My Trading Journey

[terunoz]

Bro what would recommend some one who is starting out (just started my demo trading on mt5 going to do that for months) So what are the things to stay away like youtube gurus.... etc. ( right now what i do is journal evry trade i do, what strategies used to enter trade..) And btw good luck on your journey!

i think i mentioned an answer to this question before in my thread but

its good u started out but i do NOT recommend demo trading on mt5 tbh, it gives u false sense of trading iMo because u dont adapt to spreads mainly and u wont know abt swaps or rollover fees and when u win trades u will be like u are the best but the moment u start trading back on a real acc or a funded acc and u start losing u will be like im the worst, i cant trade, this is not for me, and shi like this and u will likely give up
so solution :

1. start trading in a real acc for ts u dont need a shit ton of money just use like $10 or $100 and trade 1% for every trade. REMEMBER ts is not the best also, but far better than demo trading and u would actually get the real experience and REMEMBER 2x do NOT think of making PROFIT it is NOT your thing yet, just practice for the sake of getting an feel do NOT expect profit 2x
2. if u have some money start trading in funded challenge accs, being brutally honest u would very likely blow the acc and lose that money same case for the real acc btw but for some reason likely beginners luck u would make some money and after that u will keep losing likely which during that time do NOT give up , js keep going

so trade a real acc or buy some challenge accs and start trading. demo is bullshi lowkey
then about youtube gurus, i mean look MOST of the people on youtube or social media is trying to sell u a course it is js normal but i do think u can just watch the videos without buying a course
what does this dmb nga mean by this?
well gng what i am saying is JUST TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING watch videos
i think u have to go thru that phase it is JUST NORMAL for everyone
my dumb ahh had that phase also watching videos on youtube, yk i think i have watched over 600-700 videos on youtube
well did i learn a thing or two? defenitely yes so just watch some videos without jacking off ur shi
journaling is a great thing, but im not much of a journal person but I TRY TO DO IT ALSO
good think dep keep doing it
what kind of strategies do u have right now?
thank you, i appreciate it
lmk if u got something else cuh

Hey, I guess dont fall for anything from gurus. Search CryptoCred Technical Analysis Series on YT, this is where I started. This guy is a multimillionaire OG in crypto and he has the best free course, what I look for most of the time is just Liquidity, MMXM Model, I'd say I'm a liqduity trader most of the time. It's a long process and Managing the risk on your trade is a different game over the trade itself. And dont waste your time daytrading on 1min/30 sec charts. That is mostly for algos, you can't beat the algos in this game think about it, they spend billions looking for edge, trust me you dont have any.

btw @GhostSEOO or anyone reading ts

I DO NOT KNOW TS NGA OR HAVE SEEN ANY OF THESE VIDEOS SO I DO NOT KNOW AGAIN, WHAT HE SAID ABOUT 1m 30s CHARTS IS KIND OF TRU BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS BUT AGAIN I DO NOT KNOW TS DMB AHH ON YOUTUBE OR ABOUT THIS COMMENT

 

[asif1bd]

Best of luck

 

[SMMGlory]

Are you using automated tools for signal or something?

 

[terunoz]

Best of luck

thank you appreciate it

Are you using automated tools for signal or something?

no

 

[terunoz]

i have started a new 100k account, the refund withdraw came through after i passed the challenge and got the first withdrawal
with that withdrawal i bought another $100k challenge account but I got for a discounted price which was fking great

it was like $100 off so good offer
should have bought 2 more but yeah offer is finished now

about the passed account after the $400 withdrawal i managed to make around 0.5% more on that account and i m waiting for the withdrawal on that account, i have to wait like 5-6 days more as i remember
so thats like $900 from that account, i have a trade ongoing on the new $100k challenge account also, with that im still on phase 1 , i have one more phase for it
i havent bought a new acc on FN still, i have to buy one later they always have offers of some kind
im getting max allocation for the FTMO accounts which is around $400k last time i checked


yeah $400k as maximum before SCALING

now what SCALING basically is

after someone has reached max allocation amount for accounts which is $400k they will offer a plan if you are really good to scale those accounts to even bigger numbers so people keep using those accounts even more i mean in my opinion it is basically to retain the customers i would say since they get more money to trade
so the $400k account the simulated account after meeting the requirements they say within 4 months the account can be turned to $500k because its 4months cycles to qualify

so after a maximum of 16 months

i was wrong btw i just watched one of their videos
even a $100k is subject to their scaling plan as long as they meet the requirements

heres what they say in the video
( used ai to make this so its more clear)

FTMO Scaling Plan – Quick Summary​

FTMO rewards consistent, long-term profitability by increasing your funded account size and profit split.

