[0:00]I spend less than 90 minutes a day trading and can generate anywhere between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a day trading. But it wasn't always like that. When I first started trading seven years ago, I was lost for years. I was constantly taking bad trades, second guessing myself and felt completely confused. Everything changed once I built the system, one that allowed me to start small, risking $30 to $50 per trade, learn the right way and gradually scale my account over time. And in today's video, I'll share with you my full system and strategy that you can use to take advantage of the first 90 minutes of market open and start with as little as $100. Let's get into it. So, in today's video, we're going to talk about how to start trading with just $100. And there's three simple steps that we're going to be following, and this can be done within 90 minutes every single day. And in today's video, we're going to talk about what instrument to trade, my full strategy that is simple, repeatable, and mechanical, and then finally we're going to talk about how to grow a small account. So with this being said, this is going to be a fantastic video, whether you're a complete beginner or you're an experienced trader that still hasn't found consistency in the markets. This video is going to start off with the basics and then we're going to go on to some more complex topics. And as you can see right here, this is my year to date PNL. So this is from January 1st, 2026 all the way to the time as I'm recording this video, which is mid April. And as you can see, I'm up over $300,000 year to date, and I've had this steady equity growth towards the upside with very minimal drawdown. And I just want to say these results are not typical. I've been trading for over seven years. My trading used to look like this. I had plenty of losers, my losers were bigger than my winners, and I would take multiple losses. I'll lose 5,000, 6,000, 9,000, $4,000 in one single day, and this was a significant amount at the time because I was losing more than 50% of my total account value. So, in order to make money in the markets, you have to learn how to lose. Everyone loses when it comes to trading. You have to learn how to be a good loser. So if you're currently losing money in the markets, just understand that this is a normal process. Once you develop a system and edge, that's when you can start from a very small amount and gradually increase your account size. And that brings me to my first topic in which I want to talk about today, which is understanding what instruments that we want to trade. As you can see right here, there's so many different markets that we can be looking for. We have stocks, futures, forex, crypto, options. All these are different trading instruments, and when you come into the markets, there's so many different things to look for, there's so many different assets to trade, different instruments, different charts to look at. You might be very confused. And I want to break down the pros and cons of each and what I personally trade on a day-to-day basis. Starting off with stocks, the pros, it's liquid, regulated, very easy to understand, the cons, high capital requirements, limited leverage, and set trading hours. Futures, high leverage, nearly 24 hours, 5 days a week, tight spreads, cons can be risky, requires understanding of contracts, and not ideal for long-term. Forex, largest market, 24 hours, 5 days a week, low capital with high leverage, and then the cons, new sensitive, hard to find a consistent edge, and of course, it's unregulated in some brokers. Crypto, 24/7, low capital, it's also flexible, but the cons are high volatility, very minimal regulations and security risk as well. And then finally, we have options, low capital, leverage, defined risk, flexible strategies, and then the cons in this case, complex, time decay, and requires a strong understanding of price. But these are some of the main asset classes that you look at when you first start trading. My personal favorites and what I like to look for is stocks, futures and options. I personally don't dabble in forex or crypto just because of the regulations. There's a lot of unregulated brokers where you can deposit money into offshore brokers that are unregulated, and you can lose your money without even trading or you can't withdraw your money. So be very cautious if you're trading forex or crypto. You don't have to worry about that happening with stocks, futures, and options as it is all regulated. So, let's take a look at an example here. So what should we use? As I mentioned, I like trading stocks, futures, options, I'm going to list out the pros and cons and exactly how much you would make given the instrument that you're trading and based off that information, you can form your own opinion and choose one of the following. Starting off with number one, we're going to trade the stocks, which in this case, we have the QQQ chart pulled up, better known as the Nasdaq. And as you can see right here, what we have is a break and retest above our previous day highs, and we're looking for a continuation towards the upside. So let's say, for example, right here, we get an entry at $650.50. So we enter 100 shares right at this level, and our target in this case is just a predetermined level, which happens to be 653. So, let's say, for example, just to make it nice and easy, in this scenario, we have 100 shares. So you do 100 times $650.50, which gives us $65,050. Our exit in this case is $653. So we do 100 times 653, which gives us $65,300 for a total profit of $250. So we do our exit price minus our entry price, and it gives us $250. Of course, this is not including commissions and other things as well. And as you can see, we have this nice trade towards the upside, and the great thing about trading stocks is you can see it right on the underlying itself. You don't have to calculate the options contracts. All you can do is just look at the stocks and whatever the price is is what you're paying for. And of course, the capital is where we're talking about no margin. Now, let's go on to the