Alex

@_findingmyedge wow I just read your 2025 wrap up post "I imagine this will mean less intraday trading, lower size and longer timeframes. The trade-off will probably be less P&L, but I’m okay with this." Doesnt seem to be the case of a trade off, great perfomance!!

+$1.05m for March My biggest wins in March were all long thermal coal stocks. This is a sector I'm very comfortable with and I knew they would be beneficiaries of the conflict in Iran. In general, the coal sector was slower to move than the O&G sector so there were a few attractive spots to size up with very good risk/reward. My biggest win came from NHC. This was very tricky to trade at the start of the month with a couple of big shake-outs. I took a $50k loss in the first one (10th of March), but added into the second one (17th of March). I was holding decent size before their results and thought the 10% gap down was a big overreaction. This ended up being a great spot to add size, and NHC climbed 20% over the next three days from that open. I traded around a core over the next couple of weeks, and fully exited on the 30th/31st of March. Other big wins came from TER and YAL (realised on 9th/10th of March). I also made almost $200k from trading WTI over various trades, predominantly long. My biggest loss came from YAL, which I initially entered short as a hedge for NHC. YAL proceeded to rip my face off and cost me almost $100k when it gapped up 4.5% on the 12th of March. Making $1m in a month is something I never imagined I would achieve. I was fortunate to have the right experience at the right time, and also lucky to get some great entries, particularly in NHC. One of my strengths has always been sizing up in asymmetric setups, and this served me very well during the month.

@_findingmyedge Great post, question with the swing trades you're doing, are you adding to them over the days, or the profit is from a single entry and just holding?

