Dean Johnson

@AlphaCapitalUK prop trader. 🙏

$NQ only 🤝

Real trades 📈
Real lessons 📖
Real growth! 🚀

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

My name is Dean, I'm 34, a driver and personal trainer. I have a beautiful woman in my life and a soon to be 1 year old. I'm currently in the process of becoming a funded trader with @AlphaCapitalUK. My why is my son. Let's make it happen.

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

If it’s not broken don’t fix it!

[Alpha Futures @Alpha_Futures_]

Please read below for some very important announcements

Firstly, Alpha and NinjaTrader (Tradovate) are parting ways. Since the launch of AlphaTrader, our partnership with NinjaTrader has been difficult due to the view that we now own and operate a competing platform, throughout discussions over the past 3 months we have not been able to come to an adequate agreement regarding
1) signing our platform AlphaTrader onto the NinjaTrader back end
2) their concerns that we would promote both platforms fairly and equally.
They have ultimately decided to terminate our contract effective 12th July, this further results in us not being able to issue new accounts on the ninja trader platform from the 12th (today)

This termination was ninjas decision, whilst this was not the outcome we wanted, we also respect their decision in putting their business and platform interests first as we have also done.

Next, the Premium Plan: we launched a plan that was a requested style as popular among the industry- we paid out more than $25m on this plan alone over the last two months, and at a significant loss.

As you have all seen, we were making tweaks to try to continue to offer this plan sustainably, however paired with this termination of our contract with ninja trader and the fact that the majority of premium plan accounts are on the Tradeovate platform, it is simply not possible to continue to run a plan that was already at a loss without this popular platform choice.
This would have only accelerated this plans losses over the coming weeks and months.

As a result, All active Premium Accounts will be refunded and closed. This includes all pending/unpaid payouts on the premium plan beyond the $25m + paid already on this plan.

All we can do is deeply apologise and refund users that have an active account on the premium plan.

We made a mistake launching a plan we thought would be great, and unfortunately it was not.

We are going back to our roots that made us a successful and leading futures firms for 2 years.

We are the first firm to ever payout $100m + in CFDs and $100m in Futures, we did not want it to come to this, but it is truthfully the best path forward to make sure we payout another $100m to our traders.

All other plans and accounts remain unaffected - service will resume as normal but with a change in platform.
All existing Zero, Advanced, and Direct Accounts on Ninja Trader /Tradovate will be transferred to AlphaTrader this week.
We will be getting back to same day payouts, our typical 5 star services, continuing to invest in our own ecosystem and support our healthy partnerships with other third party platforms.

We had every intention to continue the partnership with NinjaTrader as a typically offered 3rd party platform, but we respect their decision and wish them the best in future endeavors.

We will follow up with several updates throughout the week confirming successful completion of migrated accounts which we will aim to do fast in the coming days along with refunding active accounts on the premium plan (no need to create a ticket and request a refund, this will be automatic)

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@LumiTraders On the mini we had a 4Hr FVG also the NWOG 15/06

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@DodgysDD Bro go Monzo!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

I fucking love this!

[Nitin_Sharma @nitin_sharma800]

A trader just posted his $10,000 payout certificate.

Here is what it took to get there.

10 years of trading.

0 profitable years.

Penny stocks. Lost.

Options. Lost.

Forex. Lost.

Futures. Still losing.

3 years of prop firms.

Mental breakdowns.

Accounts blown from greed.

Months when he made nothing.

May 2026 — on the verge of quitting.

Took the entire month off.

Did not trade once.

Came back in June with one change:

Switched from the 1-minute chart to the 5-minute chart.

That was it.

$20K in payouts in June.

$10K more in July.

$30K in 31 days.

10 years of losing.

One month of patience.

His last line said everything:

"Just stop gambling and sizing up."

Not a new strategy.

Not a new prop firm.

Not a new indicator.

Just discipline applied to what he already knew.

This is the most underrated trading story I have read all year.

Retweet for the trader who is on the verge of quitting right now. 🔁

Reddit Post Link:
https://t.co/4NonKrXNUc

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@CoopsICT Come to futures!!!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@I_Am_The_ICT Very sexy boss man! Very sexy indeed! 🔥🔥

[Nitin_Sharma @nitin_sharma800]

A trader just posted his $10,000 Lucid payout.

Here's what he went through to get it:

5 months of losses.

Had 5 funded accounts in April.

Was eligible for a $4K payout.

But greed wanted the max $5K.

He blew all 5 accounts the next day.

Sat in silence.

Took a few weeks' break.

Came back and refined everything.

What actually changed:

→ Removed the 1-min chart — switched to 5-min only

→ Set a clear stop loss on every single trade

→ Used the 9/30 WMA for directional bias

→ Practiced patience — waiting 10-20 mins for retrace

→ Built an AI chatbot to keep himself accountable
The strategy didn't change that much.

The discipline did.

$10,000 payout. June 2026.

The only difference between his April self and his June self?

He stopped letting greed make decisions.

Retweet if this story hits close to home. 🔁

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@CoopsICT I mean cfd’s.

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@CoopsICT Bro I respect you but I would never touch fx again!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@TradeDadLog You that little man in your profile pic think of him next time you are 3k up. 🍩

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@AdamWTrades How many minis?

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@I_Am_The_ICT Nameste!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@I_Am_The_ICT Michael, I have just profited over $1700 from hitting that low. That is the biggest trade I have ever done on a funded account. That one trade will pay for my mortgage, thank you for everything you do. I was crying when that tp hit! God bless you Sir!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@Benjamin_SMC I love lucid!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@Benjamin_SMC @TradingLucid I larped!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@I_Am_The_ICT Ladies and gentlemen in case you didn’t know Michael is as sarcastic af! lol! Lots of love @I_Am_The_ICT 🙏

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@I_Am_The_ICT Wow!

[Dean Johnson @deansfxdiary]

@DodgysDD 🙏