": "Futures margin explained: initial, maintenance and daily settlement",
      "content_text": "How CME Clearing sets initial and maintenance margin, how daily settlement moves cash between accounts, and how that differs from broker and prop-firm limits, with one E-mini and one Micro E-mini S&P 500 contract marked to market from 12 to 19 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-to-read-the-bea-advance-gdp-estimate",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-bea-advance-gdp-estimate",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-to-read-the-bea-advance-gdp-estimate",
      "title": "How to read the advance GDP estimate, using the Q2 2026 revisions",
      "content_text": "What the BEA’s first GDP estimate for a quarter measures, how its annualized rate is built, and how it was revised, worked through with second-quarter 2026 data from BEA and FRED.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-us-treasury-auctions-work-and-how-to-read-results",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-us-treasury-auctions-work-and-how-to-read-results",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-us-treasury-auctions-work-and-how-to-read-results",
      "title": "How US Treasury auctions work, and how to read an auction result",
      "content_text": "How Treasury sells notes in single-price auctions, and how to read the results release line by line, worked through with the 2-year note sold on 22 September 2026 and the 10-year reopening on 7 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "dividends-ex-dates-splits-close-vs-adjusted-close",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/dividends-ex-dates-splits-close-vs-adjusted-close",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/dividends-ex-dates-splits-close-vs-adjusted-close",
      "title": "Dividends, ex-dates and splits: a close versus an adjusted close",
      "content_text": "How a cash dividend and a stock split show up in a stock’s daily closes, how the adjusted close is built from them, and why total return differs from price return, worked through with JPMorgan Chase and Netflix.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "options-expiration-third-friday-exercise-and-settlement",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/options-expiration-third-friday-exercise-and-settlement",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/options-expiration-third-friday-exercise-and-settlement",
      "title": "How options expire: third Fridays, exercise style and settlement",
      "content_text": "How the clearing house’s rules set a listed option’s expiration date, who can exercise and when, how exercises settle, and how the $0.01 exercise-by-exception rule worked on the 16 October 2026 expiration.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "cme-globex-trading-hours-trade-dates-and-daily-bars",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cme-globex-trading-hours-trade-dates-and-daily-bars",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cme-globex-trading-hours-trade-dates-and-daily-bars",
      "title": "CME Globex hours, trade dates and what a futures daily bar is",
      "content_text": "How CME Globex splits a nearly 24-hour market into trade dates, why the settlement price is not the last trade, and how holidays and the US clock change move the times, worked with E-mini S&P 500 data for 19 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "how-prop-firm-rules-change-and-reading-a-rule-change-log",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-prop-firm-rules-change-and-reading-a-rule-change-log",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/how-prop-firm-rules-change-and-reading-a-rule-change-log",
      "title": "How prop firm rules change, and how to read a rule change log",
      "content_text": "Why a prop firm rule table is a snapshot with a date, what our rule change log records for each change, and three logged changes checked against the firms’ own pages on 21 October 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-21T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-20",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-20",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-20",
      "title": "Morning Briefing (Oct 20): Mega-Caps Lifted Nasdaq-100 186 Pts on Monday; VIX 18.44",
      "content_text": "Today’s cross-asset briefing synthesizes volatility-based 1-day and 5-day price ranges across S&P 500 (ES/SPY), Nasdaq-100 (NQ/QQQ), Gold, Crude Oil, and Bitcoin—alongside Mega-Cap index point attribution (+186.3 NQ pts / +34.5 ES pts), FRED 10Y Real Yields (2.74%), and CFTC institutional positioning.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-lucidtrading-2026-10-lucidmaxx-two-step",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-lucidtrading-2026-10-lucidmaxx-two-step",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-lucidtrading-2026-10-lucidmaxx-two-step",
      "title": "Lucid moves LucidMaxx to a two-step evaluation",
      "content_text": "Lucid moved its invitation-only LucidMaxx plan to a two-step evaluation and retired its tiered pricing, which the firm dates 10/04/2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-ftmo-2026-10-instant-account",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-ftmo-2026-10-instant-account",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-ftmo-2026-10-instant-account",
      "title": "FTMO adds an Instant Account that skips the evaluation",
