347: Ex-Prop Consultant Exploit: How He Pulls $60k/Mo Using VRT & Math

AJ Does Trading reveals how he pulled over $280k from prop firms, got banned for taking payouts, and trades 5-minute NQ momentum breakouts. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/aj-does-trading/ Key moments - [00:08] How AJ pulled over $280,000 in payouts from prop firms and why two firms banned him. - [01:50] The transition from living in a truck with 4 degrees to learning momentum trading. - [02:40] Spending a week watching a 55-year-old hedge fund manager scalping 5-minute levels. - [06:00] Why patience and static daily risk control are the real keys to prop firm longevity. - [07:03] Maintaining a 66.2% win rate and 1.73 profit factor while averaging 7-minute hold times. - [12:05] Why simple math and physics principles apply directly to clean chart setups. - [17:46] How to structure static risk ($250 loss limit) on a $50k funded prop account. - [20:16] How a student passed 20 Apex challenge accounts in 1 day during CPI and pulled $29.6k. - [21:38] Lessons learned from running a 3,000-member prop firm and analyzing trader failure data. - [25:16] Achieving ego death through jiu-jitsu and mushrooms to eliminate revenge trading. - [29:14] Why moving stop loss to break even can actually destroy your long-term win rate. - [33:25] Debunking the retail myth that institutional market makers are 'hunting' your stop loss. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6C_DvzawGI --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

Full-time futures trader Chanelle The Trader breaks down her 12-year journey, her 1-minute NQ mean reversion strategy using Volume Profile, and why copy-trading prop accounts is ruining beginner accounts. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/chanelle-the-trader/ Key moments - [01:07] Ditching the CBD corporate commute after seeing the real time-freedom potential of day trading. - [03:37] Why it took three years of losing before realizing the strategy wasn't the problem—the trader was. - [04:55] The corner-of-the-room exercise: Pretending an auditor is recording every habit to verify 100% effort. - [08:52] Tailoring risk and R:R parameters specifically for 50k prop firm evaluations vs. live capital. - [23:22] How to neutralize weekend emotions so you return to the charts at true equilibrium every Monday. - [25:02] Why trading prop accounts individually instead of copy-trading prevents full fleet blowups. - [30:17] How an accidental $20k windfall trade created an ego trap that set back progress by six months. - [34:42] Anchoring Fixed Range Volume Profile to Globex Open to establish VAH, VAL, and Point of Control. - [36:01] Identifying failed auctions at extreme value levels to spot high-probability mean-reversion setups. - [38:28] Rotating separate prop accounts across a 30-minute entry window without blowing linked accounts. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5RPZCXNquw --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

Ethan Garland reveals how consulting for major prop firms allowed him to find mathematical loopholes, scaling 30+ accounts to pull $60,000/month. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/ethan-garland-propfirms/ Key moments - [03:06] Designing prop firm rules exposed structural gaps that can be mathematically exploited. - [07:08] Rotating 30 evaluation accounts aggressively creates a profitable system despite a 70% fail rate. - [10:39] Spending $10k weekly on evaluations yields $50k-$60k monthly payouts when backed by statistical expectancy. - [13:48] Funded accounts require shifting to a 1:4 risk-reward model to lock in maximum early payouts. - [18:49] Prioritize prop firms with 50% eval consistency rules and zero consistency rules on funded accounts. - [26:11] Volume Reversion Theory (VRT) uses VWAP and Flip of Imbalance (FOI) for high-frequency setups. - [30:34] Feeding backtested TradingView trade logs into Claude AI allows full Monte Carlo simulation of prop models. - [15:53] Anchor VWAP specifically at 4:00 AM EST with a 0.8 first standard deviation band on NQ/MNQ. - [25:37] Complete minimum trading days without blowing profit buffer by scaling down to 4 micro contracts. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWhcAT479A --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

