Breaking Down the Strategy Behind My $75,000 Month

Summary

The presenter describes a scenario-based intraday futures strategy focused on NQ and ES. Rather than entering with a fixed bullish or bearish bias, he maps possible buy and sell scenarios before the open, waits for price to reach areas of interest, and looks for entry confirmation. He says the approach is designed to reduce overtrading and oversized positions.

The session includes his account of a profitable trading day. The reported results are self-reported and not independently verified.

Instruments, markets, and tools

• NQ: Nasdaq futures; the main instrument discussed.
• ES: S&P 500 futures; used alongside NQ to compare price action, liquidity, and divergence.
• MNQ: Micro Nasdaq futures; the presenter says he prefers these to NQ because they allow smaller sizing and partial exits.
• WealthCharts: Charting platform hosting the presenter’s P2P algorithm/indicator.
• MOT Basic Orbit: An opening-range/orbit indicator. The presenter treats its midline as the range midpoint.
• Other chart references: Fibonacci levels, liquidity zones, fair value gaps (FVGs), and inverse FVGs. The presenter says the P2P indicator draws its Fibonacci levels automatically rather than by hand.

Trading framework

• Prepare before the open: He says he typically reviews the market around 9:15 a.m. Eastern, noting overnight moves and marking Asian-session and London-session highs and lows, as well as the prior-day low.
• Build scenarios, not a fixed bias: Plan possible long and short trades at predefined levels. If a setup does not occur, wait rather than forcing a trade.
• Use confluence: Combine areas of interest—such as Fibonacci levels, orbit levels, liquidity, prior levels, and psychological price levels—with entry criteria. He says he wants at least three or four reasons to enter.
• Wait for confirmation: Examples include a breakout and retest, a one-minute structure break, or an inverse FVG. He stresses that an indicator signal or an FVG alone is not an automatic entry.
• Compare NQ and ES: He looks for divergence or differing liquidity behavior between the two markets. In his example, NQ was making lows while ES remained above its orbit midline; he interpreted that as support for a possible NQ long.
• Use Fibonacci selectively: He focuses on 0, 0.236, 0.786, and 1 to limit chart clutter. He describes the 0.786 area as the range’s “discount” side and the upper range as “premium.” He switches between Fibonacci sets as the relevant range changes.
• Enter on a lower timeframe: He reviews the 4-hour, 1-hour, 30-minute, 15-minute, 5-minute, and 1-minute charts, but says entries are based on the 1-minute chart. His rationale is that an early, tighter entry can offer a smaller stop and greater potential reward if the move continues on higher timeframes.
• Set stops at structural invalidation: The stop should be placed where the trade thesis is invalidated, not at an arbitrary preferred distance. Adjust contract size to fit the stop distance and a preset dollar risk.
• Take profits at levels and manage runners: He says he may take partial profits at successive areas of interest, move remaining risk toward breakeven, or trail behind structure. He cautions that sudden large candles can make trailing difficult.
• Stop when the setup is no longer compelling: He describes looking for “one-and-done” or A+ setups and says he was willing to stop trading after becoming substantially profitable.

Reported market activity and performance

• He says NQ fell approximately 300–400 points overnight from the Asian to London sessions.
• In one early trade, he describes a potential 60-point target against a 3-point stop, which he characterizes as about 1:20 risk/reward. He calls it a lower-quality, minimal-risk entry rather than an A+ setup.
• He says he made several attempts around a level, breaking even three times before a later entry. He then describes a long trade targeting roughly 200 points, with the move taking about 35–45 minutes.
• He reports that the day’s profit-and-loss total was more than $58,000 across funded accounts. He also says he made about $2,000 per account while copy trading across 30 accounts.
• As scaling examples, he says a $400 result on one account could amount to $12,000 across 30 accounts; he also gives larger multi-account examples. These are illustrative claims, and some of the arithmetic and units in the transcript are unclear.
• He cites a possible 83% likelihood that certain liquidity areas will be reached or affected, without providing supporting data.
• He describes a move from roughly $7,000 in floating profit to $20,000 in profit across accounts after choosing to hold to his analysis.

Risk management and cautions

• On a $50,000 account, he says he typically risks about $250 per trade. Given a stated $2,000 maximum loss, that would allow about eight losses at that risk level; risking $500 would allow about four.
• Contract size should vary with the structural stop distance; he says he does not use a fixed number of contracts for every trade.
• He repeatedly warns against overtrading and oversizing. He says smaller size, fewer trades, patience, and focusing on rules helped his consistency.
• He says he prefers MNQ to NQ because micros make it easier to scale out. He cautions that trading multiple NQ contracts can create excessive risk, particularly in prop-firm accounts.
• He notes that copy trading can cause a cascading loss: if the lead account is lost, the linked accounts can be lost as well.
• He recommends scaling across accounts only after being able to get paid from an account, using withdrawals to fund additional accounts. This is his personal approach, not a guarantee of results.
• He advises separating decision-making from the dollar amount, following preset rules, and avoiding premature exits driven by fear of losing open profits.
• He says the indicator is available through WealthCharts and refers viewers to a free trial and training material. These are promotional references, not performance evidence.

Disclosures

The presenter frames the material as his own strategy and encourages viewers to find an approach that fits them. No explicit “not financial advice” disclaimer appears in the provided subtitles.

Presenters and sources

The main presenter is TheTradingLama, also addressed as “Lamo.” He references Big Daddy Max as a trading mentor and co-host of the morning show, and Rob in connection with porting the indicator to WealthCharts.

Other sources and platforms mentioned include P2P, Max Options Trading, and WealthCharts.