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0:00I get funded $150,000
0:02with a futures prop firm, thanks to two
0:04order flow patterns that I will explain
0:05you today. And I recorded the entire
0:07process from the development and
0:09validation of my edge hypothesis to
0:11every single trade that I took that
0:13allowed me to pass that prop firm
0:14challenge. You'll also see how even
0:16though I was profitable and almost close
0:18to passing the challenge, because of
0:19some stupid mistake, I had to remake the
0:21challenge all over again, not once, but
0:24twice. Hence, why I got tired of trying
0:26prop firm challenges and I am now
0:28trading all in my personal capital.
0:30Which also I'll show you the performance
0:31of the last month and what's my plan for
0:32the next year trading. Let's quickly go
0:34through the strategies that I have used.
0:36Number one, a stop run strategy. Number
0:38two, an iceberg strategy. And then an
0:41order flow divergence strategy. There
0:43were only a couple of trades where I
0:44used this one, to be honest, and this is
0:46more discretionary. But these two are
0:47very mechanical instead. The stop run
0:49strategy, I'm basically waiting to see
0:52with order flow if above some highs
0:53there's actually some stop orders. And
0:57with order flow, actually see if it's
0:59real. You've probably seen a lot of ICT
1:01or SMC trader trying to do the same
1:03thing. And what they will do is they
1:04will wait for the breakout, wait for a
1:06test on probably a fair value gap, and
1:08then trade this to the downside for the
1:10entirety of the session. But most of the
1:12times when that happens, it's during the
1:14New York session. And during these
1:16phases in the New York session, there's
1:18no stop run. There's actually
1:19absorptions, which are very different
1:21patterns that requires a very different
1:23trading style. The stop runs I've traded
1:25only happen in the ES in the London
1:28session. It's a low liquidity pattern
1:30that specifically happens during the
1:31London session when there's low
1:32liquidity. And the edge that I found is,
1:34let's say there's a high over here. We
1:36expect up above here to have buy stops.
1:39And when price is reaching that level,
1:41there's going to be, as always, sell
1:43limits above here. These are the pending
1:45orders that we can see in the order
1:46book. And below here we have buy limits,
1:49right? This is how order flow works.
1:50You've probably seen some of my videos
1:52about this. And when a stop run happens,
1:53you see all of these market orders start
1:56entering the market. And they are
1:57matched with these sellers and they
2:00disappear. They're matched with these
2:01sellers and they disappear. They match
2:03with these sellers and they disappear
2:05and so on and so forth. And they
2:06basically clear the book. That's why we
2:08call this also, this pattern in order
2:11flow, we call it book sweeping. And when
2:12that happens, your classic green candle
2:15forms. Now, the current price is here.
2:17And of course, you would still have more
2:18sell limits above here, all the market
2:20makers at the next levels of price.
2:22These buy limits will still be here. And
2:24for a very small time frame, there's a
2:26gap in the book all over here. There's
2:29no liquidity. There should be these
2:30guys' buy limit. It but it can take some
2:33time before the book gets filled again
2:36with buy orders. So, the path of least
2:38resistance is this one. So, it's a very
2:40short-term trade. I'm not trying to look
2:41for a session reversal. I'm just taking
2:44advantage of an order flow, very
2:45short-term order flow HFT level pattern.
2:49So, when I see that this is a confirmed
2:50stop run, I've developed an indicator
2:52that basically tells that to me based on
2:54order flow data, and I simply sell here.
2:57I don't wait for a breakout and a test
2:58and go down for the whole session.
3:00That's not the point of the stop run.
