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From beginner guides to advanced strategies, market analysis to real trader interviews — explore everything Alpha Capital has to offer.
Market Insights
Latest from the Blog
GuidesWhat Is a CFD Prop Firm?
A plain explanation of a CFD prop firm: simulated forex and CFD trading, what you pay for, and where Alpha Capital fits if you want that market rather than futures.
GuidesCan You Trade a Prop Firm With No Swap Fees? (2026)
Which plans can turn overnight swaps off, what $5 per lot replaces them with, and why a weekend hold is a separate rule.
GuidesFirst Prop Firm Evaluation? 12 Things to Check Before Your First Trade
Your first evaluation trade should not be a test of whether you understood the rules. Use this 12-point checklist before you place it.
Market Analysis
Weekly Market Outlook
Macro recap, key levels, and the week ahead for equities, FX, commodities, and crypto.
Weekly ReportWeekly Market Outlook - October 5th, 2026
The bond selloff ran into a jobs miss, hike odds collapsed, and gold bounced off a hard low. Equities did not really join in. Mega-cap tech is still holding the indexes up while equal-weight, credit, and diesel tell a tighter story.
Weekly ReportWeekly Market Outlook – August 10th, 2026
Markets pushed higher on softer jobs data, strong earnings and broader participation, but positioning is becoming more crowded. With hedge funds fading the recent squeeze and August liquidity thinning, the trend remains constructive, just with more reason for caution.
Weekly ReportWeekly Market Outlook - August 3rd, 2026
The Fed held with three dissenters, the yen was rescued, and the S&P still rose 1.0% after a hedge-fund unwind. Cloud earnings carried the tape while Korean leverage washed out.
Trading Education
Resources for Every Trader
Guides for beginners, strategies for experienced traders, and prop firm comparisons.
GuidesBest Forex Prop Firm for UAE Traders 2026 (MT5 and USD)
How Alpha Capital works from the UAE: eligibility, a USD simulated account, MT5, and why the London open is late morning in Dubai.
GuidesBest Forex Prop Firm for Canadian Traders 2026 (MT5 and USD)
How Alpha Capital works from Canada: eligibility, a USD simulated account, MT5, and why the New York open is the usable session in Toronto and Vancouver.
GuidesProp Firm Lot Size: How Many Lots Fit a $100K Account? (2026)
The lot cap on a $100K simulated account, why two trades can breach it, and how the daily loss limit stops you before the maximum lot ever matters.
Trader Stories
Watch Our Best Traders Win
Real stories from funded traders — their strategies, challenges, and the moments that changed everything.
Trader StoryIzabela
Izabela moved from Brazil to the United States as a teenager, left the military, and built a US30 open strategy she kept for three years. She puts six figures in performance fees between January and March 2022 at other firms. Those numbers are hers. Alpha had only just started with her when the episode was recorded.
Trader StoryAbraham
Abraham started in crypto, lost money on bitcoin perpetual futures, then moved into CFDs and index scalping. He puts his first performance fee at about three years, and he still journals and backtests every day. The host's opening figure and Abraham's own year-by-year figures do not match. Both stay labelled as interview claims.
Trader StoryJake
Jake started in crypto, lost that money, then spent two to three years on gold, forex and NASDAQ. He says a passed 50K evaluation ran to about $11,000 and failed the day before he could request a performance fee. Since the end of July he puts his Alpha Capital performance fees at about $13,000.
