Challenges
Challenges are curated trading scenarios designed to test your skills under specific market conditions. Each challenge gives you a defined instrument, date, and timeframe — your job is to trade it as profitably as possible.
What are challenges?
Unlike free-form practice where you pick any date and instrument, challenges drop you into a pre-selected market scenario. You might face a trending day, a choppy range-bound session, a news-driven spike, or a slow grind. The conditions are chosen to test specific trading skills.
Every challenge participant trades the same scenario, which means results are directly comparable. Your P&L is ranked on a leaderboard against other traders who attempted the same challenge.
Challenge types
Pre-built challenges with specific market conditions
Curated scenarios are hand-picked trading sessions chosen because they present interesting or difficult market conditions. Each scenario includes:
- Instrument — The futures contract or forex pair (e.g., NQ, ES, GC)
- Date — The specific historical date
- Timeframe — The chart timeframe you trade on (e.g., 1m, 5m)
- Description — A brief note about what makes this scenario notable (e.g., “FOMC announcement day,” “Trend day with clean breakout,” “Range-bound chop”)
Curated scenarios are available at all times. New scenarios are added regularly.
A new challenge every day
Daily challenges rotate automatically each day. Every trader sees the same daily challenge, creating a shared experience and a fresh leaderboard every 24 hours.
- A new challenge appears at midnight UTC each day
- The previous day’s challenge remains accessible in the archive
- Daily challenges are designed to be completable in a single sitting (typically 15-30 minutes of market replay)
- The leaderboard resets with each new daily challenge
Daily challenges are a great way to build a consistent practice habit.
How to attempt a challenge
- Navigate to Challenges from the sidebar
- Browse available challenges or select the current daily challenge
- Read the scenario description to understand the market context
- Click Start Challenge to load the scenario
- The dashboard opens with the instrument, date, and timeframe pre-configured
- Trade the session using any approach — manual orders, keyboard shortcuts, or bracket orders
- When you are done (or the session data ends), your results are automatically submitted
- View your ranking on the challenge leaderboard
Streaks
Streaks track consecutive profitable challenge completions. Each time you finish a challenge with a positive P&L, your streak counter increases by one. A losing challenge resets your streak to zero.
How streaks work
- Start — Complete any challenge with a positive P&L
- Continue — Complete another challenge profitably on the next calendar day
- Break — Finish a challenge with negative P&L, or skip a day
- Display — Your current streak is shown on your profile and the challenge page
Streaks encourage daily practice and reward consistency over time. They are a personal metric — there is no streak-based leaderboard.
Leaderboard
Each challenge has its own leaderboard ranked by net P&L. The leaderboard shows:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Rank | Your position relative to other participants |
| Trader | Username |
| Net P&L | Total profit or loss from the challenge |
| Trades | Number of trades placed |
| Win rate | Percentage of winning trades |
| Best trade | Largest single trade profit |
Leaderboards are visible to all users but only Pro subscribers can submit results.
Free vs Pro challenges
- View all challenges and leaderboards
- Cannot attempt challenges or submit results
- Daily challenges are visible but locked
- Streaks are not tracked
- Full access to all curated scenarios and daily challenges
- Submit results to leaderboards
- Unlimited attempts per challenge
- Streak tracking enabled
- Priority access to new challenge types as they are released
Tips for challenges
Read the scenario description first
The description often hints at what kind of market conditions to expect. “Trend day” suggests you should look for continuation trades. “Choppy session” suggests tight stops and quick exits. Use this context to adjust your approach.
Start conservatively
You do not know the exact market conditions until the chart starts building. Place smaller trades at the beginning and increase size once you understand the session’s character.
Use your best timeframe
Challenges fix the instrument and date but some allow you to choose your chart timeframe. If you are a scalper, use 1-minute charts. If you prefer structure, try 5-minute charts. Trade the timeframe you are most comfortable with.
Learn from the leaderboard
After completing a challenge, look at the top performers. How many trades did they take? What was their win rate? If the top trader made 3 trades while you made 25, you may be over-trading. If they had a 90% win rate, study what entries they might have used on that specific session.