You're ready, your strategy is tested, your mindset is prepared. It's time totransform your skills into a funded account. This guide accompanies you day by day with concrete tactics to pass your challenge on the first try.
Statistics show that only 10% of traders succeed in their challenge. With the right methods, you can be part of this elite.
Phase 1: The First 10 Critical Days
Days 1-3: Cautious Start
Objectives
- Target profit: 1-2% total
- Maximum 1 trade per day
- Risk: 0.5% per trade
- Only A+ setups
Strict Rules
- No FOMO trading
- No trades after 4 PM
- Stop if -1% in the day
- No averaging down
💡 Tip: The first 3 days establish your psychological momentum. A good start = confidence for the rest. Do NOT try to impress.
Days 4-7: Scaling Up
Tactical Adjustments
If in profit (2%+):
- • Maintain the same pace
- • Possibility of 2 trades/day
- • Risk maintained at 0.5%
- • Aim for 1% additional
If at loss or breakeven:
- • Reduce to 0.25% risk
- • Back to 1 trade/day max
- • Review the trading plan
- • Focus on recovery
⚠️ Critical Point: 70% of failures occur between day 4 and 7 due to overconfidence or frustration. Stay disciplined!
Days 8-10: Consolidation
If you are at 4%+ after 10 days, you are on the right track. Continue with exactly the same approach.
Optimal Strategies by Trading Session
🌏 Asian Session (00:00 - 08:00 GMT)
Advantages
- • Low volatility = less risk
- • Defined ranges on JPY pairs
- • Few surprise news
- • Ideal for conservative scalping
Traps
- • Frequent false breakouts
- • Wider spreads
- • Slow movements
- • Patience required
Recommended pairs: USD/JPY, EUR/JPY, AUD/JPY, AUD/NZD
Strategy: Range trading, support/resistance, mean reversion
🇬🇧 London Session (08:00 - 16:00 GMT)
Advantages
- • Best market liquidity
- • Clear and powerful trends
- • Tightest spreads
- • 70% of daily forex volume
Traps
- • High volatility at opening
- • Frequent economic news
- • Institutional stop hunts
- • Brutal reversals possible
🎯 Best time: 09:00-11:00 GMT after opening volatility
Pairs: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, EUR/GBP, GBP/JPY
🇺🇸 New York Session (13:00 - 21:00 GMT)
Advantages
- • London/NY overlap = opportunities
- • Strong directional movements
- • US news market movers
- • Excellent for breakouts
Traps
- • Dangerous news at 13:30 GMT
- • Frequent whipsaws
- • Unpredictable session end
- • Intense algorithmic trading
💰 Golden Hour : 13:00-15:00 GMT (London/NY overlap)
Focus : USD pairs, Gold, Indices US
Managing Critical Situations
Situation: In Drawdown (-3% or more)
5-Step Recovery Plan
- 1.Immediate STOP for 24h
No trading, analysis only
- 2.Reduce size by 50%
0.25% max risk per trade
- 3.Back to basics
Only your best setup
- 4.1 trade per day maximum
Quality > Absolute quantity
- 5.Goal: Breakeven first
No profit, just recovery
🚨 Golden Rule: NEVER increase size to recover faster. This is the guaranteed recipe for failure.
Situation: Winning Streak (5+ winning trades)
Dangers of Success
- Overconfidence: Reckless risk increase
- Complacency: Less rigor in analysis
- FOMO: Taking average trades
✅ Good practice: After 5 winning trades, take 1 day off. Consolidate your gains psychologically before continuing.
Situation: Plateau (No gain or loss for 5 days)
Analysis Required
- • Market conditions changed?
- • Strategy still valid?
- • Mental fatigue?
- • Fear of losing gains?
Actions
- • Change timeframe
- • Try other pairs
- • 48h micro-break
- • Review initial plan
Advanced Techniques of the Top 1%
1. Progressive Scaling Strategy
How pros build their positions
If it works
Full position in profit
If it fails
Loss limited to 25%
2. Time-Based Exit Strategy
The best traders don't stay in positions indefinitely. Time rules:
If the trade hasn't moved in the expected time = Bad analysis = Exit at breakeven
3. Correlation Matrix Trading
| If you trade | Avoid | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD ↑ | USD/CHF ↑ | Correlation -95% |
| GBP/USD ↑ | EUR/USD ↑ | Correlation +85% |
| Gold ↑ | USD/JPY ↑ | Risk-off conflict |
| AUD/USD ↑ | USD/CAD ↑ | Commodity correlation |
Never have more than 2 correlated positions open = Protection against systemic market movements
Daily Mental Routine
🌅 Morning Routine (30 min before trading)
- 1. Review trading plan (5 min)
- 2. Check economic calendar (5 min)
- 3. Analyze key levels (10 min)
- 4. Meditation/Breathing (5 min)
- 5. Affirm risk rules (5 min)
📊 During Trading
Positive Signs
- ✓ Calm in the face of losses
- ✓ Strict adherence to plan
- ✓ Patience for setups
- ✓ Real-time journaling
Warning Signs
- ✗ Racing heart
- ✗ Urge to "catch up"
- ✗ Strategy changes
- ✗ Negotiating with yourself
🌙 Evening Routine (15 min after trading)
- 1. Screenshot all trades of the day
- 2. Note emotions felt
- 3. Identify 1 thing to improve
- 4. Celebrate 1 good decision (even at loss)
- 5. Prepare tomorrow's levels
Phase 2: The Ultra-Conservative Strategy
Congratulations! You passed Phase 1. Phase 2 is paradoxically more difficultbecause the psychological pressure is different: you are "almost" funded.
Key Changes
- Reduced target: only 5%
- Time doubled: 60 days
- Risk halved: 0.25%/trade
- Maximum patience required
Winning Strategy
The 0.1% per day plan
- • 0.1% × 50 days = 5% ✓
- • 1 trade every 2-3 days
- • R:R minimum 1:3
- • Required win rate: only 35%
🏆 Secret: 90% of traders fail in Phase 2 because they become too aggressive. Be the opposite: become MORE conservative.
The Last 5 Days: Securing Victory
Situation: You are at 8%+ with 5 days remaining
STOP TRADING! You have won. Don't risk failure for an additional 2%.
Situation: You are at 6-7% with 5 days remaining
• Maximum 1 trade per day
• Risk 0.25% only
• Only A++ setups
• Stop as soon as target is reached
Situation: You are at less than 5% with 5 days remaining
• Honestly assess your chances
• DO NOT increase risk
• Consider a reset if significant drawdown
• Better to start over than lose everything
🎊 After Success: First Steps
Congratulations! You are Funded
Week 1 Post-Challenge
- • Start VERY cautiously (50% of your usual risk)
- • Get familiar with real account pressure
- • Maximum 1 trade per day
- • Goal: Don't lose, not necessarily win
First Month
- • Aim for only 2-3% profit
- • Establish a stable routine
- • Build confidence gradually
- • Prepare your first withdrawal
💡 Pro Tip: Treat the first 3 months as a continuation of the challenge. The real victory is keeping the account funded long-term.
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