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

PHASE 1.5: The Data Collection Phase

📅 MONTHS 4-5 | Backtesting ONLY (No Demo Yet)

The "Professional Filter"

Most traders skip this and fail in Demo. Before you trade live markets (even with fake money), you must prove your strategy works in the past.

🧪 Step 1: The "Sniper" Rule

  • Pick ONE single setup (e.g., "Trend Pullback to 61.8 Fib").
  • Do not combine strategies. Master one kick 10,000 times.

🕰️ Step 2: The Time Machine

  • Open EUR/USD (or your chosen pair).
  • Scroll back to January 1st, 2024.
  • Hide the future candles (Replay mode or paper over right side of screen).

📝 Step 3: The 50-Trade Test

  • Find 50 examples of your setup in the past data.
  • Log them: Did it win? Did it lose?
  • Calculate: If you took every trade, would you be profitable?
  • Rule: If you aren't profitable in backtesting, you won't be in real life. Tweak the rules and try again.

💰 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. Bookmark ForexFactory.com (Check for Red Folders)
  3. Open TradingView and practice finding "Red Folder" days on the chart
  4. Complete Babypips lessons 1-10
  5. Select ONE setup to focus on for Phase 1.5

💎 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.