# MyTradingBuddy

> MyTradingBuddy is an AI-powered trading platform that analyzes your charts, scores your trades against your plan, and helps you pass prop firm challenges faster. It is an educational tool and does not provide financial advice, execute trades, or handle funds.

## Pages

- [Home](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/): AI-powered trading platform that analyzes your charts, scores trades against your plan, and helps you pass prop firm challenges.
- [Pricing](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/pricing): Start a 3-day paid trial of MTB Trader. With code MAKEBANK, that's $5.03/day forever — AI chart analysis, live trading tools, and automation.
- [AI Trading Sessions](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/ai-trading): Build a playbook, choose an AI model, and start a live AI Trading Session on TradingView or ProjectX, with optional automatic trade execution.
- [Chrome Extension](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/chrome-extension): Download the MyTradingBuddy Chrome extension. Chat, chart analysis, and AI agents that trade off your playbook — right on TradingView.
- [Prop Firm Challenge Guides](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/prop-firms): Compare prop firm challenges and learn how to manage targets, drawdown limits, and payout rules.
- [Affiliate Program](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/affiliate): Earn 25% commission (limited-time intro — going to 15%) referring traders to MyTradingBuddy. Get a unique 34% off forever coupon for your audience.
- [Contact](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/contact): Get in touch with the MyTradingBuddy team for support, partnerships, or questions about the platform.
- [Get Started](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/get-started): Create your MyTradingBuddy account and start your 3-day trial of AI-powered trade analysis.
- [Blog](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog): Educational notes on AI chart analysis and prop-firm process. RSS: https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/rss.xml
- [Alpha Futures Payout Rules (2026): Caps, Splits, Consistency and When You Actually Get Paid](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/alpha-futures-payout-rules): Alpha Futures payout rules for 2026: minimum days, consistency, caps and profit split, with the math on what a funded account really pays out.
- [Apex vs Topstep (2026): Drawdown, Consistency, Payouts and Total Cost Side by Side](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/apex-vs-topstep): Apex vs Topstep for 2026: drawdown type, consistency, payout rules and the full cost to get funded, compared side by side so you pick the right firm.
- [AquaFutures Payout Rules and Review (2026): What You Need Before the First Withdrawal](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/aquafutures-payout-rules): AquaFutures payout rules and review for 2026: account types, drawdown, consistency, caps and payout timing, plus what to check before you buy.
- [Best Futures Prop Firms (2026): Ranked by Drawdown, Consistency and Payout Rules](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/best-futures-prop-firms): The best futures prop firms for 2026, ranked on the rules that end accounts: drawdown before and after the pass, consistency caps, payout caps and fees.
- [Blue Guardian Futures Review (2026): Rules, Payouts and Who It Suits](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/blue-guardian-futures-review): Blue Guardian Futures reviewed for 2026: account sizes, drawdown, consistency and payout rules, costs, and which futures traders it actually suits.
- [Bulenox Payout Rules (2026): Master Account, Safety Reserve and the Consistency Math](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/bulenox-payout-rules): Bulenox payout rules for 2026, checked Oct 4: Master 10-day cycle, 40% consistency and safety reserve, plus Fast Track and Momentum caps and split.
- [Goat Funded Futures Review (2026): Rules, Payouts and Who It Suits](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/goat-funded-futures-review): Goat Funded Futures reviewed for 2026: account options, drawdown, consistency and payout rules, costs, and which futures traders it fits.
- [My Funded Futures Payout Rules (2026): Rapid, Builder and Pro, With the Math](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/my-funded-futures-payout-rules): My Funded Futures payout rules for 2026, checked Oct 4: Rapid daily payouts, Builder 50% consistency and $2,000 cap, Pro 14-day cycles and splits.
- [Payout Junction vs PropFirmMatch: How to Check a Prop Firm Actually Pays Before You Buy](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/payout-junction-vs-propfirmmatch): Payout Junction vs PropFirmMatch: what each payout tracker shows, where its data comes from, and a 5-step check before you buy a prop firm evaluation.
- [Phidias Propfirm Review (2026): Static Drawdown, Payouts and Who It Suits](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/phidias-propfirm-review): Phidias Propfirm reviewed for 2026: evaluation types, static vs end-of-day drawdown, payout rules and costs, and which futures traders it suits.
- [Take Profit Trader Rules (2026): The Test, PRO and PRO+ Explained With the Math](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/take-profit-trader-rules): Take Profit Trader rules for 2026: the Test, PRO and PRO+ accounts, end-of-day drawdown, consistency and daily payouts, worked through with real numbers.
- [Tradeify Payout Rules (2026): Select Flex, Select Daily, Growth and Lightning](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/tradeify-payout-rules): Tradeify payout rules for 2026, checked Oct 3: Select Flex every 5 winning days, Select Daily buffers, Growth 35% consistency and Lightning profit goals.
- [Lucid Trading Evaluation Rules: Flex, Pro, and Direct Compared](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/lucid-trading-evaluation-rules): Lucid Trading evaluation rules explained across Flex, Pro, and Direct: profit targets, drawdown limits, contract sizing, and the 50% consistency test.
