Engineering deep-dives, trade postmortems, and opinionated takes from the team building PipSync. No growth hacks, no LinkedIn platitudes — just what we are learning as we ship.
These are field notes, not finished essays. Some posts cover launch-readiness work still pending — flagged in-line where relevant.
Prop firms have changed dramatically since 2023. Tightened rules, payout caps, broader instrument restrictions. A long-form breakdown of what passing — and getting paid — actually requires now.
Volatility has come back. Not as the 2008-style crash variety, but as a regime where 3-5% single-day index moves and 8-15% single-day crypto moves are normal. A complete guide to risk controls that actually work in the current environment.
A long-form practitioner's guide to TradingView webhook reliability. Every silent failure mode we have ever debugged, the receiver architecture that survives the busy minutes, and the operational disciplines that separate working pipelines from frustrated traders staring at unfired alerts.
Gold's most-tradeable intraday window is the four hours when London and New York are both open. The character of the move inside that window has changed in 2026.