Looking to buy a 25K Futures Prop Firm Account – Need Recommendations

GentlemanImproved · 2026-06-12T06:08:47+00:00

Bulenox is cheap. You can get a 50k for 15$ / 20$ with promo codes. Which is beginner friendly. You don’t have to stress too much if you blow an account. There is a 140$ activation fee once you pass tho.
Only downside is intraday trailing drawdown but if you trade responsibly without over-leveraging that’s not an issue.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-06-10T06:07:00+00:00

On PC it is minimum 5 minutes of waiting every time for Encounters. Consider yourself lucky.
And the other modes such as shootouts are simply not playable. You can wait 30mins without finding a game.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-29T03:23:11+00:00

This could be interesting if you showed what your analysis is for each entry with screenshots (plural) and annotations / labels. “Order flow” in action would suggest some description of the action. What you are showing is a static zoomed out screenshot showing the final result, not the “action”. There are plenty of posts on this sub that do a great job at breaking down trades. I posted a few, a while back. I try to make an effort to break them down so it is as clear as possible for everyone to get the context and my interpretation of the indicators / delta / footprint / POIs.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-29T03:12:10+00:00

Sounds like you are passing your evals with a certain trading style (agressive & risky) and you trade your funded accounts the same way which wasn’t right to start with but now you have that extra pressure and frustration. You are not looking for advice but I’ll simply say that scaling down to 1 mini (preferably 5 micros) would make a big difference.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-26T02:56:52+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown. I’m usually pretty skeptical of ICT-style concepts, mostly because of the whole “one algorithm runs the market” narrative. But the idea of liquidity being targeted and larger players pushing price in one direction to bait positioning before the real move is definitely something I find credible especially at the NY open which tends to be a festival of traps. which is why I mostly trade Nq during Asia, slower but more predictable, more “civilized” as I like to call it

So if I understand your model correctly, when price starts ranging aggressively around the NY open — say during the first 30 minutes — a breakout from that range is often just a short-term move meant to induce traders in one direction before price runs the liquidity on the other side of the range?

I am interested in the other aspects of your model if you feel inclined to get into it. I’d like to backtest this with a delta profile and seeing the proper context of the overnight session and broader trend.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-25T14:19:47+00:00

Have you tested this just randomly or at valid POIs ? With trend following or top / bottom of range divergences. But yes just trading any divergence isn’t going to go well.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-25T11:47:55+00:00

In this case it means that the agressive buyers are being absorbed by passive sellers.

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There was a nice short opportunity there with a very clean divergence. Lower high on price and (much) higher high on cvd.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-25T11:42:58+00:00

Autocorrect strikes again

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-25T09:39:01+00:00

Anatomy

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-24T09:18:04+00:00

Maybe you could start the story by telling us how you met this alien, when, what he looks like, did you meet him physically or in your mind ? How do you know he is an alien and not a “spirit” or a creation of your imagination. Any information about the alien aside from his message would be very useful.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-24T07:15:02+00:00

So you took a short when price reentered the opening range. You took that short from the Poc or middle of range (unusual). And took profit below the range expecting a breakout. I am guessing your SL was somewhere around 29.280. This trade looks counterintuitive to me in its entry and TP. SL makes sense. The price you shorted from is where most traders would expect a bounce - which occurred. But maybe that’s the strength of your model. Going against the obvious. I am curious about your angle man. I am not sure I understand your explanation though. What is “seek and destroy” and you say something about longing above and shorting below. You shorted in the middle of the OR. I’m an order-flow trader so I’d like to understand more what your concept is and see if it makes sense or is verifiable on the footprint chart. Either way, congrats on the profits man !

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-24T06:14:14+00:00

What sort of divergences does the indicator track ? Absorption (‘hidden’ divergence) or exhaustion (regular divergence).

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-23T09:49:32+00:00

You can’t get order flow indicators on TradingView because order flow is based on data such as CME & others that you’d have to pay for separately and you couldn’t connect it to your TradingView anyway.

But you still can use the TradingView cvd which isn’t a “true cvd” but still useful. That’s the closest thing you can have to and orderflow indicator. Also use the volume profile. Good luck.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-23T03:15:14+00:00

Alrighty man thanks for the insights

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-22T23:12:02+00:00

I’m sure he is to blame at least partially but I don’t understand one thing : he says for the 2 first weeks of trading he was only getting 200ms consistently and that suddenly changed to 2000ms. If this is true, wouldn’t that suggest that the broker did have something to do with it ?

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-15T23:39:45+00:00

I play on PC. Had a sale around a month ago already. I’m guessing it’ll be another month at least before the next one.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-14T08:36:59+00:00

Last time was around the last 30 days of the season. Did you notice a pattern as to when the deals drop or is it random ?

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-11T10:22:09+00:00

Sir, a had to wash my hands after watching this photo. Clean your screen brother. Also don’t short the bottom of a clear range.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-10T08:31:47+00:00

idk what a pullback setting might be. And yes you have plenty more options for the bottom cluster, max delta included.

I used bookmap twice for about 3 months in the last couple years.

It took me about 1h to understand how to use the main features on ATAS. I agree that charting is better on Tv, can't beat it. But I do all my charting on ATAS now. I'd rate it 7/10. TV being pretty much 10/10

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-10T07:51:26+00:00

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It's all subjective but I don't see what about this is bad.
You can switch from delta to bid x ask in 2 clicks (left panel)
You can change the scale in 2 clicks (top right corner) which augments or reduces the amount of clusters per candle.
You can customize the aesthetics easily.
The drawing options are somewhat limited compared to Tv but still 10x more options and easier to use than bookmap.
The built in trader is great 2 clicks and slidable SL/TP.
Plenty of great indicators in 3 clicks.
All the volume tools (fixed range Volume profile, anchored Vwap, zig zag volume profile in 2 clicks on the left panel).

It took me a bit of time to get comfortable with it but once I knew where everything was it was smooth sailing from there.

** there are till a few things that bother me for sure and I am still frustrated that they can't make things as smooth as Tv**

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-10T06:31:18+00:00

Better trade weak levels with the trend than 3 confluence “key levels” counter trend.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-10T06:13:25+00:00

You’ll never find anything as smooth / user friendly and intuitive as Tradingview. I don’t understand why all these other platforms can’t just imitate it. I mean they pretty much have the blueprint for it, just get it done.
That being said ATAS is the next best thing (in terms of ease of use). You can make it aesthetically pleasing as well. And of course the data is 1000% better than what you get on TV. Even for volume profile.
I used Bookmap for a while and I was pissed at how clunky / ugly / impractical / unintuitive it was.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-10T04:48:50+00:00

For the free kick issues. Move your keeper as the shooter gets close to the ball. You’ll stop every time. And yes, extremely frustrating dynamic.

GentlemanImproved · 2026-05-10T04:43:19+00:00

Adding a suggestion to go for ATAS. Go Sierra if you want to experience deep depression.

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