The night I sat at 4.8% down, with 0.2 to spare
“I wouldn't tell anyone to do what I did. Part of why that night worked out was luck.”
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Key Takeaways
- Trader faced a 4.8% drawdown, close to the 5% limit.
- He held a short Bitcoin position for over 18 hours.
- He plans to reduce position size to manage risk better.
- Early Bird offer: 20% Fee Credit on non-Lite challenges.
| Who he is | He is thirty-two, works as a dispatcher at a logistics firm, and trades after hours. Five years in spot, two in perps, and the pace has always been slow — some months he opens fewer than ten positions. His method is conservative to the point of being stubborn: Bitcoin only, short only, and once an order is live he is not allowed to touch the parameters. He is the first to say none of that came from insight. It is what three failed challenges left him with. This was his fourth attempt. He opened exactly one position and held it for a little over eighteen hours. At its worst the floating loss sat at 4.8% of the account, two tenths of a point from the 5% line. He didn't add and he didn't cut. |
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| Interview | |
| How did you hear about this? | A guy I've followed for a while mentioned it. I can't say for sure whether he was paid to, but he posted his own account screenshot along with it, and the numbers didn't look made up. So I went and looked. |
| Had you tried this kind of evaluation before? | Three times. Failed all three. Two on drawdown, one because the clock ran out before I hit target. My problem has never been making money. It's keeping the drawdown in line. |
| How do you normally trade? | Bitcoin, and short, basically. That isn't a strategy I worked out — it's what losing taught me. I can't hold a long. It ticks up and I want out; it dips and I want to add. Shorting keeps me calmer, probably because I go in assuming I'm wrong, so I size small. |
| What was the case for that short on the 16th? | The move up had been too clean. Several days without a pullback while volume kept sliding. I've seen that divergence a few times and it usually doesn't hold. Just after eleven in the morning I shorted at 64,100, five times leverage, four thousand of margin. Looking at it now, that size was too heavy. |
| What did price do after you were in? | It didn't drop. It pushed up first. The floating loss got to about two hundred and forty dollars — 4.8% of the account. My line is 5%. A little further up and that would have been the end of it. |
| What did you do that night? | Nothing, and that's the point. Didn't add, didn't cut. Not because I'm calm about it. I barely slept. Picked up the phone every twenty minutes, looked, put it down. Around two in the morning I seriously considered cutting half to save something. The reason I didn't is a rule I keep: once an order is live, the parameters don't change. That rule cost me money to learn. My usual way of dying is moving the stop back, and once you've moved it once you'll move it again. |
| When did it turn? And the payout? | Early on the 17th. Price started coming down and ran to 62,795. I closed just before six in the morning. Gross was 408, minus a bit over ten in costs, so 397.83 landed. For the payout I filled in the address and it arrived the next day. Nobody came asking me for anything. |
| Would you tell other people to trade this way? | No. Twelve points of drawdown — in a slightly nastier tape I'd have been out, and part of getting through was luck. What actually needs fixing is the size. Four thousand on one position left me no room to be wrong. |
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| Afterword | I asked him what he'd change next time. Size, he said: split that four thousand across two or three entries and get the 4.8% down under 2%. “I know some people will read this and think holding was the right call,” he said. “But if I'd cut that night nobody would be interviewing me, and I'm clear-eyed about that. So what I'm describing isn't how to sit through it. It's how to not have to.” |
| Current offer | |
| His next attempt starts from a lower bar | The Early Bird window closes 11 September, 23:59 (UTC+0). Buy any non-Lite challenge for the first time during that window and 20% of what you actually paid comes back to you as Fee Credit. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to reserve — it is applied on the order itself. Manual trading and AI Agent trading are both on the table. Details: https://aixfunded.com/en/earlybird |