The 4 Key Numbers to Remember​

4 – 10 – 25 – 90

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1. Four-Month Cycle​

• Scaling eligibility is reviewed every 4 months of trading on a funded FTMO account.

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2. 10% Total Profit Requirement​

• You must make at least 10% profit over those 4 consecutive months.
• This equals ~2.5% per month on average.
• Profits count even if you withdraw them.
• Example:
  
  • $100,000 account → $10,000 total profit over 4 months.

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3. Minimum Withdrawals​

• You must complete at least 2 withdrawals during the 4-month period.
• This proves consistency, not just one lucky month.

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4. 25% Account Size Increase​

• Once eligible, your initial account balance increases by 25%.
• Example:
  
  • $100k → $125k
  • Next cycle → $150k
• You can grow your account by up to 75% per year.
• Increases are always calculated from the original starting balance.
• Risk limits (max loss & daily loss) increase accordingly.
• Maximum scaling cap: $2 million.

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5. 90% Profit Split​

• After entering the scaling plan, your profit split improves from 80% to 90%.
• FTMO uses this to reward consistent traders, not gamblers.

so based on this 4 month cycle, and meet those rest of the requirements
you can SCALE that account

what is the maximum amount you can scale??

2 FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS
yeah its lowkey crazy,btw does bhw restrict words like F word and shi? idk lmao

anyways so that is the scaling plan they have

it will take a lot of time for that to happen but yeah as of right now, i am going to get maximum allocation of $400k
then buy accounts on a reputed firm so i can manage accounts on that also because it takes months for scaling

with that $400k, i can get more accounts on other firms with more allocation totalling upto more total amount of money to trade

TLDR about SCALING
be good trader, consistent trader = u get more money upto 2 mil to trade with BUT takes a lot of time it comes with more benefits


so yeah i just explained to you about scaling, and this is my first time i learned exactly abt this
i have my eyes on 2 more firms which i will share about later

let me check how many more days i have to wait for the account withdrawal
yeah have to wait some days

theres this other thing called premium traders or something which is another plan, but ill explain about it ltater because i got some othre shi to finish
so that wraps up for now, anyways how have yall been? anything good?

until next time, peace
-terunoz

 

[terunoz]

Documenting my Trading Journey for 2025

About Me :

I know about Trading for sometime ( Around 1.5 years now but with breaks in between as I was not consistent since I was studying and busy with personal matters )
I started Trading Funded Accounts Last Year February
I passed 2 Challenges and Currently I have only a $5k acc [which is at a -2.3% i didnt trade last month at all (tbh idk how it got that low but i guess i set some trades and forgot abt em as i didnt trade for 1 month) (image attached below)
oh i forgot to mention that I did take some withdrawals from that acc after passing amounting to around 6.3% which is $323.40 so yeah the acc cost was covered image attached below
I do have too much going on my head sometimes and I forget what i was supposed to say which you may or may not notice it so sometimes i may say something that was for a older post with a new post as i forget some stuff sometimes since i cant type the speed my brain thinks with these posts which im sorry
Both Technical and Fundamental Trader (better at technicals as i started learning more about fundamentals this year)
I trade only Forex & Commodities (mainly XAUUSD - Gold [yes it is volatile] as I prefer it more but I will add some more good commodities that works the same way and that is easy for me to read and interpret the charts for trading)
I was a day trader but i'm putting some time into stuff I have to do so I switched to Swing Trading

Reason for Documenting it :

So I can monitor my progress and also share something with people here
I want to be consistent with trading which I'm guessing writing this thread and documenting will be more helpful with me being consistent (idk how but feels like that)
I would like to look back one day and share my journey with someone and for people who will start like me when I achieve a good place
I don't want to create yt videos as I will have to talk and it's just too much as I just want to focus on trading and nothing else ( not to sell courses or build a brand )

Knowledge Regarding Trading :

