Interview With Semi, A $60K Funded Trader Who Got Paid 7 Times

We spoke with Semi about his trading plan, insights, and lessons gained while trading in the markets and our platform as a funded trader.

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Semi’s $60K High-stakes Account – Phase One

Semi’s $60K High-stakes Account – Phase Two

Tell us a little bit about you.

I’m Semi. I consider myself a very disciplined person, as I spent most of my years swimming professionally. I nowadays spend most of my time imroving my trading and doing other sports.

How long have you been trading?

I am a full-time trader, and I started 1.5 years ago.

Briefly describe your Trading Plan and how it contributes to your success.

My trading plan is to determine a higher time frame trend and to get in sync with it in the lower time frame with strict risk management.

Please share with us a challenge you faced in your trading career and how you overcame it.

My biggest challenge was to be able to stay stable mentally when I was in a drawdown. When I am in a drawdown, I lower the risk and imagine myself as not in a drawdown to eliminate the negative emotions.

How did you adjust risk management to your trading personality?

Basically a lot of trials and errors. I tried to find the sweet spot in terms of risk percentage as it affects psychology very much, in my opinion.

Describe a key moment in your trading career

The key moment was to realize that if I stick to my risk management, I will always be able to make money, even if I am on a losing streak. It was a very relieving thought for me in terms of taking every clear setup that I see.

How long does it take to become a consistent trader, and what aspects did you change that helped you become consistent?

After learning trading for 14 months, I started trading and became consistent by sticking to my risk management.

What is your mental/psychological strength, and how did you develop it?

My biggest mental strength comes from the fact that I think I am very good at reading price action. Because of that, when I make a mistake in my trading, I don’t get demotivated. I only try to learn from the mistakes.

What was your strategy to successfully pass The5ers’ evaluation?

Trend following strategy incorporating higher time frame

How is trading for The5ers different from trading by yourself?

The5ers allowed me to trade bigger capital and allowed me to trade with brokers that provided a very tight spread.

What would you recommend to someone who is just starting with us?

I would say that risk management and sticking to a plan is very important, and also, every mistake is a teacher to learn from. If one constantly learns from mistakes and improves in all areas of trading sooner or later will succeed.

Please share online resources that were/are significant in your trading development

I have learned how to trade from ICT.

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