Hey everyone, name's Mike. I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL and am just beginning to be a beginner lol. I've been lurking the last couple of days while I've been searching for some way to responsibly break into trading. It seems to be something I think I'd enjoy. I hope it can be something that can help me sooner be able to buy a house with my fiance down here, and progress to having more financial freedom. Ever since i was a kid I've been into tracking sports data and I'm really not sure why I haven't looked at what I can do with stocks before. I want to start by saying, it's apparent that Kyle's mindset and patient style of teaching is refreshing and stands out from all the other "experts" or various strategies or schemes out there. Both he and Ryan really seem to care about the community here, and you all seem to really care about each other's success as well. So I'm very excited to be here. I'm a few videos into the course and am resisting wanting to ask all of the questions on my mind until I at least complete the course lol, but one thing I do want to ask is... I see there's over 24k members here, and I believe I remember hearing Kyle say over 200 of yall became funded traders last year (I didnt even know what that was...) Now obviously, many of those are people looking for a get rich quick scheme or simply dont have the patience to learn, but how much of that is that it's something that requires more time or something more than most are able to dedicate? I work as a manager for a wholesale retail company, and I'm sure most of you have full time jobs, kids or various commitments. So I'm curious what's holding some more back than others. Looking forward to learning with yall

Hope you all have a meaningful day with the people you care about today!

Looking forward to seeing what I can learn. Newbie here and have only dabbled a bit with trading. Hope to learn enough to where I can get good enough to have some extra cash.

Greetings, fellow entrepreneurs! Let me share my journey over the past two years, and the final sprint that saw me cross the finish line. I started day trading futures using prop firms, two years ago after joining the InvestCEO group, called Next Door Trader back then. I quickly learnt the markets, price action, and the tech tools we have available to us. However, I failed to grasp emotional control and discipline, which is perhaps the hardest bit. By the end of the first year, I worked on that personal development enough to clear a few EA (evaluation) accounts. But I was still blowing Performance Accounts with no payout in sight. I was trading the iterations of the groups strategy, which improved and eventually became the "Superman" and "Jedi" style of trading. The newer strategies worked better, passing EAs more easily, but still stalling on my PAs. Towards July of '24, I became the developer of InvestCEO's Superman Indicator. At that point I realised that I absolutely must set the best example, if I am to be this strategy's torch-bearer. And so I did. Whilst developing it, I discovered accidentally that the indicator tends to "overlap" supply and demand zones, making them appear brighter. As it turned out, the brighter the zone, the more probable a win. Sure as eggs, it sustained those higher win rates over time, and I passed multiple EAs using this Superman 'brightness' technique. Now with adequate discipline, the final test was whether I could take one of those new PAs to full payout threshold, from $50,000 to $52,600 on the Apex accounts, using nothing but the Superman Indicator. I did, and it only took 60 days to reach it. My account balances and trading history are now concrete proof that through emotional control, a good indicator, and plenty of logging, any of us can take a new EA, pass it, and get to the first of many payouts! Here's my first approved payout, and if anyone is wondering about the brightness levels I mentioned, do have a peek at my Superman screenshot below. Happy trading, and we'll see you up in the clouds!