3:01So, that's the first setup. The second
3:03setup is an iceberg strategy that I've
3:04explained in this video. And basically,
3:06what I want to see here in the iceberg
3:08strategy is price trying to kind of push
3:11on a certain level, on a very specific
3:14price tick. And I want to see from order
3:16flow on this area buyers getting
3:18absorbed on a single tick. That means
3:21that in the book, there is someone who
3:23is constantly reloading and reloading
3:25and reloading contracts. So, if I see
3:27them from order flow, I'm going to sell
3:29to earn a couple ticks, front run this
3:31huge trader, maybe a couple times every
3:33time it bounces. And at some point, I
3:35expect a stop loss because what normally
3:37happens after iceberg orders is this
3:39phase called momentum ignition. And so,
3:41I basically sell one tick under the
3:43iceberg and cover myself with a stop
3:45loss one tick above. And that's it, very
3:47simple strategy. So, with this one, I've
3:49observed it so many times that I did not
3:51need a thorough backtest, also because
3:53they're pretty rare, as I also trade
3:56these during the London session in the
3:58ES. Because, for example, a good iceberg
4:00could have, I don't know, two to 3,000
4:02contracts on a single tick, and that is
4:05an anomaly in the London session. Your
4:07average 1-minute candle in the ES during
4:09the London session may have 200, 300
4:11contracts per minute. When you have on a
4:13single level a lot of contracts, that's
4:16an anomaly in the London session. But in
4:17the New York session, icebergs like
4:19these are completely ran through like
4:22like a hot blade through butter. 3,000
4:24contracts are nothing in a 1-minute
4:26candle during the cash session in the
4:28ES. But before I show you all all of the
4:30data analysis that I have done in my
4:32backtest and what ultimately was the
4:34final strategy after all the fitting and
4:36optimization, let me walk you through an
4:38example. So, this is an example of a
4:39stop run. We've probably went below some
4:41lows over here, and there was this huge
4:44and very fast order flow spike. I got my
4:47indicator here that also tells me how
4:48many contracts I should trade. And right
4:50below here in this area, you can see
4:51some stats, some data, some value for
4:54the order flow of each candle. On the
4:55first layer, you have the total volume,
4:57and then you have some delta values. And
4:58what I want to see is exactly this. A
5:00huge spike in volume, very high volume
5:02compared to the previous one. So, I want
5:04to see an increase in volume, a really
5:06high delta. Likely, this number should
5:08be at least 1/3 of this one. So, I want
5:11to have at least 1/3 clear aggression.
5:13And then I simply buy when this candle
5:15closes. My stop loss is slightly below
5:17here, and my target is the beginning of
5:19the stop run. So, I would buy here, take
5:21this retracement, super easy, super
5:22mechanical. This is another example of a
5:25bullish stop run. I get my indicator
5:27here that tells me we have an increase
5:28in volume, we have an increase in delta.
5:30I sell on the top, stop loss slightly
5:32above, and then ultimately price
5:34reabsorbs the path of least resistance.
5:36This is an example of the iceberg
5:37instead. Where you can see here there's
5:39a lot of volume absorbed on the top of
5:42the candle. So, what I would do as soon
5:43as I have this indication, which is,
5:45again, a proprietary indicator we've
5:46developed for deep charts, which
5:48basically analyzes volume clusters,
5:50which by the way, we're releasing very
5:51soon. I guess I'm not sure when this is
5:53going to be published. But if you want
5:54to join, we're almost there. Click the
5:55link in the description to save your
5:56spot for the launch. You get a free
5:58order flow master class and some other
6:00super cool free stuff. So, what I would
6:01do here is I would sell right here, earn
6:04a couple ticks. Then as soon as price
6:06gets back here, sell again. I would
6:07probably get stopped out here, maybe
6:09with a little bit of slippage as well.
6:10So, you have to kind of be careful with
6:11these setups for the risk. Also here, we
6:13had a clear example of 75 absorbed here,
6:15165 huge imbalance, point of control
6:18right on top. Sell over here, take a
6:20couple ticks. Then we test it again,
6:21take a couple ticks again, and then we
6:23completely ran it through. So, my goal
6:24here is to take one, two, maybe three
6:27trades, and then get the [ __ ] out. So,
6:28for the stop run version of the
6:30strategy, this was a journal that I
6:32filled out, partly by myself, partly
6:34with some friends that helped me out
6:35with this, where I simply gathered data.
