Daniel Holmes: How to Pass Prop Challenges in 2 Days & Scale to Six Figures

Daniel Holmes shares his aggressive 2-day prop firm passing strategy, how he risks the entire account on trade one, and his 15-minute Gold breakout setup.

Full episode + show notes:
https://tradingnut.com/daniel-holmes/

Key moments
- [01:50] At 29, depressed and broke, I literally typed 'top earning jobs in the world' into Google and found trading.
- [07:13] Adding indicators like EMAs and Bollinger Bands threw away two years of my progress.
- [09:34] Longevity in the game is key; if you show up with intent to do better than yesterday, you will improve.
- [10:53] With prop trading, blowing accounts is just part of the cycle to get to the payouts.
- [12:30] Experience is the only thing that actually forces you to stick to your trading rules.
- [16:19] If what you anticipated to happen doesn't happen, you are wrong—start managing the trade immediately.
- [18:11] Expect the worst on every trade. The market owes you nothing.
- [25:53] Prop firm trading is a cycle of blowing accounts, getting funded, getting a payout, and repeating.
- [28:28] On a 50K Topstep challenge, I will risk the entire account on the first trade to make 50% in one day.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tES44PnKtws

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