FTMO is a proprietary trading firm that funds traders who prove their skill through a two-stage evaluation. The first stage, the Challenge, requires a 10% profit target while avoiding a 10% overall or 5% daily drawdown. The second, Verification, has a 5% profit target with the same strict drawdown rules. This structure is designed to rigorously test consistency and risk management. After nearly three years of consistent trading, I'm thrilled to have passed the FTMO evaluation on my first attempt and am now an FTMO-funded trader.

The purpose of these trading parameters are to test traders skills, consistency, and ability to manage risk.

Even though passing the challenge only took 1 month, it took me almost 3 years (from Feburary of 2023) to learn the skills and techniques to be able to pass. I've dedicated years of my life to case studying, tape reading, backtesting, and failing over and over again to get to where I am. I am so proud of myself that I stayed disciplined, dedicated, and ignored what others were telling me.
All of those 6 AM trading days, since I lived on the west coast, for the past three years were worth it.

Developed a full-stack solution for Array Technologies at MIT Energy and Climate Hacks, enabling optimization of CO2 emissions versus shipping costs for importing HRC steel. We used Next.js as our frontend with interactive dashboards and a Python backend. We send data from the backend to the frontend with FastAPI and learned a lot about fullstack throughout this project.

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Before I switched to trading on MT5, I used to trade on TradingView and they always had a position calculator so I never had to worry about it. However once I moved to MT5, I realized that I needed something to calculate my positions. I tried searching for tools online but they all either conerted the position sizes to lots, contracts, or just wouldn't work when I wanted to go short. Thus, I learned the basics of React by building a simple but effective and visual appealing position calculuator.

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In the summer between highschool and university, a newly farm opened in my city and they needed help hiring and managing staff. The manager put me in charge of interviewing and recruiting team members on indeed. I also moved their scheledueling and payroll system from Google sheets to Sling. I got comfortable with using sling and managed staff schedules, tracked availability, coordinated time-off requests, and handled shift changes. Furthermore, on a daily basis, I ensured that all areas of the farm had staffing, especially the area at back with mini-horse.

Throughout my last few years of highschool, I did manual labour to try to make some side income so I could buy food for whenever I went out.

After working in the industry of manual labour and trades, I've gained a much higher level of respect for those who work in this industry daily. I remember I would get so tired after a full days work and would genuineuly not be able to come to work the next day. I have no idea how people are able to do this consistently every day. Overall, after my experience in manual labour, learning how to drive a forklift, learning the different mechanics of swing and garage gates, I now have profound respect for anyone who works with in the trades industry.

As the Director of Research for this registered non-profit, I manage a team of two associates and spearhead our efforts to address the environmental impact of tire pollution. Our primary focus is developing strategic proposals to minimize the release of 6PPD-Quinone, a toxic compound derived from tire wear. To foster community awareness from the ground up, we also organize and lead educational workshops in local schools, informing elementary students about the pernicious effects of tire wear particles.

After being introduced to the financial markets through stocks and foreign exchange, I decided to dedicate my self for the foreseeable next 5-7 years and commit to trading Index CFDs on the New-York Morning session.

I was just 15 at the time, and in my head I gave myself 7 years to be profitable.
That was my goal.
To be profitable by 22.
Little did I know how much time, effort, engagement, and perseverance it requied. Just waking up and being there for the session was a challenge in of itself, and thats before you even count the emotional development trading forces upon us, and the actual learning of being profitable.

At the age of 14, I stumbled upon the world of calisthenics and film making. Although these fields were from completely different worlds, I was passionate about both of them and wanted to combine them into something of greater purpose: to inspire self improvement to our community. My friend and I spent over 10 months methodically and meticulously creating a 20 minute short film based on calisthenics, highlighting the importance of hard work, discipline and consistency. Link can be sent upon request.