6:37I gathered a huge amount of data, around
6:39349 trades as a sample. We did this
6:43manually. That's crazy. I specifically
6:45wanted to see how was the increase in
6:47the volume activity, how big was the
6:48candle, how was the delta, if it went to
6:50TP, what was the maximum adverse
6:52excursion. And I tried with three
6:54different types of take profits. So, I
6:56went through all of the data for, let's
6:57say, a full year, I think, or so. And
6:59then I started analyzing this data. And
7:01I found out, for example, that it was
7:02better to choose stop runs that had at
7:04least a certain amount of volume, so
7:06that had a clear spike in volume. It has
7:09to be an anomaly that I can capitalize
7:10on. So, I started putting a filter of
7:12all of the stop runs above 1,300
7:14contracts. Before I had a 48% {slash}
7:1753% win rate, depending on the target.
7:20Now, I started having a 53% win rate to
7:2355% win rate. So, the results started
7:25improving. And then I also saw that the
7:28closest I got to the New York session,
7:30the less they started working. So, I
7:32also I I tried to just put a filter on,
7:34maybe let's take them before 7:00 a.m.
7:37New York time. And also here, I found a
7:39clear improvement in the statistics. So,
7:41I joined these two filters. So, then I
7:44was looking at short stop runs as well.
7:46I did the exact same thing, the exact
7:48same filters. At the stop runs that
7:49specifically swept some very important
7:52highs or lows. And the results of these
7:54were absolutely phenomenal, 80% win
7:55rate. So, from this fitting phase, I had
7:58the final optimized version of the
7:59strategy that led me to this profit and
8:01loss, a win rate of 66%, which is
8:03decent. And I got all the data I needed
8:06to then start forward testing this
8:07strategy with a prop firm account. And
8:09with a prop firm account, you have to be
8:10really low on risk. So, I decided to
8:14only risk on average 0.20%
8:17of the account. Super conservative risk.
8:19I did not approach this as a I have to
8:22make money. I have to pass the prop
8:23firm. I only approach this as I want to
8:26see if this strategy is working in the
8:27real markets. Cuz after all of this
8:29backtesting, that is normally what you
8:31do. You do an in-sample test, you do
8:33data analysis, you fit it, you optimize
8:35it, and then you put it in the real
8:36market to see if the edge is still
8:37present and for how long. This was the
8:39first trade. It signaled me as a stop
8:41run, but it went to stop loss. And then
8:43another stop run was formed, and I
8:44traded that one as well. And there was
8:46also some clear absorption over here.
8:48So, it was kind of an overlap between
8:50the two trades. And also here, after
8:53being stopped out, I sold exactly the
8:55top of the candle, and then I took most
8:57of the profit out here, and I tried to
9:00let the position run a little bit more
9:02and targeting the VWAP. And slowly but
9:04surely, I think I'm not sure we got to
9:06that point, but as you can see here,
9:07yeah, we went up and took that high. So,
9:11we took out an important high that we
9:13did not took out in the first stop run.
9:14So, my mistake was I kind of opened it
9:17too early. I should have waited for the
9:18stop run that actually swept the high.
9:20And I got stopped out at break even. I
9:22managed to make a little profit to pay
9:24for my stop loss, but I I think I ended
9:26that day at a loss of $265, as you can
9:30see, the broker is OneUp, which is the
9:32prop firm I was using at that time. Then
9:33this was a iceberg setup that happened
9:36right after this stop run, actually. I
9:38can see it now. So, we got the stop run
9:40happening. I took a profit from that. An
9:41iceberg started forming here, 283
9:44contracts, 75 contracts. So, I sold 15
9:46contracts, stop right above.
9:49Uh first target here, and then I tried
9:51to place another target slightly below.
9:52Let's see what happened.
9:55Yep, the first setup went to target. So,
9:57now we are officially in profit on the
10:00same account.
10:02And yes, we did indeed go to profit and
10:05close that day with a $500. And now we
10:08are here with another trade that was
10:11about to happen, which was this stop
10:13run. This was also a mistake because
10:15normally I don't trade beginning of
10:18impulses. I only trade an exhaustion
10:21phase. So, this was also a mistake that
10:22I shouldn't have uh traded. It was not
10:25following the strategy and it actually
10:27went to stop loss. Do you see like it
10:30should have been a stop run that I've
10:31opened maybe here. I did not have a stop
10:33run on top because stop run is supposed
10:36to be an exhaustion move, but I opened
10:37simply an increasing volume due to a
10:39directional breakout. So, that was
10:41clearly a mistake and I paid for that
10:43mistake a beautiful $800. So, not a good
10:47start. This was a stop run. It was
10:49signaled that as a stop run at least and
10:52I got almost stopped out. There was
10:54another small stop run right below here.