I started trading kind of young with the help of my parents
I started where most people would start Chart Patterns, Candlesticks, Harmonic Patterns and stuff like that
With time I realized there should be more to this market and it's probabilities which pretty much makes this gambling, but with a good enough edge you can have a good probability of winning (not 100% winrate like yt gurus say lmfao)
so I started learning more concepts and ideas and found a good method(strategy/process) to get a good winrate
but without being like the majority of new traders, i decided to backtest and then forward test it and i created a spreadsheet for it
I backtested on TV charts for 1 year of data starting last year Jan ( just letting u know i started backtesting PROPERLY WITH USING A SPREADSHEET last year around september so I backtested 2 months first then I decided to backtest from the start of the year to get more data as i found the new strategy after losing multiple funded accs and stopped trading and just built a good system which happened during the end of the 1st quarter ) [also i will attach images of my spreadsheet down below] {also again about the backtesting part I do have some months for Gold to backtest and even for forex again as I made some mistakes with the logging which I have to do so some of my percentages / values will look weird or off )

i forgot what i was going to type next again FK
oh yeah

I am better at Technical than Fundamentals like Reports, Economies & Reports (i used to dislike Fundamentals and said they dont matter but with time I realized maybe it wont give trades but it will give a good understanding about the markets specially Commodities & Forex so I'm currently learning more about them)

Tools & Resources I will be using :

TradingView for Charts and Analyzing
Google Docs for Journaling
Google Sheets for logging the Backtesting & Forwardtesting results
Chatgpt, Deepseek & Perplexity for researching and stuff that I will mention along the way

So yeah i'm pretty sure i forgot some stuff I was gonna say but I'm sure that I will write as soon as I remember them

Goals

Which I would prefer to keep private for now but scale up simply

TLDR

Just explained about me, my knowledge and tools & resources i am using which u can use also and I will attach the images and letting yk i forget shit so pls do excuse me
also i was a day trader but due to lack of time to spend on charts like i used to have i switched to swing trading
as i started trading before writing this post i passed a 5k acc last year and i made some withdrawals from the acc amounting to around 6.3% so my challenge costs were covered which i attached the image below

PLEASE DO NOTE

I won't be sharing all of my process(edge) as it would ruin the point of having a edge or a system and it took me time to build it and im doing this for free (i dont have plans to charge either lmao) but I will share information that you can forsho learn something or atleast help you ( i hope )
i forgot to say something again which ill say along the way
oh yeah if you have questions regarding something dont hesitate to ask, i appreciate it
Sorry about the watermarks ( aka shitty hand drawing with windows snipping tool pen )

also in this spreadsheet image you may noticed for USDJPY in July it shows 100 which is not bc I deleted the logged data as I have to backtest that month again, so it just shows as 100% lmfao
I use multiple sheets and linked it to this sheet which is kind of like the main as this shows the summary where i can read the logged data , this is the information i can share at the moment for this sheet but i have some more specific criterias and filters which are below the visible part
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this is what my data logging sheet look like (backtesting data) u can see gold jan month is empty , some moer months are empty as i have to backtest them

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this is the funded account I have at the moment (5k acc FundedNext Stellar Lite 2 step acc with a -2.3% drawdown)

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Payout Dashboard from the 5k acc

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So yeah let's cook

looking back to my first post, ngl i have come a long way

i had a lot of realizations along the journey and its going to be almost 1 year to this journey

all i have to say is

I'm thankful for my Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.

couldnt have done w/o HIM

thankful and grateful again
more to come

also i have been working on this side thing, its going good, i WILL write about it LATER idk when lowkey bored to write
but pretty sure no one has wrriten a Journey on it like FORSHO no one has done it before or written a joruney about it

i have made like already 4 figures from it also, and more to come with that also

so yeah i got 2 incomes now, im putting more work into it also as i have been trading

forever grateful for my Lord as always.

thank you
-terunoz

 

[paisawaisa]

All the best for the journey.

 

[terunoz]

All the best for the journey.

thank you

 

[terunoz]

i dont remember whether hi mentioned i have bought another 100k account and i have requested the withdrawal for 0.6% on the passed 100k account which i will use to buy more accounts
so money made goes straight to buying accs again

other than that , i want to buy a good 75% good mechanical keyboard because current one sucks and maybe a mouse also but yeah that one later but i do really need a keyboard so i came to 3 keyboards in conclusion

my top 3 choices were

1.

