How I Became a $150,000 Funded Trader | Part 3
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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In this final episode of trying to become a funded trader, I face a lot of ups and downs throughout live-streaming, the summer doldrums, and the swings of autumn.
I appreciate you all for following along with my trading journey. Many of you have offered me lots of sage advice, strategies, etc. because you are rooting for me to succeed. I truly appreciate it.
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i'm going to be posting a lot more videos on my channel in 2024. what kind of stuff do you wanna see?
Loved the videos where you did the trading challenge against other traders (Trades by Matt previously). Potentially some more trading challenges, see how pro traders take on trades versus how you do?
i do have one of those planned 😉
Trying out trading strategies?
I'd like to see you try trading something other than ES and NQ. Doesn't have to be a perma switch, more like a one off video where you attempt it for a week or something. You could try Oil, Gas, Gold or something completely different. Just throw yourself into something unfamiliar and see how you do with the experience you have. Again, not a perma switch. Just something to spice things up once in a while.
I just want to see you try and reach the 20k
Trading is one hell of a journey
no kidding!
Life is a hell of a journey , trading looks very stressfull but it pays good if youre good at it.
@@kenshi600it's the hardest yet easiest money ever
Great post. I discovered Topstep via your channel months ago, and like you, I failed many times, but I passed it today. Keep posting, you're a real one.
congrats 👏
Did you ever get funded ?
Did you start your trading journey k topstep? Of did you trade with your own money prior to that?
You passed it!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOOO! Well done I'm so happy for you!
Hey man. Where did you learn your strategies?
Congrats
get rid of those ema`s. learn to trade structre.
Love this series Daniel. I just got into day trading and having ur videos to watch during the process makes it much more enjoyable. One of the few trading UA-camrs that's honest and shares the entire journey with his viewers. Thank you Daniel, truly.
Look up James Rich Young.
Nothing to sell (yet) and a super chill transparent and pro day trader.
hahaha youre doing something so damn right Daniel... when this comment has 53 likes
Duuuude congratulations!!! It’s been so much fun watching over the past few years and watching your honest experiences. Thank you
Also: imo a lot of the stuff you have open in your platform... like footprint, volume profile, etc. is likely just overkill and not helping. Simple = better.
Keep it up! As a trader of 2 years, I'm also still making mistakes, but constantly learning and improving. Never give up!
I ended up passing the 50k combine in 3 days You need to focus on the time 20 50 200 emas and then look for short swings only take 2 3 setups a day, have traded with 5 contracts on s&p mini
Your contents great though love all of your trading series, it definitely eases new traders into the process
It’s been 9 months bro, how much did you make?
This is really great Daniel. I just got funded by it’s my first $100K accounts last week. I love tracking my journey on UA-cam to be transparent
Hows trading going?
@@PKnbd its crazy as expected lol feel free to come visit the channel and hang out
You have no rules, no consistent plan to follow, no plan for exiting trades, no plan on how to manage your risk consistently, no plan on how to manage your size consistently, no plan for what your risk to reward is per trade, your exits on every trade are random, psychologically is a huge part of trading because it tries to make you do everything but follow your rules, you need to be disciplined and extremly consistent in trading, before you enter a trade you already should know your max loss, and what your expecting to win, you leave the door open to so much randomness and gambaling, you need to control absolutely everything you possibly have control over, main thing being risk, and of course stop breaking rules and over trading and making every trading day and trade different with your exit strategy sizing etc
And one of the biggest things behind successful trading is psychology and managing emotions, it’s a HUGE part of trading and it’s barely felt when trading demo eval accounts, when it’s a “live” account different game with the emotions, not even in the same ballpark as trading REAL money, and these prop firms make money from failed evals, your never really on a live account, the few that get payouts are paid from that pool of failed eval accounts just lots of things stacked against you for no reason, start with a small live account, focus on a system and following strict disciplined rules, create a rule for every variable you CAN have control over, and be consistent. Compound the account
what i discovered my friend it is this one things for everyone to learn,:
because you are a new trader like me (new trader is anyone up to 4 years) that the best way to approach profitability faster and have something going on, it is to have a more mechanical approach where your opinion does not matter. if you had 20 years experience than i would say yeah go man 30% mechanical and 70% decision from you, but in this case i would keep 80% mechanical and maybe 20 decisional. So for the runner keep it mechanical, easy to follow and if it break something you are out. More mechanical, less emotionals, and trust me even if you had it 100% mechanical, you are gonna fucked it up, good luck everyone and survive!
yeah, great advice 👍🏻
Congratulations. I really love that your videos are not full of hype and you are so genuine and transparent. I would love to see you highlight other traders and trainers that you have learned from in some of your future videos. It would be great for you to keep going with regular videos on your own progress good or bad. Thanks again for keeping it real.
