If you’re trading a funded account, today is not about big P&L. The goal is simple: - Protect eligibility - Stay within rules - Stack small, clean green days You don’t need: ❌ More trades ❌ Bigger size ❌ Runners ❌ Excitement You need: ✅ Controlled risk ✅ Quick, clean execution ✅ The discipline to stop when green A small green day still counts. Boring trading still pays. Trade your plan. Protect the account. Get paid.

This is not a post about speed, profits, or copying trades. It’s a breakdown of the process, rules, and decisions that allowed me to pass a 100K challenge without violating discipline. The firm was Apex Funded Traders. The profit target was $106,000. The total drawdown was $3,000. There was no daily loss limit, but I imposed my own. 🛑 Rule #1: I Set My Own Daily Loss Limit Even though there was no daily loss limit, I created one. My personal rule: - Max daily loss: -$500 - If hit, I stopped trading for the day This prevented: - Emotional spirals - “One more trade” behavior - Giving back gains Having self-imposed rules mattered more than firm rules. 🧠 Rule #2: I Focused on Risk Control, Not Trade Count I did not focus on: - How many trades I took - Being active - Forcing setups I focused on: - Risk-to-reward (2:4 minimum) - Clean execution - Protecting drawdown The number of trades is irrelevant if risk is controlled. What matters is how much you can lose, not how often you click. 📉 Risk & Execution Framework - Instrument: ES - Size: 4–8 contracts - Style: Sharp, in-and-out moves - Goal: A few clean ticks with structure I intentionally switched my P&L display to ticks instead of price. This helped my psychology by: - Reducing emotional attachment to dollar amounts - Keeping focus on execution quality - Preventing overreaction to fluctuations This is not required — just something that worked for me. 📐 Strategy Context (High Level) I traded a combination of structure-based concepts: - Opening Range Break - Clear rejection candles to confirm direction - Trendlines for structure - Entries, exits, and stops based on trendlines — not emotion Trendlines determined: - Where I entered - Where I exited - Where I was wrong I did not chase moves. If price didn’t respect structure, I stayed out. 🕒 Sessions Traded I traded all sessions. The session itself did not determine my trade.

Dream Traders is built around process, discipline, and consistency — not hype or shortcuts. The core focus here is: - 🧠 Trading psychology & discipline - 🛡️ Capital protection & risk management - 📐 Market structure and execution frameworks - 📝 Journaling, reflection, and review - 🏦 Prop firm survival and rule compliance - 🔒 Accountability that prevents account blowups Everything shared here is educational and designed to help traders: - Slow down - Follow rules - Protect capital - Build consistency over time There are no signals, no trade copying, and no promises. If your goal is to trade structured, and disciplined, you’re in the right place.

I passed my $100K Apex funded account with $6K+ in profits over 4 trading days. I’ll post the charts once they update, but I want to be clear about why this matters. This wasn’t about: - Forcing trades - Trading every session - Chasing P&L - Doing anything new or aggressive It came from: - Following predefined risk rules - Trading fewer, higher-quality setups - Respecting daily loss limits - Walking away when conditions weren’t there The biggest difference wasn’t strategy — it was discipline and patience. Funded accounts aren’t passed by being perfect. They’re passed by not breaking rules. Once the charts update, I’ll share them and break down: - What I traded - What I avoided - Where patience mattered most - How risk was managed This is a good reminder that consistency comes from process, not pressure. More soon.

Dream Traders is still in its early build phase. As more members join, I’ll continue adding content, courses, and structure based on what’s most useful — not just what looks good on a sales page. Nothing here is rushed or pre-packaged. The goal is to build this community with intention, not hype. If you’re here early, you’re helping shape what this becomes. More content will be added steadily as the community grows. Appreciate everyone who’s joined and is along for the build.