- [Lucid Payout Rules: What a LucidFlex Payout Really Pays, With the Math](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/lucid-payout-rules): Lucid payout rules for LucidFlex, checked Sept 2026: five qualifying days, the 50% and $2,000 caps, the 90/10 split, and what one payout really pays you.
- [DLL in Trading: What a Daily Loss Limit Is and How to Set One That Saves the Account](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/dll-trading-daily-loss-limit): DLL in trading means daily loss limit. How prop firms enforce it, how it differs from max drawdown, and how to set your own DLL so one bad day stays small.
- [How to Pass Vest Capital: A 10% Target on a 6% Floor](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-to-pass-vest-capital): How to pass Vest Capital: size for the $300, $600 or $1,500 fixed drawdown, stay inside the 4% daily loss, and let the no-deadline rule do the work.
- [Is Topstep Legit? An Honest Topstep Review From Traders Who Read the Fine Print](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/is-topstep-legit): Is Topstep legit? What you pay, what the rules really cost you, how payouts work and what Trustpilot and Reddit complaints are about, checked in 2026.
- [Prop Firm Consistency Rule Explained: The Math, Traps, and Daily Caps](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/prop-firm-consistency-rule-explained): Prop firm consistency rule explained: how 30%, 40% and 50% caps work, real payout math, and how to stop one big day getting a withdrawal denied.
- [Topstep Payout Rules: How and When You Actually Get Paid](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/topstep-payout-rules): Topstep payout rules in plain English: eligibility, winning days, payout caps, the consistency rule and the mistakes that get payout requests denied.
- [Topstep Scaling Plan Explained: Contract Limits by Account Balance](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/topstep-scaling-plan): How the Topstep scaling plan works: how many contracts you can trade at each balance, when limits step up, and how traders break the rule by accident.
- [Topstep vs Lucid vs Tradeify: Drawdown, Consistency and Payout Rules Side by Side](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/topstep-vs-lucid-vs-tradeify): Topstep vs Lucid vs Tradeify compared on the rules that end accounts: drawdown type, consistency caps, daily loss limits and payout rules for 50K accounts.
- [Trade Buddy AI Chart Analysis: What a Good AI Read of Your Chart Looks Like (and What It Skips)](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/trade-buddy-ai-chart-analysis): What trade buddy AI chart analysis should give a prop-firm trader: levels, HTF context, a plan check, plus what no AI can promise.
- [Trailing Drawdown Explained: Intraday vs End of Day](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/trailing-drawdown): Understand trailing drawdown with a $50,000 account example. Compare intraday, end-of-day and static limits, then check your remaining risk buffer.
- [Vest Capital Review: What to Know Before You Buy a Vest Funded Evaluation](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/vest-capital-review): Vest Capital review: who runs it, what $60 to $275 buys, the fixed drawdown, USDC payouts, and the rules the docs do not publish yet.
- [Vest Capital Rules: Daily Loss, the Fixed Drawdown Floor and Payouts, With the Math](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/vest-capital-rules): Vest Capital rules in numbers: the 4% daily loss limit and its 8:00 PM ET snapshot, the fixed drawdown floor, the 90% split and on-demand USDC payouts.
- [Lucid Trading Flex Account Rules: The 50K Flex, Explained Before You Pay For It](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/lucid-trading-flex-account-rules): Lucid Trading Flex account rules, checked Sept 2026: the $2,000 drawdown, a 2-mini funded start, five $150 payout days and the 4:45 PM ET cutoff.
- [Nasdaq Futures Weekly Patterns: How Last Week Shapes This Week, Day by Day](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/nasdaq-futures-weekly-patterns-week-ahead): Nasdaq futures weekly patterns explained: what last week's Fed hike left on the NQ chart, how NQ trades Monday to Friday, and what this week's PCE changes.
- [How to Pass Lucid Trading: The Math, Not a Hero Trade](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-to-pass-lucid-trading): How to pass Lucid Trading: Flex, Pro, and Daily rules, then the buffer math that keeps one oversized NQ loss from ending the evaluation.
- [How to Pass Topstep: Two Days, a 55% Target, Then Don't Donate the Payout](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-to-pass-topstep): How to pass Topstep: keep the best day under 55% of the profit target, take at least two days, and protect the account when the max-loss floor hits $0.
- [The 80/20 of Reading a Chart: Support, Resistance, Order Blocks, Liquidity and Breakouts — Explained Simply](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/80-20-chart-basics-support-resistance-order-blocks): How to draw support and resistance zones, what an order block and a liquidity pool are, real vs false breakouts, and where to look for a pullback.
- [The Best Indicators for MyTradingBuddy: What to Put on the Chart So the AI Reads It Right (and What to Leave Off)](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/best-indicators-for-mytradingbuddy): The best indicators for MyTradingBuddy: volume, session VWAP, 20/50 EMA, Fibonacci and session shading, plus volume profile, RSI and ATR, with settings.
