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FundingPips Trader Makes $16,848| Here's How He Did It

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Summary (Finance / Trading-Focused)

  • Presenter / context: Adrian explains how he earned nearly $17,000 in rewards through Funding Pips, describing it as a long learning journey after blowing early funded accounts.
  • Early outcomes / account management:
    • He received a $10k funded account first and blew it quickly, losing $400 in ~10 minutes on his first trade.
    • He repeatedly lost accounts because he rushed and focused on the “destination” (making money quickly) instead of the trading process and setup criteria.

Trading Methodology / Framework

Adrian’s approach relies on multi-timeframe market structure and liquidity concepts.

Confidence-building (Backtesting)

  • He backtested for about 1 to 1.5 months (while in Turkey), with guidance from a mentor (Yianni me / “Yianni me University”).
  • After 2–3 successful test entries, his confidence improved.
  • He uses a criterion not overly dependent on a high win rate, prioritizing risk-to-reward instead.

Pre-trade Checklist / Setup Construction

He emphasizes executing trades only after these elements are present:

  1. Market Structure
  2. POI (Point of Interest)
  3. Liquidity
  4. Execution only after the first three are present
    • He explicitly warns that skipping this sequence leads to poor trades.

Timeframe Workflow (Top-down)

  • Monthly → Weekly

    • Determine the broader regime: where price is up / down / mid.
    • Review candle volume behavior (e.g., whether the prior weekly candle ended with high vs. minimum volume).

  • Daily

    • Identify liquidity + market structure + POI (“put the puzzles together”).

  • 4H

    • Identify the market phase (trend vs. retracement vs. fluctuation).
    • He notes the market isn’t only “up/down.”
    • He also mentions that if the daily shows a large move (example: ~100 pips), the following day often becomes a retracement.

  • 1H → 15M

    • 1H: Uses internal structure/liquidity more often for reversals; for continuous trades, he looks for continuation conditions.
    • Targets / directionally aligned trades: Targets outside internal structure using higher-timeframe liquidity.
    • 15M: Continues to locate liquidity / internal structure / POI.

  • 15M → 1M

    • Monitors BOS (break of structure) / change of character and pays close attention to retracement and behavior for timing.

Targets / Liquidity Locations Mentioned

  • Equal highs / equal lows
  • Trend lines
  • Daily high/low
  • Weekly high/low
  • He notes markets can react strongly at high-timeframe liquidity, specifically mentioning gold.

Risk Management & Explicit Rules

  • Risk per trade/idea: typically 0.5% per entry (sometimes per “idea”).
  • Max entries per idea/day:
    • If he has an idea for the day, he may allow 2 entries (“two chances”).
    • If the first entry fails, the second is the last attempt; if both fail, he stops for the day.
  • Journaling + mistake tracking:
    • After losses, he records mistakes and reframes them as: often the strategy wasn’t wrong, but the market direction/idea was.
  • Avoiding “fear of losing”:
    • He previously admitted fear caused him to tighten his behavior until he lost control.
    • Now he accepts losses because risk is capped.

Trading Psychology & Operational Discipline

  • After losing days:
    • Earlier, he beat himself up and shut down emotionally.
    • Later, he learned to build a life outside trading to reduce emotion-driven decisions.
  • Schedule + consistency:
    • He emphasizes consistency in life supports consistency in trading.
    • Example routine (approximate):
      • Wake 7:30
      • Wash face / bathroom 8:00
      • Prayer, coffee, then trading/analysis
      • Uses push-ups as a discipline gate (e.g., not starting until 30 push-ups).
  • Past work/sleep stress:
    • He described backtesting into 3:00–4:00 a.m. and waking 8:00–9:00 a.m. (London session time referenced), which caused stress and memory issues.
    • He warns to avoid losing mental balance.

Outcomes / Performance Metrics Mentioned

  • Rewards: “nearly $17,000” in Funding Pips rewards.
  • Backtest example equity curve: described as moving from $100k to $140 on two entries (though the framing is unclear—likely illustrative).
  • Early failure example: $400 loss in ~10 minutes from his first $10k funded account.

Explicit Recommendations / Cautions

  • Don’t rush results: focus on the process.
  • Use a repeatable setup: follow market structure → POI → liquidity → execution.
  • Don’t over-trust win rate: prioritize risk-to-reward and proper risk limits.
  • Ignore external opinions: warns that jealousy and even family skepticism can derail traders.
  • Don’t give up: believe in self and keep learning through journaled mistakes.

Disclosures / Disclaimers

  • No explicit “not financial advice” disclaimer was mentioned in the subtitles provided.

Tickers / Assets / Instruments Mentioned

  • Gold (explicitly stated)
  • No specific stock/ETF/crypto tickers were mentioned.

Presenters / Sources Mentioned

  • Adrian (main guest)
  • Funding Pips / “Funding Traders” (platform/community)
  • Yianni me (mentor; referenced as “Yianni me University”)

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