futures. So, the futures chart in this case, which is the NQ, the Nasdaq. So the futures in this case is derived off the Nasdaq as well, but this is just a different asset class. So this is the futures contracts. Futures contracts if you don't know what they are, I have a full beginner's guide going over exactly what futures, options, and stocks are, so make sure to check that out. And as for the capital that is required, we're talking about no margin in this case. Each point of NQ equals $20 per point. So let's say our entry in this case is 26,900. We entered in one contract. Since one point is $20, what we're going to do in this case is times 26,900 by 20, which equals $538,000. In this case, our exit is going to be 27,000, at one contract. So 27,000 times 20 gives us $540,000. We do the exit price minus the entry price, which gives us a $2,000 profit. So as you can see right here, the capital required is going to be $500,000, but that's the total amount that we control. Of course, when we're trading futures, there is something called margin. We're going to talk about that a little bit later here. But as you can see, this is how the futures contracts move. Very similar thing to stocks is that you can just look straight at the futures contracts, and this is exactly how much you're paying per contract. And finally, what we have is the stock options. So in this case, we're back on the QQQ chart. And when we're talking about an options contract, one contract equals 100 shares. So let's say, for example, this is the exact same trade that we ended up taking earlier, the break and retest above our previous day highs. In this case, we're trading the options contract. So instead of trading the stock, we're trading the stock options, which options are very leveraged instrument. So let's say we have an entry in this case, it's at 110. This is how much one contract costs, and what we want to do is multiply by 100 to give us a total dollar amount. So we do 110 times 100, which gives us $110. And then in this case, our exit is at 220, so we times that by 100, which gives us $220. So we do the exit price minus the entry price, which gives us $110 in profit. And that was only using one single contract. The great thing about options is you need a very small amount of capital, and options in itself is already leveraged, and the contracts can be very volatile depending on the expiration, depending on the strike price as well. So we just went over three different types of trading instruments. We went over the stocks, the futures, and the options. And as you can see right here, what we're going to talk about is how much capital you need in order to make the amount that we had. So starting off with the stocks, we needed $65,000 in capital. The profit was $250. If we're trading futures, we need $538,000 for a $2,000 gain. And then, of course, if we're trading options, we only needed $110, and that gave us a $110 profit. So strictly basing off percentages, options, of course, is our best option in this case. Of course, options are highly volatile, but if you can understand and have a proper system that allows you to catch these momentum trades, options is going to be very, very beneficial, especially if you're trading momentum names. If we're talking about futures, as you can see, the capital required is $538,000. This, of course, is assuming non-margin. Most of the times when you are trading futures, if you do have some sort of broker, the margin requirements to trade futures to trade one singular NQ is anywhere between 10 to 20,000. Some other brokers only require a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per one mini contract. But what we have to understand is the less margin requirement, the more risky it is. And what we have here on the left-hand side is stock. So primarily stock is made up of your own personal capital. There's usually no leverage involved whatsoever unless you're trading a leveraged ETF, but you're strictly just trading the underlying name. So the amount of capital that you have is the amount that you're going to be trading with. And the next question is, how do we access this capital? Number one is trading prop firms. This has become very popular within the last few years, and it's a very simple way to start trading, especially if you need trade futures. All you need is around $50 to $100 to buy a prop firm challenge. Essentially, what a prop firm is is you have to pass a certain challenge, and then once you pass the challenge, they will give you a certain account. In this case, let's say you trade a 50K funded account, or a $100,000 funded account, they're allocating you this capital, and they're giving you a certain risk threshold. On a 50K account, sometimes they only offer around $3,000 drawdown. So essentially, you have $50,000 to play with, but you only have $3,000 worth of risk. This is something I don't use as often, but this is a very beginner-friendly way, especially if you start trading today. And the next, of course, here is trading your own capital. You can start off with as little as $100, and the amount that you can deposit is an unlimited amount of money. So your own capital is really the end goal. If you start off with trading prop firms, or you start off with a very small amount, your goal is to grow your own capital because there's no rules. The great thing about your own capital is it is your own money. You can withdraw your own money at any given time. Of course, with prop firms, you have to pass challenges, you have to hit certain thresholds in order to withdraw the money, and a lot of times when you are trading prop firms, it's a completely different game and it builds bad habits. So when you are trading your own capital, it's actually your own money. So to simply put it, no matter where you're at, eventually you want to trade your own capital. You want to trade with small size right off the bat, and then gradually grow your account from there. If you start off with large capital, let's say you have your own capital, and you come into the markets with $100,000 and you have no clue what you're doing, this is a huge mistake that you do not