- [Best Times to Trade NQ: A Session-by-Session Guide for Prop Firm Traders](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/best-times-to-trade-nq): NQ trades 23 hours a day but pays in two or three windows. The New York open, the afternoon and London hour by hour (ET), the windows that kill evaluations, and a routine that respects the clock.
- [Early Signs a Trend Is About to Shift: What Institutions Watch Before the Chart Turns](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/early-signs-trend-shift): Early signs a trend is about to reverse: distance from the mean, the Fibonacci zones that matter, the first failed push, divergence, and timing.
- [How Institutions Move Price: What “Manipulation” Really Is, Why It Happens, and How to See It on the Chart](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-institutions-move-price-manipulation): How institutions manipulate price, or seem to: why price moves, stop hunts and false breakouts, why smart money does it, and when the move stops.
- [How to Pass My Funded Futures: Buffer First, Then Get Paid](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-to-pass-my-funded-futures): Builder, Pro, Rapid, and Rapid EOD rules — overnight flatten, consistency caps, and the micro-vs-mini math that keeps a $3,000 target from turning into a $2,000 trailing loss.
- [How to Pass Tradeify: 40% Days, Then Pick Daily or Flex](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-to-pass-tradeify): Select, Growth, and Lightning rules — why the evaluation consistency cap kills hero days, why micros beat filling the 12-mini cap, and the copy-paste playbook for passing then getting paid.
- [ICT Trader Basics: Killzones, Fair Value Gaps, the Judas Swing and How the Concepts Actually Fit Together](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/ict-trader-basics): ICT trader basics in one idea: price seeks liquidity at set times. Killzones, the Judas swing, FVG vs IFVG, order blocks, BOS/CHoCH and the entry sequence.
- [Reading NQ by the Clock: When the Big Candles Close, Where They Close, and Why It Matters](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/nq-candle-close-times-order-flow): NQ 4-hour candles close at 2, 6, 10 am and 2, 6, 10 pm ET (06/10/14/18/22/02 UTC in summer). How to read a 1H/4H close at support, resistance or an order block, the money-flow windows, and a routine.
- [Order Block Filled or Just Tapped? The 5 Checks Before You Enter](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/order-block-filled-or-tapped-5-checks): Order block filled or tapped? Five checks: wick close, the 50% line, displacement, lower-timeframe CHoCH and the retest, plus time and volume tie-breaks.
- [Prop Firm Payout Denied: What to Do (and How to Make It Hard for Them Next Time)](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/prop-firm-payout-denied-what-to-do): Payout declined? Get the rule in writing, pull your records, check the consistency/news/size rules, escalate in order, and the pre-trade habits that make denials hard next time.
- [Prop Firm Red Flags: What MyForexFunds Taught Us About Not Getting Burned](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/prop-firm-red-flags-how-to-not-get-scammed): MyForexFunds went dark overnight in 2023 — and the case against it was later thrown out. The 10 structural red flags that predict a prop firm going down, and how to size your risk.
- [The Funded Trader Shutdown: What Actually Happened, and What It Taught Every Prop Firm Trader](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/the-funded-trader-shutdown-what-happened): The Funded Trader paused payouts and operations in March 2024 after its broker and MetaTrader access fell away. The timeline, the numbers since, and how to protect yourself at any prop firm.
- [Trade Buddy AI vs MyTradingBuddy: Not the Same Thing (Here’s the Difference)](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/trade-buddy-ai-vs-mytradingbuddy): “Trade Buddy AI” is a screenshot-to-summary phone app; MyTradingBuddy reads your live TradingView chart for prop firm challenges. Side-by-side differences and which to pick.
- [Trading NQ Through High-Impact News: How to Prepare for the 200-Point Candle Without Getting Whipsawed](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/trading-nq-high-impact-news): Trading NQ during news: which releases move Nasdaq futures, why the 200-point spike reverses, how to prepare, and the only news trade that is a plan.
- [When to Use MyTradingBuddy (and When Not To): Best Times by Market, Timeframes to Check, and How to Read a Trend Flip](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/when-to-use-mytradingbuddy-best-times-timeframes): When to use MyTradingBuddy by market (NQ, forex, crypto, stocks), which timeframes to check first, six questions before a trade, and the trend-flip test.
- [Why Traders Fail Prop Firm Evaluations: It’s Execution, Not Analysis](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/why-traders-fail-prop-firm-evaluations): Evaluations are lost on execution: entering before the retest, sizing up after a loss, the third trade, midday chop, moved stops. The five failure modes and what passing traders do instead.
- [How to Pass a Prop Firm Challenge: It’s Process, Not Edge](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/how-to-pass-a-prop-firm-challenge-process-not-edge): Most prop-firm evaluations are lost on execution, not analysis. The exact routine, rules and checks that keep a correct read from turning into a blown account.
- [AI Chart Analysis: What It Actually Checks (and What It Can’t)](https://mytradingbuddy.ai/blog/ai-chart-analysis-what-it-checks): What AI chart analysis really does — levels, structure, higher-timeframe bias and your own playbook — what it can’t do, and how prop-firm traders use it before every entry.

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