Great — you’re diving into a high-skill area that rewards precision, discipline, and fast decision-making. Here’s a custom training and prep roadmap tailored to scalping futures + passing prop firm challenges using TradingView, Tradovate, or NinjaTrader:

Phase 1: Foundations (Week 1–2)

**Core Concepts to Master:**
  * Order flow and volume profile basics
  * Price action scalping techniques (flags, traps, VWAP bounces)
  * Understanding futures margins, tick values, and session volatility

**Recommended Training:**
  - Axia Futures – “Futures Trading & Order Flow”
     *   Site: axiafutures.com
     *   Focus on DOM scalping, footprint charts, and fast execution
  - Futures Fanatic (YouTube) – Great free education for real-time scalping setups.
     *   Futures Fanatic YouTube

**Phase 2: Platform Setup (Week 2–3)**

**Choose your weapon (or combo):**
        •       TradingView: Great for analysis, limited for execution unless linked with a broker.
        •       Tradovate: Clean UI, direct futures trading, often used in prop firm evaluations.
        •       NinjaTrader: Best for advanced order flow, DOM, and custom automation.

**Key Tasks:**
        •       Open a simulated account or demo funded challenge through:
        •       Leeloo Trading
        •       TopStep
        •       Apex Trader Funding
        •       UProfit
        •       Earn2Trade
        •       Connect to Rithmic (most prop firms use this data feed) and configure:
        •       DOM (Depth of Market)
        •       Bracket orders (e.g., 2-tick stop, 4-tick target)
        •       Hotkeys for fast entry/exit

**Phase 3: Scalping Strategy Building (Week 3–4)**

**[[GPTPLAYBOOK|GPT Scalping Playbook]]**

**Top Strategies to Backtest:**
        1.      Opening Range Breakout (1-min)
        2.      VWAP Reversion Scalps
        3.      Liquidity Sweep Rejections (ICT-style)
        4.      Order Block Break + Confirmation

**Tools & Scripts (TradingView):**
        •       Auto VWAP
        •       Liquidity Pool Indicators
        •       Sessions High/Low Markers
        •       Journaling via TraderSync or Edgewonk

**Phase 4: Prop Firm Challenge Simulation (Week 4–6)**

**Simulate These Conditions:**
        •       10–12 trading days minimum
        •       Profit target: ~$2,500–$3,000 on a $50k eval
        •       Daily loss limit: $1,000 (varies)
        •       Max trailing drawdown

**Recommended Firms (Scalper-Friendly):**
        •       Apex Trader Funding (frequent discounts, multiple resets)
        •       Leeloo Trading (great for fast payout timeline)
        •       UProfit Trader (simple rules, decent scaling)
        •       TopStep (respected but more strict)

**Bonus Tools:**
        •       Bookmap (order flow heatmap – pro level)
        •       NinjaTrader Add-ons: BloodHound, OrderFlow+, Volume Profile
        •       Tradovate DOM Setup: Customize brackets, visual trade tracking

**Mentors/Traders to Follow:**
        •       Futures Trader 71 (FT71) – Twitter, YouTube, Volume Profiling Master
        •       Axia Futures Team – DOM mastery
        •       ICT (Inner Circle Trader) – Concepts used even in futures scalping
        •       The Trading Lab (NinjaTrader content)

**Would you like me to create:**
        •       A weekly training tracker
        •       Strategy backtest templates
        •       A practice trading checklist
        •       Or connect your preferred platform to real-time prop firm sim tools?

Let me know your time commitment and I’ll customize it further.
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