I started this year with $900,000 in funding, $400,000 with FTMO, $300,000 with FundedNext, and $200,000 with Seacrest.
I lost my FTMO and FundedNext accounts to a silly mistake, a weekend opening gap, and I was left with my $200,000 Seacrest account. Barely a week later, I got an email from Seacrest saying they were shutting down their prop firm to continue as a broker.
I was up $9,000 on the account at the time. I had to close the trade and request a payout, and surprisingly, I was paid. My account was terminated right after since they were no longer operating as a prop firm.
That was how I lost all of my funding. I went from $900,000 funded back to zero.
I decided to purchase a $200,000 FundedNext account, started afresh, and got funded again. Thatโs even the account Iโm currently requesting a payout from.
As of last week, I got funded again, $400,000 with FTMO. Ending the quarter with $400,000 with E8 Funding, $400,000 with FTMO and $200,000 with FundedNext.
Now, Iโm back to being $1 million funded.
This is a message to everyone out there. You can lose everything in one minute from one mistake, but as long as your skill is intact, you can always come back.
Rock bottom is a trampoline for the skilled.
everything worth doing has a learning curve
to learn any activity, itโs always easier to watch someone and follow their lead
than to listen to or read instructions
when it feels hard, remember the goal
the more you do something, the easier it becomes
even primarily mental skills, such as trading, are learned best through practice and repetition
you donโt learn trading by absorbing more theory
you learn by taking trades
reviewing them
refining them
iterating
and repeating the cycle
watching content feels productive
reading books feels productive
but execution is what builds skill
the more you execute, the more natural it becomes
you trade more selectively
review more precisely
refine more efficiently
thatโs the cycle of accelerated returns
reaching that cycle is the goal you must set for yourself