On April 30th, I submitted a payout request, following which a risk management interview was scheduled for today. I waited for over 30 minutes, but no one showed up. Shortly after, I received an email stating that my account had been flagged for a breach due to exceeding the maximum daily or total loss limits.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​wtf 🤬

The market is making all-time highs and what comes after ATH? More ATH. I scanned the major names driving NQ and ES and everything was pointing the same direction. Earnings came in decent. Weekly bias was clearly bullish. So even though chasing longs at all-time highs isn't the most comfortable thing in the world, everything was lining up.

Wednesday we flushed the Asia session low. Thursday price reclaimed on the 1-hour and displaced above forming a clean FVG. That's my zone. Price ran up to take the external range liquidity at the highs, reversed back down into the FVG which is internal range liquidity, and then exploded right back up and smacked my target for a fixed 1R.

IRL to ERL. Same model I've been posting about for weeks now. Enter at the FVG, stop below the first candle, target the liquidity draw. It's boring at this point and that's exactly how I want it.

This week was choppy. Monday I lost $78. Wednesday I lost $191. But I kept my losses small on the days where the setup wasn't clean and then pressed when the A+ setup showed up today.

Starting May at +$394 per account. Let's see how the rest of the month plays out!

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Another one. $9,800 performance fee secured and paid out to Diamond.

What people don't see behind these certificates is the amount of days where nothing happens. The traders getting paid aren't the ones glued to the screen 12 hours a day, forcing entries. They're the ones who wait, execute, and move on taking their chunk out of the market.

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I wanted to share this because it's the clearest example I have of what happens when you stop forcing trades and just take what the market gives you.

May 2026 so far. 4 trading days. Up about $1,000 per account across all 4 of my Alpha Futures 50K accounts. $4,000 total. One day away from another payout. And honestly the trade I'm most proud of this month isn't even a winner.

What happened today

We formed a forever model short from all-time highs. Setup was valid. I took the trade with reduced conviction because my weekly bias has been bullish since Monday, so I knew I was fading the trend. This is where watching the correlated pair saved me.

I always check ES when I'm trading NQ. The second ES swept the Asia session sell-side liquidity, I moved my stop to breakeven on NQ. Five minutes later price ripped through my original stop. But I was already at BE.

Two minutes after that, a 15-minute ORB to the upside formed. Clean break, clean FVG confirmation, aligned with the weekly bullish bias I'd been tracking all week. I took the long for a fixed 1R and it hit with zero drawdown on the entry.

I took a short I wasn't fully confident in with less size, protected myself immediately when the correlated pair gave me a warning sign, got out flat, and then flipped to the setup that actually aligned with the higher timeframe bias.

The bigger picture

If you look at this month's price action, it hasn't been clean the entire time. We've had expansion, some weakness, chop, and then continuation higher. That's where most traders mess up, I use to mess up here a ton and keep trying to either catching a falling knife or call a top. They treat every phase the same and end up overtrading in the worst conditions. I recognized this from past experience and decided to lean heavily on my 15-minute ORB during the trendy sessions and only take my IRL to ERL model when the higher timeframe structure was obvious.

The biggest shift for me has been focusing on execution rather than constantly searching for new setups. Whether it's ORB, liquidity-based entries, or higher timeframe reactions, the edge comes from how well you follow your rules. Not how many strategies you know.

What I've changed this year

A few things that have made a real difference:

• Keeping risk consistent and not overextending on any single trade. When you combine that with scaling across multiple accounts, even small wins compound fast.
• Tracking everything across all accounts in one place. When you can see your performance clearly it's much harder to justify bad trades or emotional decisions.
• Recognizing that you don't need to trade more. Most of your progress will come from cutting out the unnecessary trades and focusing on the ones that actually meet your criteria.

The plan from here

I'm building each account up to about $2K in profit and then pulling 50% out at each payout cycle. The goal is to create a consistent income stream from these accounts by protecting capital, taking base hits, and compounding over time. If I lose an account along the way I'll get funded again and start the cycle over. That's the business model.

One more payout day away. I'll post the certificate when it hits.

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I requested a payout on 30th April, then they asked to scheduled an interview for risk management I waited for days and when the time for interview finally came I’ve been waiting on the website no one showed to take interview and now I received that I’ve breached the account for max daily or total loss , you guys are ripping off ppl and it will not take you anywhere , you’ll pay for it eventually fucking scum bags 🤬😡