Shadowing Practice: How To Pass Prop Firm Challenges EVERY TIME - Learn English Speaking with Video

So you want to pass a funding challenge, but you're too scared to try or you keep failing.

It is a bit of a scary process to go into

and it can be very disheartening if you keep throwing away money on these funding evaluations.

But passing challenges is actually very simple and it doesn't need to be hard and stressful like you're currently making it.

So here is the five step process to passing every evaluation challenge you take without the stress, without the hardship and without the frustration.

And I'm going to be using some of the insights from the frameworks

that that my students have used to achieve over $13 million in funding so you know that this works.

All right, step number one.

The first thing that you need is a working system.

You need to have a market edge

that is going to consistently pay you enough to pass the funding challenge without breaking the risk limits.

So if you don't have a system yet, go and learn one, buy a course or go and self-teach yourself something, but that is the first thing you need.

And once you've got this system in place and once you have a trading plan, what you need to do before you even think about taking on a funding evaluation is backtest this process

because if you don't backtest your system, you really have no idea if your system makes money.

And if your system is not making money consistently, it is never going to pass you a challenge.

And even if it did, by some stroke of luck, it would never generate you profits anyway, so there'd be no point having a live account.

So if you do a year of testing on your system, yes, I know it's not the most exciting thing, but it's what separates the winners from the losers.

You now have 12 months of data to assess how profitable is your system?

What are your deepest drawdowns?

What are your odds of actually succeeding at the challenge?

And what is the likelihood that you blow a challenge up?

And if you do, what's the likelihood that next time you buy one, it's going to pass?

If you backtest this data, not only will you build confidence and knowledge and experience in trading your system, but you'll also be able to see how viable it is at passing challenges.

And if passing a challenge with this system is not viable, this data is going to allow you to see the weak points

so you can start expanding off of that and actually optimizing and refining your system into something that will help you win.

So that is step number one.

And step number two is to stop thinking about the prop firm target.

All too often, I see traders are fixated on trying to hit the target as fast as possible, as if it needs to be done today.

But think about it for a moment.

Recently, all prop firms got rid of time limits from their challenges.

There's only a few now that have time limits, and I would just advise don't go with one of them.

The major prop firms have got rid of time limits.

So there is now absolutely no reason to rush on your challenge.

This is awesome because it means you can take your time, trade your system properly, and eventually you will naturally pass.

I want you to think about this for a moment.

Does it really matter if you pass today?

If you could be funded guaranteed in the next 6 to 12 weeks, wouldn't that be good enough?

Knowing that you could be trading 100, 200 or even 500 thousand dollars before the year ends.

Is that not enough motivation to just be patient and follow out your systems as you should?

It's better to zoom out and step back for a moment

and realize almost guaranteed funding before the end of the year

is a much better option than trying to gamble your way to success and maybe ending this week with another loss, another disappointment, and another $500 to $1,000 down the drain.

A little exercise I want you to do is actually shift the evaluation.

Create your own personal evaluation.

From today onwards, your goal is not to hit that profit target, but it's to exercise brilliance in the application of your trading.

It's to take the best possible trades, manage them in the best possible way, and exit them as profitably as possible while minimizing the downside on the trades that don't work out.

If you start to focus on this as your evaluation, the money is going to naturally flow in very quickly, quicker than you may imagine right now.

So create your own mental evaluation.

You are no longer looking to make a profit target.

You are just trying to exercise brilliance and take the best possible trades

and see how quickly your profit target is achieved by simply shifting your perspective like this.

Step number three, please don't try to be smart with your risk management plan.

Now I've seen some videos that other creators have made

and they They give you silly little gimmicks around risk management that you might think Oh, wow, that's such a wise idea For example, one of them that I saw is trade your way to three percent profit by risking one percent

And when you get to three percent profit risk it all

because if it wins you'll have passed the challenge But what

if it doesn't

and you end up back to break even sure you're still break even you're not in drawdown

But this is massively disheartening And this is where people's psychology starts to break and they start to make stupid decisions

Because you might think well damn why did I take that trade?

I've just thrown away 3% I should have that back.

That's going to lead you to revenge trading.

Revenge trading is going to lead you into deeper drawdown.

That is going to lead you to more revenge trading.

Before you know it your account is gone.

Now maybe this rule made a slight bit of sense when there were time limits on the challenges but now there isn't.

There is absolutely no excuse to be doing silly things like this.

So instead what I want you to do is choose 0.5%

or 1% risk and just stick with that throughout your entire challenge.

If you do that focus on following the previous step of actually just aiming to take the best possible trades, you'll get through in no time, trust me.

