8 Years Trading - £113K in 90 Days - The Real Story - Part 1/2 | Rebecca

Summary

Rebecca describes an eight-year trading journey that included early Forex losses, a trading-related scam, a long break, and a return to trading roughly two years before the interview. She began trading full-time in April 2024. After moving from Forex to futures, she first used a VWAP-based approach, then switched about eight months before the interview to a quantitative fractal strategy. She attributes a major improvement in her trading to having clearer rules for trade invalidation and take-profit levels.

The interviewer says Rebecca made 113k in prop-firm profits over 90 days, including a 40k week; the video title frames the figure as £113K. Rebecca says the strong run was in the first quarter of the year and that she had not calculated the total until afterward. She also reports starting a personal account with $10,000 from prop-firm earnings, adding 10% of what she makes, and growing the account to about $32,000 in roughly a month. These are her reported results; no independent verification or performance statistics, such as win rate, are provided.

Trading Methods and Risk Management

• Earlier approach — VWAP: Rebecca says VWAP can be a useful starting point for understanding price action: above VWAP, buyers are in control; below it, sellers are in control. Her former routine involved watching the New York open and marking the 15-minute opening-range high and low. She also says the educator she learned from used Bookmap and order flow.
• Current approach — quantitative fractal strategy: She describes the method as overwhelming for beginners but says it gives her more structured trade-invalidation and take-profit levels. She reports commonly targeting 1:3 or 1:4 risk/reward, which helps her hold valid trades longer. The interview does not explain the strategy’s precise entry rules.
• Adding risk after a winning trade: Based on advice from a Tradify coach who had worked as a fund floor manager, Rebecca began risking about 30% of the profit from a winning day on another valid setup. For example, after making $1,000, she might risk $300 on a subsequent trade. If that amount is lost, she stops rather than continuing to trade. She says this is discretionary; with a smaller initial win, she may not take another trade.
• Separating personal finances from trading: Rebecca strongly advocates setting a budget for prop-firm fees that one can afford to lose and not relying on trading to pay household bills. She says this helps her accept losing trades without treating them as personal or financial emergencies.
• Different rules for prop firms and personal capital: She describes prop-firm trading as a different, more permissive environment, while saying she is much more cautious with her personal account. She says she would not trade news on her personal account, though she might do so in a prop account. She also recalls keeping funded accounts alive with about $100 of drawdown remaining for four to five months, but says she would not repeat that approach now.
• Taking a break after unhealthy trading: She says she steps away when disappointment combines with apathy and leads to rash or oversized trades. Her breaks have lasted two to three days, sometimes up to a week; during them, she avoids charting apps and trading news.

Other Financial and Market Details

• Rebecca started in Forex and later moved to futures. She says she is unlikely to return to Forex. In her view, Forex may suit traders seeking swing-trading opportunities, while futures became her choice partly because of the regulatory and firm landscape she encountered when returning to trading in Canada.
• She discusses CFDs and spread betting as alternatives, noting that prop-firm plans and funding challenges can differ in cost and difficulty. She does not present a definitive cost or performance comparison.
• The interviewer describes scaling into a position as it moves in the trader’s favor as one possible way to build a larger trade; Rebecca does not specifically identify this as her own method.
• Rebecca recalls nearly reaching her first payout—about $8,000—but losing it after becoming greedy and distracted while in a trade.
• She emphasizes that success should not be judged by P&L alone, but also by financial flexibility and time with family. She cautions that traders may take years to become profitable and that education, assessments, and account fees can add up.

Tickers, Assets, Instruments, and Services Mentioned

• Instruments and markets: Forex, futures, CFDs, and spread betting. No specific futures contract, stock ticker, ETF, bond, cryptocurrency, or commodity is named.
• Tools and approaches: VWAP, Bookmap/order flow, 15-minute opening range, quantitative fractal strategy, TradingView, and Financial Juice.
• Trading firms and services: Tradify and Get Leveraged. Get Leveraged is promoted during a sponsor segment: the host advertises code ML05, a “turbo challenge” starting at $8.88, and access to challenges for accounts up to $150,000. These are sponsor claims, not an endorsement or performance assessment.

Disclosures and Cautions

• No explicit “not financial advice” disclaimer appears in the subtitles.
• The episode includes a Get Leveraged sponsorship and promotional offer.
• Rebecca cautions against depending on trading income for essential expenses, overspending on prop-firm accounts, trading while emotionally dysregulated, and assuming early profits mean consistent success.

Presenters and Sources

Rebecca is the interviewee, and Kunal Ramchurn is the interviewer and host. Other sources mentioned are Austin Silver (Rebecca’s earlier course educator), an unnamed Tradify coach and former fund floor manager (source of the 30% profit-risking idea), and sponsor Get Leveraged.