My friend trades $2,000,000 every single day and doesn't own a single dollar of it
Not his money. Not borrowed money. Not investor money.
He applied to 10 different prop firms. Passed the challenges on 9 of them. Each one gave him $50,000-$200,000 in funded capital to trade with
Total capital under management: $2.1M
His own money invested: roughly $8,000 in challenge fees
Monthly income: $60,000-$90,000 depending on the month
He keeps 80% of all profits and risks absolutely nothing except the original challenge fees
If he blows an account? He loses access to that firm's capital. That's it. No debt. No collections. No credit hit. He just buys another $200 challenge and passes it again in 2 weeks
I asked him why he doesn't just trade his own money at this point
"Why would I risk my money when companies will literally pay me to risk theirs? I use my profits to buy real estate. I never put a personal dollar in the markets"
Here's his exact system for scaling to 20 funded accounts, because nobody explains this part:
He didn't start with 20 accounts. He started with one. Passed it in 12 days. Got his first payout 30 days later. Used part of that payout to buy 5 more challenges simultaneously
Here's the key: he trades the same setup on every single account. When his strategy signals an entry, he opens a trade copier and executes the same trade across all of them. Takes about 90 seconds total. One decision, 20 executions
His actual trading process every morning:
6:00am. Wakes up. Reviews the daily chart of ES (S&P 500 futures) and NQ (Nasdaq futures). Marks the key levels from overnight: where did price consolidate? Where are the obvious liquidity pools? Where are yesterday's highs and lows?
9:15am. Opens a copy trader. Pre-sets his position sizes on each one based on the account rules (usually 1% risk per trade, which on a $100k account means his stop loss risks $1,000 maximum)
9:30am. Market opens. He does nothing for the first 5 minutes. Just watches. Lets the initial chaos settle. He's looking for one thing: a liquidity sweep followed by a reversal
9:35-10:00am. If the setup appears, he executes across all accounts. Entry, stop loss, take profit. All predefined. If the setup doesn't appear in the first 30 minutes, he waits until 10:00-10:30 for the second window
10:30am. If he hasn't taken a trade by now, he's done for the day. Closes all platforms. Goes to the gym. Most days he takes 1 trade. Some days zero. Rarely more than 2
11:00am. His entire work day is over by 11am regardless of what happened
The psychology of it is what gets me:
Normal person: saves for 15 years → builds $100k account → risks their life savings → can't sleep at night → makes emotional decisions because it's THEIR money → loses
Him: spends $500 → passes a test → trades $200k of someone else's money → sleeps like a baby because it's not his → makes logical decisions because losing the account means losing access, not losing savings → prints monthly
Same skill. Same market. Same charts. Completely different game because one person knows the system exists and the other is still saving up their own capital like it's 1995
He told me the funniest part is that most of his funded accounts took him less than 10 days to pass. Some firms even give you unlimited retakes for a small reset fee
"The whole thing feels like a glitch. I keep waiting for someone to patch it"
Nobody's patching it. The firms make money from the 90% who fail. The 10% who pass are basically getting subsidized by everyone who couldn't control their emotions for 30 days
$8,000 in. $900,000+ out over 14 months
The traditional finance world would call this impossible
He calls it Tuesday
I show you how to scale funded accounts inside my Discord. Which firms stack, how to manage multiple accounts, and the exact strategy I use across all of them
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Jack, age 40, earns Sh 60K monthly salary. He has accumulated Sh 700K savings. He is in dilemma on whether to start a business or pay for postgraduate studies. My take 👇
At 40 with Sh 60K and Sh 700K savings, this is the most dangerous decision point. One wrong move wipes 5 years of savings. >>
A man lost his entire savings to Forex.
He posted a video.
"This is just me letting go of the pain through my little talks..."
This is the part of trading no one posts about.
Being able to read COT reports in a correct way is the first step to grasp what's truly going on.
I'm honest in this. I haven't seen just one trader who are able to read COT reports properly in my life. (Except ICT)
I learned this from ICT and L.Williams
Read the Market Wizards chapter on Kristjan Kullamägi this weekend. The one section that really stood out was when he discussed his drawdown off of his 2021 peak.
"I started 2020 with $3.5 million and ended the year at $36 million. It was a thousand percent year. Then I ran that $36 million to a high of $105 million, and the last portion of that move from $65 to $105 million occurred in just a month and a half. For a brief period, just a few days, I was over $100 million. You have to understand what that did to my psyche. It made me feel completely detached from reality. I thought, “I’m going to get to $200 million in six months.” I was completely sure of that. I started seeing trading as a video game, which I kept winning.
Measured from my $105 million peak in November 2021 to my mid-2022 low, I lost approximately $60 million. About half of that loss represented the late 2021 retracement of the large open profits at the November peak to the stops on those positions. The initial retracement loss was so large because I was leveraged long at my peak. My long exposure was $150 million—a number I recall because I remember bragging about it to a friend"
These boom and bust type tales are as old as time. Look at Jessie Livermore as the classic example. Net worth of $0 in 1906 to a peak of $1.6 billion (inflation adjusted to 2021 dollars) in 1929. Just 5 years later he blew up and owed $104 million dollars to his brokers...
Or look at Paul Tudor Jones. Hit one of the most legendary trades in history, making roughly $200 million dollars during the 1987 crash. It cemented him as a legend. His mental coach Tony Robbins said that Jones consistently lost money for the next 4 years after that peak.
Dan Zanger parlayed $10,000 into $42 million during the late 90's. Then in late 2000 he took a 70% drawdown when he was 200% long 3-4 fiber optic stocks as the dot-com bubble was popping.