And guys, I would not recommend risking more because if you do risk more and it works out, you've gained a good experience from a bad decision.

That creates bad habits.

Those bad habits will come back to bite you down the line and probably take away one, if not more, of your live accounts.

So be patient, be slow, everything will come out in time.

Step number four, quite self-explanatory, do not break your rules.

If your system suggests you trade one pair in one trading session

and your back-tested data suggests that that is a profitable way to get through challenges and earn a living, then please do not break that.

Even if for one day or a week or two weeks, no trades come around.

Remember, as we said before, the only rush is inside of your mind.

So if you be patient and just apply your system consistently, you're going to do a lot better than

if you fall into the habit of jumping to try

and find other trades elsewhere when you're feeling a little bit bored or frustrated or impatient.

Your system is in place for a reason.

Once you've backtested that system and determine that it is viable to pass challenges, do not deviate.

Don't break your rules.

And step number five is to take a step back.

I've got a funny story for you.

A couple of months back, a friend of mine was taking a funding evaluation challenge.

He sent me a message saying I've passed phase one, I'm on to phase two.

By the time I saw it an hour later, I called him up, he'd lost it.

He had his phase two login for one hour.

Okay, in that hour, he totally obliterated it and he had to start all again from scratch.

However, that is not it.

The plot thickens.

A few weeks later, he sent me another message saying I've passed phase one

and two and now I've got a live account.

By the time I'd seen this, about 45 minutes later, I called him up, guess what he said?

I've lost the account.

And do you know what the causation of this was?

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It was over excitement.

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Once you pass your first phase or once you pass your second phase, you feel invincible.

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You feel like you've just accomplished something big because you have.

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But this causes over excitement, which then causes you to throw everything away, taking silly trades because you're eager to either pass the second phase or if you've already done that,

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you're eager to get some profits locked in on your account.

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And like my friend, I've seen people obliterate funded accounts in under one hour.

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There is no reason to do this.

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So my advice to you is to take a step back after each accomplishment.

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So once you pass phase one and you get your phase two login email, don't trade it.

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Don't look at it.

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Okay.

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Celebrate for a day, a week, come back when you've internalized that success, because at this point you'll be feeling a lot more calm, relaxed, and rational, and you can get back to trading properly.

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The same goes if you've just passed your phase two and you now have your live account login.

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Give it a week.

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You don't need to trade it right now.

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It's there.

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It's safe.

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You can come back to it very soon once you've gotten used to having this

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and then you'll be able to trade it rationally with good judgment and you won't blow it up.

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And those are the five steps that you need to follow

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if you want to pass funding evaluations every single time without the stress and frustration.

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Remember, the process is actually simple.

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It could just be that you're being a little bit stupid.

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So take it slow, adopt these rules and get it done.

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I'm rooting for you and I'll see you in the next video.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How To Pass Prop Firm Challenges EVERY TIME”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: challenge, trade, pass, step, phase. This video has 124 sentences and 1772 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:21. The speaker talks fast, about 241 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
backtest noun		A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
drawdown noun		The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or utilization).
prop noun	/pɹɑp/	An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports.
viable adjective	/ˈvaɪəbəl/	Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
brilliance noun	/ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/	The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).
dishearten verb	/dɪsˈhɑɹ.tən/	To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.
obliterate verb	/əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/	To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
likelihood noun	/ˈlaɪklihʊd/	The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
distress noun	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
frustration noun	/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/	The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
profitable adjective	/ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bl̩/	Producing a profit.
eager adjective	/ˈiɡɚ/	Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
excitement noun	/ɪkˈsaɪtmənt/	The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
causation noun	/kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/	The act of causing.
deviate verb	/ˈdiː.vi.eɪt/	To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
step back verb	/stɛp ˈbæk/	To stop what one is doing and evaluate the current situation.
throw away verb		To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
come around verb	/kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/	To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
come back verb		To return to a place.
come out in verb		to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body)
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
get back to verb		Return to (an activity)

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What are your deepest drawdowns?
What are your odds of actually succeeding at the challenge?
Does it really matter if you pass today?
That's going to lead you to revenge trading.
I've got a funny story for you.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if it wins you'll have
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to achieve · used to having
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've seen · have passed · I've just thrown
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are fixated · could be funded · is achieved

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, causation /kɔˈzeɪ.ʃən/, impatient /ɪmˈpeɪʃənt/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/
Long words — get the stress right: obliterate /əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/, explanatory /ɪkˈsplæn.ə.t(ɔː.)ɹi/, internalize /ɪnˈtɝnəlaɪz/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, profitably /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like backtest, drawdown, prop.

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