FX Samurai

[Andrew NFX @andrew_nfx]

I spoke to a trader last year who took 6 months to pass a $100k prop firm challenge.

Not because he wasn't good enough.

Because he was risking 0.25% per trade on the eval.

'I didn't want to blow it' he told me.

I get it. The logic makes sense on the surface.

But here's what that caution actually cost him:

6 months of grinding a challenge account.

No payouts.

No funded capital scaling.

Just a slow crawl to 8% profit while risking almost nothing per trade.

The eval fee was $450.

In those same 4 months, a trader using a reset-and-go approach at 1-2% risk per trade would've either passed in a few weeks…

Or failed, paid another $150-200 reset fee, and passed the second attempt.

Worse case - two months in, passed, started getting payouts in month 3.

Best case - passed in the first attempt in under a month.

Either way, faster funded. Faster payouts. Faster scaling.

Here's the thing most people don't understand about evals:

Your goal on an eval is to PASS it - not to trade it like a funded account.

The eval is not where you make money.

The funded account is where you make money.

So if you're risking 0.25% on a challenge to 'protect' it…

You're protecting the wrong thing.

You're protecting a $450 fee instead of your time.

And time is the one thing you can't get back.

Once he understood this, he changed his approach.

1% risk per trade on evals. Treat it like a business decision, not an emotional one.

He passed his next two challenges in 18 days and 22 days respectively.

Was funded with $200k combined within 6 weeks.

First payout came 3 weeks after that.

Same trader. Same strategy. Same win rate.

Just a smarter approach to the eval phase.

Stop babying your challenges.

Pass them fast or fail them fast.

Either way - move on quickly.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

I once said, “Do not try to find meaning in losing trades,” and someone responded, “But it is important to learn from losing trades, because you can identify mistakes and failures through them.”
But that claim hides two mistaken assumptions.

One is the misunderstanding of “believing that individual results are somehow inevitable,” and the other is the thinking that “losses are bad.”

Losses are not bad, and meaningless losses naturally occur in a probabilistic world.

If the real purpose is truly to identify mistakes, such as rule violations, then winning trades should be reviewed in exactly the same way.
Because a winning trade that came from breaking the rules is extremely harmful.

In other words, what should be reviewed is the process itself, and whether it was a “win” or a “loss” is irrelevant.
And yet the moment someone limits that review only to “losses,” the hidden assumption is already there that losses are something bad, which is why that thinking is wrong.

If a strategy has positive expectancy, then you need to stop trying to find meaning in wins and losses, keep repeating a consistent process, and leave the individual results that arise there to occur naturally.

And the phase in which you learn something from wins and losses and refine that into the strategy is not something to be done in live trading based on one off outcomes.
It should be done in the testing phase in advance, using a large sample size.

[The Honest Trader @TheH0n3stTrader]

‣ Buy a $100K prop firm challenge.
‣ Pass it.
‣ Make 5% a month.
‣ Buy more prop firm evaluations.
‣ Repeat till you hit $2M in AUM.
‣ Make 3% a month (That's $48,000 after the 20% split)
‣ Start investing (Crypto, Businesses, Real Estate, ETC..)
‣ Don't stop till you reach $100M.
‣ Sell everything.
‣ Invest that $100M conservatively at a 5% interest rate (Maybe even more)
‣ Now you earn $5M a year without moving a damn finger.
‣ Buy a house somewhere on an island.
‣ Move there with your family.
‣ Enjoy every second of your dream life.

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

Once you realize time is all we have..

Things start to become very clear.

I hope it doesn’t take you long to realize this…

Unfortunately for me, I learned it very early in life. I lost both my parents to terminal cancer. If I had taken my trading more seriously, maybe I could have afforded better care for my father. Just one more month.. one more day… one more hour… would be worth any price tag.

Your journey as a trader has a BIGGER purpose.

Every time you click that button.. you have the ability to buy time. More flexibility to spend that time with loved ones. More money to afford proper insurance, better options for a healthier lifestyle, etc.

You have a duty to them.

If you are on this journey.. treat it with the seriousness it deserves.

I guarantee if you do.. you’ll turn into an unrecognizable savage when it comes to pursuing your goals.

[I_Am_The_Algo @I_Am_The_Algo]

Do not quit

I repeat do not quit

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

"Trading gives you freedom.
Work from anywhere, anytime, and earn as much as you want."

