The IQ Capital Journal

2–5 Trades Per Day on the Minute Chart: Christian Böttger's Unusual Path to Becoming a Trading Expert

When you ask Christian Böttger at a party what he does for a living, you get a surprisingly understated answer: "I build websites on the internet." He usually only talks about trading when asked dir...

From $156 Million to 7 Years in Prison – and Back to the Markets: Robert Rother's Extraordinary Trading Story

Most trader biographies follow a predictable pattern: early losses, painful lessons, and eventually success. Robert Rother's story, however, defies all imagination… At 13, he bought his first stock. A...

Matthias Fernholz did not start his trading journey early, but he started it with intention. What he lacked in timing, he made up for with focus, discipline, and a fast, deliberate path toward scala...

How Consistency Turned Into Payouts

Two big Payouts in just three months - Turkan K. joined IQ Capital in September after discovering us through Bitbull. We spoke with Turkan about his journey, what changed in his trading, and what advi...

5 Reasons serious traders choose modern prop firms like IQ Capital

Have you ever felt like you were making solid trading decisions, but your account size simply wasn’t enough to make those results matter ? For many traders, the real bottleneck isn’t strategy or...

Why profitable traders still fail prop trading challenges

You can be a profitable trader and still fail every prop trading challenge. That confuses a lot of traders. They think the rules are not fair. Or they assume failure means they can’t trade. In most...

How to Find Your Trading Style

Many traders constantly switch strategies. Few ever question their trading style. They do this because they try to trade a system that doesn’t fit their life, their personality, or their tolerance fo...

The problem with prop trading and why Christoph Radecker built IQ Capital instead

Prop trading promises opportunity, scale, and financial freedom. But for many traders, the reality looks very different: unclear rules, shifting conditions, delayed payouts, and the constant feeling o...