People tend to say : "Practice makes perfect". but in trading world, we have another mind : "Practices makes Permanent". it means whatever the "habbit" we do on daily basis, no matter its right or wrong, will be accumulate and becoming a quite permanent trading habbits. So, be carefull on whatever the daily approach you chooose, choose it wisely and keep improving what the most work best for you, for it gonna be your long terms "porfolio".
You're just making the same mistakes over and over again. Mistakes that are like 2 years ago. You're not trading
Holy shit I've waited so long for u to upload
same
Do you have any real stats based on your real trades that says trailing your stop is actually more profitable than some other approach? I have been trading futures full-time since 2004 and in my own stats, trailing stops like the books teach you is a terrible idea. I'd be better off either trailing aggressively an a momentum run or exiting on a limit in my areas. Yes I will miss some huge runners but they are so rare that overall it makes less money and reduces expectancy. Look into it, you may just be doing it because books say its a great idea or to pad out your psychological needs. With all my best, MK.
Congratulations. Really happy you made it. As a viewer it often felt like "oh gosh, will he ever make it?". But struggling myself in the markets, i know that there is more to progress than PnL. Good luck on your further journey!
Are you going full time into trading going forward? Or would you consider photography/youtube still as your primary focus?
Great question.
You not trading man. You just earn money from youtube and commissions. Stop this content
Dude, i don’t know how to thank you, you changed my life, 2 years ago i saw one of your videos where you were trading with one thousand dollar with no experience and that motivated me , now i’m funded with 400K and have withdrawed more than 50K from the forex market alone
I will forever be grateful with you and thanks for keeping up the good work
that is incredible! so glad to hear that.
it's funny how that works with changing to a larger account, I did the same thing and out of the blue I stopped pushing so hard and left a lot of the garbage trades behind. I think it's something that we all value our time according to what we're used to make working a 9to5 and if we don't see that same output per day they we start questioning our self and the whole trading part as well. At least that's my 2 cents.
Engaging in an individual market option is fair but its performance level can’t generate high dividends. Diversification is the secret to optimal performance, that’s why I have my interest set on options based on projected growth and performance.
question: so when you pass the combine you dont have to pay the monthly fee anymore? you just pay $149 and use a new sim account to generate payouts from topstep. another question can you blow this account once youve passed or is there still the loss limit?. sorry if this is obvious stuff.. im kinda new
Congrats! Super excited to see you navigate the funded account and finally realize some returns on your investment (be sure and size down for the first week to keep your emotions in check). Your dedication and discipline has been inspiring to watch, always really appreciate your honest take on things. Trading really is the best way to make money online because of it's infinite and effortless scalability, just have to fight the demons in your own head! Best of luck.
Wow! That was quite a roller coster... but the end justifies the means ...it does'nt matter how soon or late one passes these combines.. I just passed my 100k with Apex...in relative shorter time ..8 days..but ..you know sustainability is what matters...long term outlook ..not a one time hit.
Congrats Daniel, have been following the series since the start hated waiting months for the release of each video, but this made it well worth it. I myself got funded twice on 150k, saddley blew them both. Hope you have better luck then me!!
Patience and consistency don’t be greedy trust your set up believe in yourself don’t hesitate trust your instincts follow the trend ❤
Brother, how have you been trading so long but still are just out there waffling on the markets, brother you have no consistent trading system, no consistent edge, no discipline to follow rules, no idea what your risk is per trade, your risk to reward your going for, or how your math if profitability is sopposed to work. it all changes so much, changing so many variables constantly. Being profitable in trading is exploiting your edge over the market by absolutely disciplined, patience, rule following, and consistency.
The most IMPORTANT aspect of a trade, what makes a good trade from a bad trade, is how the RISK was managed, and one of the most important aspects of trading in general is phycology and emotions which will try to make you break rules, but psychology is barely felt at all when trading funded demo accounts, and that’s a huge part of trading when it comes to real money
People just don’t get that when you have a 150k acc what you really got is a 9k acc….losing on the first trade more than 10% of your drawdown…it will not work in the long run.
