I blew accounts for longer than I would like to admit.

I lost about $5,000 to prop firm evaluations before anything worked. Not to one catastrophic trade, which would at least have been a story, but to the ordinary way most people lose: a strategy that changed every time it produced two losses in a row, and position sizing that made a normal losing streak fatal.

What changed was not a better indicator. It was deciding that a setup does not count as a setup until it has been logged enough times to know what it actually does. From there the rules got narrower, the size got smaller, and the account stopped dying. My first $10,000 payout came in a single month, and I have been funded at firms including FundingPips, FTMO, FundedNext, My Funded Futures since.

One model, applied across Forex, Indices, Crypto and Commodities. It reads price action and market structure rather than anything instrument-specific, which is why the same checks work on an index and on a currency pair.

The version I teach first is the 15-minute range model: a higher-timeframe bias, a marked range, a liquidity raid on the one-minute chart, and a movement candle as the trigger. Nothing gets taken until every one of those has confirmed. I wrote the whole thing up and gave it away, along with the logged results from 1,000 backtested trades, because a strategy you cannot check is not a strategy, it is a claim.

Because the part that works does not scale. Watching someone's actual trades and telling them what they keep doing wrong takes real hours, and there is a hard limit on how many people I can do that for at once while it still means anything.

So there is an application and a call before anyone pays. Both are free. If you are not right for it, I would rather say so on the call than take the money and have you find out later. What is included is written out in full here.

Beyond Journal is the trading journal I built for myself, because tracking whether I followed my own rules turned out to matter more than tracking profit. Beyond Pass is the separate service where I pass an evaluation for a trader directly. And the free resources are the written versions of what I cover on the channel, given away in full rather than teased.

StarTrading is starbeyondthesky.com: a one-to-one, application-only trading mentorship run by a single trader. It is not affiliated with any other company trading under a similar name.

If you found this through a video, the channel and the Discord are the same person writing this. If someone messages you first claiming to be me, it is not me. The only Discord account that is mine is startrading_, and the spelling is the whole security model.

The channel, the Discord and everything else are collected on the links page. To reach me directly, the contact page has the two routes that actually reach me and nothing else.