10:57Get almost stopped out twice and
10:59eventually I got to profit with $700 in
11:02the bank. And actually at that point in
11:04time, that stop run was the end of an
11:07impulse that then generated a huge move
11:11down. So, this was the stop run we took
11:13and after that it would just simply
11:14melted down for the whole day. So, if I
11:16even just left one contract open, it
11:18would have been awesome, but this thing
11:19does not happen that often, I would say.
11:21But yes, we closed that day at $700 in
11:25profit. This is an iceberg setup that I
11:28took the same day. I qualified it both
11:30with a heat map and with the footprint
11:32chart. I've seen this and it's likely
11:34this is likely a mistake because it
11:35looks like this is New York session and
11:38this is not a trade I supposed to be
11:40taking during the New York session. And
11:41then I think I got stopped out
11:43massively. Yep, there you go. Got
11:45stopped out and basically cleared the
11:47profit for that day
11:49due to a rookie mistake. Then this one
11:52happened. Traded from the top to the
11:54close of the candle, 10 contracts and
11:56that day we profited around $825.
12:00On that same day we've opened another
12:02trade during the New York session. This
12:03is the order flow divergence where I
12:05basically waited for an absorption phase
12:07at the bottoms where you can see a lot
12:09of volume being traded at the bottoms of
12:10the candle and then a phase of
12:12initiative and that's where I open my
12:14trade and probably got stopped out, I
12:16think.
12:17Yep, I got stopped out, but this was a
12:19clear liquidation point. So, I think I
12:21decided to re-enter the trade because I
12:23officially got the divergence I was
12:25talking about. So, this is a CVD
12:26divergence where I can see that on this
12:29leg of price there was not enough
12:31participation, not enough delta compared
12:33to this one over here. So, this
12:35divergence made me pull the trigger on
12:37another absorption that happened below
12:38here. Sort of a failed auction. Normally
12:40here I wait for a clear initiative, so a
12:43candle with a high delta and there you
12:45have it. We had the candle with a high
12:46delta, 7,000 contracts and there we go.
12:49We have more initiative. We're also on
12:50the second standard deviation of the
12:52VWAP, which is normally where a lot of
12:54institutional trading goes on. Then I
12:56trail my stop loss and eventually gets
12:59taken. And at this point I think market
13:00started reversing very aggressively, so
13:03I decided to close the trade. There you
13:04go, $975
13:07for the day. Moving on to the next
13:08session, we had I think another stop
13:10run. So, I sold here. Besides from
13:12losing in commission, we're losing $500
13:14more or less and we get stopped out and
13:16then we get another stop run that I
13:17probably executed on. Eventually got to
13:19target, so we kind of mitigated some of
13:22the loss that we took before and then I
13:24let it run a little bit and eventually
13:27got I think my break even got Yeah,
13:29break even got taken, minus $274
13:32for that morning. Now, we have another
13:34trade taken with the divergence idea
13:37where I think the divergence happened
13:38here between these two highs and as soon
13:41as I saw a very intense aggressive
13:43candles on a standard deviation, I
13:45decided to execute on this trade. So,
13:47this was a New York session trade. I
13:49think it almost got to break even. It
13:52came back, it retraced and I closed the
13:54trade at break even. Moving on to the
13:56next trade, we had a stop run here, $95
13:58in commission every single time for one
14:00up. Thank you very much. This is a
14:02qualified stop run. We sold around here.
14:04We're waiting for price to reach our
14:05target and I think slightly before
14:09slightly after it almost touches our
14:11stop loss, it eventually runs around
14:14there a little bit and then it goes to
14:16profit. Yep, and we took profit right
14:18there but not with all the contracts. I
14:20think we've left one contract open to
14:22see if we could reach the VWAP this time
14:23and then eventually moved our stop to
14:25break even and we closed that day at
14:27$600 of profit. But same concept, stop
14:30run, shorting, taking most of the profit
14:32out and maybe leaving some for the VWAP
14:35if you're feeling generous. This is I
14:37think a trade taken on the same day.
