Trading with Steve

☀️ Happy Thursday, everyone! Hope you're all having a fantastic day. 🙌 Scanner update: Trades are holding steady for another day — nothing dramatic, which is exactly what we want. 📊 New COT report drops tomorrow night, and I'd bet money it shifts a good number of our open signals when we come back Sunday. Keep an eye out. Also — I've been traveling and prepping to travel, so I'm playing catch-up on emails and texts. If you've reached out in the last couple of days, I'm working through every single one of you. Thanks for being patient with me. 🙏 🏦 LET'S TALK PROP FIRMS — please read this one I keep seeing the same mistake, and it costs people real money. So here it is plain. Stop shopping for the cheapest challenge. 💸 A discount code on a bad firm is not a deal. The fee is the smallest number in this whole equation. Two things actually matter: 1️⃣ Pick a firm that actually pays There are a LOT of prop firms. There are not a lot of good ones. My short list: FTMO The5%ers Funded Trading Plus These have staying power and a track record of actually paying traders. Start there. 2️⃣ Pick the RIGHT challenge — this is where people get burned ⚠️ Every one of these firms has a dozen-plus challenge options. It is not one-size-fits-all, and I honestly think some of them make it confusing on purpose. For trading Steve's Scanner, here's what you need: 🔹 FTMO — 2-Step Challenge, SWING account. Not the standard account. The Swing account. 🚫 MY RULE: TWO-STEP ONLY. ALWAYS. I don't promote instant funding, and I don't promote one-step challenges either. Not ever. I know the pitch is tempting — one phase, get funded faster, less work. But the firms pay for that convenience by degrading the rules on the back end, and you're the one who lives with those rules for the life of the account. Case in point at FTMO: on the 1-Step, the Best Day consistency rule applies in both the evaluation and the funded phase — and the Swing account isn't even available on the 1-Step. So the very thing our strategy requires doesn't exist on that product. 🤷‍♂️ Yes, the 2-Step is more work. You have to show more trading prowess over more time. That's the point. You earn a cleaner rule set, and the rule set is what you live in for months and years after the challenge is a distant memory. Do the extra work. Get the better rules. 💪 📌 WHY SWING vs STANDARD MATTERS (the trap) Here's the part that catches people, and it's sneaky: During the Challenge and Verification phases, FTMO has NO news restrictions and NO weekend-holding restrictions — on either account type. So you pass with a Standard account, everything feels fine, you think you're golden. ✅ Then you get funded — and the rules change. 😬 Standard (funded) account, you must: Close positions before the weekend Close positions before ANY market break longer than 2 hours Stay out of the market from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after flagged high-impact news — and that includes your stop loss or take profit triggering inside that window Swing (funded) account: ✅ No news restrictions ✅ Hold overnight ✅ Hold through the weekend Our scanner holds through news and holds over weekends. That is the strategy. On a Standard account you are structurally set up to violate the rules — and you find out on payout day, which is the worst possible day to find out. That's the egg-on-your-face situation I want every one of you to avoid. 🥚 ⚙️ THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY Swing is ONLY available on the 2-Step Challenge. One more reason we go 2-Step. You cannot upgrade to Swing after you buy. Get it right at checkout. You can drop from Swing to Standard later, but not the other way. Leverage is lower on Swing — up to 1:30 vs 1:100 on Standard. This is the real trade-off, and it's fine. Just know your position sizing math changes. Plan for it before you start. 2-Step targets: 10% Step 1, 5% Step 2. Max daily loss 5%, max total loss 10%, minimum 4 trading days per phase. Best Day Rule: your single best day can't be more than 50% of the total profit from your winning days. Good news — this is a payout gate, not an account breach. Your payout gets held until you even it out, not cancelled. Just don't swing for the fences on one trade. Trade your own account. FTMO's terms are personal-use only. Take the signals, do your own sizing, manage your own trades, make your own decisions. Don't hand your login to anybody and don't run auto-copiers off a shared master account. Other two firms: The5%ers allows weekend holding across their accounts with no special swing account needed — but confirm their news policy separately, holding over a weekend and holding through a release are two different permissions. Funded Trading Plus allows news trading and weekend holding on their 2-Step (Classic) — not on Instant Funding, where everything closes 4:30pm EST Friday. Same rule applies there: go 2-Step. 💡 Bottom line: before you click buy, ask three questions — is it a two-step? Can I hold through news? Can I hold over the weekend? If any answer is no, it's the wrong account for this strategy, no matter how good the price is. Rules change, so always read the current terms on the firm's own site before you purchase. And if you're not sure which one to grab, ask me before you buy, not after. I'd much rather spend two minutes with you now than watch a payout get held up later. 🤝 Let's finish the week strong! 💪

🚨 JOIN ME LIVE TONIGHT! 🚨 Going live in a little over an hour to talk all about Steve's Scanner 📈 🕗 8:00 PM Eastern 🔗 Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9457854467 All are welcome! Come see how dozens of traders are using the scanner to build full-time trading income. I'll walk through exactly how it works and answer whatever you've got — so bring your questions! 🙋‍♂️ See you there! 👊

Great work today everyone! So many of you passed your prop challenges last night! Proud of each one of you. 🎉🤝 Also, I can’t tell you enough how motivating it is to keep getting messages like this. It helps keep me going! Thank you for being so awesome! You guys deserve this! 😎💯✅

Here is the most recent training I did on the scanner: https://youtu.be/-n8hH4G3f2I?si=ySnZ2Pfy_oxQk8Lf

Great work everyone! Nearly doubled our profits from the scanner since last night. Letting winners run 🏃 is the key 🔑 to success!

