Guide

Prop firm signals: what to check before you follow them

By Veyra · Updated October 2026 · About Veyra

If you trade a prop-firm challenge or a funded account, the first question isn’t which signals to follow. It’s whether your firm lets you follow signals at all, and on what terms. Here’s what I’d check, and how my NQ signals fit around those rules.

Every firm writes its own rules, and they change. Read the current version on your firm’s own website or help center. This page doesn’t replace it.

1. Are third-party signals allowed?

Some firms let you take trades from an outside signal provider as long as you place each order yourself. Others restrict it or ban it. Many treat copy trading, meaning software that mirrors someone else’s trades into your account, separately from manually taking a signal.

In your firm’s rules, look for sections on third-party signals, copy trading, trade copiers, group trading or account management.

My membership doesn’t include a trade copier. I call each signal live in the Discord during the stream, and you decide whether to take it and place the order yourself.

2. Your daily loss limit and drawdown

Challenges and funded accounts usually come with a daily loss limit and a maximum drawdown, and some drawdowns trail your highest balance.

Every signal I call comes with a stop, so you know the risk before you enter. A stopped-out signal is −1R. Size each position so that a stopped-out signal, and a few in a row, stay well inside your daily limit. Position size is always your decision.

3. Consistency and news rules

Some firms cap how much of your total profit can come from a single day, or restrict trading around scheduled economic news. The live session starts at the 9:30 a.m. New York open, and some US economic releases come out at 10:00 a.m. New York time, inside the session. Check what your firm allows before you trade around them.

4. NQ, MNQ or NAS100

I call the signals on NQ, the E-mini Nasdaq-100 future. MNQ, the Micro E-mini, tracks the same index at the same price with a tenth of the size, so the levels carry over directly, and it’s easier to keep size small.

On CFD prop-firm accounts the Nasdaq-100 is usually listed as NAS100 or US100. Its price can differ slightly from NQ, so adjust entry, stop and target to your instrument.

5. Timing and execution

The signals are called live during the stream, so you need to be watching to follow them. You enter after the call, and your fill can differ from the posted entry because of timing, slippage and your platform.

The session runs Monday to Friday for the first 2–3 hours of the US session, from the 9:30 a.m. New York open. That’s usually 14:30 in London and 15:30 in Paris or Berlin, an hour earlier for a week or two in March and in autumn when the clocks change on different dates.

Before your first signal

• Your firm allows trading from third-party signals placed by hand.
• You know your daily loss limit and maximum drawdown, and your position size fits inside them.
• You know whether your firm restricts trading around news.
• You’ve picked your instrument (NQ, MNQ or a NAS100/US100 CFD) and know how its price compares to NQ.
• You can watch the session from the 9:30 a.m. New York open.

What my signals don’t do

Following the signals does not guarantee you’ll pass a challenge or keep a funded account. The positive-R refund is based on the signals as posted, not on your account: if the total R of my signals over your billing month is zero or negative, that month’s $200 is refunded in full. It’s a refund policy, not a guarantee of profit.

Futures and CFD trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Only trade with money you can afford to lose.