14:39We're waiting for the New York session
14:41open. This was an opening session setup,
14:42of course. Looking for a divergence. We
14:45can see price pushing up but delta going
14:46down, so all of these sellers are being
14:49absorbed and so we just wait for this
14:52confirmation candle. We want both
14:54an absorption at the top of this candle
14:56and an initiative and we eventually got
14:58stopped out in this position. Then we've
15:00opened another trade. This was Oh, this
15:02was a very bad mistake. Do you see what
15:03I'm doing here? I basically bought a
15:06stop run that I should have sold. That
15:07is absolutely embarrassing. It was a
15:09perfectly good stop run. I executed
15:12perfectly, but I I literally clicked buy
15:15instead of sell. That is embarrassing.
15:17But hey, these things happen.
15:21Oh god. And then we reached take profit,
15:23which is our stop loss and I was so
15:24happy. Yes. And then I I
15:26Then actually I lost money. But this was
15:28a perfect perfectly good setup. So, do
15:30you see even though there were some
15:32mistakes, I managed to be profitable
15:33anyways. Like it was a stress test. We
15:36got a stop run setup right below some
15:38lows. We had so many stop runs for that
15:40day. We had one stop run that went to
15:41target, one other stop run that went to
15:43target that I probably did not trade
15:44because I was not in front of the
15:45charts. And then we had this other stop
15:47run
15:49that eventually went to profit. As you
15:52can see, it's a very stupidly boring
15:54strategy. This was another I think this
15:57was probably the same setup
16:00where I've retried the same stop run
16:03after I've seen some signs of strength
16:06from buyers and I probably was a little
16:08more generous with the take profit as
16:10well because we went through a very
16:12important low. So, I decided to retry
16:14and open it anyways and I think on this
16:16one we got rewarded properly.
16:20I moved my stop loss to break even as I
16:22often do, as you can see and we got I
16:25think to take profit and slowly but
16:28surely after losing $1,000, we may
16:30managed to make 1,400 back with a net
16:33profit of $450 for that day on this one
16:36up challenge. Here we have another stop
16:38run, very beautiful stop run. Look at
16:39this, very big increase in volume, very
16:41high delta, a lot of imbalances. We open
16:44this trade. I think this one went to
16:46profit. Yeah, very beautiful. I even
16:48screenshotted it for how beautiful it
16:49is. And this was the current state of
16:51things in the account. I was not so much
16:56in profit. I was like a thousand I was
16:57like nearly $2,000 in profit. It still
16:59didn't update from the last trade. I was
17:02around 18% of the profit target after 11
17:05trading days. Kind of slow, not really
17:07an amazing performance, but still
17:09profitable and achieved the consistency
17:11level that was required. Here we have
17:13another stop run. Same concept. Look at
17:16this one. This one is a very big
17:18increase in volume from 300 300 169
17:211,200.
17:23A lot of delta. We're We're currently
17:25short 11 contracts. See how this stop
17:27run went. But this one yeah, this one
17:29had a some really nice highs that were
17:31swept. So, we were opening this pretty
17:34confidently, I would say. We have some
17:36selling pressure, but then Oh, did we
17:39get stopped out here? And we got stopped
17:40out on this one. Huh, weird. It looked
17:42really clean and nice. We almost got
17:45filled here, by the way. We literally
17:47almost got filled. Look at this. The
17:48harsh reality of real trading. Here we
17:50opened another stop run. We already took
17:52the first take profit, as I can see. We
17:54have a $1,000
17:56uh worth of take profit, but the setup
17:57is exactly the same. We wait for the
17:59candle to close, short take profit over
18:01here. This is even a more beautiful stop
18:03run. The The higher the volume,
18:05technically the better.
18:22There you go. We opened the trade here.
18:24We closed it right there and that was a
18:26very clean stop run setup. Also here you
18:29can see a lot of big spiking volume,
18:31beautiful setup. By the way, I posted
18:33all of this trades on my Instagram as
18:35well. Here we have another trading setup
18:37I took on that day. We are in the New
18:39York session. We I think tried to trade
18:42a divergence here again, but we just
18:44took the trade on the test over here.
