Trading Cup winners use a two-stage process with dramatically higher risk on the final account that you can't replicate in real trading. Success requires years of learning, side income to build capital, and disciplined scaling, not treating contest returns like a salary.
If you go to university, you cannot expect a degree after 6 months. Phase 1 is to learn, then to work to scale capital. This is what they don't like, okay? I did freelancing, I did night shift, I did everything. I started and pulling all my money, lowering the expense that I had to build capital to do it and to have the right expectation. Another thing I fight is they take my performance in the World Trading Cup and they say, okay, let me calculate. I start with $10,000, I go compounding, I make 500% per year. Because they sum all them out, for years I'm a millionaire. This is what they think and they do. They think that these performances are replicable every single quarter and that they are sustainable. But I explained that for the World Trading Cup, I used first a validation phase where I validate the edge on the 3 accounts, and then I executed and deployed maximum risk on the challenge account. This one you cannot do in the personal. And more than this, these performances are done from 4 or 5 times more risk than the personal account.
