@joker_szn What are your thoughts on all the hate on X claiming that ICT doesn’t work
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@joker_szn Do you recommend also trading ES? Or you simply use it for finding SMTs?
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@joker_szn Aside from Apex what are other futures prop firms you would recommend? Based on scalability and trader friendly rules
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@joker_szn Do you only trade NY session or do you also trade London.
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@joker_szn Can you give tips for determining your contract size to be risking only a certain R but entering quickly?
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I don’t smoke, do drugs or drink alcohol
I workout every day, do hyroxes and I’m training for a marathon
Every night I go to sleep at the same time, every morning I wake up at the same time
This is a “boring” life for most people - but this lifestyle is what allows me to be a profitable trader
Crazy lifestyles are not compatible with trading
SOME people can be profitable traders while still partying, drinking and all that stuff on a regular basis - but these people are few and far between
Most people I know (including me) perform a lot better when they’re living the lifestyle of a professional athlete - fully locked in to their craft
Trading isn’t any different
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@TradingInTheNow Rough months like these that you share is what makes me believe you in your good months
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| April W4 |
Closing the week -1.16%
Month is currently sitting at -0.51%
Frustrating week for me, if I'm honest.
Will share a snapshot of a couple of the trades closed this week below to explain..
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GBPJPY
I was averaging in and building a short position on this from last week.
Honestly, the weekly chart looked convincing to me here to see this come off a little and profit on the way down.
This week obviously had different plans.
Got tapped out on my trailing stop as price retraced back up this week.
I have a pattern where on certain positions, when I'm in them for longer than a week, I tend to get invested in wanting to see them work - definitely happened here.
Got tapped out for a -0.8% loss and then watched price immediately drop, which triggered me.
Fell back on data which suggested that there's only a 13% chance that if GBPJPY prints a new high of the week on Thursday, it's unlikely it will close bearish, which honestly kept me out of doing something silly.
I'm not betting money on a 13% chance of being right - at least not without big R:R stacked in my favour, which this wasn't.
Annoying, yes, but did I regulate the emotion and stick to my plan?
Also yes.
USDCAD
Was building a long position in this over the space of the week and closed out for a small loss on Friday.
Honestly, I still like this for a potential play to the upside and had there not been war ongoing and a lot of uncertainty with oil, I probably would have had more conviction to hold this over the weekend.
One which I may start to work into again from next week depending where we open but for now, out with a -0.3% loss.
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Holding one swing play going into next week which I will share more on once closed.
On a positive note, Darwinex has completed it's calibration and my Darwin should be created tomorrow I believe.
The long-term track record will finally be underway.
Likely to end this month in a loss but I did everything right.
Onto the final week 🫡
Sanjeev S@TradingInTheNow
| April W3 | Closing the week +0.36% The month is currently sitting at +0.65% --- As mentioned previously, not my ideal market conditions. Finding it difficult to have conviction in longer-term swings - and the times where I have, I've been chopped up in the volatility. Had 3 positions closed this week: USDJPY Long - Small profit taken GBPUSD Long - Small profit taken USDCAD Long - Small loss I'm currently holding a short position in GBPJPY, which I decided on Friday close that I would roll into the new week... With the latest news, going to be a volatile open again - let's hope for the best! 😂 I'm 91% of the way through my Darwinex Zero calibration, so I may be able to share that before the month is out! 🫡
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-1 today
A+ setup, would take this every day of the week
reminder to not judge your trades by one single outcome
david@joker_szn
exact copy-paste of the last weekly profile if you've watched my "one model for life" YT vid, you know what to look out for tomorrow $EURUSD
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| February - Week 4 |
Got cooked this week, can't lie.
Closing the week -3.8R
Closing the month -3.2R
Despite the poor outcome, what I'm most disappointed about is that I broke my first rule of any kind since October 2025.
I SHOULD have lost money - but should only have been a -2.8R week.
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The above was a conclusion I wouldn't have been able to make a few years ago.
I would have never accepted that my edge just didn't make money during this period of time.
These moments are never easy, but all part of the game.
My focus right now?
Make sure small mistakes don't compound into big ones.
I cut my trading week off at Thursday and plan to remain out of short-term trading until at least Tuesday (if not maybe longer).
