Video summary
The video documents a significant trading failure where the creator lost $1,885 on their evaluation account, effectively blowing it just days before reaching the final stage to move to a funded status. The disaster began when the trader could not sleep and decided to trade at 1:00 AM, leading to a loss of discipline and a state known as "tilt." Despite having only needed a small additional profit of around $1,100 to complete the evaluation, the trader ignored their established rules, overleveraged positions, and traded against the prevailing market trend. The core issue was not a lack of technical knowledge but rather an inability to control emotions and stick to the plan once the trading screen was opened.
The creator provides a detailed breakdown of the specific trade that led to the account's destruction, explaining how they initially identified a valid setup using higher time frame analysis, market structure, and volume profile points of control. The intended strategy involved entering at a demand zone, placing a stop loss below a recent low, and holding the position until a clear signal appeared on lower time frames. However, impatience caused the trader to exit the winning trade prematurely before it could fully develop. Instead of letting the profit run or adding to the position as the market moved favorably, the trader succumbed to FOMO and fear, switching between buying calls and selling puts in a chaotic manner that resulted in multiple stop-outs and massive losses.
Ultimately, the video serves as a powerful lesson on the psychological aspects of trading, emphasizing that success depends entirely on self-mastery rather than chart patterns or prop firm rules. The creator explicitly states that they are not blaming the prop firm for the loss, noting that the market moved exactly as expected regardless of the platform used. The primary culprit was identified as a lack of patience and an urge to hurry up and catch every move, which led to deviating from the strategy and destroying all previous progress in a single day. Moving forward, the trader plans to scale back position sizes, learn how to properly add to winning trades, and focus on controlling their mindset to avoid repeating such costly mistakes in the future.
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It's Rome and I'm back with another
video. If you're not subscribed, do me a
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appreciate all the love and support. You
guys see the screen already. Today I
lost $1,885
on my takeprofit funded account. Well,
eval account. I went on tilt, guys. I I
don't know what I was I know what I was
doing, not what I was supposed to be
doing. First off, I couldn't sleep. So,
guess what I do? I get up at 1:00 in the
morning and start trying to trade. Now,
I had a couple trades that was okay and
then I just went out of control from
there. Um, not following my rules on the
charts. I had the whole setup, guys. I'm
going to show you guys everything of
what I saw. I'm going to show you guys
where I bought and where what I was what
was supposed to happen. And today was
going to be the day that we was going to
complete this eval and move to the fun
stage. Um, let's go over here. As you
guys can see, we only needed like
$1,100. Um, so we was one trade away
from really Look at look at look look. I
was getting better and better, doing
great. And I told you guys this before,
all it takes is one day, one time for
you to blow your account. I went on
tilt. I was overleveraging. I was going
against the trend. I was doing all types
of things. You say you going to do this,
you say you going to do that, but right
when you get to the screen, you do all
types of things. Now, at this particular
point, let's go back to this. We only
can lose like $100, $105 or something
like that. So, we got to start from
scratch, keep on moving and grooving.
This was supposed to be my trade. Let me
go ahead and show it to y'all. Right
here, this is the trade. You have the
previous weak point of control. We had
the zone. I'm going to show you guys
everything of what I saw. This is my
stop loss. I got in right here. This is
my take profit. That was all I was
supposed to do. But instead, I did
whatever I wanted to do. How did I come
to this conclusion? I don't know why I
keep going against I know how to do
market structure, but I don't know why I
keep going against it for some odd
reason, guys. It was sweet. I could have
That's all we needed to do was get that
little trade. Let me clear the screen.
Here we go. Let's talk about market
structure. As you guys can see, this is
the 4hour chart. This right here was the
high. We closed over this high. So, last
night I'm looking, I'm like, "Okay,
cool. We should pull back and continue
keep going forward because we closed
above this high." This was on Friday.
How do I find out where I'm supposed to
get in at? As you guys can see, these
three down candles right here. These
candles closed down. You need to look
for the last candle that closed down.
And you can kind of see it right here.
So, this would be the low. That's the
4hour low right there. How do you find
out where to get in and get out at this
dogee right here? You see this cross
dogee right here? You're going to put
this is a demand zone. You're going to
put this over this just like this. This
is my zone. This is how I took the
trade. This how I took well how I was
supposed to take the trade. Let's let's
I say how I took the trade. I did take
the trade, but I got out way too early
cuz I was on a fiveminute chart messing
around. Then I'm going to come to the 1
hour chart and refine it some. Let's go
here. We going to go to this dogee. You
see that dogee? Look at look at the
charge right there. Another thing that I
do is I use the volume profile. This is
a weekly volume profile. This is the
point of control from last week right
here. Mark that off on your chart, too.
