Eight badges, one Monday
Eight of you got your funded badge in the Pit yesterday, and seven were back on the board the same day. Behind them: 109 traders from 27 countries and 622 trades.
Most days the trading is the story and the community is the footnote. Yesterday it went the other way around.
Eight funded badges went up in the Pit over the course of the day, from the Philippines, the United Kingdom, India, the United States and Nigeria. Seven of those eight people were on the board the same day, which is the part worth noticing: getting funded did not make anyone take the day off. Underneath it the session did what a Monday does. 109 traders from 27 countries put 622 trades and 3,421 contracts through 152 accounts, across 13 instruments. The micro Nasdaq took 405 of those trades on its own, micro Dow 53, micro gold 50, micro S&P 41, micro crude 35.
The Pit itself woke up with it: 95 messages in General Chat from 24 different members, against 39 from 18 on Sunday and 24 on Saturday. Three new members claimed a handle and got their welcome post. And 108 of the 109 people who traded yesterday were already in there.
Trades by country
Trade count is not head count, and yesterday the gap was wide. The United States and India each sent 24 traders and Nigeria sent 19, so those three bars are crowds. Turkey, Colombia and the UAE each sent exactly one trader, and between them they took 154 trades. The remaining 15 countries account for 60 trades in total, one or two traders apiece, from Algeria and Germany to Nepal, Denmark and South Africa.
Four clean sessions
Took eight trades on her funded Track $2,500 and won all eight, one contract every single time. The account allows two contracts and she has never needed the second. It is up $774 across nine trading days, and the Profit Split engine now clears every payout gate on it: nine trading days, seven profitable days, all-time drawdown 0.7%. Not one number in that account is dramatic, which is the whole point.
Her funded badge went up in here before dawn and she was trading the account by mid morning. Four trades. The two that went against her were closed after 3.7 and 0.9 minutes. The two that worked were held 9.6 and 11.9 minutes and paid $209.50 and $323.50. Never more than 2 contracts on an account that allows 40. Day one on a funded $50,000 and she traded it like day one hundred.
Six trading days, five profitable days, and every payout gate green on a funded Flex $150,000. The engine puts her split at 73.8% with all-time drawdown sitting at 2.5%, comfortably inside the 4% cliff. She traded 12 contracts yesterday on an account that allows 100, which is roughly how the whole cycle has gone.
Cleared his Flex $5,000 evaluation during the session, and the funded account was open before the day was out. His first trade on it opened seven minutes after the account did: one contract, one winner, +$57.00.
Also on the board
- Nadav M.🇮🇱@Naddy put up the biggest number of the day, +$3,508, and did it with the smallest size in the room. He runs the same plan on five Flex $50,000 evaluations, took three trades on each, and won all fifteen. Seven contracts per account, on accounts that allow forty.
- Navjot S.🇮🇳@thelearner920 finished the day with his Track $25,000 sitting at exactly $26,500.00, which is the $1,500 profit target to the cent. Two trades, both green, five contracts total.
- Fredrick M.🇰🇪@CALLAH cleared the 6% target on his Track $2,500 with two trades on micro gold, one contract each. That was his entire day. The account caps him at two contracts and he used one.
- Eight funded badges were celebrated in the Pit across the day. Badge times are when the Pit posted them, which can trail the real crossing by a few hours.
In the Pit
3,248 members from 108 countries now, 2,261 of you with a claimed handle. Yesterday brought 95 messages in General Chat from 24 members, three new arrivals, and one Pit Stop drop: mr_anafo🇬🇭@mr_anafo hit it and drove off with a free $5,000 Flex challenge.
The number we keep returning to is 108 of 109. Almost every single person who traded yesterday was already in here.
Eight badges, three new faces, one free challenge, and a board that reached 27 countries. Not a loud Monday. A good one. See you in the Pit.
108 of the 109 traders in this issue are already in there.