Written by Miles Rowan Keene
As Senior Market Strategist at PropLynq, I write about market structure, trading psychology, and risk-first execution. My focus is on turning complex market behavior into clear, actionable lessons for both developing and experienced traders. I specialize in educational content covering funded account rules, drawdown management, trade planning, and strategy refinement, with the goal of helping traders build consistency through discipline, preparation, and a deeper understanding of how professional trading environments operate.
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Learning how to backtest a trading strategy is not about scrolling left until you find a chart where the setup would have worked. Forex backtesting, historical testing and strategy validation all start earlier than that: with rules written before the result is visible. A setup such as an opening range breakout strategy or an RSI […]
Internal vs External Liquidity in SMC Explained
Most charts built around Smart Money Concepts become confusing for a simple reason: traders start labeling liquidity before they decide which range they are analyzing. If you are trying to understand internal vs external liquidity, the useful distinction is not “small liquidity versus big liquidity.” It is location. Internal liquidity sits inside a defined trading […]
Best Instant Funding Prop Firms in 2026
Buying speed in a prop account is not the same as buying easier rules. Instant funding prop firms remove the evaluation phase, but direct-funded accounts, no-evaluation programs and straight-to-funded models still decide how much room you can lose, when profits become withdrawable and what can close the account. If you are comparing a prop firm […]
Footprint Imbalance Trading Explained
Most traders first meet footprint imbalance trading as a colored number on a footprint chart: one side lights up, the ratio looks extreme, and the obvious conclusion is that buyers or sellers have taken control. The useful idea is narrower. A bid/ask imbalance, order flow imbalance, or footprint-chart imbalance shows where one side executed far […]
Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Outflows explained
A Bitcoin transfer into Binance, Coinbase or Kraken is visible on-chain before anyone outside the wallet owner knows why it happened. That is why bitcoin exchange inflows outflows are useful and dangerous at the same time: exchange inflows, exchange outflows, netflow and exchange reserves show where coins moved, not what order comes next. A deposit […]
best two step prop firms in 2026
Finding the best two step prop firms in 2026 is not really about finding the cheapest challenge. It is about finding the evaluation that gives you the best chance of actually reaching a funded account. Two firms can offer the same 5% daily drawdown and 10% maximum drawdown, yet one can require significantly more profit, […]
Cumulative Volume Delta in Crypto explained
Every crypto trader has watched the same thing happen. Price grinds higher for six hours, the candles are green, volume looks healthy, and the chat is calling it strength. Then one candle takes back the entire move. Nothing on a standard chart explained it, because a standard chart only shows you where price ended up […]
RSI divergence strategy explained: entry and exit
The rule fits on a sticker. Price makes a higher high, the Relative Strength Index makes a lower high, momentum is fading, so sell. That single sentence is the whole of the RSI divergence strategy as most traders learn it — a bounded momentum oscillator disagreeing with price action, a bearish reading treated as an […]
Cheapest Prop Firm Challenge for forex and futures
Sort any comparison site by price and the top of the column reads seventeen dollars. Twenty-two. Twenty-three. Those are real numbers for real evaluations, and traders hunting the cheapest prop firm evaluation usually stop reading right there, because the entry price is the one thing on the page that arrives already denominated in money. Everything […]
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