From Rock Bottom to the Biggest Name in Prop Trading | Funded Ep. 7

From Rock Bottom to the Biggest Name in Prop Trading | Funded Ep. 7

Big Daddy Max is the loudest voice in trading. But most people don't know the rest of the story. The Army paratrooper who cried on his brother's kitchen floor the week he got out. The salesman who did $2.3 million his first year. The options gambler who made a million and lost it. The man whose insurance brokerage collapsed in a single email and left him $400,000 in debt. And then the note he wrote on the back of his daughter's photo that changed everything. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Big Daddy Max - CEO of the Max Options Trading Network, 75,000-member Discord, and the loudest voice in this entire space - for the first real conversation about who he actually is behind the reaction videos. Max breaks down how he lost $139,000 in three hours on a Costco credit spread, how he threw the biggest in-person futures prop event in history in four months with a hotel bill close to a million dollars, and why he gave a nine-months-pregnant woman fleeing her abusive husband a cash account instead of money - and watched her turn it into $60,000. He gets into his ABCD framework, why he hasn't missed a day of posting in seven years, and what it looks like to build everything from zero twice. This one goes deep. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - $400K in Debt. Don't Fuck This Up. 00:36 - From Army Paratrooper to Big Daddy Max 03:28 - Rock Bottom After the Military 07:37 - First Week in Options: $40K and No Idea What He Was Doing 13:24 - Switching to Options Selling and Quitting the Day Job 27:00 - Free Community and Why He Does It 34:34 - The Photo on the Desk, the Baby, and the Most Profitable 17 Months 37:42 - $400,000 in Debt: The Insurance Brokerage Collapse 51:07 - The Biggest Futures Prop Event in History 57:36 - ABCD: Max's Framework for Everything New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV [https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV] Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA [https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA] Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589] For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ [https://tradeify.co/] Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding [https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding] 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify [https://x.com/Tradeify] 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify [https://discord.com/invite/tradeify] TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Big Daddy Max, Max Options Trading, prop trading, futures trading, options trading, options selling, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading mindset, trading discipline, trading consistency, military trader, Army veteran trader, trading comeback, $400K debt, trading rock bottom, discipline over dopamine, ABCD framework, trading community, free Discord, prop trading event, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey, trading resilience LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ [https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/] Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ [https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/] Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

He Ignored the Big Payouts and Focused on This Instead | Funded Ep. 6

Amas is 22 years old. He started trading at 18, went straight to prop firms, built his strategy with his brother, and decided from day one that he was going to do the complete opposite of everything the internet was telling him. Low risk-to-reward. Base hits. Mechanical entries. No discretion. No flash. No $200K months. His goal was $3,000 a month. Then he built from there. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Amas -- TradeifyTV host and one of the most refreshingly honest voices in the prop trading space -- for a conversation about what it actually looks like to build quietly and intentionally. Amas breaks down why he thinks discretion is a word bad educators use to avoid admitting they have a bad strategy, why you could be trading noise for five years and never know it, and how a mechanical one-to-one system built on base hits creates more certainty than chasing big risk-to-reward setups ever could. He also gets into the Dunning-Kruger effect in trading, why keeping your expenses low is one of the most important trading decisions you can make, and how DM'ing Brett on Twitter turned him into Tradeify's first exclusive affiliate. This one is for the traders who are tired of being told they need to go bigger. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - If You're Aiming for Consistency, Making a Living Is Possible 00:36 - Who Is Amas and How He Got Here 03:17 - Why He Went Straight to Prop Firms From Day One 08:58 - Building the Strategy With His Brother and Why They Stopped Listening to Everyone 13:18 - Low Risk-to-Reward, Base Hits, and Why Boring Works 22:02 - Flashy Lifestyles Are the Opposite of Real Trading 33:49 - Discretion Is a Bad Strategy in Disguise 42:00 - You Could Be Trading Noise for Five Years and Not Know It 52:12 - Fitness, Fasting, and How the Body Affects the Charts 1:01:21 - How He Became Tradeify's First Exclusive Affiliate New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV [https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV] Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA [https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA] Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589] For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ [https://tradeify.co/] Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding [https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding] 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify [https://x.com/Tradeify] 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify [https://discord.com/invite/tradeify] TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Amas, AmasPFT, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading discipline, mechanical trading strategy, low risk reward trading, base hits trading, trading consistency, discretion trading, backtesting, Dunning-Kruger trading, trading boring, prop firm business model, trading lifestyle, intermittent fasting trading, trading mindset, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, scalping strategy, trading from scratch LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ [https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/] Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ [https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/] Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