So, this is another guide I use to help
me take these trade. Well, supposedly
take these trades. Look how simple that
was. That was an easy trade. Get in
right here. Once it start once it get to
the zone, now when I get to the zone, I
got to see what it's doing at the zone.
What what happened at the zone? We had
some engulfing candles right here. We
pushed up. We came back boom a little
bit and then boom I end up getting in. I
think I got in um I got in here that
candle right there. Put my stop loss
under here. Right under this low and I
was supposed to let it go until I had a
10 a 10 minute right here in balance. I
was just supposed to take it to right
here. That's it right there. From here
to there. The market didn't open yet. So
I saw this going on before the market.
I'm like I don't know man. Boom. And
then it got right here and I'm like I
don't know cuz I don't know. I don't
want to be trading right before the
market open. And then the market opened
and this happened. I got out way too
early. I probably got out the trade like
here once I start seeing it like
fluttering around a little bit. I got
out there. Then I decided, you know
what? I'm going to buy a put right
around here. Why did I do that? Because
I saw this volume profile. This wasn't
like this at the time. Saw this volume
profile. The PC was right here. This is
my first take profit and I was going to
move it to the next one. PC right there.
It was above it at first. It was
rejecting the PC, rejecting, rejecting,
rejecting it. I'm like, I'm going take
it back down. at Rome. Look at the
higher time frame, Jerome. Then after
that, I just have to show you this. I
was going to show y'all the truth. Show
you all the truth. See, I told y'all on
this channel, you going to get the good,
bad, and ugly. Let me separate the days
again. The good, bad, and ugly. Do you
guys want to see all the trades I took?
Let me empty out the charts so you can
guys can see how chaotic and out of
control I was. Let's go ahead and put
the executions on there so you guys can
see. These are all the quadrillion
trades I took. I got So, this was a
trade I took earlier in the morning.
This was two. Look, look, look at the
time. 2:40 in the morning to up here.
Came back down. Boom. I bought the call
cuz I saw the PC and everything
previously and I'm like, I'mma buy it.
I'mma buy it right here. And I got
stopped. I had a two two sides of a stop
loss. Then I bought right here and I
told you guys I s started selling early
once it started doing this fluttering
around here. I started selling. Then I
decided to take a put right here. Buy a
put right there. Got stopped out of
that. Blasted right through that. Get up
here. Overlever. What are you doing? 60
contracts. What are you doing? Why?
Please tell me why I bought Uhuh. I
tried to sell 60 contracts cuz now I'm
on tilt. Now I'm trying to get back
right to that watermark and I'm out here
tweaking 60 contracts. I bought 10. I'm
going keep on buying it down. 10 10 then
you know once you start buying then it
gets stuck on the thing. Then you start
buying 10. Next thing you know I bought
60 contracts the maximum amount and did
all this and destroy all of this
progress. All of this progress. All Hold
on. Wait. Let's go ahead to it. Let's go
to this month. I don't know how long
it's been, but this month. Go right
here. Destroyed all of this progress in
one day on a Monday. Monday, me and
money don't get along. All this
progress, all this these good trades.
The first time I come up with that
count, 1,200, lose 400, you know, 500,
then start doing good 200, 200, then
start getting then I get 9 something.
Then you do this and destroy all of it
in one freaking day. One day, destroy
everything. all of the hard work, all of
the taking of my time, destroyed it all
in one day. So, moving forward, what
needs to happen is I need to take my
time and use the market structure. I
know how to do it, but I always get
caught in the hoopla tweaking. So, now
we back to the drawing board. We still
have the account, but we we if we lose
$100, the jig is up. Y'all saw the
thing. It said if we get to 49,00
Oh, hold on. Wait, wait. If we get to
$49,97,
the jig is up. Right now, we at $50,
$2225. So, we got like $100 some dollars
left. That's it. And then the jig is up.