Many people start trading believing this.
Me.

Over time, I learned there is no freedom anywhere.

You must not trade whenever you feel like it.
If you trade to get the amount you want, you lose more than that.
You are required to act with relentless consistency.

There was no freedom anywhere.
But when I accepted all of it, I became free.

Rules decide everything, and all I do is follow them.
I no longer think.
I no longer hesitate.
I no longer suffer over results.
That was freedom.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Losses are not endured – they’re calculated.

In a serious trading business, every loss is a pre-defined cost inside a tested system, not a surprise or punishment. If you haven’t defined risk per trade and tested your rules over a large sample, then saying “losses are just costs” is only self-comfort, not understanding.

Turn every loss into a planned expense, not an emotional event.

Good night 😴

[Leon @MindMatterMoney]

Easiest ways to get rich:

1. Sell men lust
2. Sell women beauty
3. Sell parents peace
4. Sell kids dreams
5. Sell the rich safety
6. Sell the broke hope

Same game. Different packaging.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

The edge is not “no losses.”
The edge is “profit despite losses.”

If you can’t accept this,
you can’t trade.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

The more you try to control outcomes, the less control you actually have.

Surrender to probability, and you finally gain control.

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

[Tony Trades @ScarfaceTrades_]

I thank god everyday I never quit trading.

My brand new Lamborghini Revuelto.

Officially became the youngest owner in the country.

Never stop, keep pushing.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

The market dislikes people "controlled by money" and favors those "not controlled by money."

The more you think "I absolutely have to end the day in profit," "I need to make this much today," or "I have to recover my losses!" the more miserable outcomes await you.

The market isn’t a place where you can force your ego or greed to prevail.

Good night😴

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

Waiting, doing nothing is not laziness.

Patience reflects your understanding.
The number of trades is not something you can freely increase whenever you want.

You must not take trades outside of your rules.
Trading hastily lowers the quality of the trade samples you are collecting, and probability will not work in your favor.
Wait firmly, and collect only high-quality trade samples that follow your rules.

Even if you accidentally overlook and miss a trade, do not regret or chase it; wait for the next trade.
Missing a trade does no damage to your trade samples.
There's no need to rush.
Slowly collect only the high-quality ones.

High-quality does not mean winning trades.
It refers to trades that followed the rules of a system (strategy) with an edge.
For those who follow the rules, time is on your side.

Good night 😴

[Brandon Hong @brandank_cr]

@xSaltySatoshi Some of these market makers be committing heinous crimes in the order books

The only solution would be heavy regulation which would defeat the entire purpose of this industry to begin with

[Brandon Hong @brandank_cr]

$6b wiped out in 30min on $OM

This is the destiny for EVERY altcoin whether you like it or not

Crypto is for trading. Not investing

This industry is built on selling dreams built on worthless scams

You can polish a turd, but at the end of the day

It's still a piece of shit.

[A.K @Ali_Khan_ICT]

I stopped losing money the day I stopped trading candlesticks… and started trading time.

Most traders are watching the wrong thing.

Price moves because of time, not indicators.

Time + Price = Edge.

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

I think if you come into money, you should spend it how you want, within reason.

Nice watch? Go for it

Nice car? Go for it

Vacation? Go for it

My parents were pretty frugal their entire lives. Saved money at every corner.

Both of them passed away from cancer before I turned 35.

Money is replaceable.

Time isn’t.

[JadeCap @jadecap_]

Over $3M profit in 53 trading days.

The current p&l doesn’t show the other $13750 that I already received in payouts.

No affiliate commissions got me here.

No mentorship selling got me here.

14+ years of grinding did.

Either you build the skill, or you look to find an excuse for why I continue to win.

[Arjo @arjoio]

One trader is convinced that News trading is the only thing that works, and the other trader is convinced that Technical trading is the only thing that works.

Yet they both make money, how come?

Because they're both wrong and right at the same time.

There's no one-size-fits-all in trading because we're not all wired the same.

You should stick to something that resonates with you; don't stick to something because someone you look up to tells you to.

If you limit yourself to the belief that only 1 road leads to Rome, you’ll miss the shortcut meant for you.

If you try to convince people that there's only 1 way of trading and the rest is wrong, you're doing them a disservice because they might never find what truly resonates with them.

Even though they trade completely differently, traders should fight together against profitability, not fight amongst each other because they think their way of trading is "right."