Yea, that's why I started in the 50k , that 9k is hard to reach when you only think you know what you're doing 😂
Great job!!! freaking outstanding, glad you finally made it... are you going to continue the videos with the XFA?
Hey so this exact same thing happened to me where I was trading a "main account" and taking really good setups on a "second account".
Guess what? I passed on my second account (TradeDay) with flying colors. Now I'm trying to replicate that with my funded account but already in drawdown because I started treating it like a "main account"
I'll continue to follow you... I've only watched a few videos of you and we seem to be on a very similar path each time! 😊 Good luck!
hopefully I don't blow my account by the time part 4 is uploaded
Let's gooo! Congrats Daniel. Passed my first combine in October as well. GGs
Hey Daniel, liked the video. Can you do a follow up in a few months time? I have enjoyed this whole series.
awesome to see your consistent progress man, keep it going
Finished the vid...very awesome trading man. I do agree with payouts being the tough part but your trading has gotten much better this year and thankfully I can say the same
Proud of u man, good job!
You're going the right way bro but if you remove all the indicators and the bookmap and you'll see better what's happening on the chart
What’s the plan with the hair and beard? It keeps growing…
i have no plan. it is getting a bit out of control though 😆
Fabulous documentary. Keep it real! 👍
I've been waiting for this video! I hope to see you upload more often!!
Lmfao! I was wondering who that was!! Literally thought about that when I made my username for todays quiz
Forex is the way to go man
Before I can watch this I need to go through all vids from your trading. I have about 15 vids left. I want the full picture of your development.
I’m 2 years into my trading journey, now working with ES contracts and mainly buying pullbacks in trend. A lot of what you’re dealing with resonates with what I’ve been dealing with as well. I really appreciate the added difficulty of streaming it and making videos. Thank you very much for all your hard work and persistence to continue on. It helps me to see someone who is also fighting the same battles as I am and gives me added motivation. We’re doing the work, we know the job, and now we just have to get out of our own way. Best of luck to you and I hope your big break comes soon, you deserve it!
The combine you passed , did you have loosing days. What i have found is when someone passes combine with small or no trade days and only winners in rest of days, they tend to blow up in XFA accounts. I am going to wait for your next videos about your first payout video from the XFA account trading.
Comparison is the thief of joy!
Awesome vid! Inspiring to try and pass my combine, which I've had no luck with.
It might just be me, but those Free Resets (that expire) actually mess me up more than help. If they didn't expire, it'd be one thing. But, I think because I know the clock is ticking, I make stupid Hail-Mary moves to quickly pass - and if I break the rule - oh well, I have the free reset. As opposed to me seriously trying and knowing I have a free reset if I just mess up.
Again, maybe just me ;)
Congrats on passing!!!
Hope you make it out alive, trading is just like gambling. You feel like you try to control some variable but at the end. It is just a gamble.
Dang I got 6 150K funded. Can’t get my last two funded though..
Congratulations! Be careful with your xfa dont want to do that all over again like i did.
I’d consider not using a runner with only 2 contracts.
yeah, i think that’s a good call
Thanks for sharing your journey. Like any others I am also on a similar journey and have found the roller coaster of emotions and day-to-day results a roller coaster. It’s an amazing opportunity. We all put ourselves on the path to and fascinating to see how it plays out overtime. Best of luck in your future trading I’ll continue to watch!
love the authentic approach in your videos. Very inspiring. I'm doing the same and documenting my process in my funded journey. Thanks for sharing this with us!
This is pretty much how my trades been going,. not being patient and waiting for good setups has killed me.
Well done Daniel, so glad you passed keep going
Congrats dude🎉 I’ve been watching your videos since you started trading, I to am a trader and I see how you struggled at first as I did, I also believe it is psychological on bigger account size, I recently started a 100k challenge and I feel I’m doing much better then the 50k challenge
what trading do you use? I learned about forex trading from the NFC community
Congratulations, Daniel 🎉. I would make a comparison between my lacklustre growth and yours having been a repeat watcher of your stream, but as you say comparison is the thief of joy. Looking forward to a payout video (and maybe how your strategy has evolved 😊 beyond PATs and EMA crossover - I noted you mentioned 4HR zones).