+$1.23m for 2025 1H 2025 = $215k 2H 2025 = $1.02m Another huge year for me, and my second consecutive 7 figure year. While I always had confidence I would become a consistently profitable trader, I never really imagined that I would be able to achieve something like this. Below I’ll provide additional context about my trading journey and how I made my money this year. Some of the following content was included in my end-of-year post last year, but since I deleted that post I thought it was worth repeating here. Like many others, five years ago I saw Nick Fabrio‘s post showing that he’d made $1m of profit from intraday trading. After this, I discovered other Australian traders like Austin Mitchum, James Chen and Bryce Edwards. These traders proved, contrary to conventional wisdom, that it is possible to make a good living from short-term trading. This sparked my own trading journey, which I started by risking $1 per trade for many months. Since then, I’ve developed an edge in a few different setups and I’ve sized up significantly. This year, my turnover was over 50x higher than in my first year (and getting close to $1bn, which would have seemed absolutely crazy to me five years ago). I’m definitely not the best trader out there; there are plenty of Australian traders with much more experience than me, some of whom presumably earn significantly more. However, most successful traders aren’t well known or don’t post their P&L, probably because humility is such an important character trait in becoming successful. The main reason I still post my P&L is to show that it is still possible to make money from short-term trading on the ASX. In a journey plagued with difficulty and self-doubt, I think there is value in knowing that the destination is actually achievable. If you’re going to post P&L (particularly big positive numbers), I think transparency is important. It’s much easier to share wins than losses, which is why you see a lot more of the former. This presents a misleading picture of how easy it is to succeed. I once heard someone describe trading as ‘pulling money out of thin air’. This should be difficult, and it is. Successful traders are the tip of the iceberg. Even if you do achieve success, it’s inevitably a long runway, full of setbacks and emotional turmoil. However, if you love trading and you’re prepared to work hard, then it can be done. Throughout my trading journey I’ve shared both the highs and the lows, from my very first trade. I don’t think there is a more complete record of an ASX trader’s journey out there. In the spirit of transparency, I would like to provide some additional context to my performance this year. Similar to last year, I made a significant amount of profit from swing trades, not intraday trades, often using significant amounts of capital (and bolstered by leverage). In theory, it would have been possible to make $1m purely from intraday trading on the ASX this year. However, it would have taken a truly elite performance. If you want to make bigger money on the ASX, a large part of that probably has to come from swing trades, because liquidity in the Australian market puts a cap on how much you can earn intraday. I note that my swing trades were typically measured in days/weeks, rather than months. Second, I was fortunate to already have some savings built up before I started trading (and a spouse who still earns a good income). It’s this financial security that enabled me to survive the $80k drawdown early in my trading career, which would have crippled the vast majority of developing traders. It also enables me to endure significant drawdowns and overnight risk. Third, the fact that I don’t need the money from trading to pay for living expenses gives me a psychological advantage which is difficult to overstate. It’s a huge part of the reason I was able to advance my sizing and profitability as quickly as I have. I think I still would have achieved success if I started with less capital, but it’s hard to say for sure and it definitely would have slowed down my growth rate. Now for some comments on my trading performance this year: - I finished the year strong with a $437k winning trade in WAF (about $350k after hedging). This was a deep value play right up my alley and I sized it very aggressively. - Overall, I’m not actually that happy with how I traded through the year. Compared to last year, I made about $100k additional net profit. However, I made 68% more trades and had 143% more turnover, so I was a lot less efficient. More importantly, my maximum drawdown was ~$250k, compared to ~$40k last year. I also had four drawdowns of $200k or more. Ultimately, this meant a lot more stress and volatility for relatively little gain. - One of my goals for the year was to minimise big losses, and I completely failed at this. In total, I had 39 losses exceeding $10k for a total net loss of over $1m! Some of this was due to bigger sizing, but many losses were still too big, the biggest coming from DRO over the course of two days (almost $200k in total). There was undeniably a lot of avoidable P&L leakage from losses that were bigger than necessary. - Sizing aggressively has always been one of my strengths. Sometimes, this results in outsized losses, but the flipside is that I also made a number of great winning trades. My biggest winning trades were as follows: o $437k in WAF (swing trade held for about 30 days) o $120k in YAL (swing trade held for about 20 days) o $120k in APX (intraday) o $90k in BOT (intraday) o $76k in RUL (swing trade held for about 10 days). - I made almost 70% of my P&L for the year from these top five trades. 100% of my P&L came from just my top 15 winning trades. Obviously, it isn’t realistic to assume I could just make big winners and nothing else, but it does show that a lot of the smaller trades are kind of meaningless for me. - I strayed into index trading, which worked well initially but I abused it and ended up giving back all of the initial profits and more. This is a good tool to have in the toolbox, but there isn’t much edge there for me so it’s something I need to use sparingly. - I failed to really take advantage of any major trades/themes, like rare earths, precious metals, lithium and DRO short. In the latter three trades/themes I had large positions established but didn’t manage to hold on for any meaningful gain (and in the case of DRO, I got smoked completely). In future, something I want to try is reducing my size and increasing my timeframe to reduce the variance of my P&L and my reliance on perfect timing. Going forward, I’ve reached a point where I don’t need to keep pushing so hard and take so much risk, so I’d like to change how I trade to reduce stress and allow more time for other pursuits (eg golf, exercise, time with kids, projects around the home). I imagine this will mean less intraday trading, lower size and longer timeframes. The trade-off will probably be less P&L, but I’m okay with this. Thanks to everyone who has followed me and provided encouragement or support over the past few years. If you have any questions please post them below or reach out to me privately.

@TheShortBear @HStenholdt This is true but arent you making the assumption it was market makers here, rather than another institutional player taking a position?

@HStenholdt A market makers holds inventory against the calls/puts they sell to allow for market neutrality and pocket in the spread of the operation. That’s why it’s called making a market, their job is providing liquidity, not to be long or short markets out of nowhere.

$GOOGL

@_findingmyedge You havent been posting results for last couple of months, hope all good, been tricky markets for sure!

-$171k for March Shocker of a month. Started the month heavily long resources which was horrible timing. Realised a big loss in FMG on the 3rd & spent the rest of the month on the back foot. Still holding a swing trade in SMR with a decent unrealised loss. Tried to use futures to hedge my swing positions but my timing was terrible and just kept racking up losses. As usual, a run of good performance comes to a crashing end. I had hoped I was past this but clearly not! I spent the 2nd half of the month overseas which was a good break and hopefully the reset I needed.

@Alonzo_CTHG How so? Even your followers arent buying this 6k followers and you got two hearts.

@Alonzo_CTHG In a great way.

