This is how I see $BTC over the next months
June -> flat
July -> mini alt rally during bear
August -> dump to $50K
September -> fake bounce
October -> $40K bottom
November -> real bounce
December -> start of bull market
Bookmark this and come back at the end of the year.
A full week.
Zero trades.
You're completely fine with it.
This is the moment most traders never reach.
They confuse being busy with being profitable.
Doing nothing is doing something.
Sitting on cash while waiting for your setup is elite execution.
Activity kills accounts.
Trading can set you free
It’s a hard grind at the start
But when you become profitable and scale your funding
1-2 hours a day is all you need to make $100,000s a year
No bosses, no clients, no customers - just you and the charts
It’s the ultimate freedom
Prop trading is misunderstood.
Most people think it's free money to trade with. In reality, it's a risk management audition. The firm is asking one question: "Can this person not fuck this up while still being profitable?"
The traders who pass get this.
They show up with an actual strategy. Not "I'm pretty good at reading PA." A process with rules they follow every time. The challenge doesn't change how they trade. It's just another week of sessions.
They respect the drawdown limit like it's a cliff edge. They size knowing they need to survive a losing streak and still have room to work.
The traders who fail are a completely different animal.
No real strategy. Just vibes. Every trade is a fresh decision. Emotional as hell. A loss turns into a revenge trade, a win turns into "time to size up." They're not trading the chart anymore, they're trading their P&L.
And the killer: rushing the payout. The profit target feels like a countdown clock so they force it. Size up, take garbage setups, try to hero trade their way to funded. This is how most challenges die. Not slowly. Spectacularly.
The gap between passing and failing comes down to process.
Prop rewards discipline over skill. Always has.
Dear Mentor,
You never told me to trade more. You taught me to trade less. You taught me to wait for structure to form, to respect liquidity and to only act when price arrives at a level that makes sense.
Because of you, I stopped chasing candles and started letting price come to me.
You showed me that discipline is a strategy.
That patience is a position.
That no trade is also a decision.
While most people were screaming entries, you were quietly teaching context.
Because of that, my charts got cleaner. My losses got smaller.
My mindset got sharper.
I don’t trade perfectly but I trade intentionally now and that changed everything.
Thank you for giving clarity in a space full of noise.
Some of us are consistent today because you were consistent with knowledge yesterday.
Respect. Always. 💜
If you have a mentor whose content truly upgraded your trading,
not hype, not noise, but real understanding…
tag them. Let them know.