The Day Trading Show

Former 500K-sub bodybuilder turned futures trader Lucas Pinheiro shares how he transitioned from personal training to making $45K in monthly payouts. Learn his high-win-rate prop trading strategy, why he switched to Tokyo sessions, how he manages multiple accounts simultaneously, and the mindset shift required to succeed—plus why trading without external income sources leads to failure.

Connect with Lucas -  @LPTradesFt 

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0:00 Opening Mindset - Winning vs. Execution
1:19 Podcast Intro & Lucas's Journey
3:00 Moving to Miami at 19 - The Brazilian Dream
5:00 Law School Drop & Sports Career Path
8:00 First Bodybuilding Competition Win
9:00 Building a 500K+ Subscriber Channel
11:00 Transition from Bodybuilding to Trading
12:00 Bitcoin Discovery (2019) & Crypto Interest
14:00 First Forex Trade Loss & Learning Curve
19:00 The $13K Loss - Emotional Breakthrough
22:00 Retiring from Bodybuilding (2021)
23:00 Real Estate Arbitrage in Brazil
25:00 Selling 4 Properties & Moving Back to Brazil
27:00 Why Switch to Futures Trading?
29:00 Starting the Trading YouTube Channel
31:00 Live Streaming Trades - The Missing Angle
34:00 Growing to 42K Subscribers in 4 Months
37:00 Why Traders Fail - The Psychology
38:00 Bodybuilder Mindset vs. Trading Mindset
40:00 Need Money Before Trading (Risk Management)
44:00 Marriage & Support System During Losses
45:00 Prop Firm Payouts & Account Strategy
47:00 Risk-to-Reward: Personal vs. Prop Accounts
50:00 Copy Trading Strategy Across Multiple Accounts
52:00 Tokyo Session vs. New York Session Switch
54:00 $45K Payout Month & Best Results
56:00 Weekly Payout Strategy & Risk Bucketing
59:00 Handling Max Loss Days with High Win Rate
1:01:00 Current Opportunity in Prop Trading
1:02:00 Outro & Connecting with Lucas

James Bruce shares his raw recovery story: a catastrophic $50K loss in one day due to a trade copier error on New Year's Eve 2021, followed by a brutal seven-month drawdown that nearly broke him.
The key lesson: don't make trading your identity. After making $150K in 2020, he hit rock bottom but stayed locked in because he'd proven it was possible before.
Learn why sizing down matters, how to rebuild after massive losses, the importance of having income outside trading, and why showing losses publicly (not just wins) is critical for the trading community. From near-bankruptcy to $70K+ in payouts, this is the unfiltered truth about trader recovery.

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1:23 - James Bruce intro: $70K payouts this year
4:12 - How James found Austin (mid-2019)
5:00 - Borrowed money from dad for Austin's course
10:04 - 2020 success: Made $150K with father-in-law's capital
10:20 - 2021 seven-month drawdown begins
12:00 - Biggest lesson: Don't make trading your identity
13:00 - The $50K loss story (trade copier error on New Year's Eve)
16:00 - Character building & resilience from massive losses
18:00 - Tweet: Why trading shouldn't be your only income source
36:00 - Why showing losses publicly is critical for community
38:00 - Birthday week: Down $32K, recovered $50K next week
42:00 - Why win rate matters more than R-multiple

Scott Pulcini breaks down why CVD divergences are unreliable and reveals what's actually driving the market: options flow, gamma levels, and price-change algos. After 9 years of trading stop-runs and icebergs as his main edge, he's shifted focus to zero-DTE options hedging by dealers—which moves 90% of intraday action most days.

The key insight: stop/iceberg events validate where the market will react, but options flow (gamma, pace of tape, relative volume) tells you when and how. He demonstrates real trades including why his 3-minute VWAP trade worked and how price-change reversions can be scalped or held based on confluence.

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0:00 — Headline risk destroying setups; options flow now dominates
3:00 — Stop runs & icebergs → options gamma edge shift (9 years vs new game)
8:03 — Real-time options flow example: dealers hedging move market, visible in charts
13:14 — Why CVD divergences fail: it only shows aggressor, not intention
16:48 — Six stop/iceberg setups; GEX levels are magnets dealers must hedge at
20:15 — Zero-DTE gamma "sexy gexi" entries vs reversion trades off GEX bounces
23:54 — Randy's YM trade: bought VWAP at 9:57 ET, out in 3 mins (entry anatomy)
27:35 — Euro options flow drives hero, not futures → source of moves
31:45 — Market pulse price change algo: reversion-to-mean every 5 min when quiet
35:48 — Relative volume key: use Sierra Charts (30-day lookback), not Thinkorswim (60-period only)
39:30 — Real NQ trade setup: VWAP + GEX2 + price change + pace of tape = "reversion dream"
42:50 — How to manage: scalp around position or trail half using price-change exits
46:20 — Risk half an ATR on price-change scalps; protect against big money runs
49:01 — Scott's chart tabs problem: too much data layered, needs Bookmap UI fix

Nick Stewart is BACK!! In today's podcast, he reveals how he scaled from a $50K live account to $270K+ in withdrawals this year by ditching prop firms and sizing up to 10x on high-probability setups.

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He breaks down the copy trading strategy that lets traders manage multiple funded accounts simultaneously, shares the psychology of handling big losses (he took a $21K hit in one day), and explains why futures payouts beat CFDs for consistency. Plus: Trade Set journal launch, UK bootcamp announcement, and NYC event details for the community.

Connect with Nick: https://www.youtube.com/@TimeToEatTrading

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0:26 — Family update: 4 kids, life's good
2:13 — Nick confirmed as Bootcamp 2027 speaker (first teaching gig)
4:54 — Futures payouts easier than CFDs (no drawdown seesaw trap)
8:22 — Evals - instant funded for new traders (cheap learning phase)
13:14 — Copy trading setup: 3 of 5 accounts locked after daily P&L
17:13 — New trader mindset: don't take wins or losses personal
20:45 — Playbook building: collect 20+ samples, find your edge
24:15 — High win rate trap: 70% WR = 30 unavoidable losses per 100 trades
28:07 — Live account leap: $50K -- $130K -- withdraw, repeat ($270K total YTD)
33:28 — Left prop firms for freedom; trading 5–10K size now
35:48 — Gold 90–95% of trades, selective NQ entries, avoiding chop
39:30 — TradeSet journal launched: analytics + mindset + behavior scoring
45:28 — Bootcamp talk prep: technical focus, show wins + losses + strategy

The boys are back for the first Home Team episode since the London Prop Firm Expo and the May Bootcamp. Austin, Randy, Evan, and Bruce dig into Bootcamp 2026 recap stories, why copy trading is the real scale in prop trading (and why people blame it for their own losses), the VTC indicator/double break strategy trends, prop firm drama, and wrap with NFL/NBA/MLB predictions for the fall.

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00:00 – Cold open: "documentation of the end of ASFX" + copy trading blame game
01:12 – Intro back from London Expo & May Bootcamp
02:00 – Bootcamp 2027 tickets on sale, Randy's stage evolution story
04:16 – The dinner bill roast — "how cheap some influencers really are"
09:41 – Prop firm drama, copy trading as the real scale, TradeSyncer discount code
12:08 – Copy trading psychology: "your trading capital's got to match your mental capital"
19:59 – TradeSyncer sponsor read + ASFX stream free trial offer
20:57 – VTC indicator, double break win rate, systematic vs. discretionary trading
39:38 – "Rich" giveaway winner story — blew 3 accounts, now stacking payouts
1:00:58 – NFL/NBA/MLB predictions wrap + Penn State college football game idea