Fade & Ride: The Prop Firm Playbook

Stop trading on feelings. Start trading from a checklist.

Fade & Ride is the rules-based structure I use to trade index futures on prop firm accounts, written up so you can adapt it to your own charts. Two setups, one regime switch that decides which setup is even allowed, and a risk engine built to protect the account before anything else.

— Ruben, @senatorhodl

What's inside

• The Playbook (20-page PDF). How to read the 1-hour regime, the Fade and Ride setups with annotated diagrams, nightly level mapping, a session timeline, the risk engine, daily and multi-day circuit breakers, how to measure your edge, and the eight failure modes that wreck accounts.
• Worksheets & Desk Card (8-page printable PDF). A desk card with both checklists and the circuit breakers, plus a nightly level map, pre-market bias panel, trade card, session log, weekly review and setup graduation log.
• Trade Journal & Dashboard (Excel / Google Sheets). Log trades with dropdowns and get win rate, average R, expectancy, rule compliance, results by setup and regime, drawdown left, runway, a prop firm consistency check and a position size calculator automatically.

What you'll be able to do

• Call the market regime in one sentence and know which setup is allowed today
• Enter only when every box on a checklist is ticked, and log the setups you skip
• Size every trade with two caps so dollar risk stays fixed
• Turn your drawdown limit into a number of days you can survive
• Know your expectancy and rule compliance instead of guessing

Built for

Traders working prop firm evaluations or funded accounts on MNQ, NQ, MES or ES who lose more to rule breaks than to bad setups, and anyone running several accounts who needs real risk math.

Not for you if

You want signals, trade alerts, a shortcut to getting funded, or a promise of profits. This is a process, and it starts in log-only.

How it works

1. Buy and download instantly (one zip file).
2. Read the playbook once, fully.
3. Print the desk card and set up the journal's Settings tab.
4. Trade log-only first, then graduate to size with real data.

Format: 2 PDFs + 1 .xlsx (opens in Excel or Google Sheets). Instant digital download. Because it's a digital file, all sales are final. If a file is missing or won't open, email us and we'll make it right.

Educational content only. Not financial, investment or trading advice, and not a signal service. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. All examples and figures in the materials are illustrative and are not trading results. Past performance, including the author's, does not guarantee future results. Nothing here promises or implies profit.