30 Blown Prop Accounts: Nasdaq Trader Reveals The Truth About Trading Funded Accounts (0.3% Risk System, ADHD Lockout Rule, Quitting 9-5 Job) w/ @jmbtrade 00:00 JMB Trades Intro and his path to going full-time in trading 01:08 From heart surgery and scaffolding to trading 01:43 Escaping dead-end jobs to pursue trading passion 02:37 Learning the strategy from boot camp basics to fractal models 03:53 The 10:00 am NY entry and triad indices model 05:53 Enforcing the strict one trade a day limit to control ADHD impulses 07:41 Blowing 30 accounts and the reality of evaluations 09:52 Deleting Twitter and ignoring the noise 14:49 Physical desk rules and simplicity in trading 16:32 Composure during a 4-day losing streak 17:09 Using AI for objective trading data 19:40 The origin of Lock In and how behavioral tools save capital 22:06 Gym cuts and physical habits directly affecting trading performance 25:05 Why he refuses to buy more evals to avoid self-imposed pressure 26:16 Transitioning to live capital vs prop firm structures 29:09 Final advice and having no regrets

Managing corporate clients with €300M in turnover teaches you how real wealth is created w/ @Osbrah Amateurs use leverage to gamble, but institutional players use debt leverage strictly to generate more revenue Why transitioning from TradFi to trading requires a complete mindset change Full podcast drops tonight

You Can't Predict The Market - Do This instead w/ @The_JDK99 00:00 JDK intro: 10 years in financial markets, starting in stocks and financial reports 01:41 Buying the 2017 Bitcoin top and moving into low-timeframe volatility 02:35 Reaching the lowest mechanical level by watching order book liquidity 03:54 Allocating 90% to long-term spot assets and 10% to active trading 04:59 Navigating 2 to 3 years of losses before reaching consistent profitability 06:23 Why technical analysis is an anchor lens rather than a future predictor 07:37 Transitioning from blind limit orders to reactionary order flow validation 08:40 Trapping aggressive sellers at key support and riding market cover buys 09:49 The big disadvantage of reactionary trading when away from charts 10:20 Managing winning trades by scaling out and locking stop loss at breakeven 11:51 Cumulative Volume Delta mechanics and effort versus result absorption 12:41 Open interest dynamics and separating true spot buying from short covering 15:10 Learning order flow on footprint charts and studying with Tim Quant 18:01 Why paid trading gurus sell dreams and why true edge requires market scars 19:01 Defining exact risk, invalidation, and profit targets before entry 20:30 Deleting social media apps and running a free Discord companion group 24:50 Maintaining balance with sports, personal discipline, and mental resilience 26:40 Strict time management and defining focused New York trading sessions 28:40 Resisting Asian session FOMO and accepting missed liquidity sweeps 30:55 Building a defined system around time management and risk parameters 32:17 Playing a zero sum game against AI algorithms and institutional banks 33:46 Final advice for beginners: why genuine passion beats chasing quick money 34:29 Outro

Ex-Equity Crypto Trader Reveals His Systematic Trading Mindset To Conquer the Market w/ @pedma7 00:00 Pedma intro: Viewing trading as a business rather than predicting market cycles 01:32 Rejecting the 4-year cycle theory to focus on structural risk premia 02:24 Starting in 2017 trading US equities penny stocks pumping 50% to 80% 03:34 Surviving tail risk blowups, trading halts, and expensive borrow fees 04:40 The adverse selection trap of short borrow locates at 7:00 AM 05:25 Transitioning to large caps in 2020 and moving into crypto in 2021 06:00 Running a hybrid systematic model across 9 exchanges and 13 wallets 06:54 Defining systematic trading versus discretionary decision fatigue 09:50 Understanding why you get paid and the core mechanics of risk premia 11:15 Why classic momentum and trend models persist across decades 12:21 Harvesting short term alpha on Hyperliquid weekend oil contracts 14:12 Finding structural arbitrage across decentralized and centralized venues 16:00 Pricing inefficiencies in illiquid crypto contracts 17:42 The hidden reality of quant trading: infrastructure and bookkeeping demands 19:18 The coding bug that sorted trades alphabetically instead of by signal strength 21:12 The capital scaling bottleneck and the reality of a 30% to 50% CAGR 22:05 Why bucket shop exchanges ban profitable accounts that exploit mispricings 23:27 Starting a newsletter in 2022 to expose logical gaps through writing 25:35 Networking with high-signal quant traders 28:03 Replacing social media chart slop with Robert Carver's systematic books 29:11 Navigating the Dunning-Kruger curve and 4 consecutive winning years 32:01 Final advice for beginners: understand your counterparty and keep models simple 33:51 Outro

