As you dey post your wins, abeg post your losses too.
Make your followers understand say trading no be bed of roses.
No trader wins every single trade. Losses are part of the game, even for the best traders.
If all you ever show is profits, people go start believing consistency means never losing. Then the day dem take one loss, dem go think say something don spoil.
Show the good days and the bad ones.
People deserve to learn the reality of trading, not just the highlight reel.
That shortcut to profitability you’re looking for will first cut your account short, then cut your confidence short and if you’re not strong enough it might cut your life short before it ever cuts your journey to profitability short.
Find your edge, focus on the process.
There’s this peace of mind that comes with being able to analyze, trade and withdraw without needing external help. Pure bliss
Every trader deserves to experience this.
The Day I Stopped Lying To My Mother
She asked me for ₦20,000
I told her I didn’t have it.
I had it.
It was sitting in an account I was about to blow on a strategy I found on YouTube
I chose the account over her.
She walked away and didn’t ask again for three months.
That silence broke me more than any losing streak ever did.
I remember staring at my screen that night.
Red candles everywhere.
My challenge account looked like my life.
Down. Down. Down.
I wasn’t trading the market anymore.
I was trading my mother’s dignity.
That was the night I deleted every “get rich quick” strategy off my laptop.
I opened a notebook instead.
Wrote one rule at the top.
“Protect the account like it’s protecting her”
Six months later I passed my first challenge.
@Maventrading first.
Then FTMO
First payout hit my account. $2K
I didn’t celebrate.
I drove straight to her house.
Put the money in her hands.
Didn’t say a word.
She looked at me the way she used to before I disappointed her.
I built a career on that look.
Not on winning trades.
On never wanting to see her disappointed again.
Talk about the days when loneliness has nothing to do with being alone. The days you ignore calls, avoid people, and disappear. Not because you don’t have family or friends, but because there’s a war inside your head that words could never explain.
I pray for every king fighting battles in silence. May the day come when your smile is no longer something you have to force.
I started trading in 2022.
For the first year, I traded only personal accounts. I wasn't consistently profitable, but I refused to quit.
In mid-2023, I bought my first prop firm challenge. I passed it and got funded in just five weeks through strict discipline.
Ironically, I lost that funded account within the same week.
Not because my strategy stopped working.
But because I became obsessed with getting my first payout as quickly as possible.
That was my biggest lesson.
From 2023 until May this year, I went through one of the toughest seasons of my trading journey. I remember crashing out on a space ending last year with @CableAnalyst.
I bought multiple prop accounts.
Some I lost in Phase 2.
Some I lost with just 0.5% left to get funded.
Every time, I wanted to blame the market.
But eventually, I had to face the truth, I was the problem.
It got to a point that you just can't afford to repeat those silly mistakes again 😪. I just had to go all in with the démon in me.
So I stopped searching for a new strategy and started working on myself.
I doubled down on studying.
I refined my system.
I became more mechanical.
I learned to detach from individual trades and trust my process instead of my emotions.
That shift changed everything.
Last month, by the grace of Allah, I got funded again. It didn't feel special because I knew I have been in that position 3 years ago and couldn't get payout.
I received my first prop firm payout😢.
Then I passed another challenge and got funded again.
What I spent almost two years chasing started happening within a single month.
This journey has taught me something I'll never forget:
The market rewards discipline more than it rewards intelligence.
I'm nowhere near where I want to be.
I haven't arrived.
I'm still learning.
I'm still making mistakes.
I'm still growing.
That's exactly why I'm going to document this journey here, the wins, the losses, the lessons, and everything in between.
My goal is simple for the year is simple,I want to scale my funded capital to at least $100,000 before the end of the year, by staying disciplined one trade at a time.
If you're a trader who's struggling right now, I hope my journey reminds you that your current chapter doesn't have to be your final chapter.
The goal isn't just to become profitable. It's to become the kind of person who can sustain success.
Alhamdulillah. The journey continues.
@CableAnalyst@Fznation01@Techriztm@oluoftrades@DipoAdepoju I appreciate you all for your impact, God bless you all ❤.
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