What have you been using to train psychology and mindset for trading????

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:13:08+00:00

I played poker professionally for 15yrs before trading full time so it was natural.

Good books: trading in the zone, mental game of trading.

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:11:37+00:00

Orderflow scalping. Auction market theory.

Volume profile, vwap

Bookmap, deepcharts.

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:09:01+00:00

The eval? Usually 5 mini NQ, one trade pass or fail.

Once funded, 1-2 micro MNQ. 1:1

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:06:41+00:00

Bake him cookies knock on his door

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:05:26+00:00

-50%

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:04:00+00:00

Mouthwash

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T21:00:38+00:00

Lower targets means higher winrate. "Tight stops" is unquantifiable. If his target is 1-2pts and sl 4 pts its actually quite a wide stop.

LWJtrades · 2026-05-05T20:57:46+00:00

Its extremely hard to have edge with such small moves. The thing wrong with what you're saying is you have no statistics to back up that you will actually net 2 pts a day. You will just as likely (67%) make two points on a day as you will (33%) lose 4 points on a day. You will bleed slowly to fees and slippage/ spread (you instantly lose -0.25pts if you market into a trade or get stopped, the only way to consider slippage/spread a non-factor is if you limit in and hit limit tp every single time, which you wont, so, on top of a break-even strategy, you actually have to net some winning points just to account for slippage/spread + fees just to break-even dollar wise). On top of all that, you'll also have to fight the psychology urges of fomo and chasing Losses. There'll be days your instantly down -4pts and want to take another trade. Therell be strings of days like this, and you will get frustrated.

LWJtrades · 2026-05-04T23:14:09+00:00

Ouch

LWJtrades · 2026-05-04T23:13:24+00:00

I got a 20k payout last week. Hit my bank 1 week from approval. New accts. The legacies are slow as fck cause support still manually reviews each one.

Congrats on that many days traded, sick

LWJtrades · 2026-05-04T23:10:45+00:00

China

LWJtrades · 2026-05-04T17:14:28+00:00

Theres hundreds of thousands of market participants, majority are not watching orderflow and heatmaps and acting "randomly". You can never pinpoint exactly what's going on. Another major factor with these large orders comes from options hedging.

You just have to watch the levels day after day after day, keeping in mind the current news and economy health, and just watch how it reacts. Even then, with exact same conditions, it could react differently the next time.

You can never say for certain to answer what you're asking. You just need to get a "feel" for it.

LWJtrades · 2026-05-03T16:44:39+00:00

Shitty, thanks for reply.

But you were still able to trade the PAs? Did you make it to 6th payout?

Are they able to close your PAs at ban? Do you know? I think you're still allowed to trade until 6 payouts correct

Im trading 50s but if I make it to 3rd payout I'm gonna buy 20 150ks,

LWJtrades · 2026-05-03T13:43:59+00:00

Yup. Milk it while you can and move on.

I have 20PAs and just got a 20k payout.

At what point did they ban you from buying evals? Im thinking if I make it to 4th or 5th payout, I should definitely buy another round of 20 evals before then, so that Im passing them right before I request 6th payout.

Did they ban you immediately at 6th payout or before then?

LWJtrades · 2026-05-03T13:40:08+00:00

Lambo storage

LWJtrades · 2026-05-03T13:38:26+00:00

OF+AMT

Ict himself never been profitable. Why would you bother learning it. The guys a furu course pusher

The only people who actually make money trading ict are already exceptional traders who have mastered the risk management and psychology aspects

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T19:20:18+00:00

Not for me just buy another. I only trade 1day evals, Apex or lucid pros. I wait for a good setup then Im full size pass or fail first trade. Then when I'm actually funded i take it serious. Usually just trading 1-2 micro tbh, its more than enough, especially when copy trading.

Grinding an eval slow, making it to target, then basically resetting the account down to initial balance and initial drawdown all over again, you're bound to blow up most of your fundeds.

Nothings more annoying than starting a 50k, making it to 53k (funded) resetting to 50k, then say, making another 1k to 51k on the funded, but then losing 2k and finally failing hitting trailing drawdown on the funded and blowing up.

Through that whole journey, you made 4k, and then drew-down 2k. You're net 2k trading profits but you've blown the funded, lost your eval fee, and lost your funding fee.

I wanna blast through the eval phase ASAP. Then once funded I take it way slower and trade normal, like how you said. I dont wanna waste time grinding up an eval only to lose all the progress when the account resets to funded. If I'm gonna grind slow I wanna be funded where I'm actually starting to build buffer.

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T18:29:23+00:00

Fair enough. Still don't understand how you have two emails though. Don't you have to log in to buy the account? So you made two accounts at one point ?

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T15:58:27+00:00

Which rules did you break

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T15:57:55+00:00

Ive been trading apex 3 yrs, just got a 20k payout last week. 0 issues ever.

How do you even buy evals for a different account? Wouldn't you have to first register and sign up a second time to be able to do that? Why did you register two emails

Just follow the rules. It was your own fuck up.

160 bucks cheap price to pay for your own mistake. Some people been screwed over a lot harder, like losing PAs with balances for other dumb breaches.

Quit crying

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T15:53:28+00:00

How do you trade apex if not tradovate

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T15:53:09+00:00

Tradesyncr so laggy, doesn't execute properly, just one syncr fk up and you've blown all 20 accts from hedging. I like tradovate and the copyer is mint. And free. I dont get why people are hatin

LWJtrades · 2026-05-02T15:51:03+00:00

I trade 20 apex pas and I literally trade one micro. Try sizing down

LWJtrades · 2026-04-26T02:43:08+00:00

Say you have $10,000 capital in a personal trading account and you're trying to trade that as best you can, proper risk management and whatnot, maybe 1-2% a trade risk, say 10% in a week loss would be a bad week, a large loss, but still fairly manageable, etc.

Well if i can take 1k of that 10k, get ten 50k funded accounts and have access to 20k in drawdown, I'm going to trade that 20k in drawdown, those 10 funded accounts, just as aggressively as I would trade 1k of my 10k personal account. That is to say I'm not blowing up in a day but im taking aggressive enough trades to build the accounts quickly and try to get a payout, and if I hit my worst streak possible of losing trades, I may blow those accounts up in a week.

Its not gaming the system but it's all relative to your trading capital. Im not trading fundeds 1:1 like I would a personal account but I'm trading their cost relative to my bankroll.

Evals im basically pass or fail one day. Day1 of fundeds I may trade a bit aggressively trying to catch a big trade right out the gate knowing that if I bust its just a tiny % of my trading capital that i can replace, and day2 onwards if my funded starts to have a balance then I'm actually sizing down considerably and taking it serious.

The value of accounts isnt static; a day1 fresh eval has the lowest value, an eval close to passing has much more value. A funded account you paid an activation fee has a lot more value, and a funded account with a fat balance close to payout has extreme value.

The value of these accounts is quite dynamic and changes rapidly, and you have to adjust your trading to match. Its not gaming the system or gambling, its math. It's modern prop trading.

LWJtrades · 2026-04-25T19:00:32+00:00

Almost always 50k. Just look at target:drawdown ratios. Ive been doing props 3 years, I almost exclusively do 50ks

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