Should I quit trading?
I got into prop firms around early 2025. By July I was already profitable and ended up pulling about $120k in payouts, but I spent almost $80k buying accounts, so it wasn’t as clean as it sounds.
This year, I got moved up to live accounts in a few different prop firms, but I couldn’t hold it together for long. I got greedy, scaled up hard, and bought the maximum number of accounts they’d let me have in each firm… and I messed it up pretty bad.
The crazy part is I still pass evals pretty easily. I can build up a solid buffer — $5k, $10k, even hit $17k sometimes — but every single time payout day comes around, I blow the account.
Now I’m sitting on $55k in credit card debt. I have a full-time job, but it only covers the family expenses and all that income goes into my wife's account. I think that I can pay that debt, but how about after that??? I’m scared I’ll just repeat the same mistakes and same circle like this.