Title's a bit click-baity but hear me out, I got "the Juice" & The Proofs
There are lessons to be learned especially for the beginner traders.
So in mid January 2026 I bought a $400k instant funding account for $1,683.69 after discounts receipt
the rules are quite simple and easy to follow, daily soft stop -3%, account breach -6% , trailing drawdown, minimum 5 active trading days and 15% consistency rule
for those who don't know, a simple explanation of what a consistency rule is: your highest winning day should not exceed 15% of your total profits
So these are the stats on my prop firm account:
Win rate: 54.84%
Average RR: 1.49
Total trades: 62
i scalp, only trading the 1 minute timeframe, XAUUSD, trading pullbacks of an overextension
note: my account's status is "BLOCKED" because of the hidden rules this firm set on my country, which was Indonesian can't withdraw from a $400k instant funding account, only can withdraw from a $50k instant funding account. Disgusting scammers , never trust a prop firm whose HQ is in the middle east. They deliberately let you trade knowing you can't withdraw from it.
These are the Monthly breakdown of my trading:
I believe all of the readers here have a better strategy than mine, because I only have a 4% edge over the market
And I always try to aim for 1rr but the fact is sometimes the target is a bit bigger and i got greedy trying to capture 1.5rr instead.
Quite underwhelming & boring isn't it?
It's like watching Arsenal winning the league in 25/26 season only scoring from set pieces instead of playing beautiful football, but a win is a win
At the end of the day, i managed to make $22k & only having 4% edge over the market haha
so the problem with every unprofitable trader most of the time isn't in their strategy but often than not it's their money management strategy.
How i trade is only risking 0.5% per trade per day, aiming 1rr
i stop trading after 1 win or 1 loss, if breakeven then wait for another setup.
only trading from London open to the 4th hour of London (2am EST - 5am EST [3 hours of trading time])
while on some days, i only sit tight and watch the market, 0 trade since 19 Feb - 1st March that's a whole trading week of just eye balling the market and waiting for the opportunity to show
I would like to add, there are common psychological advice that i think is wrongly understood by most traders,
"Treat trading like a Business"
I believe trading is more like investing, not every month is a profitable month.
Don't quit your job to go trading full time, i believe it's a fools' dream , a marketing gimmick.
you will not be able to make money every month & pay your bills,
unless you open a hedge fund, there's a reason why hedge funds charge you 0.2% administrative fee every year, so they can have a stable income, because the professionals also know that you cant win every month, not win yearly lol
Warren Buffet pay his bills through Berkshire Hathaway not through his "divine understanding of the market"
There are lessons to be learned especially for the beginner traders.
So in mid January 2026 I bought a $400k instant funding account for $1,683.69 after discounts receipt
the rules are quite simple and easy to follow, daily soft stop -3%, account breach -6% , trailing drawdown, minimum 5 active trading days and 15% consistency rule
for those who don't know, a simple explanation of what a consistency rule is: your highest winning day should not exceed 15% of your total profits
So these are the stats on my prop firm account:
Win rate: 54.84%
Average RR: 1.49
Total trades: 62
i scalp, only trading the 1 minute timeframe, XAUUSD, trading pullbacks of an overextension
note: my account's status is "BLOCKED" because of the hidden rules this firm set on my country, which was Indonesian can't withdraw from a $400k instant funding account, only can withdraw from a $50k instant funding account. Disgusting scammers , never trust a prop firm whose HQ is in the middle east. They deliberately let you trade knowing you can't withdraw from it.
These are the Monthly breakdown of my trading:
And I always try to aim for 1rr but the fact is sometimes the target is a bit bigger and i got greedy trying to capture 1.5rr instead.
Quite underwhelming & boring isn't it?
It's like watching Arsenal winning the league in 25/26 season only scoring from set pieces instead of playing beautiful football, but a win is a win
At the end of the day, i managed to make $22k & only having 4% edge over the market haha
so the problem with every unprofitable trader most of the time isn't in their strategy but often than not it's their money management strategy.
How i trade is only risking 0.5% per trade per day, aiming 1rr
i stop trading after 1 win or 1 loss, if breakeven then wait for another setup.
only trading from London open to the 4th hour of London (2am EST - 5am EST [3 hours of trading time])
while on some days, i only sit tight and watch the market, 0 trade since 19 Feb - 1st March that's a whole trading week of just eye balling the market and waiting for the opportunity to show
I would like to add, there are common psychological advice that i think is wrongly understood by most traders,
"Treat trading like a Business"
I believe trading is more like investing, not every month is a profitable month.
Don't quit your job to go trading full time, i believe it's a fools' dream , a marketing gimmick.
you will not be able to make money every month & pay your bills,
unless you open a hedge fund, there's a reason why hedge funds charge you 0.2% administrative fee every year, so they can have a stable income, because the professionals also know that you cant win every month, not win yearly lol
Warren Buffet pay his bills through Berkshire Hathaway not through his "divine understanding of the market"
Steps to profitability: Collect data, money management, stay bored