18:46Let's see how this went. This is more of
18:48an intraday type of setup.
18:51Sellers started getting aggressive. I
18:52trailed my stop slightly above. This was
18:55my last liquidation level. This is an
18:57imbalance cluster. I said if this is
18:59going to be broken, I'd like to get out
19:01of this trade and I think that
19:02ultimately happened. So, I decided to
19:04quit the trade and close with a partial
19:07take profit at $1,157
19:11for that day. So, this is a quick recap
19:13of the situation of this account. Not
19:15greatly profitable, I would say, but
19:17positive. We had $2,000
19:20worth of profit. It's probably a 1.2
19:23profit factor with a 52% win rate and a
19:25slightly positive average risk to
19:27reward. This is the equity line of this
19:30first phase and unfortunately, this is
19:32when as you can see here, I have opened
19:34a trade and I happened to keep this
19:36trade open after market close because it
19:39was a bank holiday or some [ __ ] and this
19:41is one of the no-no rules from one up.
19:43So, even though I managed to have a peak
19:44profit of around $3,000, I was in a
19:47profit of $900 for some reason, probably
19:48because I paid a lot of commissions. So,
19:50not a great profit, but still
19:52profitable. So as you can see here, I
19:53started texting the customer support and
19:56as the order was not triggered at all
19:59because the markets were closed, I was
20:01starting to lose money that I was not
20:02supposed to lose. So I I I immediately
20:04texted them and my rhythmic trader Pro
20:07login was not working for some reason.
20:09Eventually they said that I am no longer
20:12eligible for funding since I have traded
20:14past 3:15 p.m. Which sucks. So I had to
20:17restart all over again. And so we
20:19started again with a brand new account
20:21from One Up. This is still the
20:23divergence setup that I was trading and
20:25I've opened uh 10 contracts on this one.
20:28This is still this again was a a
20:30volumetric zone with a volume profile.
20:32We were in the standard deviation of the
20:33VWAP. There was a clear divergence in
20:36the CVD and a great deal of aggression
20:39in these candle that led me to open the
20:41trade. As always, I kind of trailed my
20:43stop loss a little bit trying to see if
20:45that imbalance would have hold and it
20:46holded perfectly. Then I started seeing
20:49some absorption here. As you can see
20:51here, there's this little iceberg over
20:53here, but it was completely ran through.
20:55Then I basically strangled price with my
20:57stop loss and there you go. The trailing
20:59stop loss was filled minus 10 contracts
21:03with a profit for the day of almost
21:04$6,000. This was an iceberg order. There
21:07was a very clear iceberg here. It was on
21:09the same day I took that trade, I think.
21:11Look at this one. 1,800 contracts.
21:14Beautiful iceberg. I've already taken
21:16some profits out here and eventually
21:18also this one, this last three
21:20contracts. Let's see if they got filled.
21:21Yeah, they got filled. So I increased
21:24that profit for that day, $6,400
21:27worth of profit. Here there was a stop
21:30run that eventually went to stop losses.
21:32As you can see, I bought here and got
21:34stopped out here. But since we then went
21:38below some lows, I decided to recover
21:40that stop run as soon as I saw some
21:42aggressive buying starting to come in.
21:44And so I I tried to as quickly as I
21:47could put my stop loss in a safer zone.
21:50As you can see, the stop losses here are
21:51more heavy because again we're in a
21:53$250,000 account. So the size has
21:56basically doubled. More buyers coming
21:57in. Buyers finally pushing up. Putting
21:59the stop loss to break even and boom.
22:01$1,722
22:03in profit. So also the second phase of
22:05the challenge started really great and
22:07that was the same and this was a quick
22:09update on the stats for that day. Much
22:12better, of course. Uh still didn't take
22:14a lot of stop losses. This was much
22:16better on a profit factor standpoint.
22:18This was the equity curve at of the
22:20first few trades of the second phase of
22:22the challenge and I was already 40% of
22:24the profit target on this $250,000
22:28account that I update the page as well.
