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Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m originally from Pakistan and moved to the UK to pursue my goals. By profession, I’m an engineer with degrees in Mechanical and Design Engineering, but my real passion has always been trading. I worked different jobs to fund my trading journey and spent countless hours studying and developing my own concepts. For me, trading isn’t just about making money; it’s something I truly enjoy and feel deeply connected to.
How long have you been trading?
I have been trading for 4 years.
Briefly describe your Trading Plan and how it contributes to your success.
Share with us a challenge you faced in your trading career and how you overcame it?
The biggest challenge I faced was figuring out what’s real and what’s not in this industry. When I first started, I consumed a lot of information from social media, YouTube, Instagram—everywhere—and it took me a while to understand that most of it was just noise. So many people make trading look easy, but in reality, it’s one of the most mentally challenging professions out there.
To overcome that, I went back to basics. I started following and studying real traders and hedge fund professionals who have spent decades in the markets. I listened to their interviews, read their books, and tried to understand the logic behind their words. Every time they spoke, I realized how much depth there was in every sentence. That experience grounded me and helped me build my own realistic expectations.
Another major challenge was funding. Like many traders, I didn’t have enough capital in the beginning, and that was frustrating. But I found my solution in prop firms like The5ers. They gave me a platform to prove my skills without risking personal capital, and that really changed the trajectory of my career.
What is your mental/psychological strength, and how did you develop it?
If I had to describe my psychological strength in one word, it would be adaptability. Trading teaches you a lot about yourself, and one of the hardest lessons I had to learn was that you can’t simply “force” your psychology to change overnight. For me, the biggest struggle was dealing with drawdowns—seeing trades go against me would completely throw me off emotionally.
At one point, I realized that instead of trying to become someone I wasn’t—a trader who can calmly watch big drawdowns without blinking—I needed to evolve my strategy to fit who I am. I adjusted my system so that I would face less emotional pressure, keeping my stop losses tighter and focusing on setups that provided early confirmation rather than deep pullbacks.
Over time, this allowed me to build emotional stability through experience rather than willpower. Every trade became an opportunity to study how my mind reacted. I wrote things down, noticed recurring fears, and slowly started to see them lose their power over me. Now, I’m at a point where losses don’t define me and wins don’t excite me too much either. It’s just execution, and that emotional neutrality came from years of awareness, adaptation, and repetition.
Describe a key moment in your trading career.
A key turning point came when I sat down one day and really analyzed my numbers. I had already lost a lot of money by that time—not a huge amount in absolute terms, but a lot for where I was in life. I went through all my trades, calculated the results, and realized that trading isn’t about being right all the time.
That’s when I discovered the real meaning of probabilities. I realized that even with just a 50% win rate, if my trades had a 1:2 risk-to-reward ratio, I could be a very successful trader. That completely changed the way I approached the markets. It wasn’t about predicting every move anymore; it was about consistency and discipline.
That simple realisation—that you can be profitable even when you lose half the time—was one of the most freeing and defining moments of my career.
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