Charles Harris reached 8-figures status after he ran up his account over 4,000% from 2020-21, then experienced a -80% drawdown, mostly due to his big TSLA bet in 2021-2022.
I have seen a few people speculating on Kristjans story from the outside. Saying "I would have stopped trading at $100 million" or "I would have just taken that money and started investing". To those people I ask if you have ever experienced a real euphoric run in your trading account, let alone turning 5k into 100mil? Extreme winning streaks like the ones above breed overwhelming euphoria and overconfidence. The mind shifts its focus from process to outcomes, with ego-driven decisions overriding risk parameters and rules. From my experience I have found it near impossible to be aware of this at the peak of the run. It is almost like you are blacked out and the greed/ego completely takes over your trading.
Then the drawdown begins. The emotions shift from euphoria and greed to revenge, fear, and doubt. This is where things can really start to spiral out of control. It is only after the drawdown has run its course that you finally come back to your senses and your emotions drift back towards baseline levels. Then all you're left with is regret...
Few people ever talk about what a big winning streak can do to you. It can literally change the way you think and operate. Often the ability to achieve super returns is also its biggest drawback—a true double-edged sword. To be able to conquer both sides is the holy grail...
From the Hour Between Dog and Wolf by John Coates:
"When traders enjoy an extended winning streak they experience a high that is powerfully narcotic. This feeling, as overwhelming as passionate desire or wall-banging anger, is very difficult to control. Any trader knows the feeling, and we all fear its consequences. Under its influence we tend to feel invincible, and put on such stupid trades, in such large size, that we end up losing more money on them than we made on the winning streak in the first place. It has to be understood that traders on a roll are traders under the influence of a drug that has the power to transform them into different people."
If you are actively trading, avoid multitasking and using social media.
Focus on one thing only.
Eliminate all distractions.
The goal is to reach a state of flow. You can’t achieve that while mindlessly scrolling through social media.
Homework:
What setups were available based on the tape-reading we did together.
How many were there?
How would have each of them played out?
Max drawdown in each?
Total yield offered in each?
How many failed?
How many were profitable?
Minimum amounts to get started with various investments in Kenya:
1. Money Market Fund - Ksh 1,000
2. T-bills - Ksh 50K
3. T-bonds - Ksh 50K
4. Offshore stocks & ETFs - $1(Ksh 130)
5. Nairobi Securities Exchange - cost of 1 share of your favorite stock
6. REITs - Ksh 5,000
7. USD MMF - $100
8. Eurobonds - $20K
Which asset are you adding to your portfolio in 2026?
prop firms are giving away millions in capital
and you're trying to "pass" one challenge like it's a fucking exam
meanwhile smart traders are treating it like a business acquisition:
let me show you the psychology that turned $3k into $500k in capital:
most traders:
buy one $100k challenge for $300
pressure is MASSIVE
"i have to pass this or i wasted money"
overthink every trade
emotional breakdown when losing
usually fail
cry about losing $300
stacker traders:
buy ten $100k challenges for $3,000
pressure is DISTRIBUTED across 10 accounts
"i just need to pass half of these"
execute mechanically
don't give a fuck about any single account
eval stage is NOT real money
the goal is to pass as quick as possible
the psychology is completely different:
when you buy ONE challenge:
every loss feels catastrophic
"shit, i'm fucking this up"
you tighten up
you second guess
you break rules from fear
you fail
when you buy TEN challenges:
every loss is just data
"okay, that didn't work, next account"
you stay mechanical
you execute without emotional attachment
you pass half
the secret isn't being a better trader
it's REMOVING the emotional pressure
$3,000 isn't "buying 10 challenges"
$3,000 is acquiring $500k in trading capital
that's your Capital Acquisition Cost
now here's the business math:
once you pass 5 challenges = $500k funded
month 1: 5% return on $500k = $25,000 payout
your ROI on $3,000 investment = 733%
compare to traditional model:
save up $100k personal capital (takes years)
trade it yourself
make 5% = $5,000/month
or
spend $3k on challenges (takes one month)
get $500k capital
make 5% = $25,000/month
which is smarter?
here's the psychological cheat code:
use a trade copier
execute ONE trade
it copies to all 10 accounts simultaneously
you're not "managing 10 accounts"
you're executing ONE system with 10x capital
setup:
- buy 10 challenges
- trade copier software
- ONE strategy
- execute once on main account
- copies to all other accounts
- trade 5 accounts at a time
pass 5 = $500k capital acquired
fail 5 = expected, you planned for 50% pass rate
the guys making $50k+/month from prop firms aren't better traders
they just understand CAPITAL ACQUISITION PSYCHOLOGY
prop firms are HOPING you think small
"let me carefully pass this one challenge"
while stackers are thinking:
"let me acquire as much capital as possible"
you're playing by their rules
stackers are playing the actual game
prop firms expect:
retail trader buys 1 challenge
feels massive pressure
fails emotionally
buys another
fails again
repeat
they make money on challenge fees
stackers flip it:
buy 10 at once
distribute emotional pressure
pass half
collect payouts
rinse and repeat with multiple firms
prop firms lose money on stackers
but stackers are only 2% of traders
the other 98% are you
buying one challenge at a time
feeling massive emotional pressure
failing
repeat
"but $3,000 is expensive"
vs saving $100,000 in personal capital?
$3k to acquire $500k is CHEAP
you're just scared to think like a business
this is capital acquisition
not "challenge passing"
prop firms are capital sources
you're acquiring their capital
at $3k acquisition cost
or you can keep trying to "pass" one challenge emotionally
while your competition stacks 10 and prints
your choice