      "content_text": "FTMO added the FTMO Instant Account, which skips the evaluation, with a 10% max loss, 3% max daily loss and a 30% consistency rule; the firm does not state a date.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-ftmo-2026-09-futures-launch",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-ftmo-2026-09-futures-launch",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-ftmo-2026-09-futures-launch",
      "title": "FTMO launches futures accounts",
      "content_text": "FTMO added FTMO Futures, traded on NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView; its announcement is dated September 2, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-takeprofittrader-2026-08-eval-3-days",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-takeprofittrader-2026-08-eval-3-days",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-takeprofittrader-2026-08-eval-3-days",
      "title": "Take Profit Trader cuts the evaluation minimum to 3 days",
      "content_text": "Take Profit Trader cut the evaluation minimum from 5 to 3 trading days for test accounts bought from August 17; existing tests keep 5.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-topstep-2026-08-wise-restored",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-topstep-2026-08-wise-restored",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-topstep-2026-08-wise-restored",
      "title": "Topstep brings back Wise payouts in three countries",
      "content_text": "Topstep restored Wise as a payout method for traders in China, Canada and the United Kingdom, a change the firm dates August 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-alphafutures-2026-07-advanced-activation-fee",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-alphafutures-2026-07-advanced-activation-fee",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-alphafutures-2026-07-advanced-activation-fee",
      "title": "Alpha Futures drops the activation fee on Advanced accounts",
      "content_text": "Alpha Futures dropped the $149 activation fee on Advanced accounts bought after its July 8, 2026 announcement.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-topstep-2026-07-octagon",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-topstep-2026-07-octagon",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-topstep-2026-07-octagon",
      "title": "Topstep replaces its performance bonus with a monthly leaderboard",
      "content_text": "Topstep retired the Live Performance Bonus for Live Funded traders in June 2026 and replaced it with the Topstep Octagon monthly leaderboard.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-topstep-2026-06-dll-payout-cap",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-topstep-2026-06-dll-payout-cap",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-topstep-2026-06-dll-payout-cap",
      "title": "Topstep doubles payout caps for traders who add a daily loss limit",
      "content_text": "Topstep doubles Express Funded payout caps for traders who add a Daily Loss Limit when buying a Trading Combine, a limited-time offer starting Tuesday, June 2.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-apex-2026-10-legacy-evals-back",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-apex-2026-10-legacy-evals-back",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-apex-2026-10-legacy-evals-back",
      "title": "Apex sells its Legacy evaluation accounts again",
      "content_text": "Apex is selling its Legacy evaluation accounts again for a limited time; the firm does not state a date.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-19",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-19",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/cross-asset-market-briefing-2026-10-19",
      "title": "Morning Briefing (Oct 19): Mega-Caps Dragged Nasdaq-100 263 Pts on Friday; VIX 18.67",
      "content_text": "Today’s cross-asset briefing synthesizes volatility-based 1-day and 5-day price ranges across S&P 500 (ES/SPY), Nasdaq-100 (NQ/QQQ), Gold, Crude Oil, and Bitcoin—alongside Mega-Cap index point attribution (-263.3 NQ pts / -44.4 ES pts), FRED 10Y Real Yields (2.78%), and CFTC institutional positioning.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "price-action-liquidity-sweeps-turtle-soup-market-structure",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/price-action-liquidity-sweeps-turtle-soup-market-structure",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/price-action-liquidity-sweeps-turtle-soup-market-structure",
      "title": "Failed Breakouts: What Raschke’s ‘Turtle Soup’ Actually Tests",
      "content_text": "Turtle Soup is a rule-based way to trade a breakout that fails: price makes a new 20-day extreme, then reverses back through the old one. Here are the published rules, what they are designed to test, and where they tend to break down.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "fundamental-trading-post-earnings-announcement-drift-pead",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/fundamental-trading-post-earnings-announcement-drift-pead",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/fundamental-trading-post-earnings-announcement-drift-pead",
      "title": "Post-Earnings Drift: What 50 Years of Research Does and Doesn’t Show",
