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Guides on trading funded accounts, platform updates, and company announcements.
Drift Fund launches the industry's first spot funded accounts for crypto traders
Drift Fund introduces funded accounts that trade real spot crypto — no leverage, no liquidations — alongside its futures and MetaTrader 5 offering.
Read more →Trading around high-impact news: how the ±5-minute window works
The news rule is the most misunderstood rule in prop trading. What counts, what breaches, why it includes crypto — and how to trade around it cleanly.
Read more →How payouts work at Drift Fund — and why every one is on-chain
The full path from profit to your wallet: the thresholds, the timeline, the split — and the transaction hash that lets anyone verify it happened.
Read more →Position sizing: the one formula that keeps your account alive
Most breached accounts die the same way — a position too large for its own stop-loss. One line of arithmetic prevents it permanently.
Read more →1-Step, 2-Step or Instant Funded: which challenge actually fits you?
The honest trade-offs between our three routes to a funded account — cost, speed, drawdown style — and how to pick based on how you actually trade.
Read more →The Drift Fund rule book, explained in plain language
Every rule our risk engine enforces — profit target, drawdowns, stop-losses, news windows and consistency — explained the way we wish every prop firm would.
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