I take process breaches as a red flag and aim to avoid having a big blow up.
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Trades taken..
Cable
Wanted to be long on the day.
Followed my plan.
Idea was wrong.
Took a controlled loss.
Euro
(Where I really got cooked this week)
Was looking to swing long this for a weekly range - attempted 3 positions to get on board.
The second position shouldn't have been taken and it was where I breached my rules.
The other two, no qualms.
USDCAD
Wanted to be short on the day, attempted an aggressive break on previous days low as I was expecting this to go and market just didn't want to play ball the day.
Again, plan followed, no qualms.
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Overall Account Status and Performance
FN Funded: -3%
FTMO P1: -8%
ThinkCapital P2: Breached
Got slightly unlucky with ThinkCapital account - the small winning week I had last week I didn't get to trade on the account as it was getting upgraded.
So only took the losses for the month on here which was why damage was so brutal.
It is what it is.
Time to reset, and roll into March with a clear mind to do it all over again 🫡
Sanjeev S@TradingInTheNow
| February - Week 3 | 3 trades this week. 2 Losses. 1 Winner. Closing the week +0.85R. --- Started the week with my most frustrating trade in USDCAD. Was looking for swing longs and watched my initial trade go from +2R to stopping me out at -0.2R. Got unfortunate with the deep retracement. My rules didn't give me any way to trail my stop up further. Did everything right but of course, the outcome sucked. Second trade was GBPJPY short. Was looking to swing this short for the week but idea was ultimately wrong. Bailed on this early after it started to invalidate my area of interest. Final trade for the week was a day trade Euro short. Clean as they come to be honest. Beautiful reaction from my point of interest, high probability target in mind and move nicely. --- Didn't unfortunately get to trade any of this on my ThinkCapital P2 as they've been doing system upgrade and didn't get my new credentials until Thursday night. So all the above was executed on: FundedNext Funded Account FTMO P1 Will keep account updates to end of month reviews. Snapshot of journal attached for the week. Onto a fresh week 🫡
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@TradingInTheNow @OraiFx @PropFirmMatch Same with mine @TradingInTheNow not gonna lie, my strategy was executed perfectly but I still had the longest losing streak seen in my data. This anomaly truthfully made me question my edge cuz I’ve never seen it in my data before, but I know this will give me unshakable trust
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@OraiFx @PropFirmMatch Conditions have sucked for my strategy lol
I feel your pain!
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Honest update..
Pretty rough month..
And if I’m being real, it's not the cleanest start to the year either.
I failed a challenge this week that’s been running since last year.
A few things to unpack that I’ll break it down properly in my end-of-week trading recap.
It sucks, but this is the nature of being aggressive in the challenge phase.
I’m still focused on scaling funding this year, so I’ll be picking up a fresh challenge in the next week or so to kick off the first of my challenges for 2026.
Been scoping out the weekly best sellers from @PropFirmMatch - interesting to see where most traders are putting their money right now.
Anyone else starting some fresh challenges this month?
What you got your eyes on?
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@JustinWerlein Justin, I don’t care what people say about you — you’ve changed my life buddy.
As someone who has had Justin as a mentor, I vouche that Justin is deadass a great guy — so much so that he risked it all just to be honest. He has changed so many lives, including mine.
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@joker_szn “What if the strategy stops working and the market changes?” —> my most common thought when in drawdown. Gotta be careful of the tricks the emotional mind plays. I think I just need to apply my edge longer and see it get me out of drawdown more times
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| February - Week 3 |
3 trades this week.
2 Losses.
1 Winner.
Closing the week +0.85R.
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Started the week with my most frustrating trade in USDCAD.
Was looking for swing longs and watched my initial trade go from +2R to stopping me out at -0.2R.
Got unfortunate with the deep retracement.
My rules didn't give me any way to trail my stop up further.
Did everything right but of course, the outcome sucked.
Second trade was GBPJPY short.
Was looking to swing this short for the week but idea was ultimately wrong.
Bailed on this early after it started to invalidate my area of interest.
Final trade for the week was a day trade Euro short.
Clean as they come to be honest.
Beautiful reaction from my point of interest, high probability target in mind and move nicely.