22:29Was very very positive around this one.
22:32The consistency were was not there yet
22:33because I just started trading. This was
22:35the current equity line at that point in
22:37time. These was all the profit
22:39distribution. And we start again with
22:41another stop run. We've already opened a
22:43trade during this day that probably went
22:45to profit. I see an ice likely an
22:47iceberg that we traded here. We're
22:48already in profit of $400 plus we had a
22:51stop run. So we sold on this stop run
22:53and eventually I think it went to
22:55target. Yes, it went to target. We
22:56closed this morning alone $1,350
22:59in profit. And this was another iceberg
23:02order. This is a very beautiful one.
23:04Look at this. With all the indication
23:06here, amazing iceberg. Went one, went
23:08twice, went three times, four times.
23:10Took out seven contracts here. We're
23:12letting now four more contracts run. So
23:14$400 running of profit for these four
23:18contracts that I decided
23:20to let run almost until the VWAP. And in
23:23this one we've actually broken out.
23:26First we broke a level and then on the
23:28test we've opened iceberg, which is kind
23:30of my favorite type my my favorite way
23:32of trading them, to be honest. I think
23:33ultimately we reached the final profit
23:35target and boom, $995
23:39with a single iceberg order. Really
23:41awesome. Even though the first part of
23:42the challenge was kind of challenging,
23:44this part started really really good. So
23:46I was very positive we were going to
23:47close this with a good profit. But then
23:49guess what? Then this thing happened
23:51where suddenly rhythmic trader Pro
23:54disconnected from my platform and uh
23:57I've then seen a lot of prop firms
23:58started having this problem. Even Apex,
24:01even One Up. Where basically when you're
24:03starting to be really profitable, at
24:04some point for some weird reason, the
24:06rhythmic trader connection to the prop
24:08firm somehow does these bugs and
24:10basically opens contracts out of
24:13nowhere. I didn't open that contract. As
24:15you can see in the screen, there is
24:17absolutely no trade on the screen, but
24:19it says there's five contracts open. And
24:21I didn't open that trade at all. And as
24:22soon as it recovers, look at this.
24:24There's an open contract in the middle
24:26of nowhere. Absolutely no setup.
24:29Completely crazy. And guess what? We are
24:31right before market eventually close.
24:34And there you go. Market just closed. I
24:35was not able to close this trade on time
24:37and guess what happened. I tried to text
24:39to the support. I'm six I'm almost
24:41there, guys. I'm $6,000. I'm more than
24:43$6,000. I'm $9,000 in profit and I
24:46genuinely ask for help. The rhythmic
24:48trader Pro starts not working. You know
24:50what's coming. This is the position you
24:51left open. It was open out of nowhere.
24:54Apparently I broke again the rule for a
24:56trade that was automatically open in
24:58this One Up account, not by me. Really
25:01weird. So I'm no longer eligible for
25:03funding. Please tell me this is a
25:04[ __ ] joke. So at a 64% of the profit
25:06target, $9,000 in profit after being
25:09profitable for the first for the first
25:10challenge and the second challenge for
25:12some stupid [ __ ] rule and from what
25:14I believe was a complete scam, I got
25:17denied funding once more. So I decided
25:19to change the prop firm with The Trading
25:21Pit, which was a different prop firm.
25:23Now this was a gap fill type of setup
25:26that I opened slightly before the New
25:28York session was opening. Ultimately one
25:30of them went to break even and the other
25:33one as well and I simply closed the day
25:35with a slight loss. This is another
25:37trade that I always took as you can see
25:38at the open of the session on the first
25:40standard deviation of the VWAP as soon
25:42as we broke inside and I had a great run
25:44up up to a thousand-ish
25:48dollars in profit. And at this point I
25:50just decided to manually close the trade
25:52by selling market and I closed the trade
25:53like this. Moving on to another trade
25:55that I opened always at the uh early
25:57stages of the session. Again with a
25:59divergence on the CVD. I set my take
26:01profit on the other side of the VWAP. It
26:04started ranging there and almost got to
26:07my target and then ultimately reached
26:09take profit and closing that day with a
26:12thousand dollars take profit. Here we
26:14open another trade very similarly. The
26:16same type of concepts. We see an
26:18absorption on the top on the upper
26:20standard deviations. Then a great
26:22reactions from sellers. This one had
26:24actually I think no CVD divergence.