Lost $2k in October, love what you doing bro keep it up and be honest love !
Congrats bro, been following your journey for some time now and it genuinely brought a smile to my face when you passed. P.S long or short bro ??
Great content, love your honesty!
You dint need $150k of BP,,, no way. You wrong with 15 Contracts in the NQ your hurting......
Hi trader bro. I think that if you lower the position size so that you could keep your stop below structure your stop doesnt get hit so much and you would profit more....Keeping in mind that then you also have to take higher quality positions that goes 🚀example:breaking bigger obvisious levels.
Way to go! I’ve been watching the shorts and wondering how it’s been going for you. I was pleasantly surprised to see this video.
This is what trading should be. Not the millionaire money. Real money Real freedom. It's like you fight for your freedom. I found myself really depressed with todays job. It doesnt give you any meaning nor even enough money plus you overwork on the things you dont like. I try to become a consistent profitable trader and note my psychs and trades everyday. Youre mad or a genius if you could remember all your failure and lessons. Trading is like improving yourself too.
You have no risk management. How can you justify trading larger size?! You should be trading micros.
Just read the FAQ on this trading website. What’s the advantage here over just using your own money? The whole, you can only take out this much out after this amount of winning days seems absurd. If you’re gone for a month then they’ll close your account and keep your money. Just seems odd.
LETS. FUCKING. GO. So proud and happy for you!!
Some haters comments on how long it took for him to reach combine test (11months). Well, another trader whom is doing great Matt Diamond it took him 5 years before being profitable. So why would you beat on someone when you done absolutely nothing not alone sharing to the entire world. Trading is fucking brutal.
Dude! Congratulations on passing! I'm in the 50k currently and have been in since June. I'm loving it and I have noticed my trading improve gradually. I love your videos man. Thanks for posting and congrats again!
It's cool to see your progress Daniel! I've been trading topstep for about 11 months as well - where it seems I have had more short term succes with passed combines and payout eligibility, it feels like your progress has set you up better for long term succes! I can't find a link to your stream anywhere, would you share it with me? Would love to follow along, and see how you handle the markets.
Congrats on passing the combine Daniel! Your video w/Matt is what triggered me into the world of futures and prop firms so I’m happy you’ve finally finished the journey of combine.
Congrats!! i've been watching your videos for a while, amazing progress!
Awesome man, well done!! I'm 10 months into trying to get funded, but I'll just keep at it. Congrats again!!
Idk if it's just for the video, or what... but having bookmap and/or a single chart take up a whole monitor is not gonna do you any good imho.
what are the requirements to join topstep? do they ask for your social security number and picture of your I.D like when you sign up for a broker?
AWESOME DANIEL! Thank you for the progress update :) Congratulations
Damn Daniel I'm so happy for you!!! Congratulations!
It would be nice to show as your learning journey beginner to intermediate what steps you follow
Does anyone know the best forex trading site in Canada? Thanks in advance :)
You look a bit wasted dude... all OK?
that's what you think wasted looks like??? you're not gonna wanna come to my new years eve party.
great vid daniel. start streaming again soon. love Gainshunter
I've been waiting for this video for so long. I'm glad it worked out. Congrats!
Waited too long for this next episode.
Please keep making more trading videos, it is really interesting!
Dude's a solid, wish him all the best
Great Video. Keep us updated how your trading journey goes!
Congrats from Brazil my dude, I've waited this for soo loong! Love your videos, and following this journey have helped me to stay focused on my goals
love your vids Daniel, you really put the trading journey into perspective.
Great lesson " Comparison is just a thief of joy ". ❤❤❤
Thank you for the update!
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Congrats Daniel! You deserve it! I was super excited to see you post your video! Looking forward to the next one!
I hope the next video title won't be 'How I Blew My Funded Account
lmaooo i remember yotiddies soff quiz sesh thats too funny i was crackin up
😂
Just wondering if u can still start getting pay by hitting the targets on a simulated no real money account
yeah, that’s what the express funded account is.
Where do you trade on i’m very interested anyone plsss tell mi i’m new
HAY HAY, glad to see that you are still in the game. I really enjoy your content. You are getting a lot better. Being able to look at your failing and come up with a plan to make the changes you need, with out being disparaging of your self is really hard. I am impressed with the change in your mindset in that regard. I hope that I get to chat and trade with you again amigo!
thanks man!