r/AlphaGroupOfficial
Ain't no way this is real
This is the leaderboard from June's competition. How is even possible to make 500% in month having just 5% daily DD, 10% Max DD
u/Deadpool_10j — 2 days ago
How is this even possible ??
Just posted about my first trade in the competition acc. I know I'm a bit late since it started July 1st and got curious about how the leaderboard was going and Honestly WTF how is this even possible 274% IN JUST 3 DAYS ?? and even 1 day is bank holiday.
Gotta be honest this is mind-blowing and refuse to believe it like who even that guy is
u/Deadpool_10j — 2 days ago
Why knowing MORE is killing your trading (8-year trader breakdown)
I watched an interview with a trader named Octavia this week and one thing she said has been stuck in my head since. Eight years trading. One market and only one strategy. Supply and demand and the whole time I'm watching thinking, that's it? That's the whole thing?
That is the whole thing. And it's the part none of us want to hear.
Here's what she actually figured out. Every time she hit a losing streak, she'd go looking for something better. New strategy, new mentor, new YouTube rabbit hole. Fibonacci one month, options the next. And she realized eventually that the losing streak was never the problem. Every strategy on earth has two bad weeks in it. The problem was that she kept quitting right before the thing had enough time to prove itself. She'd reset to zero over and over and call it "learning."
Think about what that actually means for your own trading. You're not failing because your setup is broken. You're failing because you've never run any single setup long enough to build a real sample size. You've got fifty trades spread across ten strategies instead of five hundred trades on one. You don't have an edge problem. You have a commitment problem wearing an edge problem's clothes.
She said something about free information that reframed this for me. When something's free, you don't respect it, because you've got nothing on the line to walk away from. That's why she kept cheating on the one strategy that was actually working. Not because it failed her, but because leaving cost her nothing. The abundance of free trading content isn't a gift. For most people it's the exact thing keeping them stuck, because there's always a shinier setup one scroll away and no reason not to chase it.
The fix she landed on sounds almost dumb. She said she gaslit herself into believing supply and demand was the only strategy that existed. Blocked everything else out until there was nothing left to jump to. And that's when it clicked. Not more knowledge. Less. She made her world small enough that she was forced to actually get good at the one thing in it.
The rest of the interview backs into why this is really a psychology problem, not a strategy one. Her whole life, someone told her what to do. Parents, teachers, bosses. Then she started trading and for the first time nobody did, and she said that's what quietly breaks most people. Not the charts. The silence. Everybody wants the freedom until the freedom means every decision and every consequence lands on them alone. And her relationship with losing ties right into it. She expects to lose before every single trade goes on. Not scared of it, expects it, so when it comes it's not a gut punch, it's just the cost of doing business. You never stop feeling the sting, she was clear about that. You just get it down from ruining your afternoon to ruining ten seconds.
If you take one thing from this, take the boring one. Pick your one thing. Stop looking for the next thing. Give it more time than feels comfortable. The traders who make it aren't the ones who found the secret setup, they're the ones who got bored of looking and finally committed to something long enough for it to work.
Full interview's below, worth the watch:
click here for full interview
u/Kasraborhan — 2 days ago
Wasn't expecting this
Officially July competition started 2 days ago I just set my first trade today and before seeing the leaderboard I was expecting the top 10 maybe around 5-15% maxxxx but wtf how are you doing and average of 85% a day ?? 🤯
I guess I'm not getting that 100k acc
u/Deadpool_10j — 2 days ago
Yoo why do some people get the most hipe out of NFP day!!! Do they know a secret source 🤔
reddit.comu/Admirable_Alfalfa934 — 4 days ago
▲ 15 r/AlphaGroupOfficial
How I went from being down -$1500 to now up over +$1800 in profit:
Two weeks ago I was sitting in a $1,500 drawdown. That was $750 on each of my two Alpha Zero funded accounts, both copy traded together, both bleeding at the same time. Nothing kills your confidence faster than watching the same red number hit twice.
