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My Trading Journey
The story behind FunTrades, told plainly: how it started in crypto, why it moved to gold futures, where the MIDAS model came from, and why the journal stays public and honest. Not a corporate “about” page; the real account.
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Where it started
It started in 2022 with crypto futures, and it started the way it does for almost everyone: I blew a few accounts and gave back a couple thousand learning the hard lessons. That same year, flipping NFTs actually went well and put about 7k in the bank, which kept me in the game. After a quiet stretch I came back to crypto in 2023, treading water for a while, until I started buying low-cap coins that summer and turned 5k into 50k by March 2024. Then the market rolled over, the easy moves dried up, and I went looking for something with more structure.
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The shift to futures
Futures and prop trading were that something. In the summer of 2024 I bought my first Apex accounts and lost every one of them. No plan, no edge, just clicking. I stepped away, came back in February 2025, and did much the same: I'd pass an eval, then lose the funded account almost as fast as I earned it. But somewhere in the summer of 2025 it started to turn. The accounts survived longer and longer, even without a real system. It was pure observation. In November 2025 I took my first payout. Still no model; just an eye that was finally learning to read the chart.
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Why MIDAS
That reading is where MIDAS came from. I kept noticing how gold moved, leaning on the Fibonacci retracement levels I'd trusted since my crypto days, and in January 2026 I finally turned the observations into a model. I backtested it obsessively, noting everything: where the win rate was best, which confluences mattered, what risk-to-reward held up, which entry level actually filled. The numbers said it worked. I started forward-testing mid-January, passed my first Lucid eval clean, and took a payout from the funded account almost immediately. Then I stacked more accounts, passed every eval, and started copy-trading the funded ones, and it held.
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Why public, why honest
That was the moment I decided to do it in the open. I started posting everything on X (the trades, the wins, the losses), not as a product but as a personal journal to keep myself accountable. There's nothing to sell here and no signals to follow. Just a real record of a real account, published win or lose, so the results have to speak for themselves.