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Didn't unfortunately get to trade any of this on my ThinkCapital P2 as they've been doing system upgrade and didn't get my new credentials until Thursday night.
So all the above was executed on:
FundedNext Funded Account
FTMO P1
Will keep account updates to end of month reviews.
Snapshot of journal attached for the week.
Onto a fresh week 🫡
Sanjeev S@TradingInTheNow
| February - Week 2 | 4 trades this week played out over 3 ideas. Closing the week -0.2R. Very lacklustre start to the year by all means. --- GBPUSD Was looking for longs as a pivot out of this zone to start the week. The idea was simply wrong, and to be honest, the highlighted zone didn't give me the type of reaction I wanted. Onto the next.. USDCAD I was also looking for longs and the zone was good, but I got tapped out by my trailing stop at basically break-even on that second retest before it eventually ran to target. Annoying of course but outcomes are out of my control. AUDUSD Was hunting shorts here and idea and zone to play from was good. Only problem was I was too ambitious with my target - sized in as it started moving down and ended up closing for a small loss when it lost momentum and came back on me. --- Disappointing end to the week of course, but I stuck to my plan across the board. Not much else I can do apart from that. Updated journal snapshot attached: Onto a fresh week 🫡
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@TradingInTheNow How do you deal with months where your edge doesn’t perform well? I notice that there are some months where my edge is so strong, but some months where the exact same setup will just not work leading to losses (+ larger losing streaks than I’ve had before hence doubt).
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I always remind myself that patience is a trade which produces the best return.
The problem for most people is that, in the moment, it doesn't look like one.
When there's no action, there's no immediate P&L feedback.
If there's no feedback, this is where most people lose it because it always feels 'unproductive'.
Most traders come from the 9-5 world, where we associate activity with progress.
Because of that, doing nothing always feels like not working.
The markets are a constant marketing machine.
Stare at them long enough and you'll create opportunities which don't exist.
You have to stop thinking of trading like a job and think of it more like a business.
Patience doesn't pay because it makes you more money; it pays because it reduces your costs.
New traders always measure performance by what they make on a good day.
Professionals focus on measuring what they didn't lose on a slow one.
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@joker_szn Does your system still take losing months despite following your trading plan? Or do losing months go away at a certain level of experience like yours despite weaker market conditions?
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| February - Week 2 |
4 trades this week played out over 3 ideas.
Closing the week -0.2R.
Very lacklustre start to the year by all means.
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GBPUSD
Was looking for longs as a pivot out of this zone to start the week.
The idea was simply wrong, and to be honest, the highlighted zone didn't give me the type of reaction I wanted.
Onto the next..
USDCAD
I was also looking for longs and the zone was good, but I got tapped out by my trailing stop at basically break-even on that second retest before it eventually ran to target.
Annoying of course but outcomes are out of my control.
AUDUSD
Was hunting shorts here and idea and zone to play from was good.
Only problem was I was too ambitious with my target - sized in as it started moving down and ended up closing for a small loss when it lost momentum and came back on me.
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Disappointing end to the week of course, but I stuck to my plan across the board.
Not much else I can do apart from that.
Updated journal snapshot attached:
Onto a fresh week 🫡
Sanjeev S@TradingInTheNow
| February - Week 1 | Delayed update to my last post on this. Ended January -0.3R down. Snapshot of my journal attached. No trades taken this week. --- Account Status FundedNext (Funded): -1.2% FTMO (P1): +1.74% ThinkCapital (P2): -0.8% --- In all honesty, this week was looking clean and I was looking forward to trading it at the end of last week, but life got in the way. Was travelling in the US Monday - Wednesday and therefore had no access to my prop accounts. Thursday & Friday I honestly was not in a great headspace to trade - work had been full on this week and I hadn't done a great job of balancing my time or energy. I have a rule of thumb to not have risk in the market if I don't have sufficient mental capital. I choose to believe that your level of mental capital determines your financial capital. --- My first trading week of February commences on Monday. Will start sharing details of the actual positions taken from next week too. Let's go 🫡
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@joker_szn Does a profitable trader like yourself still have moments of doubt or frustration when in losing streaks? I know you don’t act upon them (hence why you are profitable), but I’m curious if you’re completely desenitized to doubt at your stage of profitability
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