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Update - Raw I've been going hard at intra day trading for almost half a year now. It's profitable, absolutely. Unfortunately, I do not believe I have anything left in the tank to trade at the same time while I work anymore I feel. Going from meeting to meeting, with reports, emails, calls...

26 - 30 Jan 2026 = BE (+0.01R) (1 trade) = Balance $96,286 BE (+0.01R) This week I have just been shattered and feel like the lower time frames are killing my mind.

19 - 23 Jan 2026 = -1.80R (4 trades) - Balance $96,284 -1.11R -1.05R +1.41R -1.05R Literally can't but a winning trade it feels. These two weeks have been agonising. Not sleeping well, work is really tiresome.

12 - 16 Jan 2026 = -3.97R (7 trades) - $96,912 -1.03R -1.09R +0.18R BE (+0.01R) -0.99R -1.01R BE (-0.04R) Very poor week. Work has picked up massively too.

5 - 9 Jan 2026 = +0.46R (4 trades) - Balance $98,667 +1.37R -1R -1.06R +1.16R

update to 29 Dec to 2 Jan 2026 as I ended up taking another trade on 2/1/26 = +2.77R (2 trades) - Balance $98,492 +1.26R +1.51R

Personal note I started changing my trading approach from Swing trading to Intraday/Day Trading (basically wanting to be out the market by the end of the day). First trade with this was 27th August 2025 (had to look this up from my journal) -> It's been 4 months -> Have taken 112 trades Note...

Goal for 2026 - get max funded with FTMO Let's do this 💪💪💪 ------------------- I am trying to document a TRUE JOURNEY of someone who is in the trenches of trying to make this work while having a full time job. Trading is not easy no matter your circumstances, a lot of introspection is...

Update on both accounts with FTMO: Challenge 1 - 2nd stage verification, dynamically risking appropriate amount for the account size. Balance - $97,777 Challenge 2 - 1st stage, copying trades from challenge 1, 1% risk per trade (luckily one of my losing trades did not copy for some reason)...

29 Dec to 2 Jan 2026 = +1.26R (1 trade) - Balance $97,777 +1.26R I was not planning to trade this week, the charts were horrendous. However, a very nice setup presented itself, and I simply executed.

22 Dec to 26 Dec 2025 = +1.39R (2 trades) - Balance $97,334 +0.02R (BE) - mistake entry, exited as soon as I realised this was a mistake entry +1.37R

15 Dec to 19 Dec 2025 = +0.75R (2 trades) - Balance $96,848 +1.44R -0.69R

8 Dec to 12 Dec 2025 = +4.00R (6 trades) - Balance $96,587 +1.20R +2.33R -0.54R +0.03R (BE) +2.07R -1.08R

My new approach explained So my previous approach to day/intraday trading was - take as many setups as I can with the models I researched, see what times of the day I can execute (remember I am still working full time), see what timeframe works for me. Basically I was somewhat yoyo-ing, as...

1 Dec to 5 Dec 2025 = -0.90R (8 trades) - Balance $95,587 +2.27R -1.00R -1.08R -1.12R -0.99R -1.05R Fuck me sideways! How much more of this can one take. By this point, I had a really long look at myself (by this I mean, about 10hrs of self analysis in the span of 3 days, long nights after...