Futures prop-firm trading, worked out together
2,000+ beginners and veterans compare evaluation rules, drawdowns
and payouts on a free Discord, then go deeper in XSR Academy.
Trusted by these trading teams and platforms
traders.ust
Trading alone gets you stuck
Bad information, no feedback and no discipline cost more accounts than bad charts ever will.
Scattered information
Prop-firm rules, drawdown limits and payout terms circulate second-hand, and the firms keep changing them. Get one detail wrong and the evaluation fee is gone.
Trading in isolation
Nobody reviews your trades and nobody disagrees with you, so the same expensive habit can survive for years without ever being named.
Watching is not doing
Courses are quick to buy and slow to finish, and finishing one still does not mean you can execute under pressure. That gap is where most study time is lost.
Three pillars that make trading a repeatable skill
Information, method and discipline. The community keeps the first two current; the academy is where the third is practised.
Futures prop-firm intel
Evaluation rules, daily loss limits, trailing drawdown and payout conditions, tracked and tested by members who trade them.
US stock research
Pre-market discussion, watchlists and an event calendar, so you know what you are waiting for before the opening bell.
Technical analysis method
xStarRiver's framework: read the price structure first, define the area in advance, then wait for the market to come to you.
Everything you need to trade with a plan
Practise on real futures data, pick the right prop firm, learn the method and review every trade — all in one XSR account.
Backtest Lab
Replay six years of real NQ futures tick by tick, with 21 ICT concepts marked the moment they form.
Prop-firm hub
Rules, drawdowns and payout terms for every firm side by side — plus XSR discount codes.
Topstep
Apex
Tradeify
XSR
Discord
金十数据
TradingView
NinjaTrader
Take Profit Trader
IBKRXSR Academy
Courses on prop-firm foundations, futures and funded risk management, plus an ICT strategy library — with certificates.
XSR AI & community
Ask XSR AI about your trades or a chart, then talk it through with members on Discord.
Trading journal
Import trades from your platform and see win rate, R multiple and plan adherence.
Every trade, reviewed in one trading journal
This is the XSR trading journal after you sign in. Log a trade in one line — the P&L, win rate and equity curve move with it.
Equity curve
Closed P&L, added up in the order you traded.
Recent trades
Trades ↗Wherever you are in the journey, there is a seat for you
The same room holds brand-new accounts and funded traders.
Question
How much margin does one micro futures contract need, and can I trade it overnight?
How a question gets answered
Margin for one micro contract is currently around..., with overnight sessions running until.... These are community-maintained reference numbers — always confirm with the exchange and your broker...
Recent discussion
Clear allThe platforms and firms we actually use
TradingView and NinjaTrader for charting and execution, Topstep, Apex and Tradeify for evaluations and payouts — someone in the community has used each one and will tell you honestly how it went.
- TradingViewCharting & execution
TradovateCharting & execution- NinjaTraderCharting & execution
DeepChartsCharting & execution- Interactive BrokersCharting & execution
TradesyncerCharting & execution
VantageCharting & execution- DiscordCommunity & research
Forex FactoryCommunity & research- 金十数据Community & research
Read the price first,
then wait for the high-probability area
xStarRiver's technical analysis framework is not a prediction engine. It is a written answer to one question: when should I not trade? Read the structure, wait for the market to reach the area you defined, then execute.
Read the structure
Use market structure, key levels and volume to decide whether the market is trending, ranging, or simply not worth trading.
Wait for your area
Define the entry zone and the invalidation point before the session starts, and only act where you have an edge.
Control risk and review
Every trade gets a risk cap and a journal entry, so the result can be reviewed, corrected and repeated.
Journal note:
2 of 3 trades were inside the plan. The third chased the move — fix that one first.
Product interface illustration, not a performance record.
Simple, transparent pricing
Start free. Subscribe when you outgrow the free limits — or take the course once and keep everything for good.
- Create a free account
Free
The community and every tool, up to the free limits.
US$0/forever
- Full Discord community access
- Daily pre-market notes and weekly live review
- Prop-firm rules tracker
- Journal, prop-firm budget and backtest lab within free limits
- Free preview of every strategy
- Subscribe to Pro
Pro
RecommendedNo tool limits — and your subscription keeps XSR running.
US$19/month
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited trading journal
- Unlimited prop-firm accounts and payouts
- The full backtest lab toolset
- Unlimited XSR AI trade logging
- Cancel any time
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Course
The whole academy and every tool without limits, for good.
US$1,660one-off
- 13 video classes · 91 lessons · 9 drills and labs
- Verifiable certificate on completion
- Every strategy trade record
- Everything in Pro, no subscription
- One payment, lifetime access
- Optional 1-on-1: US$2,680, with 8 calls of 60 minutes and follow-up for life
Where your US$19/month goes
Pro pays for what it costs to keep XSR running — servers, market data and site upkeep — and funds the community giveaways and donations.
The free limits are still being set and will be published before Pro billing opens. Course students are never limited.
Questions traders ask before joining
Straight answers about the community, the academy, prop-firm information and what any of it costs.
XSR is a Chinese-language trading community founded by xStarRiver. We focus on futures prop-firm information, US stock research and practical technical analysis. 2,000+ members use the free Discord, and XSR Academy adds structured courses, tick-data replay labs and a verifiable certificate.
The Discord community is free, permanently. Click the invite link and you are in. A free account opens every tool up to its free limits. Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription that lifts those limits, and the course is a one-off payment that unlocks the whole academy and every tool for good.
Yes. There is a beginner channel and foundational material covering the vocabulary, the platform mechanics and risk concepts, so you can learn the language before joining the live discussion.
Lessons are recorded video, so you can work at your own pace and rewatch anything. The replay labs are not video — they are interactive: you trade a real tick tape and the mission is scored. Course access does not expire: one payment, lifetime access.
It rebuilds a real trading session tick by tick and hands you the order ticket. You place the entry, set the stop, size the position, and the server grades the outcome against the mission. A lesson explains how the method works; the lab shows whether you can apply it under pressure.
Pro is a subscription for the tools: it lifts the free limits on the journal, the prop-firm budget, the backtest lab and XSR AI for as long as you subscribe. The course is bought once and unlocks everything — the course library, the tick-data labs, the certificate and every tool without limits — with no renewal.
Each certificate carries a code like XSR-2025-8K4P2M and resolves on a public verification page showing the holder, the course, the average assessment score and the issue date — no account required. It records completion of a structured curriculum. It is not a licence, and it is not a promise that you will trade profitably.
The course is 13 video classes of 90 minutes, about 19.5 hours in all, cut into short lessons and released class by class; most people spend longer on the drills and in their own journal. The community rhythm is lighter: a pre-market note before the open and a review afterwards, around 15 minutes a day.
Members share their own test results alongside the latest published rules, and rule changes are tracked as the firms make them. Terms change often, so always confirm against the firm's official documents before you pay a fee or place a trade.
On the futures side, mostly the evaluations and payouts at Topstep, Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify and Take Profit Trader; for charting and execution, TradingView, NinjaTrader and Interactive Brokers come up most. Each firm treats Hong Kong and Taiwan residents differently, and the prop-firm comparison page marks this firm by firm — firms that refuse residents of either are not listed.
No. We share research, method and reviews — never individual investment advice and never signals. We cannot guarantee that you pass an evaluation or make money, and every trading decision and its risk stays with you.