Discretionary FX — prop desk

Before the models, the screen. Two years of discretionary price-action trading on a proprietary FX desk, where the account was real and the drawdown was mine.

The win rate is the interesting number, and I lead with it deliberately: I lost more trades than I won. The return exists because risk-to-reward was held at 1:3 without negotiation — no widening stops, no averaging down, no revenge sizing. That discipline is the only thing that transferred cleanly into systematic work, and it's the reason I now trust process over conviction.

Earned funded-trader status. MFF closed in 2023.