Quick one — does the algo keep running if my laptop's off? 😅
My story
The whole
honest story.
About five years ago, I Googled one thing.
I fell down a rabbit hole. Ended up on Reddit. And almost everyone said the same thing. Trading.
So I thought, alright. Let's try it. The work I was doing at the time just wasn't pushing me anymore. I needed something that would actually challenge me. Trading felt like that thing.
I found a German trader, Willem Weise, bought his course, and joined his community to learn to trade by hand. While I was in there, I built a free trading journal in Notion for the whole community. Just because I saw the need for it.
And while I was building that, I noticed something. There was so much potential in automating this. People were doing it by hand. Emotionally. Inconsistently. There had to be a better way.
So I bought my first bot. MT5, from someone in the community. Then I spent weeks, honestly weeks, figuring out the right settings. Testing, tweaking, adjusting. And then it started working. Actually profitable, for a few weeks straight.
Then Trump got elected.
And my profits were gone. Overnight.
But I'd seen it work. That was the moment it clicked: manual trading wasn't for me. Too emotional. And I was travelling full time, dealing with personal stuff. I couldn't sit at a screen all day. I needed something that ran without me.
That's when I found this. Algorithmic trading on prop firms. The algo does the work. The prop firm provides the capital. I just let it run.
And once it's set up and working, it genuinely runs itself. It would have taken me far less time if someone had just laid it all out clearly from the start.
So that's what I'm doing here.