Listen guys, I make this on this channel
so you guys can see the good, bad, and
the ugly. I know the market structure. I
had the PC right there. I'm just
impatient. I don't know why I was trying
to hurry up and run over here and do
this and do that. And now look, I
destroyed the account and we was right
there. And I want to say this. I'm going
to say this right now cuz I know people
love to say this. It was not the prop
firm. It was me. It is not the prop
firm. It's you. It was me. It's not the
prop firm. I'm not blaming them because
guess what? See, the thing is people
blame the prop firms, but I've actually
looked at the prop farm and looked at
the regular chart at the same time and
it was moving the same exact way. I've
looked at it multiple times just to make
sure because people say, "Oh, the prop
firm this, all the prop firm that." Oh,
no. It was me. It was all me and it had
nothing to do with the prop firm. It was
all my fault. I went out of control
trying to hurry up and get it. I think
it's more it's psychological. It's all
about your mind. It's all about your
mind. I went on here and destroyed
everything I built over this time. All
it takes is one day, guys. I told I told
you guys in the other video, we are one
trade in one day away from blowing up
this account. And that's what I did. I
don't, you know, I don't wish negativity
on myself at all, anyone else. But I
went in here and tweaked. I went in here
trying to hurry up and get on this chart
at 1:00 in the morning cuz I couldn't
sleep waking up cuz I, you know, I be
dreaming about getting on this uh
trading. You know, I love I love this
even though I tweet. I do love this is
the best thing. Honestly, this is by far
way better than any other thing I have
done because it's all about mastering
self. It's all about you. It ain't got
nothing to do with the charts. It ain't
got nothing to do with the platform.
Ain't got to do do with nothing. It's
all about you and controlling your
emotions and mastering self because the
charts are going to do what the charts
are going to do. The question is, what
are you going to do? Y'all saw what I
did. Messed up the whole account. I'm I
rate right now. I'm pretty upset at this
at myself. It's not nobody else fault
but my own self. Um it just is what it
is. I'll take you guys along on the
process. I showed you guys I'm the good,
bad, and the ugly. Um, sometimes you're
going to do good, sometimes you're going
to do terrible. It just comes with the
territory. And I know there's some
people say, "Well, you did this, you did
this, and you went against the trend and
all this." The trend changed. And I
understand what you're saying, but I I
lowkey, honestly, to be honest with you
guys, I do know what I'm doing, but I
just always do dumb stuff. I don't I
just don't get it. I do not understand
it. It's the lack of patience. It's the
lack of patience. I should have set the
thing up and walked away. And I did set
it up and walked away. I'm so thirsty to
get on these charts and and try to hurry
up and catch this move. And guess what?
Honestly, got in the move in the middle
of my work. I'm supposed to be working.
I'm doing all this other stuff. But what
I'm supposed to be doing, take what's
going on with me to heart, guys. Because
for those of you who are starting to
trade or about to trade or new to
trading or anything or still not
profitable, all of it is us. It has
nothing to do with the charts. The
charts are going to move how the charts
going to move. It ain't about what the
charts doing. It's about what you going
to do. It's not about the prop firm.
It's not about any of that. It's all
about self. So, I appreciate all the
love and support. I hope you guys
enjoyed this video and I'm low-key
salty. I ain't even going to sit here
and lie y'all. I'm salty. But the
reality of it is I need to slow down and
I'm also this is going to have to this
is what this going to do, right? I'm
going to take this this bad experience
and make it a learning lesson for
myself. And what this is going to do is
going to help me learn how to trade
smaller and learn how to add to my
trade. That's one of the things I need
to learn how to do. is going to help me
learn how to add to my trade because I
was not supposed to get out right here
before I even hit there. I could have
been adding. Why? Why could I have been
adding? We never closed under a low. We
never closed under a low. The last
candle that closed under a candle. The
last candle that closed under the candle
was here. Right there, Jerome. Right
there. That was the last candle that
closed out of the candle after we broke
the structure right there. And then we
broke it again here. A little one. Boom.
Right here. This a smaller structure.
It's not the real structure. A small
one. We never closed under the last
candle that closed under a candle. We
just stayed right here. So instead of me
trying to sell or buy a put, I could
have been adding right here. When it
came down, add. When it came down, add.
When it came down, add. Move my stop
loss up to here or right here. Add right
here. So now we in a free trade. And
then this happens. Boom. We in the
money. We profitable. We moving on. We
moving forward. but instead I decided to
do what I want supposed to do. So, I
hope you guys learn from my states and
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