u/SweatyHost8861

Hey everyone,

Passed my strategy backtests with solid results, but keep failing the actual challenge. Started looking into it and honestly I think it's behavioral — revenge trading after a loss, moving stops, overtrading on Fridays.

Curious how you guys handle this. Do you track your trades manually on Notion or Excel? Or do you use something that connects directly to MT4/MT5?

Also — is MT4/MT5 on desktop your main setup or do you use something else like cTrader or TradingView?

Would love to hear how other traders approach this.

Hey everyone,

Passed my strategy backtests with solid results, but keep failing the actual challenge. Started looking into it and honestly I think it's behavioral — revenge trading after a loss, moving stops, overtrading on Fridays.

Curious how you guys handle this. Do you track your trades manually on Notion or Excel? Or do you use something that connects directly to MT4/MT5?

Also — is MT4/MT5 on desktop your main setup or do you use something else like cTrader or TradingView?

Would love to hear how other traders approach this.

Hey everyone,

Passed my strategy backtests with solid results, but keep failing the actual challenge. Started looking into it and honestly I think it's behavioral — revenge trading after a loss, moving stops, overtrading on Fridays.

Curious how you guys handle this. Do you track your trades manually on Notion or Excel? Or do you use something that connects directly to MT4/MT5?

Also — is MT4/MT5 on desktop your main setup or do you use something else like cTrader or TradingView?

Would love to hear how other traders approach this.

Hey everyone,

Passed my strategy backtests with solid results, but keep failing the actual challenge. Started looking into it and honestly I think it's behavioral — revenge trading after a loss, moving stops, overtrading.

Curious how you guys handle this. Do you track your trades manually on Notion or Excel? Or do you use something that connects directly to MT4/MT5?

Also — is MT4/MT5 on desktop your main setup or do you use something else like cTrader or TradingView?

Would love to hear how other traders approach this.

Let me ask you something blunt: how many of your failed challenges were actually caused by a bad strategy?

Probably none. You knew what to do. You just didn't do it.

You overtraded after a loss. You moved your stop. You took a trade you weren't supposed to take because you "felt" it. You blew a $10k account on the last day of the challenge — not because you can't trade, but because the psychological pressure got to you.

This is the real problem in the prop firm world, and almost nobody is solving it properly.

Trading journals exist. Risk calculators exist. Drawdown trackers exist. But they're passive tools — they record what already happened. They don't stop you when you're about to do something stupid at 2pm on a Tuesday after two red trades in a row.

What I'm building is different. It's a trading companion specifically designed for prop firm challenges (starting with FTMO), built around one core insight:

Concretely, here's the direction I'm exploring:

• A discipline mode where you set your own rules when you're in a clear headspace — max trades per day, no trading after consecutive losses, mandatory break after a big drawdown — and the tool enforces them when you're not
• A psychological check-in before each session — not just "how do you feel" but structured questions that flag when you shouldn't be trading at all
• Revenge trading detection — alerts when your behavior pattern signals emotional trading, before you do damage
• A live challenge tracker synced to your account — drawdown, daily loss limit, profit target, days remaining — all in one place, in real time
• A trade journal that connects psychology to performance — so you can actually see the correlation between your mental state and your results over time

The fundamental problem I'm solving isn't technical. It's behavioral. Prop firms don't fail traders — traders fail themselves. The rules are clear, the strategy is there, but the mental game under pressure is where everything falls apart. That's the gap I want to fill.

I'm at an early stage and I want to build this with real feedback from real prop traders — not based on assumptions.

So I'd genuinely love to hear from you:

• Does this resonate with your experience of failing challenges?
• What's the psychological pattern that's hurt you the most — revenge trading, overtrading, moving stops?
• Would a tool that actively intervenes (not just logs) be something you'd actually use?
• What feature here would matter most to you?

Not selling anything, not pitching. Just building and trying to get it right. Brutal honesty appreciated.