How To Turn Trading Into A Full-Time Job ( Losing $1.5M in Funding, The $50k Account Reset, The $100k Target barrier) w/ @joel_sabugal 00:00 JoelXBT Intro and his 7 year journey across crypto, forex, and futures 00:56 Transitioning from crypto to CFDs and forex prop firms for 2 years before coming back 01:27 Why order flow trading on crypto is much easier to read than futures 03:47 Order flow explained in the simplest terms: reading volumes inside candles to see big players 04:53 The trap of having a number in your head like 50K or 100K and rushing to hit it 05:47 Comparing trading rules to military rules: break them and your account gets killed 06:56 Why winning 10 days in a row makes day 11 impossible because you refuse to accept a loss 07:22 How his poker playing cousin from Spain taught him to split his capital into 20 buckets 09:48 Using gamma exposure on stock indices because crypto does not move alone 11:08 Never moving a stop loss and setting a strict 6% weekly drawdown limit 13:50 If you are not changing something you are choosing to lose money 15:39 Going from $2M in prop funding to losing $1.5M in a single week 16:08 Opening a personal broker account and doing a 3X return in 3 months on his own rules 17:36 Watching his roommate's $160K floating profit round trip to break even in 2 days 18:41 Why controlling the drawdowns is easy but managing green floating profit is the real challenge 19:41 The sentence he wrote on his wall in Barcelona: the market is not going anywhere 23:11 The Google password trick: logging out of his exchange app with a random password he cannot remember 25:15 Focusing only on daily inputs because the $1M account will happen eventually 27:29 How being a professional skier in the Spanish national team taught him about target fixation 28:27 Hitting $98K and bleeding $1K per day for 2 weeks because his brain froze before $100K 30:32 His friend turns $3K into $10K in 72 hours then resets every single time 34:05 Why switching strategies from ICT to order flow to trend following destroys your psychology 37:05 Why he never trades Fridays and his girlfriend once walked over and told him to close the position 38:47 Traders he respects who only trade Tuesdays and Thursdays based on historical move data 48:12 Why 4 hours of daily charting is the real minimum and 30 min traders are not being honest 52:21 If you are the best person in the room you are in the wrong room: shut up and listen 53:24 His father going bankrupt 2x and rebuilding both times to a big number 54:08 Where to follow Joel XBT on social media and connect with his community

Why “Retiring Your Bloodline In One Trade” Keeps You Unprofitable (10yrs Experience, 5yrs Mentoring Students, Mastering Elliott Wave) w/ @SpitfireTraders 00:40 Spitty intro: Yorkshire roots and entering the crypto markets near the 2017 peak 04:28 Wasting money on courses and search for high-probability confluences 06:41 Standing by Nelson's Elliott Wave book as the ultimate trading manual 08:26 Mentoring students for 5 years and identifying recurring pitfalls 09:12 Overtrading during winning streaks when you feel completely invincible 10:49 Why the best loser wins by accepting stopped-out setups without revenge trading 12:05 Using private Discord public journals to enforce execution accountability 15:44 The fire analogy and Tom Dante's Demon Finder rule 18:12 Spotting fake lifestyle gurus selling yachts and hiding behind typing out signals 21:52 Scaling back swing positions on Bitcoin due to ETF market introduction 22:47 How institutional orders create sloppy Bitcoin ranges 23:49 Scalping NQ futures during the London and New York session opens 24:30 Holding simultaneous Bitcoin long and short hedge trades 25:01 Sizing swing risk up to 4% of a trading account 26:17 Doubling risk on double distribution days when statistical probability is high 27:32 Why trying to retire your bloodline in a single trade guarantees ruin

You Can't Predict The Market - Do This instead w/ @The_JDK99 00:00 JDK intro: 10 years in financial markets, starting in stocks and financial reports 01:41 Buying the 2017 Bitcoin top and moving into low-timeframe volatility 02:35 Reaching the lowest mechanical level by watching order book liquidity 03:54 Allocating 90% to long-term spot assets and 10% to active trading 04:59 Navigating 2 to 3 years of losses before reaching consistent profitability 06:23 Why technical analysis is an anchor lens rather than a future predictor 07:37 Transitioning from blind limit orders to reactionary order flow validation 08:40 Trapping aggressive sellers at key support and riding market cover buys 09:49 The big disadvantage of reactionary trading when away from charts 10:20 Managing winning trades by scaling out and locking stop loss at breakeven 11:51 Cumulative Volume Delta mechanics and effort versus result absorption 12:41 Open interest dynamics and separating true spot buying from short covering 15:10 Learning order flow on footprint charts and studying with Tim Quant 18:01 Why paid trading gurus sell dreams and why true edge requires market scars 19:01 Defining exact risk, invalidation, and profit targets before entry 20:30 Deleting social media apps and running a free Discord companion group 24:50 Maintaining balance with sports, personal discipline, and mental resilience 26:40 Strict time management and defining focused New York trading sessions 28:40 Resisting Asian session FOMO and accepting missed liquidity sweeps 30:55 Building a defined system around time management and risk parameters 32:17 Playing a zero sum game against AI algorithms and institutional banks 33:46 Final advice for beginners: why genuine passion beats chasing quick money 34:29 Outro

You Can't Predict The Market - Do This instead w/ @The_JDK99 00:00 JDK intro: 10 years in financial markets, starting in stocks and financial reports 01:41 Buying the 2017 Bitcoin top and moving into low-timeframe volatility 02:35 Reaching the lowest mechanical level by watching order book liquidity 03:54 Allocating 90% to long-term spot assets and 10% to active trading 04:59 Navigating 2 to 3 years of losses before reaching consistent profitability 06:23 Why technical analysis is an anchor lens rather than a future predictor 07:37 Transitioning from blind limit orders to reactionary order flow validation 08:40 Trapping aggressive sellers at key support and riding market cover buys 09:49 The big disadvantage of reactionary trading when away from charts 10:20 Managing winning trades by scaling out and locking stop loss at breakeven 11:51 Cumulative Volume Delta mechanics and effort versus result absorption 12:41 Open interest dynamics and separating true spot buying from short covering 15:10 Learning order flow on footprint charts and studying with Tim Quant 18:01 Why paid trading gurus sell dreams and why true edge requires market scars 19:01 Defining exact risk, invalidation, and profit targets before entry 20:30 Deleting social media apps and running a free Discord companion group 24:50 Maintaining balance with sports, personal discipline, and mental resilience 26:40 Strict time management and defining focused New York trading sessions 28:40 Resisting Asian session FOMO and accepting missed liquidity sweeps 30:55 Building a defined system around time management and risk parameters 32:17 Playing a zero sum game against AI algorithms and institutional banks 33:46 Final advice for beginners: why genuine passion beats chasing quick money 34:29 Outro