From a Blown Account to Full-Time Futures Trader

It Started With a Wipeout

I didn't come from finance. I grew up farming and went to university because that's what you were supposed to do. But the markets grabbed me in a way school never did. So I opened an account and started clicking buttons.

A few weeks later the account was gone. I had no idea what CPI was. I didn't use stop losses. I literally sat there and watched the number on the screen go to zero. That was my welcome to futures trading.

Most people would've stopped right there. I couldn't. That blown account taught me two things I never forgot. Stops exist for a reason. Risk management isn't optional, it's the whole game. That first wipeout is the only reason I'm still doing this five years later.

The Grind Nobody Sees

I spent my early twenties doing what most people my age weren't willing to do. While friends were out, I was at my desk reviewing trades, marking up charts, and rebuilding the same broken process for the hundredth time. Weekends. Holidays. Didn't matter.

I dropped out of university because I already knew what I wanted to do. That conversation with the people around me wasn't fun. But I'd rather bet on myself than spend years chasing a path I didn't believe in.

About two years of journaling, failing, fixing, and repeating later, I found my edge. That's when I went all in and started trading full time. No backup plan, no fallback job. Just a process I actually trusted.

Trading Is a Mirror

I read a lot of philosophy. Stoic stuff mostly. Trading is the cleanest mirror life will hand you. The market doesn't care about your feelings or your excuses or what happened to you yesterday. It only reacts to the decision you make in front of it right now.

Trading has seasons too. Some weeks are slow and chop you up. Some months everything just clicks. The job is to stay disciplined through both, because who you become while doing this matters more than any one trade.

You have to fail to get good at this. You blow it, you find what went wrong, you fix it, then you go again. That loop doesn't end. Honestly that's what makes it worth doing.

Proof Is in the Numbers

I don't post my personal brokerage account online. But here's a snapshot from one of my Apex prop accounts. Micros only, 60 trading days.

Consistency isn't home runs. It's showing up every day, managing the downside, and letting the process do the work. Sixty days of disciplined micro trading. Same thing I have my students do.

Why I Started Teaching

Once my own trading was steady, I started working with traders 1-on-1. Not because I needed the money. Because I remembered what it was like to be stuck and have nobody to ask.

I've now mentored a bunch of traders to real, measurable results. Some came in completely green. Some had been at it for years and couldn't break through. The thing they all needed was the same -- structure, accountability, and someone who actually trades the markets to walk them through it.

Watching someone I've worked with grind through a bad stretch, build the right habits, and start thinking like a professional is the best part of doing this. That's what keeps me at it.

The Student Portal

Pretty early on I realised that mentorship calls and messages on their own weren't enough. Traders need a system around them. So I built the Student Portal from scratch.

It's a private platform. Daily pre-market prep, a built-in journal, trade review, and direct access to me through the trading day. All in one place. No bouncing between five different tools.

Building the portal was also a step toward something bigger. Through mentoring and the portal I've spotted a handful of traders with real potential. People with the mindset, the discipline, and the skill to trade at a higher level.

What's Next

The long-term goal is my own fund. That's where all of this is heading. Mentorship, the portal, the small community I'm building -- it's all the same vision. Surround myself with serious traders and build something that actually matters.

I've made real strides on both my personal and prop accounts and I'm not slowing down. Every day I trade, teach, improve. That's the lifestyle I chose. Wouldn't swap it for anything.

If you take this seriously and want guidance from someone who actually does it every day, book an intro and we'll talk.

Outside the Charts

When I'm not at the screens or working with students, I'm outside. I still farm. I hunt. Disc golf whenever I can. And when the weather's bad in Sweden -- which is most of the year, honestly -- I'm probably gaming.

You can't stare at charts twelve hours a day and stay sharp. The time away from the screen is what keeps the time at the screen useful.