My trading background:
$1,300,000 in prop firm payouts
Graduated college with a Quant Finance degree @ age 19
Turned down an industry offer to trade prop firms full time
New to X, posting on Instagram and YouTube mainly (@itsjjsimon)
Day 37 daytrading to my 2nd million in profit (not just payouts)
$1,408,400/$2,000,000
MFF paid, expecting more from tradeify, GFF, TPT tomorrow. about 15k
People ask if the payouts are real
I screen recorded every dashboard, posted two full months of 100k payouts, and the 1099s back it up
The receipts are the brand
Turned $6,436 into $100,700 on Lucid
I'm not telling you to chase that
I shot for a 3x and the variance handed me more
Aim for 3x, protect the downside, let the math run
February 3rd last year I had my first funded account win
16 months later it's 1.5 million in payouts
Nothing about the strategy changed, only the number of accounts
Live trading and prop firm trading are two different sports
On live your goal is equity
On a prop firm your goal is to not have draw down
Optimize for the rules you're actually playing under
Lost 50k of funded balances in a single day once
Traded the wrong contract, dropped 6k in 20 seconds, then martingaled the rest
That day taught me more than any green month ever did
One account at a time fixes your psychology faster than any course
You lose 1200, next trade you make 1800
Take 20 of those a day and the law of large numbers does the work for you
First six figure month was 125k in July
Then August, September, October, November, December all six figures
The first one is skill plus work
The rest is just refusing to change what works
If your strategy only works once a day you're capped
Build something that fires on every session open
5 trades a day beats one perfect trade a day every single time on props
The trailing draw down is what kills you, not the market
Risk too small and it eats you slowly
Risk too big and you break the consistency rule
There's a number in between and that's the whole game
The firms aren't scamming you
They wrote the rules in the help center and you didn't read them
They make money on people who skip the math
So do the math