The scanner is off and running! Let’s see how far these can run! 🏃🤝💯

🚨 FREE LIVE TRAINING — TONIGHT 🚨 Come see exactly how Steve's Scanner has been calling trades — the AI-powered signal system that's put up a +35% return over the last month and a half. 🗓 TONIGHT 🕘 9:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Mountain 💻 Live on Zoom — link below 👇 Whether you're already a member or just checking us out, everyone is welcome — this one's 100% free and open to all traders. I'll walk through: ✅ How Steve's Scanner works ✅ A full look at our recent results ✅ Exactly how to trade the signals yourself Come hang out, ask questions live, and see what the scanner can do for your trading. See you tonight! https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9457854467

📊 New page is up — tradingwithsteve.com/livetrackrecord It's the full track record for Steve's Scanner and the Overnight Strategy, both updating automatically. Every trade since July 1 is on there. Tap any trade to see the entry, exit, stop and P/L. Go have a look 👇 https://www.tradingwithsteve.com/livetrackrecord

So proud of my brother — he just graduated from the military! 🎖️🇺🇸 Almost 5 months away doing basic and job training, and he made it through. This is actually why I’ve been MIA all week — got to be there for his graduation. Getting to watch him reunite with his wife and sweet little boy today was pure joy. I love him so much. Welcome home! ❤️​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Good morning traders! Kind of insane how well the AI alerts are going. Here is every trade that was posted in the last 24 hours.

How I made 24k in 37 days with my new AI alerts from Steve's Scanner https://youtu.be/0r8T75ItC2M Here is the recording to the scanner training we did on Thursday night! Feel free to check it out this weekend! This was my best trading month ever! Cashed in over 24k in realized profits since July first trading the scanner. Each trade I took was either 2.0 contracts per trade. Thanks to Claude code I was able to make 50 different versions of the scanner over a 10 year backtest. I then released the best version to you guys! 😎

🚨 WEBINAR STARTING IN A FEW MINUTES! 🚨 Hop on now — we’re diving into Steve’s Scanner 📊 Today’s training covers: ✅ Verified results from the live account ✅ How to actually trade the scanner (entries) ✅ When to use it — reading the signals ✅ Exits — stops, downgrades, all of it 👉 Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9457854467 See you in there! 🔥

🔥 Best trading month EVER! 🔥 Over the last 30 days, the new AI Alerts Scanner has locked in $22,000 on my LIVE account 🔒📈 — and I’m still sitting on $5,000+ in unrealized profits. And that’s not even counting our other systems (overnight, Iron Condor, etc.) 👀 But honestly? The money isn’t even the best part. The best part is getting to put this scanner in your hands too. Here’s to another huge month ahead 🎉📈

Good work today everyone! Building this new scanner has been such a pleasure and seeing all of the success stories come in has been great! ✅ Proud of you guys! 🤝 I love hearing about all the trader competitions and prop firm success you guys are having. Keep em coming! Looks like the EURO pairs are starting to fire off in the 📈 direction.

Absolutely legendary week with our new AI alerts scanner! 📈😎 Enjoy your weekend! Y’all deserve it! ✅

Great work with the scanner trades this week! Crushing it again!

🆕 New on the Scanner: Carry (Rate Diff) column! We just added a new column to the scanner showing the interest rate differential between the two currencies in each FX pair — aka "carry." 📊 Quick explainer: every currency has a benchmark interest rate set by its central bank. When you're long one currency and short another, the rate differential tells you which side has more central bank support behind it right now. ⚠️ Important: this is not a new scoring component — it doesn't change your Buy/Sell signals. Our COT data already captures a lot of this info indirectly (institutional positioning tends to reflect rate expectations), so we tested adding it directly to the model and it didn't improve results. What it does give you is an extra layer of context — a quick way to see which side of a trade has more of a rate/central-bank tailwind on top of what the COT report is already telling you. We'll dig into this more in tomorrow's live session — bring your questions! 🙋‍♂️ Check it out here: https://www.tradingwithsteve.com/scanner

Good evening everyone! Here is the training on how to use the new AI powered Steve's Scanner. This thing rocks! The subcribers in the group have already been using it for 2 weeks now. We closed out one of our trades yesterday for a +335 pip gain. It was open for 11 days. The best part about it, is none of us had to lift a finger to find the trade opportunity. The scanner updates on it's own and sends out entry and exit signals automatically. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdb6eufH-M

Happy Independence Day!!! 🦅🇺🇸