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The prop firms vs live accounts debate is low IQ. If you set up a copy-trader you can just use both. I’ve done $220k in prop firm payouts and $130k in profit on my live account this year. There’s literally 0 reason to just use one or the other. You need to be using both.

Celebrated my first $10k payout by getting a private jet for me and my friends to go on holiday (empty leg, only cost $8k altogether). Huge waste of money and I obviously won’t be doing it again until I’m super rich, but it was one of the best experiences of my life and it motivated me to work hard and make it a normal thing. Always spend your first big payouts imo.

One of my boys introduced me to trading. He was making some payouts but he’s been in a big drawdown for the last few months. Meanwhile I’m doing way better than him ($70k in payouts in the last few months) and all I do is copy the trades of another streamer. Kinda feel bad that I’m seeing this success while he’s struggling, I can sense that he’s becoming jealous of me.

I work as a full time analyst for another trader. He’s a swing trader and I know everything about his model. My job is simply to message him when I see his trade appearing. It’s the perfect job for me since I love analysing the charts but I’m a terrible trader myself (always lost money due to issues with my psychology). I wonder how many other failed traders could also go down this path and be successful with it.

I heard that advice of “if you’re unprofitable, just start taking the other side of your trades”. Genuinely started doing that last month, whenever I wanted to enter a trade I would just do the opposite - I got my first payout of $1.7k doing this lmaooo. I will continue to do it as it is working clearly. I’m so bad at trading that I’ve become good.

I know a guy who basically full ports his account on yom kippur, barely touches his trading account for the rest of the year. He’s unironically one of the best traders I know.

I read the new “Market Wizards” book lately - and one of the traders said that some people just don’t have what it takes to make it as a trader, he said “if you’re not tall you won’t make it into the NBA”. Then the author brought up Spud Webb, who was 5’7 and had a good NBA career, showing there’s always exceptions. I’m that exception for trading. Used to sell drugs, went to prison for 7 years. Came out in 2017 and realized that I had to change my life. Everyone told me to stay away from trading (even my mentor) because I was impatient person, but I kept going. Finally became consistently profitable in 2023 after 6 years of trading, now I do it full-time and I’m giving my kids a life I could’ve only dreamed of giving them. I was a bum and turned my life around and became a profitable trader - if I can do it, I promise you that anyone can!

I’ve made $5 million from trading. I’ve never cared about what the interest rate is, never watched a FED speech, don’t know anything about fundamentals. Technical analysis is all you need.

I declined an academic scholarship to trade instead. 2 years into my journey and still not profitable, my family are losing faith in me but I know that I’ll get there! God bless to everyone on the trading journey.

Taught one of my mentorship students how to trade. Only wanted to teach a small amount of people so I could teach them properly and I didn’t want my strategy to lose it’s edge. Now he has 300 people in a paid discord community sharing everything I know lmao.

I’ve been trading for 2 years. Decided to do a deep dive into my journal a few months ago (for the first time) and discovered that I was always taking setups I knew probably wouldn’t work out because I wanted to “see what happened”. Basically I told myself I was still “learning” and wanted to collect data. This was a BS excuse to take shitty trades I shouldn’t have taken. Decided to ONLY focus on taking A+ setups 3 months ago and had my first $10k payout month this month. I highly recommend going through your trading journal if you’re still unprofitable - you’re probably making a dumb mistake that could easily turn you profitable if you fix it.

F*ck you bro I have submitted my confession 14 times and you still haven’t posted it. Unfollowed.

I’ve spent the last 8 years trading a $2k account all the way up to $900k, never made a withdrawal. Last week I lost $680k in a single trade that I oversized on. It went against me and I broke my rules and kept doubling down. I’m done with trading, just been crying uncontrollably for the past few days. I was planning on quitting my job and living off trading full-time in 2027 and now I know I’m stuck here forever.

From an Unprofitable trader to Profitable traders, how did it click for you guys. I had moments where I'd scoop profits for a week or so then after comes months of dry spell, how did you guys maintain the momentum?

Going through a divorce with my wife. She doesn’t know about the $2.8m day trading account I have in my mothers name. I have one in my name too but it’s a lot smaller ($300k). I started this account in my mothers name when our relationship was getting rocky in the last few years and I put a lot of focus into it. I still make a full-time living from my $300k account (higher risk) but have been compounding my mothers account since I knew this day was coming. At least I’ll still have a good starting amount after she takes half of my stuff lol.