# Trader psychology and process — The Prop Standard

> The part that is not the rules: sizing risk against a limit you do not control, and the habits that survive it.

**Source:** https://thepropstandard.com/guides/psychology-and-process  
**Publisher:** The Prop Standard — independent analysis of the prop trading industry  
**Byline:** Editorial Team

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## What this guide covers

Writing a trading plan that fits inside an evaluation’s rules rather than breaking under them. Sizing risk from the distance to a breach rather than a fixed percentage, why the trade after a loss is the expensive one, what to log in a journal when the rules are the constraint, trading the last stretch of a profit target, and what to do after a failed evaluation.

Nothing has been published in this guide yet.

## The other guides

- [Passing evaluations](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/passing-evaluations) — The mechanics of getting funded and staying funded: the rule types that end accounts, and which one bites first.
- [Money and taxes](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/money-and-taxes) — Fees, splits, payouts and filings — what a funded account actually pays, and what it costs to get there.
- [Trust and risk](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/trust-and-risk) — Who you are handing your money to: registration, regulation, rule-change history and what happens when a firm closes.
- [Platforms and futures](https://thepropstandard.com/guides/platforms-and-futures) — The execution layer: MT4 and MT5, TradingView, NinjaTrader and Tradovate, and how futures evaluations differ.