What Prop Traders Know About Risk That Most Investors Ignore
What Prop Traders Know About Risk That Most Investors Ignore
Retail investors underperformed the S&P 500 by 6.1% annually over the past 20 years, according to Dalbar’s 2024 analysis. Research from Rayliant Global Advisors reveals individual traders underperform by 8.5% per year. This isn’t from picking wrong stocks—it’s from preventable behavioral mistakes that prop traders are forced to eliminate or lose everything.
Proprietary traders operate under different rules. One emotional decision and they lose access to their funded accounts. While prop trading and investing […]