      "content_text": "Stocks that report earnings well above or below expectations have historically tended to keep drifting in the same direction for weeks. Here is where that finding comes from, what the studies actually measured, and how some traders try to use it.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "algo-quant-trading-connors-rsi2-raschke-adx-ema-rules",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/algo-quant-trading-connors-rsi2-raschke-adx-ema-rules",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/algo-quant-trading-connors-rsi2-raschke-adx-ema-rules",
      "title": "Rule-Based Trading: Testing RSI(2) and Trend Pullbacks Honestly",
      "content_text": "Two published rule sets—Connors’s RSI(2) pullback and Raschke’s ADX “Holy Grail”—show the difference between buying dips inside a trend and buying the resumption of a trend. Here are the rules as published and the checks that keep a backtest honest.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-19T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "equities-options-earnings-iv-crush-and-vcp-breakout-playbook",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/equities-options-earnings-iv-crush-and-vcp-breakout-playbook",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/equities-options-earnings-iv-crush-and-vcp-breakout-playbook",
      "title": "Stage-2 Trends and Volatility Contraction: A Swing Trader’s Guide",
      "content_text": "Some swing traders only buy stocks already in established uptrends, and only after a quiet, tightening consolidation. Here is how Minervini’s trend template and Volatility Contraction Pattern describe that process, and how position size follows from the stop.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "crypto-perpetual-funding-rates-open-interest-and-24-7-atr-sizing",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/crypto-perpetual-funding-rates-open-interest-and-24-7-atr-sizing",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/crypto-perpetual-funding-rates-open-interest-and-24-7-atr-sizing",
      "title": "Funding Rates and Open Interest: Reading Crypto Leverage",
      "content_text": "Perpetual futures keep their price close to spot through regular funding payments between longs and shorts. Funding and open interest together give a rough picture of how much leverage is in the market. Here is how they work and how 24/7 trading changes volatility math.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-18T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-toponefutures-2026-10-no-dll-addon",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-toponefutures-2026-10-no-dll-addon",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-toponefutures-2026-10-no-dll-addon",
      "title": "Top One Futures adds a no-daily-loss-limit add-on",
      "content_text": "Top One Futures added an optional No Daily Loss Limit add-on at checkout for Elite ACCESS, Elite Daily and Ignite accounts from October 16, 2026, at about 30% extra.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-myfundedfutures-2026-10-studio-003",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-myfundedfutures-2026-10-studio-003",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-myfundedfutures-2026-10-studio-003",
      "title": "MyFundedFutures adds a $5K Studio plan",
      "content_text": "MyFundedFutures added Studio #003, a $5K plan for $75 with a static $250 Max Loss Limit, effective October 14, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-e8markets-2026-10-signature-futures-payouts",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-e8markets-2026-10-signature-futures-payouts",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-e8markets-2026-10-signature-futures-payouts",
      "title": "E8 cuts the number of Signature Futures payouts per account",
      "content_text": "E8 cut E8 Signature Futures from 5 to 4 payouts per account and lowered later payout caps for accounts bought after October 1, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-e8markets-2026-10-signature-futures-150k-drawdown",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-e8markets-2026-10-signature-futures-150k-drawdown",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-e8markets-2026-10-signature-futures-150k-drawdown",
      "title": "E8 lowers the drawdown on its 150K Signature Futures account",
      "content_text": "E8 lowered the E8 Signature Futures 150K end-of-day drawdown from $4,500 to $4,000 for accounts bought after October 1, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-tradeify-2026-09-select-payout-caps",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-tradeify-2026-09-select-payout-caps",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-tradeify-2026-09-select-payout-caps",
      "title": "Tradeify changes Select payout caps for new accounts",
      "content_text": "Tradeify lowered Select Flex payout caps and raised Select Daily payout caps for accounts bought after September 1, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-tradeify-2026-08-select-300k-v2",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-tradeify-2026-08-select-300k-v2",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-tradeify-2026-08-select-300k-v2",
      "title": "Tradeify cuts the Select 300K price to $349",
      "content_text": "Tradeify's Select 300K Version 2 costs $349 instead of $449 and has an $8,000 max loss limit and a $4,000 daily loss limit, for accounts bought from August 27, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-fundingpips-2026-08-2step-pro-min-days",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-fundingpips-2026-08-2step-pro-min-days",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-fundingpips-2026-08-2step-pro-min-days",
