Practical guide articles
Practical guides for entering trading tournaments — reading prize structures, choosing your first event, T&C red flags, and country-specific rules.
Practical guide2026-05-096 min read
How to choose your first trading tournament — a beginner's guide
Picking the right first tournament is mostly about avoiding three traps — heavy volume requirements, ineligible geo, and over-leveraged risk targets. Here's a practical framework for matching your starting situation to a tournament you can actually finish.
By Eugene Loza
Practical guide2026-05-099 min read
How to read a trading tournament prize structure (and spot the red flags)
A $1M prize pool doesn't mean $1M to the winner. Here's how to decode flat-vs-tiered-vs-proportional payouts, payout windows, and the T&C clauses that quietly reduce your real expected value.
By Eugene Loza