Daniel Holmes: How to Pass Prop Challenges in 2 Days & Scale to Six Figures

Daniel Holmes shares his aggressive 2-day prop firm passing strategy, how he risks the entire account on trade one, and his 15-minute Gold breakout setup.

Full episode + show notes:

https://tradingnut.com/daniel-holmes/

Key moments

- [01:50] At 29, depressed and broke, I literally typed 'top earning jobs in the world' into Google and found trading.

- [07:13] Adding indicators like EMAs and Bollinger Bands threw away two years of my progress.

- [09:34] Longevity in the game is key; if you show up with intent to do better than yesterday, you will improve.

- [10:53] With prop trading, blowing accounts is just part of the cycle to get to the payouts.

- [12:30] Experience is the only thing that actually forces you to stick to your trading rules.

- [16:19] If what you anticipated to happen doesn't happen, you are wrong—start managing the trade immediately.

- [18:11] Expect the worst on every trade. The market owes you nothing.

- [25:53] Prop firm trading is a cycle of blowing accounts, getting funded, getting a payout, and repeating.