Episode 0: the rules of the challenge

I am taking a prop firm challenge using only the trades FTS Liquidity Sweep Pro shows me. No setup outside the indicator, no trade “on feel”: if it signals nothing, I do not trade.

Each session becomes an episode: the video, every trade with its screenshot, entry, stop and result, and the account balance read at the end of the day.

A Apex Trader Funding 50K evaluation, on the Nasdaq (NQ / MNQ). Target: $3,000 of profit. The account is lost if the balance falls $2,000 below its highest close, a threshold that is recalculated at the end of the day.

During the evaluation I risk 2% of the account per trade, that is $1,000. It is aggressive, and I say so plainly: two full losses in a row are enough to blow the account. I do it to pass the evaluation, not for what comes after. Once funded, risk drops to 1% ($500) and much lower after that, to go after the first payout.

Every trade, losers included. If the account blows, that episode will be published like the others, and we will start again on a new account.

No statistics drawn from a few sessions: a few dozen trades do not tell whether a method works. A passed challenge does not prove you will pass yours, and a failed one does not prove the opposite. It is a journal, not a promise.