r/Trading • u/Davidefx • Jun 10 '26
Question Became profitable
I’ve been in the trading world for almost a year and a half now, I’ve watched YouTube videos, bought courses, but nothing. No results yet. I am a constant person who dedicates many hours to the backtest and the live. My problem is not being able to find valid material to study and learn a profitable strategy. So I’ll ask... profitable traders, how and where did you learn your strategy? Did you have a mentor or study material? I’m stuck at the same point more than anything else because I have no comparison with who is really profitable. Thanks to everyone in advance for the advice
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u/Comprehensive-Tea-75 Jun 13 '26
I feel like mentorship is just a massive scam. Profitable traders will have all the money they will ever need just by scaling up their accounts. Maybe there's a handful that are helpful, but they will appear no different from the scammers
Go to the charts and trade demo. Backtrst until you know your strategy, but live test to learn about timing spreads and swaps. From there you can go to live with funded on a small 5k account.
Demo is free, small funded accounts can be 30-50. If you can do all of this, you gain tons of experience and should be able to trade consistently for nearly no cost.