From McDonald's fryers to funded trader in under 12 months.

Hey Trader,

A year ago, TraderMubz was working the fryers at McDonald's.

4am wake-ups. 5am starts. Nine-hour shifts on weekends. Minimum wage. The kind of job that wears you down while you're still figuring out what you actually want to do with your life.

He was 17. And he was trading on the side.

The grind nobody talks about
While his mates were sleeping, Mubz was studying charts. While he was flipping burgers, he was thinking about setups. He saved everything he could. Built up 450K in evaluation accounts across multiple firms.

Then he passed his first funded account. With us.

That was his first ever payout. The moment it hit, he knew. He quit McDonald's the next week.

The part most traders skip over
Here's what Mubz didn't do: pretend it was easy.

The day after his first payout, he bought 800K in funded accounts. He was scaling. He was hungry. He was going to make it.

Then he blew them all.

"You have to hit rock bottom," he told us. "So you know you can only go up from here. You have to lose everything while also having a little bit of success at the start. The success at the start gives you that glimpse of hope that you can actually achieve it later on."

He calls it the cannon event. Every trader has one. The moment you lose everything and have to decide whether you're done or whether you're just getting started.

Mubz got back up. Passed more accounts. Took more payouts. Built it back properly.

One year later
He's been trading for 12 months. He's taken multiple payouts. He's not flipping burgers anymore.

When we asked him what's next, he didn't hesitate:
"I just want to scale. I want to be the very best at what I do. I want to have a certain level of success that's disturbing to some people."

What he learned
A few things stood out from our conversation:

On psychology: 
"A lot of people use psychology as a way to cope. They say 'my psychology is the reason I failed.' But there's other reasons that affect your psychology. If your finances aren't right, that's why you're blowing accounts. It's not just psychology - you've got to get to the root of the problem."

On losing: 
"You've got to accept that you're going to lose. So you can actually take the wins as well."

On direction: 
"Direction is so important. It gives you not only a purpose, but something to look forward to every day."

On ego: 
"When you're profitable, it gives you an ego. Then the markets humble that ego. That's where you lose accounts. It's not because you're a bad trader. Everyone has bad periods."

The bottom line
Mubz was 17, working minimum wage, getting four hours sleep, and trading on the side.

One year later, he's funded, profitable, and building something real.
He's not special. He's not lucky. He just decided what he wanted and refused to quit when it got hard.

Your cannon event might be ahead of you. Or maybe you're in the middle of it right now. Either way - the traders who make it aren't the ones who avoid the blow-ups. They're the ones who get back up afterwards.

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Trade Smart, 
The QT Team

P.S. "You've got to be a little bit delusional to try and make it. You see everyone doing different things. You've got to focus on what you have to do. I know what I'm doing and I know what I have to do. So I'm going to get it done." - TraderMubz

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