Is this really worth it?
Been trading for a little over 2 years now. futures mostly. blew through several prop from evaluations for a year before seeing a small $500 payout.
End of year 1 I took out $3k in payouts in 3 months. No Strat that I could definitively write down step by step- just trading with intuition.
Jan 2026 I took another $2k payout simply going long on silver futures.
Fast forward Feb 2026- I tried just taking inversions on MNQ between 9:30 and 10:00 am. It worked for me through June.
I then backtested the strategy through all of 2025 and it was terrible!
my confidence shattered.
idk what to do now. I hate feeling like I need to go back to square one and finding a Strat that actually works.
I have an older cousin who lives upstate , he’s been trading for years but he only trades leveraged shares, direxions.
His Strat is literally just “buying low and selling high”. Dude has grown his account a lot since he started and lives off of it, has 0 debt, completely supports his family off of it.
I want to try what he’s trying maybe?
But also, we’ve been in a crazy bull market and buying low, selling high won’t work every month.
idk. Idk If I should even continue trading.
and yes, I’ll see you Monday as well.
edit: I’ve never seen a more unsupportive sub on Reddit. Fuck all of you.
