Hello I'm Alejandro, I'm from Barcelona and what I do for a living is I do Day Charter
on recreational boats, and also I teach for getting the licenses to drive boats here in Spain.
I spend my free time mainly going to the gym, surfing, any kind of sport outside, outdoors.
I spend time with my couple, with my pets, and that's how I enjoy my free time.
I started trading about seven years ago.
It was thanks to a friend that used to work in a brokerage firm, so he showed me the charts,
how he placed trades and some indicators, and then I got really curious about it,
and I started checking on internet how this worked, indicators, how to open accounts, etc.
For the first four years I wasn't really committed to it.
I was trading for a while, stopping it, losing a small account, opening a small account again
but for the last three years, I dedicated completely to studying charts on a daily basis.
Following the news, doing real courses, not just what I could read on the internet
and then I was trading mainly on Forex and CFDs, and for the last year, I also started trading
on futures, on the ES and the CL.
Well, so I mainly have two strategies: one is like swing trading,
using Wyckoff and Elliot waves for my swing strategies, that I apply into CFDs and Forex
and then, now I'm focusing more on trading futures, and for that, I mainly use Price Action, Order Flow
and Volume Vertical and Horizontal.
My best success in trading, I think, has been consistency.
For the last two and a half years, I've averaged six percent monthly on profitability,
and I think I'm really proud of that, and the worst trade that I've done
probably is thinking that it was right. When my trade was still negative, I opened
another trade, it went wrong again, and I kept opening until I finally lost five grand in a day.
I decided to start with the Gauntlet Mini first because
I knew about it thanks to my mentor in the course that I did, to trade using Order Flow
he explained me about these companies that you can get funded by,
and then I was checking all of them, the top five, let's say, on group reviews and
the most famous ones, Earn2Trade was one of them, and finally I saw the rules were super clear.
The reviews also were good and also the fact that you are allowed to operate during news.
Not because I do trade during the release of the news, but because sometimes news that is
not very high on volatility, and it's not really gonna affect my trading, maybe I already have one
trade open, and if that rule was applied I would have to close my trade, even if the news
wouldn't affect me, so for me that was also a strong point to decide
opening with the Gauntlet Mini. So when I started, obviously I used
the Gauntlet at first to start practicing, but to do it very seriously.
Like, it's not the same if you just put into practice what you've learned in a course,
into a demo account, so for me it was doing kind of a demo, but were my way more seriously.
And at first it, was complicated for me to adapt the number of contracts that I was opening to the
real balance of the account and the drawdown that was allowed. So at first I had to learn that, and once
I started trading way more slowly, just when opening just one contract for a long while, then
mistakes were fixed, so I learned that overall in the beginning you don't have to rush, you have to
go beyond the maximum drawdown, and after that you can accept more risks.
So, on the last days of my evaluation, I felt way more relaxed after
having a profit higher than the drawdown. That wasn't a big change for me, and after that I
was just expecting or waiting for the right moment to open the trade. I was able to
leave them open longer and wait for a bigger profit per trade and that made me
fulfill the the evaluation and succeed in the 15 days.
So mainly my advice is, don't risk too much overall at first, don't rush it, and wait for the
real opportunities. If one trade didn't enter per one or two ticks, and then you realize it was a
good one, just wait for the next one, don't rush in opening or following the price, because then it's
going to go wrong, and I think that's it. Basically, take it slowly for the first day, and once you've
got a profit higher than the drawdown, you can start using the progression ladder and opening more contracts.
Honestly, I have a very positive review for Earn2Trade.
Customer service is always available, they are really clear on the replies, the rules are excellent
no weird rules behind, you know, behind the lines, and the whole process
when you succeed on the Gauntlet Mini it's transparent, honest, you sign the documents
and you open the real account straight away so everything is completely fine.