30-year trading veteran Troy Noonan reveals how he hits his daily trading goals in as little as 2 minutes using custom Renko charts and his 'Power of Quitting' framework. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/troy-noonan/ Key moments - [01:28] How shorting the British Pound during Black Wednesday launched the 'Backpack Trader' journey. - [04:02] The Power of Quitting: Why trading less leads to higher session win rates and consistent profits. - [04:24] How Troy hit his daily profit target in 2 minutes from a cafe in Florence. - [08:45] The 25-Trade Rule: Why you must execute 25 flawless trades in a row on SIM before risking real money. - [15:18] 'Lean on the system' — the 4 magic words that remove execution anxiety on live trades. - [18:44] The only 2 valid reasons to ever use a demo account in your trading career. - [25:35] Conducting a personal life audit to match your trading strategy with your actual schedule. - [31:13] Why the immediate past predicts the immediate future with high statistical accuracy. - [38:16] How custom Renko charts with a 25% offset eliminate time noise and spotlight edge. - [46:32] The ancient math formula behind Troy's evergreen Renko price targets. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14b6UX_yWiQ --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

At just 20 years old, Ty Feutz has pulled over $200,000 from futures prop firms. Discover how he survived 20 blown challenges, transitioned from New York to the Asia session, and his exact 15-minute range breakout strategy. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/ty-feutz/ Key moments - [03:45] Ty started trading while working as a welder, initially losing money in crypto before taking a five-month break. - [05:48] Finding a mentor with a single, proven, simple approach prevents getting lost in the 'YouTube strategy rabbit hole'. - [07:39] When you get good at trading, less is more. Fewer trades typically mean higher quality and better probability. - [09:08] The market's P&L is the ultimate disciplinarian. Eventually, you get so sick of losing money that you force yourself to stop making the same mistakes. - [13:02] Ty blew roughly 20 cheap futures challenges before passing his first one and securing his first $1,500 payout. - [14:14] Ty used to trade the grueling New York session (1:30 AM to 2:30 AM NZ time) before walking to his 6:00 AM supermarket job. - [16:25] Transitioning to the Asia session allowed Ty to trade Gold and NQ during sustainable, local daytime hours. - [17:18] His prop challenge strategy involves aggressive scaling: risking up to half the account on high-quality setups to pass within 2 to 4 days. - [21:05] Transitioning from prop firms to personal accounts can be psychologically difficult because personal accounts don't allow cheap 'resets'. - [26:49] Journaling provides the concrete data needed to filter out unprofitable conditions, such as cutting out London session breakouts. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYCd_UzTbQ4 --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

12-year veteran trader Joseph Pena (Fibs Don't Lie) returns to share how he traded a corporate cubicle for an RV, using a horizontal prop firm strategy and 3-minute Wick Zones to pull consistent $20,000 payouts with minimal screen time. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/joseph-pena/ Key moments - [00:53] Discipline means taking only one trade per day, win or lose, to build solid long-term confidence. - [02:44] Heavy multi-monitor setups are unnecessary; trading from a single laptop prevents over-analysis and physical clutter. - [03:30] Limit your market exposure to 90 minutes (e.g., 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM Eastern) to preserve psychological capital. - [04:03] Evaluate your performance using large clusters of trades rather than focusing on emotional daily or weekly outcomes. - [08:49] Treat prop firm costs horizontally: spending $1,000 on multiple challenges to net a $15,000 to $20,000 payout is a highly viable statistical edge. - [09:23] Diversify risk horizontally across multiple prop firms instead of putting all your eggs into a single vertical master account. - [10:55] Never "marry" a prop account; treating them as temporary, disposable tools prevents the fear of losing them. - [15:20] Horizontal trading spreads risk across multiple prop accounts, whereas vertical trading concentrates all risk on one personal account. - [19:24] Avoid generic timeframes like the 1-hour or 4-hour; instead, analyze the 3-minute, 10-minute, and 3-hour charts to see hidden data. - [20:08] Long wicks left at market open represent heavy liquidity pools that the market highly tends to revisit and fill. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfW1-0dQEGo --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

Dave Mabe, systematic trading coach and former CTO of Trade Ideas, shares how he transitioned from discretionary trading to running 25 automated strategies, and the single biggest backtesting mistake most traders make. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/dave-mabe/ Key moments - [05:44] Having a full-time job and trading on the side forces you to focus on a small window, preventing you from strategy-hopping. - [11:53] Discretionary traders can look at situations and figure out when to 'swing the bat hard,' but it is a very difficult skill to master. - [14:30] My very first backtest of my discretionary strategy actually performed better than my manual execution. - [18:12] The only thing harder than coming up with your first profitable trading strategy is coming up with your second. - [19:08] The biggest mistake in backtesting is trying to shoot for the final version of a strategy on your very first run. - [20:01] Your first backtest should have no filtering; instead, add custom columns for every indicator and optimize using that dataset. - [27:44] Scale wide by adding more automated trades across smaller timeframes, rather than just increasing your position size. - [30:54] A good backtesting software must be able to scan the entire US equities market and allow custom columns. - [39:42] When using Claude to write backtest code, give it a specific chart setup where a trade should occur to let it self-verify. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIx4aNF49o --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

