u/aestheticeddy818

I started my trading career in November 2025. So it’s about to be a year.

I used to just trade whatever candle looked strong and hope that it hit TP or wait for a FVG to form then place a trade and hope for the best.

I recently discovered the ALNY Highs and Lows strategy which is really just the AMD strategy.

Basically, I realized that price action tends to respect the highs and lows of the last 24 hours.

All I have to do is find my bias based on the overall trend of Asia and London. Is it generally bullish or bearish across these two sessions? Mark out those highs and lows which are our key levels to determine where price is most likely to move towards. This is our draw on liquidity.

Then wait for NY to break and respect London high or low depending on the overall trend.

If it breaks multiple highs or lows including London high, Asia high, NY high from the previous day, London high from the previous day, Asia high from the previous day, and so on or vice versa that’s even better.

It’s much more structured and way more simple than just taking whatever mediocre trade I “feel” is right simply because the candle is moving fast.

It took me 9 days to pass my eval using this strategy and I am up $291 in profit this morning in my newly funded PRO account.

I am very excited to continue testing this strategy out for the next 30 days and I’m very curious as to where this will lead. I haven’t had major payouts since February of 2026 when I took over $7k in payouts from low-quality gambling trading.

Using this indicator on NinjaTrader is such a game changer for me and I don’t feel like I’m just guessing and hoping anymore while placing trades based on how it “feels.”

Honestly I hesitated to take any trades this isn’t usual Monday morning market open behavior. I was expecting price action to be choppy as hell but it was very clean and extremely bullish. Seems like we are about to break all time highs. I took a base hit of $168 in my 50K eval.

73 miles into a dead zone for $54 dollars is crazy. Someone in San Francisco has lost their minds.

Must make $550 by Monday morning at 5 am next week to qualify for a $110 dollar bonus. Not sure if I can do that given that I work at my main from Friday and Saturday 11 am to 7 pm and also got called in for a team meeting Sunday at 5 pm.

I could for sure make at least $300, MAYBE $400 by then given my schedule this week.

Started in the San Fernando Valley, then Long Beach, Then Laguna Beach, then Anaheim, then Sawtelle, and now finally going back home in the San Fernando Valley. What a perfect day. Such a fun road trip that I got paid for. $304.87 plus a $7 cash tip. I love driving rideshare so much it’s really fun.

Picked up a high passenger from a smoke shop. At first everything was going great. We had a great conversation and he tipped me $15 upfront in cash. He then asked to change the drop off location to Raising Canes. Suddenly in the middle of the trip to Raising Canes he freaked out and accused me of kidnapping him. I calmly reassured him that I’m just following Lyft’s directions and showed him on my phone. He then verbally threatened to shoot me. I stayed calm on the outside and while completely fearing for my life on the inside with my heart pounding. He then retracted and said that he was just kidding and didn’t have a gun with him. He then requested to go through drive thru and I said “okay just wait for me because I need to use the restroom.” So I got out of my vehicle and he stayed in the backseat. Employees inside the restaurant noticed me and I explained the situation they called police and they quickly showed up and arrested the passenger who was in the backseat seat of my vehicle.

Officers arrested him and reassured me that I’m safe and the individual did not have a firearm.

Although it is still very scary for a stranger in your car to casually threaten to shoot you.

I am really happy to be back home safe and alive tonight.

Waymo pulled up right behind me at the same spot I was waiting to pick up a Lyft passenger.

This post is more of a rant but why does the market have to edge my TP like this😭

The candlestick gets extremely close to TP then wicks back down then edges my TP again before hitting it.

The market this morning was extremely volatile for the first hour before stabilizing in a bullish almost an hour later.

Anyways ended the day with $122.50 P&L in my 25K eval. Once I reach the $1500 required buffer I passed the eval.

Hopefully I don’t blow my funded account this time

I’m speaking from experience as someone who has actually taken just under $8k in payouts. I started my day trading career 8 months ago. I am no where near consistent profitability yet, but I know what’s possible and the potential of this business I just lock TF in!

Intraday trailing drawdown rule:

Overtrading and oversizing are ESPECIALLY dangerous in the funded stage. The reason is because your drawdown goes up along with your unrealized profits unlike in the evaluation phase where drawdown goes up only with EOD balance.

The psychology in the funded stage is different:

Please set the image posted in this thread as your lock-screen or print it out and read this mantra to yourself every morning before trading.

The reason you can pass evals no problem but blow funded accounts is because the goalposts change in the funded stage. You passed. Now you have urgency and pressure to get a payout ASAP. You need to fundamentally shift your perspective in order to survive the funded stage.

NOW LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY:

This is where SHEER willpower and absolute discipline are your friends.

1-6 micros max in MNQ.

Depending on your position sizing aim for the 100-300 a day in profit.

A+ setups only.

Stop loss 150 Take profit 300. That gives you a 1:2 RR.

Non negotiable rule: if first trade of the day hits TP or you took early profits, YOU’RE DONE for the day.

Second non negotiable rule: if first trade of the day is a loser, take ONE more trade at the same position sizing and same R:R or adjust R:R to breakeven.

Choose your second trade wisely. YOU’RE DONE after the second trade for the day.

Don’t see your funded account as something to make money from. See it as something to protect.

Your goal is not to make money now. Your goal is to survive.

I also recommend you to please lock your accounts if your trading platform allows you to. NinjaTrader lets you lock your accounts until the next day trading day.

Finally, do not completely rely on willpower alone. Trade copiers such as TradeSyncer allow you to set a daily max loss limit and daily max profit limit. I highly recommend those tools as well.

Once you reach the required buffer for your account size, intraday trailing drawdown pauses permanently.

Best of luck!

Still managed to profit in my evals though. 2026 price action has been garbage af.

I drove Lyft every try night after work for a whole week. Recently for 5 days (100 dollars a night) straight in a row and to buy my new set of five 50k evals and copy trade them. Blew them all this morning on the second day.

It’s been an 8 month journey for me so far. About 22,000 dollars spent on evals and account resets.

I’ve passed evals I’ve taken payouts but I’m back at square one.

The $1114.26 you see from my Lyft driver earnings I pretty much spent most of that buying evals and resetting them.

Not giving up though.

Finally achieved that 100% acceptance rate. If only it wasn’t for that one passenger that gave me a four star I’d be having almost perfect stats.

Regardless, I know that Lyft loves me with this acceptance rate and they’ll never deactivate me because I’m a very profitable driver for their benefit. 😅

Finally. I received the inevitable rude driver complaint after hundreds of 5 star rides I got my first 4 star for reasons that they won’t tell me other than a vague “rude driver.” Yay🤩🙌