Ajazz AK820​

2.

AULA F75​

3.
Wooting 80HE


but holy shi wooting 80HE is the best but expensive asf im not gonna drop like $200 - $300 on a keyboard that is going to do the same thing with $50 - $100 like wtf
i mean sure if u are going pro in games like CS or Fortnite sure but i just want a good keyboard that doesnt hurt my fingers and wrist

so i came up with 1 and 2
and finally decided on

EPOMAKER x AULA F75 Gasket Mechanical Keyboard​

because the price difference is like $10 between ajazz and aula f75

aula f75 is recommended by a lot of people also after i checked
anyways waiting on that withdrawal so i can buy ts and an account

also i think i mentioned about me working on something on the side
man God Bless i am cooking on it also, i will write a thread about it and i think people will be more interested in it with my performance cuz i genuinely made like couple of bands withing few months or weeks ig

so yeah thats that for now

how yall been doing ts week?
mine was good, God Bless

-terunoz

 

[albisu]

Holy fuck there has been a lot of new stuff on this thread since the last time I was here..

Anyways, It’s a miracle to see some legit trader like us succeeding in the game, and not these gurus.

This gives me a lot of hope.

I definetely see you on the millions of funding in the next months.

Best of luck and congratulations on what you have achieved so far.

I will not forget about checking this thread often, so keep posting brah

 

[albisu]

Be careful about using Funded Accounts, most of them are not legit..

Yes. Definitely be careful with sketchy firms.

So far he’s choosen funding on FTMO which is probably the most repped firm in the game.

 

[albisu]

Also, what’s the withdrawal process like, do you withdraw on Crypto or what?

 

[india]

Good luck to you. what trading strategy do you use?

 

[terunoz]

Be careful about using Funded Accounts, most of them are not legit..

yeah use reputable firms

Holy fuck there has been a lot of new stuff on this thread since the last time I was here..

Anyways, It’s a miracle to see some legit trader like us succeeding in the game, and not these gurus.

This gives me a lot of hope.

I definetely see you on the millions of funding in the next months.

Best of luck and congratulations on what you have achieved so far.

I will not forget about checking this thread often, so keep posting brah

thanks gng, really appreciate it

Yes. Definitely be careful with sketchy firms.

So far he’s choosen funding on FTMO which is probably the most repped firm in the game.

yep 100% damn man u actually been reading ts thread, thank you very much

Also, what’s the withdrawal process like, do you withdraw on Crypto or what?

i do crypto since its easier gng, so i can js get buy new accs easily and its faster id say

Good luck to you. what trading strategy do you use?

thank you i appreciate it
i trade price, i collect a lot of data when i find something repeating or if i see a pattern since i like repeating patterns in price always
then with those back tested data i trade

 

[Skybandino]

Have you tried trading futures over forex?

 

[terunoz]

Have you tried trading futures over forex?

futures in crypto or u mean like nasdaq and s&p500

 

[Skybandino]

futures in crypto or u mean like nasdaq and s&p500

Yah Nasdaq and S&P. I trade these and Gold futures on the side and it always seemed easier than forex just personally tho.

 

[FriendlyFace]

not fan of trading but was interesting to read about your journey

 

[terunoz]

Yah Nasdaq and S&P. I trade these and Gold futures on the side and it always seemed easier than forex just personally tho.

i see, tbh i havent touched or traded nq or s&p at all so i dont have any experience w it, but i have seen ppl making a lot of money off it
forex js came up to me genuinely, like i didnt care abt this stuff at all i used to do crypto then i found out abt forex and i have been interested in forex after it
are u trading on ur own capital or funded accs?

not fan of trading but was interesting to read about your journey

thank you appreciate it

 

[Skybandino]

i see, tbh i havent touched or traded nq or s&p at all so i dont have any experience w it, but i have seen ppl making a lot of money off it
forex js came up to me genuinely, like i didnt care abt this stuff at all i used to do crypto then i found out abt forex and i have been interested in forex after it
are u trading on ur own capital or funded accs?

thank you appreciate it

Only funded accounts I trade currently. The scale one can achieve off these prop firms is crazy, but they def can become a money pit for people who dont know what they are doing. If forex is working for you stick to it and all the best man.