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Guides on trading funded accounts, platform updates, and company announcements.
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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