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The Prop Desk Shelf
The only shelf written from inside real proprietary firms: how SMB Capital trains, reviews, and builds playbooks, plus the coach their kind of trader reads.
1
One Good Trade
Inside SMB Capital, a real proprietary firm: how desk traders are trained, reviewed, and cut, and what separates the survivors.
For prop traders: Written from an actual prop desk. The review culture it describes is the culture an evaluation is silently grading.
2
The PlayBook
Build your own playbook: define each setup with its best conditions, size by setup quality, and archive trades so your best patterns get the capital.
For prop traders: Directly usable: a written playbook is what keeps size decisions from being made mid-drawdown.
3
The Daily Trading Coach
101 short lessons you work through like a coach-led program: journaling, self-talk, pattern change, and building on strengths.
For prop traders: The closest thing to a prop desk coach in book form. Built for daily review habits, which is what evaluations quietly test.
4
Enhancing Trader Performance
How elite performers in any field are actually built: deliberate practice, feedback loops, and turning your own trade data into training.
For prop traders: For traders who already journal and want a system for improving, not just recording.