Two Traders. Four Years. Every Win and Loss Together. | Funded Ep. 5

Dhesi blew his brother's bank account trading meme stocks at 17. He was profitable eight months later. Brian got lucky on penny stocks during COVID, dropped out of college with one year left, and never called the school back. Both of them have been building in parallel for years -- talking every day, pushing each other, watching every run happen in real time. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with both of them for a conversation about what it actually looks like to grow together. Dhesi breaks down how he was up $380,000 with 10 days left to a max payout -- and watched it go to zero in three days. He gets into the motto that changed his trading: speed up by slowing down. Brian walks through the silver run that generated $2.7 million in two weeks, why every trader has a moment they just have to survive long enough to reach, and what it cost him to figure out that trading every session around the clock was actually making him worse. They also get real about psychology over strategy, when to shut the charts off entirely, and why the two-person support system they built is the thing neither of them could have done this without. This one hits different when you hear it from two people who watched each other earn it. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - The Less I Do, The More I Make 00:37 - How Brian and Dhesi Met 03:33 - Blowing His Brother's Bank Account on Meme Stocks 07:00 - Brian's Story: Lucky Runs, Dropping Out, No Plan B 13:04 - Capital Preservation and Slowing Down to Speed Up 18:51 - How Do You Know When to Shut It Off 22:49 - Two Different Styles, Same Foundation 34:16 - Brian's $2.7M Silver Run 38:14 - $380K Gone in 3 Days. Then a $936K Month. 51:00 - You're a Trader First. Content Is Second. New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV [https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV] Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA [https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA] Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589] For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ [https://tradeify.co/] Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding [https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding] 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify [https://x.com/Tradeify] 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify [https://discord.com/invite/tradeify] TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Brian Stonks, DesiTrades, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading discipline, trading consistency, trading support system, ICT trading, silver trading, speed up by slowing down, trading burnout, when to stop trading, trader mindset, capital preservation, trading community, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ [https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/] Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ [https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/] Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

He Was Gambling With His Paychecks. Then He Made $700K. | Funded Ep. 4

Jake spent the first three and a half years of his trading career putting paychecks straight into the market and watching them disappear. No strategy. No plan. Just gambling with real money and hoping something would click. His dad finally sat him down and told him the truth. Then COVID hit and he locked himself in a room for an entire year. And when he came out the other side, he figured out something most traders never do. His first three months trading props: $300,000 in payouts. Total since: over $700,000. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Jake -- known online as Rake Trades -- for one of the most honest conversations we've had about what it actually takes to last in this game.Jake drops the stat that should reframe every trader's timeline: of the 5% who ever succeed, 90% of them took four or more years to get there. He gets into why your partner should never be able to tell if you had a red or green day, how he built a performance grading system that took the emotion out of losing, and why mental capital is the thing nobody talks about but everyone runs out of. He also breaks down the exact math that convinced a guy who could already trade his own money to go all in on props instead. Eight years in. $700K later. This is what the long game actually looks like. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - If You Succeed in Under Three Years, You're a Statistical Miracle 00:56 - From New York to Puerto Rico 02:44 - Year One Jake Was Really Bad at This 04:08 - Gambling With Paychecks and No Real Strategy 07:40 - The Conversation With His Dad That Changed Everything 09:28 - Your Partner Should Never Know If You Had a Red Day 11:52 - The Daily Loss Limit Is a Skill 19:14 - Three and a Half Years Before Finding Consistency 38:18 - The Math That Made Him Start Trading Props 56:57 - Mental Capital and Why Nobody Can Go Hard All Year New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV [https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV] Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA [https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA] Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589] For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ [https://tradeify.co/] Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding [https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding] 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify [https://x.com/Tradeify] 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify [https://discord.com/invite/tradeify] TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Rake Trades, Jake trader, prop trading, futures trading, options trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading mindset, trading discipline, trading consistency, daily loss limit, mental capital, trading statistics, how long to become a profitable trader, trading patience, stoicism trading, trading sustainability, trading career, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey, trading burnout, father time trading, trading timeline LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ [https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/] Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

The Trader Who Bet Everything on Himself and Won | Funded Ep. 3

Tyler Goedtel worked the elevator union -- six figures a year, miserable every single day. He'd hide in the porta potty on the job site to check his trades. He came home and back-tested until he fell asleep with a laptop on his chest. He maxed out every credit card he had to fund his accounts. And then, in his first month after moving to Miami with $10,000 in the bank, he made $168,000. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Tyler Goedtel -- known online as TG Capital -- for a conversation about what it actually looks like to bet everything on yourself and win. Tyler breaks down how he built a model backed by six years of data, why he traded London session from 2AM before showing up to a construction site at 6, and how he made $51,000 on a single trade -- the largest payout in Tradeify's history. He gets into why comparing yourself to anyone on social media is the most destructive thing a trader can do, what really happens when you go from eval to funded, and why if your outside life is a mess, the charts are going to show it. This one is for everyone still grinding through it right now. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - I Changed My Entire Life in Six Months 00:44 - From Elevator Shaft to Six-Figure Trader 03:54 - The Whiteboard That Predicted His Entire Life 08:20 - Six Years of Struggle and No Plan B 10:45 - Trading London Session at 2AM Before the Shift 19:28 - Why Comparing Yourself on Social Media Will Destroy You 23:47 - Tilt, Dopamine, and Rewiring Your Brain 32:10 - Managing Trades From a Porta Potty 38:45 - The $20K Trade That Made Him Quit the Job 43:40 - $168K First Month. $400K in Three Months. New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTVhttps://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV [https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV] Spotify --> https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeAhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA [https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA] Apple Podcasts --> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589] For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ [https://tradeify.co/] Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding [https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding] 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify [https://x.com/Tradeify] 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify [https://discord.com/invite/tradeify] TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, TG Capital, Tyler Goedtel, prop trading, futures trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading discipline, trading mindset, eval to funded, funded account, London session trading, ICT trading, trading tilt, trader success story, prop firm 2025, trading podcast, Maryam Rushdi, blue collar trader, trading education, risk management LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ [https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/] Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ [https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/] Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital—money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.