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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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 […]

Volume Profile Value Area explained: VAH, VAL and POC
Somebody draws three horizontal lines on a chart and calls the space between them value. The middle line is the point of control, the outer two are the value area high and the value area low, and the volume profile value area they enclose is where roughly seventy percent of the session’s business actually got […]

Bollinger Band Squeeze Strategy explained
Every chart eventually goes quiet. The candles shrink, the bands close in around price, and somebody says the same thing about a coiled spring. That is the moment a bollinger band squeeze strategy is supposed to earn its keep — volatility compression tightening into a narrow range, bandwidth collapsing toward the low end of its […]

Moving Stop to Breakeven: Why, When and How
Price is 20 pips onside. The trade is working. Your cursor is already on the stop-loss line, dragging it up toward your entry, and the feeling that arrives when you let go is relief — the position can no longer hurt you. That single action, moving stop to breakeven, is one of the most widely […]
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