Cam and JJ break down the 'mindset trap' in trading, explaining why psychological training won't save you from a cluttered chart, vague rules, or a broken operational process. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/dtc-33/ Key moments - Mindset is a support skill; it cannot locate your setup, verify your edge, or replace a defined rule book [02:33]. - Genuine trading confidence is a byproduct of empirical evidence and repetition, not motivational videos or mindset books [05:35]. - If a rule is subjective or your screen is cluttered with indicators, execution errors are structural, not psychological [12:12]. - Mindset must act as a stabilizer to execute effectively despite normal human emotions, not a magic cure-all [15:56]. - To overcome entry hesitation, stop reading theory and run a strict audit on the exact operational moment you freeze [18:32]. - An over-analyzed, indicator-heavy chart creates the very anxieties that force premature exits [21:16]. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2_CbkLacvs --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

Vinnie Strothers shares his journey from running a moving company to full-time trading, detailing how he turned a $200 account into $50,000 in just 45 days using a rules-based trend strategy. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/vinnie-strothers/ Key moments - [03:04] Align the daily and four-hour timeframes to establish a higher probability directional bias. - [11:14] Your primary objective as a trend trader must be to catch the impulse move, not the correction. - [13:09] Keep your day job when starting out, trade small, and don't be afraid to take consistent profits. - [14:23] Move your stop loss above break-even immediately once the trade is in profit to protect your mindset and capital. - [16:11] Split standard lot sizes into four smaller positions to secure partials and compound your account effectively. - [19:39] Stop trading naked charts; utilize indicators correctly to remove emotional decision-making from your execution. - [22:44] Master higher timeframe direction using a Simple Moving Average (SMA) on the four-hour chart. - [25:12] Focus on mastering a single strategy that resonates with you rather than trying to combine conflicting systems. - [32:09] Avoid trading on the one-minute timeframe if you are a beginner; zoom out to see the bigger picture. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0amJ2EnC7g --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.

Hans Felix shares his 11-year trading journey, how he made $109,000 on a single FOMC day, and his mechanical 'Hold Time Psychology' strategy for US30 and Gold. Full episode + show notes: https://tradingnut.com/sir-hans-felix/ Key moments - [03:54] This is basically freedom at the expense of knowledge that is uncapped. - [06:52] You become the liquidity until you find out... why is it that I see a sell and it turns into a buy? - [10:11] One of the biggest weak points that I had... is how to walk away sooner from a loss. - [12:11] Information overload happens when you try to learn everything instead of finding a simplified system that works for you. - [15:11] My favorite go-to setup is the previous session sweep, one-minute or five-minute break and retest. - [23:32] If your exit is not as tight as your entry, you might not make a dollar. - [28:28] As soon as I saw a hundred and nine thousand, I closed everything. Five minutes after, the market retraced all the way back. - [32:20] If you've bought at least ten to twenty prop firm accounts... you could have just kept on depositing that money into a live account. - [36:42] I pay myself about twenty percent of my gains so that even if I mess up, I still did my part in paying myself. - [43:50] I use a method called hold time psychology... knowing how long the setup usually plays for keeps you from micromanaging. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ge4u-D5DY --- Sponsors BlackBull Markets - 100% deposit bonus & free TradingView. NZ-regulated broker. https://tradingnut.com/go/blackbull/ --- More from Trading Nut Strategy Vault - Free guest setups organised by method. https://tradingnut.com/go/vault/ TraderZen - Your rules, open beside the chart before you click. https://tradingnut.com/go/traderzen/ Dynamic Traders Club - Free 7-minute rule strategy — mechanical intraday setup. https://tradingnut.com/go/dtc/ --- Educational only - not financial advice. Risk: https://tradingnut.com/disclaimers/ Some links are affiliate partnerships.