@Rainmaker1973 How funny after all that marketing, 125 years later I think that first bottle would be like a work of art to have in the fridge, desk, etc!

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@andrewmercado @noelleeesss @ZelenskyyUa @lexfridman You are wrong. Trump won on ending this war peacefully. Trump also won the vote of a majority of Americans. Point and case.

@noelleeesss @ZelenskyyUa @lexfridman Wrong

I would love to do a 3 hour podcast with @ZelenskyyUa I will come to Kyiv for it. Let's do it.

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The great and powerful @elonmusk. If it wasn't for him we'd be fucked. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast

@stylebender Not the reason you left though , your family was very well off, seems you can't let it go.

Oga!!! I hail you 🫡 Olorun he will pay!

@asxcfdtrader Yeah one of the things I don't miss about Australia , over bearing gov, traffic penalties are crazy, over $1k for not wearing a seatbelt properly ?!

Look, maybe I'm just an old grump...but this sent me into a rage. $1161 fine. I'm sure they managed to get the only 30 seconds of the last 20 years I haven't worn a seatbelt properly, but at the core I just have a massive issue why the Government feels it's their responsibility to punish me and protect me from myself...

@Cameronfous Thought your house video was coming next , when's that out? looking forward to it, place looks incredible !

Watch the full video here youtu.be/OdWLZ7CiwbE

Exactly Where To Buy The Dip on #bitcoin ! $BTC I will tell you in my latest youtube video 🐺

@thefundedtrader TFT, it's very bad look to have time to post this rubbish, but no time to reply to the 1000s of unresolved customer tickets, unexplained account breaches, and denied payouts. Prioritize addressing these issues for customers who have given you their hard earned money

They want to test us, to see if we are capable of withstanding the resistance. We were born to overcome and succeed. TFT community is built different. 👑

@joe_s2ta @thefundedtrader What was your issue ? I have two accounts In phase 2 that were breached when I couldn't log into dxtrader.

@instantdoodle @thefundedtrader Mine is ok, problem was resolved yesterday

If this message gets 100 retweets we will remove all commissions on challenge accounts for atleast two weeks. 👑

@thefundedtrader Dear TFT, it's very bad look to have time to post this rubbish, but no time to reply to the 100s of unresolved customer tickets, unexplained account breaches, and denied payouts. Prioritize addressing these issues for customers who have given you hard earned money!

$600k Dragon Challenge + No Commissions + 95% Payout Add-On = Next Week 🐉

@solver_cs @thefundedtrader Yeah its horrible, web based and very slow, hard to manage. Surely there was a broker that we could use through mt5 ?!

@thefundedtrader I don't like the new platform, it is way worse than MT5 or MT4

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@filip36319058 @Amoulinifx @MyFundedFX yeah only a little, look at BTC, I was holding long for a week, closed out at 52k, its trading 60 now!

@Amoulinifx @MyFundedFX It closed in profit then

You are receiving an invalid account message because we have begun the process of migrating ThinkMarket Metatrader accounts to Blueberry and DXtrade. - There is no need to open a ticket if you are encountering this error. - If you didn't fill in the MIGRATION FORM, you will be AUTOMATICALLY migrated to Blueberry Markets with same account's balance size 1. MT4 Thinkmarkets -> MT4 Blueberry Markets 2. MT5 ThinkMarkets -> MT5 Blueberry Markets - Your opening trades were closed automatically also before 3PM EST earlier today as we asked everyone to close. - Blueberry MT4/5 are still available for non-US clients - US clients have to use DXTrade powered by ThinkMarkets ETA FOR MIGRATION: Friday, March 1 Thank you for your patience and understanding!

@Amoulinifx @MyFundedFX completely agree, I was long BTC wanting to take off the table at 60k and now it would have been in profit with a good payout but now they closed it at 52!

@MyFundedFX i had an open position open and that was a winner , thats scam get our open trades back or compensate it wtf is this

@koysiirleri @MyFundedFX Same man, very frustrating, long BTC wanting to take off the table at 60k and now it would have been in profit with a good payout but now they closed it at 52!

@MyFundedFX My trade was going to be TP, I was going to pass the 1st phase, but it was automatically closed. Fuck me