Allen Trades

I blew up more accounts than I want to admit before any of this worked. No mentor. No shortcut. Just a chart, and years of getting it wrong until I got it right. Now it works. Trading pays me and I’ve done this for 10+ years. I’m not here to sell you a dream or a signal. I’m here to show you what actually works, because nobody showed me. Real trades. Real losses. The stuff I wish someone had told me at the start. I do this because I want you to succeed. Follow along.

Me before CPI: sitting out the print, size down, protect the account. Me at 8:30:01: 💀

I asked for the one rule you're holding yourself to this week. 100+ replies. The ones that kept showing up: • Hit the daily loss limit, done for the day • One trade a day • Size down • No revenge trades • Sit out the news Nobody said "find a better strategy." Bookmark this for the next time you're down $460 on a $500 limit.

Passing the eval: 3 days. Keeping the funded account: also 3 days. Same 3 days. Different direction 💀

Your daily loss limit is a sticky note. Down $460 on a $500 limit and suddenly every setup is an A+... If you can override it, you will. Set it on your trading platform or stop pretending you have one.

A 50K eval isn't 50K. It's $2,000 of drawdown and a rulebook. On 1 $MNQ contract, that's 1,000 points of room. On 1 $NQ, it's 100. Risk $200 a trade and you get 10 bad trades before it's over. Risk $500 and you get 4. Most accounts don't blow up because of the strategy. They blow up because of this math.

$NQ really said “let me shake everyone out first”... then sent it 1,069 points off the overnight low 💀

Funded Friday. 50K LucidPro eval. Free. To enter: - Follow @AllenTrades + @TradingLucid - Like + repost - Reply with the one rule you're holding yourself to this week Winner announced Friday, 4pm ET.

Funded Friday winner. 3 days late. My bad, chat. Winner: @ntb__0 🫡 Check your DMs. Next Funded Friday drops shortly. 🔥

Someone check if $NQ got listed on pump.fun 😭 -6% in two hours, dead cat bounce, back to the lows... Just waiting for the dev to rug the rest.

Checked the heatmap at lunch. Should not have checked the heatmap at lunch 💀 $AMD -15%. $SNDK -18%. $WDC -16.7%. $APP still up 29% like nothing is happening...

$NQ red open. Chips got hit the hardest: - $AMD -11.0% - $SNDK -12.0% - $WDC -10.6% - $QCOM -9.8% - $ARM -9.0% - $MU -8.3% Cyber too. $CRWD -9.8%, $PANW -9.1%. Green is $COST, $WMT and $AAPL. Money went defensive fast.

And $AMD said hold my beer 💀 -10.6%. $477 premarket to $435 by 09:40.

$TSLA opened and immediately chose violence 💀 $374 to $356 in 12 minutes. Whoever bought the 9:30 dip... you good?

Stopped out by one tick. Then it ran 40 points without you. Every trader has this trade in their journal. What it taught me: ✅ The stop was fine ✅ The setup was fine ✅ Being right and getting paid are two different things Size down until one tick can't ruin your morning.

$NQ dropped to a 3-month low overnight on the midterm results and fully recovered by the open. If you were watching the overnight session, you saw a clean example of why the first reaction to big news is often a poor guide. As early counts came in, $NQ fell to its lowest level since late July. Within hours it had recovered roughly 930 points. Dow futures went from red to more than 1,000 points up before the open. A few takeaways: - Overnight liquidity is thin. Headlines move price further than they would during the cash session. - The index headline hides rotation. $ES, $NQ and $YM told three different stories today, and $CL and $GC moved in opposite directions. - Event risk is a sizing problem before it’s a setup problem. A swing of 900+ points will take out a normal stop with no regard for your plan. - Waiting is a position. Marking the overnight high and low and letting the cash open confirm direction would have kept many people out of the panic. How do you handle overnight event risk? Do you flatten before big releases, size down, or hold through?