Full-Time Trading Mastery

30-Month Professional Roadmap

🎯 YOUR GOAL

Full-Time Income as Professional Trader

Transform from complete beginner to consistent, profitable trader generating full-time income through disciplined execution across Forex and Cryptocurrency markets.

⚠️ NON-NEGOTIABLE FOUNDATION RULES

PHASE 1: Foundation & Market Literacy

📅 MONTHS 1-3 | Market: FOREX ONLY

Time Commitment: 2-3 Hours Daily

  • 1 hour: Structured learning
  • 1 hour: Chart time (observation only, no trading)
  • 30 min: Journaling observations

📚 Week 1-2: Absolute Basics

  • What are currency pairs, pips, lots, spreads
  • How to read candlesticks (OHLC - Open, High, Low, Close)
  • Understanding timeframes (15m, 1H, 4H, Daily)
  • Order types (market, limit, stop, stop-loss, take-profit)
📖 RESOURCES FOR WEEK 1-2:
  • Babypips.com: Complete "Pre-School" and "Grade 1" sections (Lessons 1-20)
  • YouTube: "Forex Basics" by Rayner Teo (3 video series)
  • Practice: Open TradingView free account, explore EUR/USD on different timeframes

📊 Week 3-4: Chart Structure Fundamentals

  • Identifying trends (higher highs, higher lows for uptrend)
  • Support and resistance zones (where price bounces)
  • How to draw horizontal lines properly
  • Basic market structure concepts
  • Practice: Mark 50 historical charts with S/R zones

✅ Month 3 Checkpoint

Requirements to proceed:

  • Completed 50+ demo trades with consistent rule-following
  • Can identify support/resistance on any chart within 30 seconds
  • Understand basic risk management calculations
  • Trading journal started with all 50 trades documented

📚 PHASE 1 LEARNING RESOURCES

🆓 Babypips School

FREE
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Complete beginner course. Start here!

💰 Forex Trading A-Z

$15-50
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Comprehensive Udemy course with 250k+ students

💰 REALISTIC INCOME EXPECTATIONS

Account Size Monthly 5% Monthly 10% Lifestyle
$10,000 $500 $1,000 ❌ Not livable
$25,000 $1,250 $2,500 ⚠️ Minimal
$50,000 $2,500 $5,000 ✅ Modest
$100,000 $5,000 $10,000 ✅ Comfortable
$250,000 $12,500 $25,000 ✅ Excellent

CRITICAL TRUTH: 5-10% monthly return is realistic and sustainable. Anyone promising 50-100% monthly is lying or gambling.

🚀 YOUR ACTION PLAN - THIS WEEK

If starting Monday, complete these:

  1. Choose your start date (pick a Monday)
  2. Open demo account (OANDA or IC Markets)
  3. Complete Babypips lessons 1-10
  4. Watch 10 hours of charts (just observe)
  5. Create trading journal

💎 FINAL BRUTAL TRUTHS

95% quit before Month 12 - boring consistency is the filter

Most profitable traders took 3-5 years to reach full-time

You WILL lose money in Months 7-12 - this is tuition, not failure

Discipline beats intelligence - smart traders fail, disciplined succeed

This Roadmap Works

It's boring. It's slow. It's proven.