The trading industry is full of flashy mentors posting rented Lamborghinis and promising 100% win rates. Bani decided to take the exact opposite approach.
After struggling through his early years in the markets, Bani stripped his strategy back to the absolute essentials.
He realized that predicting the weekly expansion is far easier than trying to predict the 1-minute chart. We sat down with him to discuss his journey from college drop-out to earning massive performance fees, and why he forces the students in his mentorship to publicly post their losing trades.
The College Hustle and the "Butterfly Effect"
Bani didn't grow up dreaming of the financial markets. After high school in Scotland, he tried an apprenticeship that lasted only a month. Feeling left behind, he helped in his father’s local business and started buying phone chargers from Alibaba to sell for a small profit.
Eventually, he enrolled in college for journalism. Because he loved business, he started writing his journalism assignments on stocks and cryptocurrency. That research sparked a realization: “If these guys are making so much money from trading stocks, surely I can do it too.”
He started trading crypto futures with massive leverage, quickly flipping $300 into $2,000 and then losing it all just as fast. He was stuck in the cycle of boom and bust until he discovered prop firms.
Why Prop Firms Are the Ultimate Trading Bootcamp
Before prop firms, Bani was trying to turn a £500 personal account into £100,000. The only way to mathematically achieve that is to risk 50% of your account on every trade, which is pure gambling.
By switching to a simulated environment with strict drawdown limits, Bani was forced to implement real risk management. For traders looking to pass our evaluations, or as the trading community commonly knows them, prop firm challenges, the daily loss limit acts like a financial bootcamp. It breaks your bad habits.
Bani treats his simulated account, which some might call a demo account, with the ultimate respect. As he points out, if you can learn to consistently manage risk and earn a performance fee, or as others usually know it, a profit split, your trading skills will elevate far beyond someone recklessly gambling a personal account.
The Strategy: Trading the Weekly Bias
Bani’s strategy is refreshing and simple. He completely avoids the 1-minute chart, realizing that decision fatigue and "noise" were destroying his psychology.
Instead, he conducts a thorough weekly analysis on the DXY (US Dollar Index).
Once he has his weekly directional bias, he looks at EUR/USD and GBP/USD to see which pair offers the best setup.
- Intraday Model (15-minute chart): Used on normal days to trade the daily expansion.
- Swing Model (4-hour chart): Used during weeks with heavy "red folder" news (like CPI or PPI). By zooming out and using a wider stop-loss, he avoids being chopped out by high-impact volatility.
The Truth About Mentorship and Losing
Perhaps the most impressive part of Bani’s journey is how he runs his mentorship. Frustrated by the toxic culture of "gurus" who only post their 10R winning trades, Bani requires radical transparency.
He created a "Public Journal" where his students must post their losses alongside their wins. If a student only posts wins, they get kicked out of the group. Why? Because hiding your losses creates an unrealistic expectation that destroys the psychology of newer traders.
A good trader knows that no matter how perfect the setup is, you are destined to lose some trades. If a strategy has a 60% win rate, you could easily hit four losses in a row. Amateur traders panic and change strategies; professional traders accept the variance and keep executing.
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