      "title": "FundingPips drops the minimum trading day on 2 Step Pro",
      "content_text": "FundingPips dropped the 1-day minimum on its 2 Step Pro evaluation for new and reset accounts from August 26, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-fundingpips-2026-08-2step-flex-min-days",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-fundingpips-2026-08-2step-flex-min-days",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-fundingpips-2026-08-2step-flex-min-days",
      "title": "FundingPips adds a 1-day minimum to 2 Step Flex",
      "content_text": "FundingPips added a 1-day minimum to each phase of the 2 Step Flex evaluation (80% split) for new and reset accounts from August 26, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-myfundedfutures-2026-08-inactivity-7-days",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-myfundedfutures-2026-08-inactivity-7-days",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-myfundedfutures-2026-08-inactivity-7-days",
      "title": "MyFundedFutures may close accounts after 7 days without a trade",
      "content_text": "MyFundedFutures may close one-time-payment accounts, including Sim Funded, after 7 calendar days without a trade, for accounts bought from August 25, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-mffu-2026-plan-lineup",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-mffu-2026-plan-lineup",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-mffu-2026-plan-lineup",
      "title": "MyFundedFutures moves to one-time evaluation fees",
      "content_text": "MyFundedFutures moved new evaluation purchases to one-time fees from August 25, 2026, selling Builder, Rapid, Rapid EOD and Pro instead of the Core and Scale monthly plans; existing subscribers keep their plans.",
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      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-toponefutures-2026-07-instant-2-payouts",
      "title": "Top One Futures lowers Instant Sim Funded payout limits",
      "content_text": "Top One Futures lowered the maximum per payout on Instant Sim Funded accounts by $500 at every size for accounts bought from July 27, 2026.",
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      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-toponefutures-2026-07-instant-2-drawdown",
      "title": "Top One Futures changes Instant Sim Funded drawdowns",
      "content_text": "Top One Futures widened the Instant Sim Funded drawdown on 100K and 150K accounts and cut the 150K daily loss limit to $3,000, for accounts bought from July 27, 2026.",
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      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-fundingpips-2026-07-2step-standard-10pct",
      "title": "FundingPips retires the 10% Phase 1 target option",
      "content_text": "FundingPips stopped offering the 10% Phase 1 profit target on 2 Step Standard from July 24, 2026; Phase 1 is now 8%.",
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      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-fundednextfutures-2026-07-rapid-bolt-ended",
      "title": "FundedNext Futures stops selling Rapid and Bolt accounts",
      "content_text": "FundedNext Futures stopped selling and resetting Rapid and Bolt accounts from July 10, 2026; existing accounts can keep trading.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-alphafutures-2026-07-direct-account",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-alphafutures-2026-07-direct-account",
      "title": "Alpha Futures adds a Direct Account with no evaluation",
      "content_text": "Alpha Futures added the Direct Account, which skips the evaluation for a one-time fee, available from July 7, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "rule-change-earn2trade-2026-06-ninjatrader-tradovate",
      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-earn2trade-2026-06-ninjatrader-tradovate",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-earn2trade-2026-06-ninjatrader-tradovate",
      "title": "Earn2Trade ends the Rithmic route for new NinjaTrader access",
      "content_text": "Earn2Trade moved new NinjaTrader access to the NinjaTrader-Tradovate connection only, ending the legacy Rithmic route, from June 2, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-apex-2026-03-consistency",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-apex-2026-03-consistency",
      "title": "Apex moves new accounts to a 50% consistency rule",
      "content_text": "Apex's accounts sold from March 1, 2026 use a 50% payout consistency rule instead of 30%; accounts bought before then keep their original rules.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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      "url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-apex-2026-03-mae-rr",
      "external_url": "https://proveyouredge.com/articles/rule-change-apex-2026-03-mae-rr",
      "title": "Apex drops the MAE and 5:1 rules on new accounts",
      "content_text": "Apex's accounts sold from March 1, 2026 have no MAE or 5:1 risk-to-reward rule; accounts bought before then keep their original rules.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-10-20T12:00:00Z"
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