My First Year in Forex Was a Total Failure. Here is How Husmulli Fixed It and Hit $500K in Simulated Allocation.

Husmulli found trading through crypto during lockdown and moved into Forex after learning that he could profit in both directions without relying on a project's team or roadmap. His entire first year in Forex was unprofitable. The shift came through journaling, higher time frame discipline, and being honest with himself about whether he was marking zones correctly or just cheating the setup to get an entry he wanted. He is now at $500K in simulated allocation after one of his earlier firms shut down on him at six figures, forcing him to start again. His blueprint is three things: gratitude, self-accountability, and tracking numbers. Not vibes. Numbers.

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How it started: crypto, lockdown, and a $50 trade that went to $8K then back to zero

Husmulli was at university when COVID hit and, in his words, he was not locked in. Waking up at 6pm, going out. The usual. Then lockdown came and he had time to actually think.

He went deep into crypto first. Not casually. He was reading white papers, joining AMAs, asking project teams questions, trying to assess whether a team could actually push their token. This was not random gambling. This was research.

His first trade went from £50 to £8,000. He did not take profit. It went back to zero. His bank account was at minus £1,400.

"It gave me a lesson that I should take profit next time."

He found another opportunity, got early into a BNB miner on the Binance chain when it became one of the largest miners on the chain. He bought Chainlink at $3 to $4 when it ran to $30. He built a foundation.

But he knew there was a ceiling. Crypto profits relied on other people, other teams, other roadmaps. He wanted a way to make money in both directions without depending on anyone else. That led him to Forex.

The first year was a total failure

He found a streamer called Don V (Donvoo) online, learned concepts from his live streams, developed his own approach, and started taking evaluations (what many traders call prop firm challenges).

His whole first year in Forex was not profitable.

"I was just not profitable. I would take a loss, journal it, and think okay maybe I shouldn't take it when that candle didn't really close above the zone."

He never hit a point where he wanted to go back to crypto. He just kept learning from each trade. He was self-accountable. He journaled. And he kept running into the same lesson from different angles: higher time frames.

The thing that changed everything: higher time frames

Husmulli's core philosophy on why most unprofitable traders stay unprofitable is not their entry strategy. It is that they are trading in a vacuum on low time frames without knowing the direction they are actually in.

"The lower time frame is good to get entries. But if you want direction and you do not want to get faked out, you have to look at the higher time frame. A 4-hour candle has more data in it than a 5-minute candle. You are going to see direction from it in a way you never will on the lower."

He runs his analysis from the daily chart all the way down to the 30-minute. He enters on the 30-minute, or drops to the 5-minute if there is strong volume and he wants to catch the move before it runs. He does not touch anything below that.

The second piece was self-honesty.

"I would ask myself: did I mark up the zone properly? Or did I move the zone down on purpose because I wanted the candle to close above it when it didn't really?"

That question, asked consistently and honestly after every loss, was what made his journaling actually useful instead of just therapeutic. The journal did not help him. The self-accountability the journal forced helped him.

The firm that shut down

Husmulli's scaling journey was not clean. He started on 20K accounts because seeing six figures on the screen was too much. He would close trades early. So he scaled gradually. 20K to 50K to 100K. Passed an evaluation, made consistent performance fees, moved up to a larger account.

Then the firm shut down.

"I was at six-figure allocation and they just shut down. I had to go back to zero and start again."

He does not spend long on this part of the conversation. It happened. He rebuilt. He got up to the next firm, made performance fees again, and that one also had issues. He stayed positive on his ROI the whole time, meaning he always made more in performance fees than he spent on evaluations. But each shutdown reset the allocation progress.

He is currently at $500K in simulated allocation. The next target is $1M.

"It is enough to live a decent life, but for me I am never complacent."

Why he does not blow his money when the performance fees come in

His father came to the UK with very little. Husmulli grew up with one bed shared between his parents on the floor while he slept in it. He watched his father build from that.

"Seeing those humble beginnings made me not take things for granted. I have seen him build his way up and that is my goal. Not to make money and be here today and gone tomorrow."

He allocates his performance fees deliberately. Some goes to his bank. Some to funds. Some set aside for taxes. Some for travel, because travel is how he keeps his perspective wide. He has bought a car as a milestone. A watch will come next, also as a milestone. Not as a flex.

He was close to buying a Lamborghini once. He does not even like cars. He was doing it because that is what trading success looks like on Instagram.

