---
title: "Prop challenges, competitions and SHA-256 verified pages"
slug: "prop-challenges-competitions-and-verified-pages"
kind: "HELP_ARTICLE"
category: "virtual-accounts"
locale: "en"
canonical: "https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/prop-challenges-competitions-and-verified-pages"
published: "2026-10-27T02:08:30.885Z"
updated: "2026-10-29T19:02:36.838Z"
description: "Practice prop-firm rules in challenge accounts, join virtual trading competitions and share a public track record verified by a SHA-256 hash chain."
---

# Prop challenges, competitions and SHA-256 verified pages

Once your strategy or trading method becomes profitable in forward testing, two questions remain: first, can you hold up under strict prop-firm rules (daily loss limits, maximum drawdown and minimum trading days)? Second, how do you prove your profitability to others without relying on screenshots that anyone can fake? The **Challenges** and **Competitions** tabs and the SHA-256 verified public page are built for those two goals.

Example: before buying a $100,000 prop-firm challenge, you start a challenge in the **Challenges** tab with a 10% profit target, 5% daily loss limit and 10% maximum drawdown, and once you pass it, you share the account's public page link so any visitor can click **Check the log** to verify the SHA-256 chain of every trade.

## Practice prop-firm challenges in the Challenges tab

On the [Virtual Accounts](<https://app.forecastcity.com/journal/virtual-accounts>) page, open the **Challenges** tab to view ready-made challenge templates:

-   Start challenge: click **Start challenge** on a challenge card to create a dedicated challenge virtual account with locked evaluation rules.
    
-   Automatic evaluation rules: the account tracks four metrics in real time: profit target, daily loss limit, maximum drawdown and minimum trading days.
    
-   Start new attempt: if a loss limit is breached and the challenge fails, click **Start new attempt** to begin a fresh attempt from the start and carry your connected strategies over to the new challenge account.
    

![Virtual Accounts page showing the Challenges and Competitions tabs and the challenge quick-start card](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/2d/2d6f200921a7a6af1bd72daa15defa6aef5e196ce018ebab0fadf350ba0ee3c0.png)

Virtual Accounts page with the Challenges and Competitions tabs

1.  Tabs for the four sections: **Accounts**, **Strategies × accounts**, **Competitions** and **Challenges**.
    
2.  The **\+ New virtual account** button in the top right.
    
3.  Virtual account cards and their progress status.
    
4.  Prop-firm challenge quick-start card for practicing under real evaluation rules.
    

## Join trading competitions in the Competitions tab

In the **Competitions** tab, you can enter time-boxed competitions against other traders:

-   Click **Join competition** on an active competition card.
    
-   A dedicated virtual account is created for you with the same starting balance, leverage and rules as every other participant, and you can track your rank and percentage return on the leaderboard.
    

## SHA-256 verified public page and Check the log

In the **Settings** window of any virtual account, turn on **Public page** to give your account a dedicated public share link:

-   Cryptographic verification with **Check the log**: every action on a virtual account (opening a trade, moving a stop loss, closing a trade or changing settings) is hashed with the previous entry in a SHA-256 chain. Clicking **Check the log** (either in account settings or on the public page) recalculates and verifies the entire chain from the first entry to the last, proving that no losing trade was deleted or altered.
    
-   Strategy privacy and dollar-amount control: the verified public page shows your percentage return curve, trade count, drawdown and hash-chain verification status, while your strategy rules, formulas and private notes are never exposed; in settings, you can also hide dollar amounts so visitors only see percentages.
    
-   Quick sharing and Telegram connection: click **Copy text** to copy a ready-to-share track-record summary and verified link, click **Share to Community** to post your percentage return card to the trading community, or connect account notifications to your Telegram.
    

![Virtual account Settings window showing the Public page section, Check the log button, sharing options and Telegram connection](https://m.forecastcity.com/t/tnt_forecastcity/media/60/60c311cc0ac7ba3be0443ed2b3b20b4e6f18d891f8bd886d7be86acadcaa7e81.png)

Virtual account Settings window with Public page, Check the log and sharing options

1.  General settings, cost profile and account risk limits.
    
2.  The **Public page** and hash-chain verification section: share link and SHA-256 chain check with the **Check the log** button.
    
3.  **Copy text**, **Share to Community** and Telegram connection options.
    
4.  The **Danger zone** section for resetting, archiving or deleting the account.
    

## See also

-   [Virtual Accounts: start here](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/virtual-accounts-start-here>)
    
-   [Create virtual accounts, set cost profiles and risk limits](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/create-and-manage-virtual-accounts>)
    
-   [Manual paper trading, chart management and shadow trades](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/manual-paper-trading-and-shadow-trades>)