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Guides to the parts of futures scalping that decide outcomes: which contract you can actually trade, how much size the account allows, and why funded accounts fail.

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• Trailing drawdown: the first few thousand dollars are the dangerous partUntil the floor locks at your starting balance, profit buys you no extra room — so the account is most fragile on day one, not later.
• MNQ vs NQ for scalping: which should you trade?The choice is decided by your stop distance and drawdown limit, not preference — plus the commission cost of micros that rarely gets mentioned.
• Scalping Nasdaq futures: what makes NQ differentOne NQ contract carries more dollar risk than one ES contract despite the smaller point value — plus session structure and how to settle the timeframe argument with arithmetic.
• Futures scalping strategy: the five decisionsAlmost everything written about scalping is about entries — the least important of the five decisions a strategy has to make. Start here.
• How to evaluate a futures scalping indicatorEight questions, a ten-minute repaint test you can run yourself, and an honest account of the criteria our own indicator fails.
• The forward test logEvery session Falcon's signals are traded on a funded account, published in full — including the sessions where the mistake was ours.