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winners in 6 days.
i couldn't be more thankful for all of you along the way to 20k🫶
I was still in college 3 years ago.
Today I trade full-time while traveling the world.
I only became consistent after I stopped making these mistakes (avoid them):
if you're a new trader, focus on IRL to ERL trades
basically taking continuation setups from an HTF FVG, into an external DOL
reversal setups are much harder to master and you can get caught off side very easily
i love to say trading is the best job in the world...
it's changed my life, and the life of so many of my students.
but being brutally honest, 95% of you don't have what it takes to succeed.
you're just looking for a shortcut to make money.
you're not willing to put in the insane amount of work required to master this skill.
trading is a profession like any other, like a lawyer or a surgeon.
you need years of experience and thousands of hours of practice before you start seeing results.
i can say trading is easy just to sell you my course, but that would be dishonest.
trading is genuinely one of the hardest skills to master.
if you're not willing to put in the work, you might as well give up now.
but if you're willing to put in the work, it's the most rewarding skill you will ever learn
remember these 5 rules for this week:
- A/A+ setups only
- only take trades aligned with the HTF
- max 2 losses per day (close the charts after that)
- fixed $ risk per trade
- no revenge trading
stay disciplined and stick to the process, you got this
Most people blow their accounts because:
- They don’t have a stable source of income, so they need trading to pay the bills, which puts them under constant pressure and leads to poor decisions.
- Their ego gets in the way. They struggle to accept that the market can prove them wrong, and they hold onto losing positions instead of managing risk.
- They have a gambling mindset. For them, trading becomes a source of excitement rather than a disciplined business, making long-term success extremely unlikely.
Nothing else.
Trading is so hard , I won’t lie to you .
Been trading for 8 years straight, this game is not for the weak.
During profitable days you will be on top of the world , no formal job will be making sense to you
During unprofitable days , you will be questioning yourself if this is really worth it , are you wasting your time or not . You might even admire those doing 9-5
During rainy days , may you never give up
Sometimes your setup will form every single day of the week.
Sometimes it will only show up 3 days out of the week.
Sometimes out of the week, there will only be one clean day.
And sometimes… you won’t see a single trade setup for the entire week.
This is trading.
I know a guy who passed 8 prop firm challenges in 2 months.
Total funding: $400k.
Never got a single payout.
Not because he couldn't trade.
Because he kept treating funded accounts like challenge accounts.
In challenges, you need 10% to pass.
So he'd push hard. Take more setups. Higher frequency.
It worked.
He was good at passing challenges.
But once funded?
He kept the same aggressive approach.
'I need to hit my profit target as fast as possible.'
Except funded accounts have trailing drawdown.
One bad week and you're done.
He'd get to 4-6% profit on an account.
Then take a few losses.
Hit trailing drawdown.
Breach.
Every single time.
I told him:
'You're treating it like a sprint when it's a marathon.'
He didn't listen.
Kept blowing accounts.
Eventually ran out of money for resets.
Now he's back working a job.
Still talking about 'when I get back into trading.'
Here's the lesson:
Passing challenges and staying funded are two completely different skills.
In challenges - you can afford to be aggressive.
In funded accounts - consistency is everything.
If you're blowing funded accounts after passing challenges easily?
You need to slow down.
Aim for 1-3% per month.
Take fewer trades.
Protect your capital.
Because one payout is worth more than ten passed challenges that never pay you.
The path to a good life:
1. Learn trading for 2-5 years alongside your job until consistently profitable
2. Work up to $500k-1M in funded capital and aim for 3% a month ($15-30k/month)
3. Move to a cheap / low tax country so you can invest most of your income into a personal trading account, stocks and other businesses
4. Keep spending fairly low so you can achieve financial freedom quickly and aren’t completely dependant on your trading income
This is the way!
Only 1% of traders will read this and actually apply it.
Your daily loss limit is the only rule that will save your account when your emotions take over.
Hit it. Close the platform. Walk away.
Come back tomorrow.
R.I.P. LinkedIn in 2026.
R.I.P. Upwork in 2026.
R.I.P. Indeed in 2026.
I spent 10 years applying. 1 interview.
My wife spent 2 hours on these 10 sites. 5 remote job offers instantly.
Use these 10 platforms to find remote jobs that actually want to hire you:
i've never shared this publicly...
but there are 4 types of trades you can take in any market:
- HTF reversal, LTF reversal = not my favourite
- HTF reversal, LTF continuation = not bad
- HTF continuation, LTF reversal = good
- HTF continuation, LTF continuation = the best
Know a guy who passed his first $100,000 prop challenge in 9 days.
Made 12.4% and hit a $9,920 payout in his first month.
Then lost the entire account 3 weeks later.
I asked him questions to try and find out why.
It turns out that it was because he thought he was invincible.
One win changed his identity.
He stopped seeing himself as a developing trader.
He started seeing himself as “different”.
Thought he didn’t need to backtest anymore, or journal, or spend time putting in practice.
During the challenge he was risking:
0.5-1% per trade. Max 3 trades per day. Shut down at -2R.
Disciplined.
But once he was funded he bumped to 2% per trade.
Started taking 6-8 trades a day.
Held losers longer because “I know this will work.”
That’s how it begins.
Confidence turns into certainty.
Certainty turns into size.
Size turns into drawdown.
He had two red days in a row.
-3.8%, then -2.6%
Instead of slowing down…
He tried to make it back in one session.
Took four trades in 40 minutes.
Hit -10% drawdown.
Account gone.
And the most dangerous part?
He didn’t think he did anything wrong.
“I just had a bad week.”
No.
He had a good month and let it inflate him.
Passing a challenge doesn’t mean you’ve mastered risk.
It means you survived a small sample size.
Prop firms don’t blow traders.
Ego does.
We reviewed his data.
His edge worked best when:
Risk stayed under 1%. Trade frequency stayed controlled. He treated every session like he could lose the account.
So we rebuilt his rules:
Funded account = smaller risk than challenge. No scaling size after a payout month. Mandatory cooldown after 2 red days.
The next time he passed?
He didn’t celebrate.
He tightened up.
And that’s when he actually became dangerous.
He had learned from his mistakes and vowed to remain a student of the markets.
If you just passed a challenge and feel unstoppable…
That’s the moment you’re most at risk.
Respect. This is real trading maturity.
Anyone can post winning days- very few can post discipline after two losses.
Walking away without revenge trading or timeframe hopping is a bigger win than catching a runner.
This is the part that protects your account and your mindset.
Long term survival isn’t built on big green days, it’s built on controlled red ones.