Hi, @Daniel
Thanks a lot. I made 6% on funded yet and almost pass my 1 phase on 25k new challange.
Of course, I am ready to share my story. I first came across trading back in my high school years, mainly through cryptocurrencies. Like many beginners, I treated it as a way to get rich quickly, and as a result I ended up losing money due to lack of understanding and discipline.
At the beginning of my second year at university, I came across a 4-hour video on SMC where a trader explained different PD Arrays. That was the first time I started to look at the market in a more structured way, and I began applying those concepts in my trading.
A few months later, I learned that these PD Arrays originate from ICT. At that point, I made a decision to go directly to the source and treat ICT as my main mentor. I stopped consuming other trading content and fully focused on his material.
The first complete mentorship I went through was the 2022 Mentorship. I started applying that model with mixed results at first, but over time I began to see that the concepts were actually consistent and repeatable when applied correctly.
After that, I decided to study the 2016 Mentorship as well, since it was freely available, in order to deepen my understanding of the core principles behind the model.
My trading process is structured into three main components: Weekly Macro Analysis, Weekly Review, and execution during the trading week.
Everything starts on Sunday, when I build my Weekly Macro Analysis. The goal is to define my weekly bias and create a trading plan for the upcoming week. I take into account macroeconomic factors such as news events, Federal Reserve rhetoric, interest rates, and overall market sentiment. I also analyze seasonality and higher timeframe price action across monthly, weekly, and daily charts to understand the broader context.
Once the week begins, I focus on execution from Monday to Friday. I only trade the New York AM session. Around 15:30, I sit down to re-read my macro analysis, prepare my charts for the session, and complete a pre-session analysis where I map out everything according to my internal framework.
After the trading session, I record every trade in my journal, along with a separate consistency journal where I evaluate whether I followed my system correctly, regardless of the outcome.
At the end of the trading week, usually on Saturday, I conduct a Weekly Review. In this process, I extract data from my trading journal and analyze key performance metrics to evaluate both my execution and adherence to the system. This helps me identify patterns in my behavior, strengths, and areas that need improvement going forward.