"I read the first page of a book and it said something like: spending money on things you don't care about or can't afford is just wasting your time. I was sitting there about to do exactly that for an image I thought I needed to create."

He stopped pursuing the Lamborghini. He does not regret it.

Three things that made him a consistent trader

The interviewer asks Husmulli for the three things that actually built his foundation. He gives a direct answer.

One: Be grateful.

His daily checklist starts with the word "grateful" written at the top. Every single day.

"When I wake up, the first thing I do is be grateful. If I take a loss on a trading screen with a digital number, what does that matter? I'm grateful for being alive, having a bed, having water. My day can only go up from that point."

The frame this creates around trading losses is practical, not spiritual. A bad trade is a bad trade. It is not a disaster. Gratitude is what keeps the proportion right.

Two: Self-accountability.

Not just in trading. In everything.

"In sales, if someone doesn't buy, don't just say next one. Ask what you could have done better. That is how you become better."

In trading this means going back to the trade, the journal entry, the zone markup, and asking whether you were honest with yourself or whether you made the decision you wanted to make and then built a reason for it afterwards.

Three: Get numerical data.

Husmulli is specific about the difference between mental journaling and numerical tracking.

"Subjective journaling is in your head. You can tell yourself whatever you want. Numbers don't lie. Win rate, where it moved to, what time, what range. That data will tell you objectively how to level up. Your feelings will not."

The combination of all three is what allows him to sit in drawdown without panic. He has been in drawdown. He has come out of it multiple times. The data tells him he has done it before. The gratitude tells him it is not the end of the world. The accountability tells him what he did wrong and what to adjust.

"If you can go from drawdown to making a performance fee, that is the best skill in trading. Once you build that muscle, you can handle everything."

What Husmulli says about scaling that most people ignore

He makes a point that the interviewer flags as important.

People who have not yet passed their first 200K evaluation are already setting end-of-year goals for seven figures in simulated allocation. And when they inevitably fail their evaluations chasing that number, the pressure compounds, the decisions get worse, and they are stuck in a cycle.

"I know people on 200K to 300K allocation with more consistent performance fees than people who have swung up to 700K and crashed back to zero three times. Which one do you actually want to be?"

His advice: do not go aggressive on evaluations until you have made at least five performance fee withdrawals from one account. Prove to yourself that you can be consistent before you try to scale the allocations.

"If you have a job, save money from it. Build a buffer. That buffer means your mindset is not desperation when you're in the evaluation. That's how you actually get through it."

FAQs

Who is Husmulli and how did he get started in trading?

Husmulli is a Forex trader who started during COVID lockdown, initially through crypto. He made significant early profits in crypto (including early positions in BNB and Chainlink) before moving into Forex trading because he wanted to profit in both directions independently. His entire first year in Forex was unprofitable before he developed his edge around higher time frame analysis and self-accountability.

How long did it take Husmulli to become profitable in Forex?

Husmulli's whole first year in Forex was unprofitable by his own account. It took consistent journaling, higher time frame analysis, and honest self-review before he became consistently profitable in his second year.

What time frame does Husmulli use to trade?

He analyses from the daily chart down to the 30-minute, taking entries on the 30-minute or dropping to the 5-minute for high-volume situations. He does not trade lower time frames for entries without having the higher time frame direction confirmed first.

What risk management does Husmulli use on prop firm accounts?

On all accounts, he risks 1 to 2%. On live Qualified Trader accounts, his target is 2 to 3% per performance fee cycle, then he withdraws. On his personal account, he uses a fixed $1K risk per trade regardless of account size, which keeps his psychology stable. He adjusts lot size based on stop loss distance rather than using a fixed lot size.

How should a trader approach scaling their simulated allocation?

Husmulli recommends scaling gradually. Start on smaller accounts until the numbers feel normal, then move up. Do not run aggressive strategies on evaluations, or what the industry commonly calls prop firm challenges, until you have made at least five consecutive performance fee withdrawals from one account. Consistency at a lower allocation is more valuable than swinging between high allocations and zero. A buffer of saved income while working removes the desperation that makes traders fail evaluations.

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Husmulli's path was not straight. A whole year unprofitable. A firm shutdown at six figures. A rebuild from zero. What did not change was his process: higher time frames, journaling the right way, and being honest about whether he actually took a good setup or just a setup he wanted to take. The evaluation structure gave him the rules that kept his risk from running away.

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