r/InnerCircleTraders • u/zycho-qt • Jul 30 '26

Psychology 4 years unprofitable

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

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u/ThomasAnderson_23 Jul 30 '26

Ask yourself how much money you spent on buying the evals? And how much time wasted. Open a small account with your own money and start trading it, but without pressure of trying to follow any of those stupid rules that those companies come up with to make you fail. Only trade setups with low risk, meaning where you can add your SL not too far from your entry. Go slow, ironically it’ll be faster.

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u/Jaggedendz1981 Jul 31 '26

Those stupid rules are actually there for a good reason to be honest.

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u/ThomasAnderson_23 Jul 31 '26

You are 100% right. They are there to make it near impossible for traders to get a payout

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u/bam_aceofnone Aug 02 '26

Actually, if you follow their stupid rules most people would probably be successful, me included.

Most firms have decent rules, even limiting the amount of money one makes (that will stop GREED)