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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...

24 Nov to 28 Nov 2025 = -1.89R (6 trades) - Balance $96,072 +0.97R -0.16R (BE-ish) +0.64R -1.24R (slipped) -1.07R -1.04R Getting frustrated, feels like I am hamster in a wheel.

17 Nov to 21 Nov 2025 = +0.11R (5 trades) - Balance $96,786 -1.20R +2.40R +2.25R -2.45R (decided to risk all of todays profits by stretching my SL (like a noob). Never again will I stretch my SL, lesson learnt. This hurt so, so, so, so, did I mention? so, much! -0.89R

10 Nov to 14 Nov 2025 = +2.58R (6 trades) - Balance $96,764 -0.97R BE (-0.01R) BE (+0.03R) +1.64R +0.82R +1.06R I sized down and up dynamically as the account was reducing/increasing. I have set balances levels at which I believe I need to adjust risk parameters.

Results 3 Nov to 7 Nov 2025 = -5.21R (5 trades) - Balance $96,113 -1.05R -1.05R -1.06R -1.02R -1.02R Said all I need to say about this week above. At least Risk Management was on point and I did not overtrade.

Now this week (3rd to 7th November 2025) - I'll post results later. I am really just puzzled at my psychology. Not going to sugar coat anything here... I had a clear plan going into this week. I wanted to see Dollar weakness, so looking for Longs for EU/GU. What did I do? Monday - nothing...

Results 27 Oct to 31 Oct 2025 = +4.33R (6 trades) - Balance $98,461 BE BE +2.30R +1.19R +2.07R -1.23R (got slipped) should have been -1R. This is what REAL trading looks like. I had proper management. No overtrading. Clear plan for the week of what PA I want to see. Just beautiful overall -...