Today those same two accounts are up around $900 each and I'm one solid day away from a payout on both. I want to walk through exactly how I dug out, because it wasn't some new indicator or a magic setup. It was the opposite.
The first thing I did was stop hunting. When you're down, the instinct is to take more trades to make it back faster. That's what put me in the hole in the first place. So I locked my rules down hard: max 2 micro contracts, max 2 trades a day, risk fixed between $300 and $600 per trade no matter how good the setup looked. Same risk every time.
Then I cut my playbook down to basically two models. IRL → ERL and the 15-minute Opening Range Breakout. That's it. Everything else got ignored.
Here are the two trades this week that turned it around.
Trade 1 — IRL → ERL (ICT 2022 model)
Going into New York, Asia had already flushed its sell-side liquidity and price tapped -1 SD before aggressively reclaiming. That reclaim left a clean 15-minute HTF Fair Value Gap, and that gap was my entry. I wasn't interested in chasing the impulse. I waited for price to retrace into the imbalance, bought the FVG, and targeted the next Draw on Liquidity at +1 SD for a clean 1R. Banked +$310 with almost no drawdown on the position.
Trade 2 — 15-minute ORB
This one wasn't A+ textbook and I'll be honest about it. Pre-market actually offered the cleaner short after price got extremely extended and swept multiple pools of buy-side liquidity, but I missed it. Instead of forcing another short, I sat on my hands. Once price reclaimed, held above the 4H Fair Value Gap, and shifted my higher timeframe bias back to bullish, the whole picture changed. The ORB confirmed continuation, there was a clean Draw on Liquidity sitting overhead, and I took the long for just over 1R (about 1.2R off a slightly better entry). Another +$233.
The actual lesson
The single biggest jump in my trading came from getting really good at two models instead of being average at twenty.
The only things I'm consistently looking for now are:
- ICT 2022 IRL → ERL (liquidity sweep → displacement → HTF FVG → continuation)
- 15-minute Opening Range Breakout
- Higher timeframe liquidity and Draw on Liquidity
- Weekly and daily bias set before I even think about an entry
- Fixed risk and fixed targets instead of trying to catch every point
The other half of it is review. I spend almost as much time journaling as I do trading. Every session gets logged, replayed, and compared against past executions. That's honestly where most of the growth came from. Once you've got enough data, patterns start jumping out that you'd never catch mid-trade.
These were copy traded across my 2 Alpha Zero funded accounts and my personal cash account. If everything holds, I'm one clean day from another payout on both funded accounts. Next month the plan is to scale back up to five funded accounts and run this exact same process across all of them on copy trade.
If you want to start your own run at a funded account, links are below.
🔹 Alpha Capital Group → CLICK HERE
🔹 Alpha Futures → CLICK HERE
u/Kasraborhan — 5 days ago
▲ 12 r/AlphaGroupOfficial
Best gift ever
Just received the account I won in the Giveaway.
Thanks Alpha Capital for this great opportunity 🙌🏼🥹
u/Deadpool_10j — 6 days ago
I had this issue with alpha trader, i contacted support they kept asking for trade ids that were literally non existent as in there is money and time jumps, and they just keep asking for it, is this a way for them to not have to reset accounts that were messed up from their part
u/Any_Heart_8792 — 7 days ago
▲ 11 r/AlphaGroupOfficial
You gotta be kidding
I completely fell asleep since I was practically dead, wake up just before market closure and see this 😑. This ain't funny Spread
u/Deadpool_10j — 6 days ago
Is there any downside to trading NAS100 CFDs while using CME futures order flow (Bookmap, DOM, T&S) for analysis?
I’m specifically looking for opinions from traders who use order flow.
My setup would look like this:
Analyze the CME NQ futures market using Bookmap, DOM, Time & Sales, and volume profile.
Execute trades on the NAS100 CFD instead of the CME futures contract.
