The Glassy Edge

I TURNED $3M IN FUNDED ACCOUNTS INTO $43K IN P&L. THEN I FROZE.

I spent most of 2024 passing prop firm evaluations — Apex Trader Funding, Take Profit Trader, and Tradeify. By the end of the year I had 20 funded accounts totaling roughly $3M in firm capital. That number needs context: firm capital under evaluation rules is not my personal money. I earned the right to trade it. The accountability is real, the drawdown limits are real, and the cost of breaking them is real — I blew 22 funded accounts getting here. The account numbers prove it. That’s not something I’m hiding.

By April 2025 I had turned that portfolio into $43,424 in cumulative P&L and $10,000+in verified payouts. I was on a genuine run. Then I had a few bad days — and I froze. Not blown up. Just sideways. The fear of giving back what I’d built was louder than the signal. For over a year my equity curve went flat: not from bad trades, but from not taking trades with conviction. The same caution that protected the accounts was quietly bleeding them.

I knew the problem wasn’t strategy. It was behavioral — patterns I couldn’t see clearly from inside my own head. So I built Performance Lab: a trading analytics system that measures those leaks in real trades, correlates behavior with P&L, and flags rule violations inside NinjaTrader before I make them. I built it for myself. The Glassy Edge is the live documentation of using it to find my edge again.

The Honest Numbers

Peak Cumulative P&L$43,424

Verified Payouts$10,000+

Active Funded Accounts20

Bench Evals Ready6

Blown Funded Accounts22

→ Funded = firm capital under evaluation rules, not personal capital. Peak P&L and payouts from prop firm accounts. Results are my own and not typical.

The framework

THE THREE PILLARS.

PSYCHOLOGY

Trading discipline you can score, not just feel. I built Performance Lab to measure the leaks in my own accounts — revenge sizing, tilt, rule-adherence, early exits — and track whether they're actually improving.

PROP FIRM

Passing evaluations and keeping funded accounts alive. I've had 42 funded accounts issued and blown 22 of them — the account numbers don't lie. The ones that survived taught me what actually kills funded accounts.

ALGO

Backtesting and forward-testing honestly, and building signals you can trust — the under-taught side of the craft.

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