26:26Yeah, we ultimately get stopped out on
26:28this one for a loss of $500. Now we're
26:31back with the $150,000
26:33account. So the stop losses are smaller.
26:36Moving on to the next trade. Still the
26:38same setup. Order flow divergence setup.
26:40We are on the bottom standard
26:41deviations. Price started consolidating
26:44and I think ultimately we got stopped
26:47out on this one. Yes, we got stopped out
26:50with for a loss of
26:52around a thousand dollar. Then I think
26:54we reopened the same trade. We took
26:56another loss, but ultimately we took
26:58this other trade. Then we moved our stop
27:00loss below the previous low, so we
27:02trailed our stop loss. We waited for our
27:04price to reach our target and up above
27:07there we got a squeeze. Squeezed it
27:09almost touched like literally touched
27:11our take profit without really taking
27:13it, but ultimately it did and we closed
27:16with a $4,000
27:18uh
27:19Really good session. This was our
27:21dashboard in The Trading Pit. We
27:23requested the upgrade. The account
27:25status said under review and here's the
27:27email I got and then we ultimately
27:30received the contract that I had to
27:32sign. And as you can see, this is the
27:35part that sucks. For the first payout, I
27:37could only withdraw $900, which is less
27:41than the money I've paid for these for
27:43these entire challenges. It wouldn't
27:45even make sense to keep trading just to
27:47get a $900 payout. But let's see the
27:49stats of the whole challenge. So I
27:51exported all of the trades of the first
27:53phase of One Up, the second phase of One
27:55Up and the final phase in The Trading
27:57Pit. The total wins amounted to $34,000,
28:00$50,000 of losses for a profit factor of
28:022.2 with a positive risk to reward with
28:04around a 50% win rate, an average risk
28:07of 0.20%, a maximum drawdown of 2.15%
28:11and a gain of 10%. Clearly with a very
28:12conservative risk management. Let me
28:14zoom out so we can see also the equity
28:17line. So over more than a hundred
28:18trades, I proved that my edge was
28:20profitable, which was kind of the whole
28:22goal of this challenge. But after
28:24trading for four months and being
28:25profitable, being super careful about
28:27risk management, because of some [ __ ]
28:29rules, got denied funding multiple
28:31times. And with The Trading Pit, the
28:33first profit was also capped at $900,
28:36which is [ __ ] ridiculous. So after
28:38all of this, I just decided that it
28:39doesn't make sense for me to trade
28:40futures prop firm anymore. I took a big
28:42break from prop firms, but regardless of
28:44the funding, I was able to find an edge
28:46thanks to order flow. I was able to find
28:47a very mechanical edge that you can try
28:50and test yourself as it is based on very
28:52simple and replicable patterns. But I've
28:54now shifted to options trading still
28:56through order flow and option flow. So
28:58I've studied more and realized if you
29:01merge option flow and order flow, you
29:03can really get the best out of the
29:04markets. And I have now a Charles Schwab
29:06account and uh
29:08yep, this is my
29:10current dashboard
29:12where I have deposited around $50,000
29:15and if I go to the portfolio performance
29:17part and we go right after this deposit,
29:20which was I think I I started trading
29:22this early
29:24September. So let's go to September 6th.
29:26September 6th.
29:29Yeah, there you go. This is the current
29:31performance. I only put $50,000. It's a
29:33forward testing phase, but the return of
29:35this style of trading is really really
29:37good, I would say. This forward testing
29:38phase where I'm getting more and more
29:40confident with trading options will last
29:42I think another two months and then I'm
29:44going to start loading more capital
29:45inside here and I will trade this for
29:47the next year while documenting the
29:48process. So, you might want to subscribe
29:50to the channel and see me in 1 year from
29:52now, and we'll see where this account
29:54sits at. In the meantime, I hope you try
29:55this strategy. Let me know what you
29:56think. For this video, it's all. Now,
29:58[ __ ] off.

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