The reason I’m considering this is that many CFD prop firms currently offer more attractive trading conditions than futures prop firms, such as:
Higher available capital
More leverage
More forgiving drawdown models and trading rules
I understand the trade-offs of CFDs (dealer pricing, decentralized market, broker-dependent spreads, etc.), so I’m not looking for a debate about CFDs versus futures or prop firms in general.
My question is specifically this:
If I’m making all of my trading decisions from the centralized CME order book, is there any meaningful disadvantage to executing those trades on a NAS100 CFD instead of the NQ futures contract?
I realize the CFD price won’t perfectly match CME because it’s a synthetic market, but in practice:
Is the correlation close enough for intraday scalping?
Are there situations where CME order flow gives misleading signals because the CFD market behaves differently?
Does anyone here successfully trade CFDs using CME order flow as their primary source of market information?
For context, I currently use Bookmap through Thinkorswim for order flow and Deepcharts for execution and volume profile.
I’m interested in hearing from traders who have actually used or considered this approach.
u/marlboropizza100s — 5 days ago
Asia Bang
Valid Breaker Block + BOS. And clear sell side liquidity resting below 🍾
u/Deadpool_10j — 5 days ago
2 Minute Rule
I have a 10k Alpha Pro 8% Profit target Account
I have not completed the minimum trading days, but have finished my profit target goal. About 53% of my initial profit target of 8% came from trades lasting less than 2 mins. However, i just completed a trade that far exceeds the 2 mins to try and average up my trading time. Now only about 46% of my trades at a 9% profit (supposed 8% target) is less than 2 mins.
Would this pass my account? Or should I try losing some of the profits, and try taking another trade to get exactly 8% with the intended 2 min trading time.
u/marclest — 6 days ago
▲ 13 r/AlphaGroupOfficial
$22,455 lifetime is a massive number for a title.
Braydon just crossed $22K in lifetime payouts with Alpha Futures. That's consistent execution stacked over time until the numbers start looking ridiculous.
Most traders never see a single payout. The traders hitting numbers like this aren't swinging for the fences every session. They're taking base hits, protecting capital on days where nothing is clean, and letting the payouts compound.
Alpha Futures CLICK HERE
Alpha Capital CLICK HERE
u/Kasraborhan — 6 days ago
I made $1,110 under 30min with the Forever Model (Video Breakdown)
Absolutely beautiful A+ Forever Model short this morning that banked me $550 x 2 Alpha Zero accounts.
The setup actually started during Asia. ES swept the Asia buyside liquidity while NQ failed to do the same, creating a clean bearish SMT divergence right at a liquidity sweep. Whenever I see one index take liquidity and the other fail to confirm, that immediately gets my attention because it often signals that the move is running out of steam.
After the sweep, price displaced lower and left behind a clean 15-minute iFVG/FVG. There were definitely more aggressive entries available on the 1-minute and 5-minute charts, but I've learned the hard way that forcing early entries usually costs me money. I stayed patient and waited for the higher timeframe setup to come to me.
The retracement back into the 15-minute imbalance gave the entry, followed by a clean CISD confirming the shift in order flow. At that point, all the pieces of the model were lined up and the draw on liquidity was obvious.
The target was straightforward. Asia sellside liquidity was sitting below price and acting as the draw on liquidity. About 15 minutes after NY opened, price delivered perfectly into that objective.
I took my standard 1R and got out. Could I have held longer? Absolutely. NQ continued dropping for hundreds of points afterward. But part of my edge is understanding that I don't need the entire move. I just need my piece of it.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned over the last couple of years is that consistency comes from repeating the same process over and over again.
Anyone else trade SMT, CISD, or the Forever Model? Curious how you guys are identifying your higher probability entries.
u/Kasraborhan — 8 days ago
Missed the Banger
Kinda felt price was going for a retest so I set BE with the intention to go in again in my marked level (my SL) but price starting chopping a little and I felt asleep 🫠
u/Deadpool_10j — 7 days ago