Jake spent the first three and a half years of his trading career putting paychecks straight into the market and watching them disappear. No strategy. No plan. Just gambling with real money and hoping something would click. His dad finally sat him down and told him the truth. Then COVID hit and he locked himself in a room for an entire year. And when he came out the other side, he figured out something most traders never do. His first three months trading props: $300,000 in payouts. Total since: over $700,000. In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Jake -- known online as Rake Trades -- for one of the most honest conversations we've had about what it actually takes to last in this game.Jake drops the stat that should reframe every trader's timeline: of the 5% who ever succeed, 90% of them took four or more years to get there.

He gets into why your partner should never be able to tell if you had a red or green day, how he built a performance grading system that took the emotion out of losing, and why mental capital is the thing nobody talks about but everyone runs out of. He also breaks down the exact math that convinced a guy who could already trade his own money to go all in on props instead. Eight years in. $700K later. This is what the long game actually looks like. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - If You Succeed in Under Three Years, You're a Statistical Miracle 00:56 - From New York to Puerto Rico 02:44 - Year One Jake Was Really Bad at This 04:08 - Gambling With Paychecks and No Real Strategy 07:40 - The Conversation With His Dad That Changed Everything 09:28 - Your Partner Should Never Know If You Had a Red Day 11:52 - The Daily Loss Limit Is a Skill 19:14 - Three and a Half Years Before Finding Consistency 38:18 - The Math That Made Him Start Trading Props 56:57 - Mental Capital and Why Nobody Can Go Hard All Year New episodes drop Tuesdays. Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TradeifyTV Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4Oo2lGVzhWHOUDMLo0jSeA Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funded-a-tradeify-podcast/id1895323589 For more from Tradeify and Tradeify TV, check out our website at https://tradeify.co/ Stay connected! 📸 Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tradeifyfunding 🐦 Twitter/X – https://x.com/Tradeify 🎧 Discord – https://discord.com/invite/tradeify TAGS/KEYWORDS: Funded, Funded podcast, Tradeify, TradeifyTV, Rake Trades, Jake trader, prop trading, futures trading, options trading, prop firm, prop firm payout, trading psychology, trading mindset, trading discipline, trading consistency, daily loss limit, mental capital, trading statistics, how long to become a profitable trader, trading patience, stoicism trading, trading sustainability, trading career, prop firm 2025, Maryam Rushdi, trading podcast, futures podcast, trading education, trading journey, trading burnout, father time trading, trading timeline LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/ Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital -- money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.

Tyler Goedtel worked the elevator union -- six figures a year, miserable every single day. He'd hide in the porta potty on the job site to check his trades. He came home and back-tested until he fell asleep with a laptop on his chest. He maxed out every credit card he had to fund his accounts. And then, in his first month after moving to Miami with $10,000 in the bank, he made $168,000.

In this episode of Funded, host Maryam Rushdi sits down with Tyler Goedtel -- known online as TG Capital -- for a conversation about what it actually looks like to bet everything on yourself and win.

Tyler breaks down how he built a model backed by six years of data, why he traded London session from 2AM before showing up to a construction site at 6, and how he made $51,000 on a single trade -- the largest payout in Tradeify's history. He gets into why comparing yourself to anyone on social media is the most destructive thing a trader can do, what really happens when you go from eval to funded, and why if your outside life is a mess, the charts are going to show it.

This one is for everyone still grinding through it right now.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - I Changed My Entire Life in Six Months 00:44 - From Elevator Shaft to Six-Figure Trader 03:54 - The Whiteboard That Predicted His Entire Life 08:20 - Six Years of Struggle and No Plan B 10:45 - Trading London Session at 2AM Before the Shift 19:28 - Why Comparing Yourself on Social Media Will Destroy You 23:47 - Tilt, Dopamine, and Rewiring Your Brain 32:10 - Managing Trades From a Porta Potty 38:45 - The $20K Trade That Made Him Quit the Job 43:40 - $168K First Month. $400K in Three Months.

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LEGAL & DISCLAIMERS

Privacy Policy: https://tradeify.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://tradeify.co/terms-of-use/

Risk Disclosure: Engaging in futures, forex, and other financial trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for all investors. It is possible to lose the entire amount of your investment, or even more. Only use risk capital—money you can afford to lose without impacting your financial security or lifestyle. Trading should only be undertaken by individuals who have the necessary risk capital and fully understand the risks involved. Past trading results do not guarantee future performance. Tradeify Holdings, Corp. does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided and is not responsible for any losses or damages resulting from reliance on this information.