Trader logs $6,800 day on 20% win rate, caps best month ever

The setup and strategy

Perico opened the session saying he'd been trading for nine years and was aiming to hit a $10,000 daily goal while risking $2,000 per trade, calling it a "10x strategy." He said he was tied with his record high month and had two days left to beat it. His approach centers on multi-timeframe analysis: a broader daily view of Bitcoin to gauge market direction, then 1-minute and 15-minute charts to find trend breaks, "fair value gaps," and "liquidity inflection levels" for entries on assets like Solana.

He described his method as filtering for high-conviction areas, then managing risk by reducing stop losses to break-even once trades moved in his favor, rather than taking profit immediately.

"Even though sometimes it's coming all the way back, allowing this to happen sometimes leads to an entire session where price is moving down" — Perico

He argued this lets him capture bigger moves (he mentioned targeting 7-10x his risk) instead of capping gains by exiting too early.

How the trades played out

The first trade, a long position taken before the New York open, ended in breakeven after initial profit of $3,600 faded. A second short attempt around the same level also stopped out for a full loss, which he attributed partly to a jobs openings data release coming in weaker than forecast and whipping the market. A third short, however, caught a strong move down around the data release, which he called "the trade that saved us for the entire day," banking roughly $13,000 after scaling out at a 1:4 level and letting the rest run.

Later trades were less successful: a long setup off a "change of character" level took a full loss after the market swept the level instead of holding it, and another long later in the afternoon stopped out at breakeven after an initial push. A final trade into a lower gap was still open and in profit (around 3R) when he stepped away to the gym, targeting a take-profit near $119.82 on what he described as a push into a higher-timeframe fair value gap.

Final tally and reflections

Reviewing the day's results, Perico said the $2,400 loss on one trade, a breakeven on another (minus roughly $500 in fees), and the $13,000 winning trade were the main swings, alongside additional breakeven and losing trades later on. He said he ended the day with a 20% win rate but was still up $6,800, below his daily goal but, in his words, "still a good positive day."

He tied this session to closing out what he called his best trading month on record, citing month-to-date figures of a 42% win rate and a trade expectancy of $2,300 per trade, with losses clustered between $0 and roughly $2,000 and wins ranging up to about $14,000. He contrasted this with a mentioned prior month, August, where he said he ended "pretty much break even," up about $6,000, arguing results average out over time and that traders need to "max extract" during strong stretches rather than get complacent.