Nowadays, becoming a funded trader is no longer exclusive to professionals with years of experience. Thanks to the advancement of automated trading and funding platforms, anyone with discipline and a good strategy can access trading capital. In this guide, we show you, step by step, how to achieve this with the help of robots.
STEP 1: Understand what you are doing
The first step is to learn what a trading robot is and how it behaves in a real-life environment. You need to understand basic concepts such as entry and exit logic, indicators, risk management, drawdown, win rate, and other key metrics.
? Recommendation: Check out tradEASy’s winning robots or read the elements guide to understand how they work.
STEP 2: Create your first strategy
With what you’ve learned, it’s time to create your own robot. It doesn’t have to be complex. The important thing is that it makes sense: that it defines when to enter, when to exit, and how to manage risk.
In tradEAsy, you can build it visually, connecting blocks, without programming. Plus, you can make copies of your robot to test changes without affecting the original.
STEP 3: Test without risking money
Before using it on a live account, you need to test your robot. This should be done with backtests, demo accounts, and various market conditions. This way, you can see if the strategy works consistently and adjust things like indicators, filters, and trade sizes.
STEP 4: Submit it to a funding account
Once your strategy is validated, you can use it to apply for a funded account. These programs challenge you: they require you to achieve a certain profitability (e.g., 8%) without exceeding certain daily or total loss limits.
⚠️ Caution: Many strategies fail not because of logic, but because they use too much leverage or trade too frequently. It’s better to adjust your risk downward.
STEP 5: Operating with external money
If you pass the challenge, you’ll be given access to a real account with capital. Your robot trades with that money, and you keep a percentage of the profits (usually between 70% and 90%).
Here you no longer act as a manual trader, but as a system manager: you supervise the robot, monitor its performance, and make adjustments if necessary, but without emotional intervention.
STEP 6: Scale your operations
Once funded, you can become even more professional:
- Present your robot on other funding platforms.
- Create new strategies with different profiles.
- Operate multiple robots at once for diversification.
This turns your trading into a sustainable income model, with less personal risk and greater growth potential.
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