People laugh when they see traders studying charts for hours.
Same people will never understand what financial freedom feels like.
Hard work always looks strange before it starts paying off.
This tweet is a great example of why we traders must stay consistent with reasonable targets and proper risk management.
Risk management is NOT only trade management. It’s not just “I risked 1% on funded and 2% on challenge accounts.” That’s only part of it.
As prop traders, we also need to manage challenge expenses and stay realistic with our goals.
He said: “I breached multiple master accounts without any payout.” That happened to me too and the reason is often the same: unrealistic targets.
He made $36k from 7 payouts, which averages around $5.1k after split. But who can consistently make 6–7% every cycle on a $100k account? That’s not a reasonable target, and it’s very hard to sustain long term.
I’m sure if he had aimed for 2–3% payouts instead, the payout amounts might’ve been smaller, but challenge costs would’ve been much lower and overall profitability much higher.
Prop firm traders should always be reasonable.
My life after highschool
- Got a job
- Made 100k in crypto at 19yo
- Lost it all after 1 month
- Start SMMA because of iman at 20yo
- Business failed
- 50k in debt because of crypto and business failed at 20yo
- Worked 2 jobs 80 hours a week
- Got introduced to trading by amas and William
- 1 year later 500k in payouts at 23yo
This is my story
Never give up