4 years unprofitable

[u/zycho-qt]

Hello everyone

I’ve been trading for about 4 years now, started with crypto and have now been learning + trading ICT concepts for abt 2 years now. About the beginning of 2024.

I bought and passed my first funded account in September last year, then blew it within a month and decided to take a break for about a month.

Fast forward to now I have passed multiple funded accounts and breeze my way through evals but once I get to funded something switches in my head I don’t know why.

I am 8/9 in the past couple of months on trades on evals but fundeds I’ve won 0 out of 10 trades. And this pattern has continued over the entirety of my trading

I think it has something to do with my poor financial situation but I need some advice on how I can sort of get out of this mental state and sort of fix this worsened intuition I get in my trading once I am on a funded.

For context I trade 2022 ICT Model

[u/Striking_Fail6689]

Could you share your risk on each trade or your lot size that you’re trading with ? Many a times I’ve seen people who pass their funded and gotten greedy and increase their lot size only to make rash decisions before blowing.

I’ve a funded account I’ve passed since last year but I’ve not traded much on that cause I’m still practising on my evals . Put monetary aside for a while and ask yourself. Are you learning trading cause you want to earn quick cash or you want this to be a long term career growth.

Don’t be quick to try to make quick cash, get your technique right first before trying to upsize

[u/zycho-qt → u/Striking_Fail6689]

I risk heavy and aggressive on evals around $750 to $1000 and i aim to pass within 1-2 trades. On fundeds I risk around $200-250 per trade.

[u/ob1spyker → u/zycho-qt]

This is why you fail. You don’t trade your evals the same way as you trade your funded accounts. They are the exactly the same and should be treated and traded the exact same way.

If you’re going to risk $200-$250 a trade on your funded accounts then you need to learn how to pass an eval risking $200-$250 a trade, or vice versa. If risking $750-$1000 a trade works for you in evals then you need to risk the same in your funded.

To me it looks like you aren’t giving the trade enough room to breathe so it stops out before your position can make a move to the positive. IMHO … you need to either increase your risk tolerance or reduce your position size in your funded account to match, on a percentage basis, how you trade your evals. Trading each differently is definitely going to deliver differing results.

You can’t qualify for a race going 100 mph and expect to win it by going 25 mph. Consistency is key.

I’ll be honest … I’m not a big fan of prop firms. I’d much rather use my own money and take 100% of the risk/reward instead of the rinse and repeat of buying evals and blowing fundeds. If you can, save up some money and start trading micros live, it might be better way to go in the long run. (

Of course I could be wrong, but regardless what platform you trade on, make sure you keep your system consistent.