want to do. Because you have no clue what you're doing. If you have no edge in the market, you're going to lose that money regardless. So it actually be much better if you start off on prop firms because you're only risking $50, which is the prop firm challenge. If you blow up $50, it's not end all be all. If you trade with $100,000 and blow your $100,000 account, you lose $100,000, and that is a lot of money. So if you don't understand what you're doing, trade with a very small amount. You can trade, you can trade a demo account, you can trade a paper account, and then you can start with prop firms, and then finally, once you have an edge in the market, you can start with your own capital, and then slowly grow your account from there. And next, we're going to go on to is my full strategy, and we're going to talk about one of my favorite setups, which is the previous day high and previous day low strategy. Starting off with step number one, what we want to do is mark out the high and the low on the daily candle. So as you can see right here, we're on the daily chart. We're going to mark out that previous day highs, along with that previous day lows. Once we have this marked out, then we can go on to the next step. The next step in this case is refining our levels, slash box in the previous day highs and previous day lows. So as you can see right here, we have the previous day highs blocked in, and we have our previous day's lows blocked in. And we can do this on the 5-minute chart, we can do this on the 15-minute chart, or even the one-hour chart. All we're doing is just looking at the levels, we're drawing it from the wick to the body, and we're going to drag it over. Step number two, wait for a clear direction in the market. So once we have our previous day highs and previous day lows drawn out, what we can do is look for that break above with a clear direction towards the upside, or break below your previous day lows for a push towards the downside. And you can do this on the 5-minute time frame. Wait for a candle close above or below the previous day lows. In this case, you can see we're breaking underneath our previous day lows on the 5-minute time frame, or you can see in this case, we're breaking above our previous day highs with a strong candle close. Next, what we want to do is wait for a retest off our previous day highs or previous day lows. Wait for weak price action/confirmation, which we're getting here currently. And as you can see, we have our entries, stops and targets. We're going to have our entry right off our previous day lows. Stop is going to be a break above, and now we're going to be looking for continuation towards the downside. And the exact same thing plays out towards the upside, but it is the opposite. What we're going to do is wait for the retest off our previous day highs. Now, what we're going to do is wait for strong buyers to step in here off that previous day high's level. Once we get that strong confirmation, entry, stop is going to be a break underneath that previous day high's looking for that continue push back towards the upside. And that is exactly how to use previous day high and low strategy. Now, let's head on to the charts to show you guys exactly what this looks like in real time. So, as you can see right here, we're currently on EMD, we're on the daily time frame here, and what we're going to do is mark out that previous day highs along with that previous day lows. Once we have this marked out here on the daily time frame, then we can go on to the 15-minute time frame to refine our key areas. In this case here, we're on the 15-minute time frame. I'm going to drag this high all the way down in towards that previous day highs, as for the downside, I can mark out this whole general area and use this as our key level towards the downside. So as you can see, coming into market open here on AMD, we're breaking above our previous day highs, also breaking back above this high that we created here on Monday. What we like to see here now is the retest above our previous day highs for that continue push towards the upside, just because AMD is bullish on the higher time frames. We're breaking above our previous day highs. We want to see this level be used as a retest for that continue push higher. Now, let's play out the tape coming into market open. As you can see right here for AMD, we're getting that nice push down in towards our key levels, which is that previous day highs along with our Mondays highs here. What we're going to do is wait for some buyers to step in.
[15:05]As you can see right here, we finally have that candle closed back above our previous candle. So this is where we can go long. We're long 100 shares. Our stop loss can be a break underneath this 288, and we can look for high of day plus continuation back towards the upside. In this case, let's look for a one to two risk reward ratio here on AMD. So, as you can see right here, we're on AMD on the 5-minute time frame, and we entered in 100 shares. If we were to stop out on this trade, we would lose approximately 218 bucks. And if we were to win, we would win $462 just based off of this risk reward ratio. So let's play out the tape. And as you can see right there on AMD, we end up having that nice take profit right in towards our key areas. So in this case, we would have ended up making $462, if price were to hit our take profit, risking roughly around $220. So this is if you trade the stock. Now, let's pull up the options chart right beside it. So, as you can see right here, we have the underlying on the left-hand side, which is AMD, and we have the AMD contracts pulled up, which is the 19250 calls. As I mentioned, in this case, we risked roughly around $220 to gain $460. If we were to trade the exact same AMD contracts. So, for example, let's say we took the 29250 calls, and we wanted to risk roughly $220. So, if we were to buy the contract, let's say on average, it was $5.50. In our risk in this case was all the way back down in towards that 288 on the higher time frames. Let's say I roughly we would lose $1 per contract. So our stop loss on the options is $4.50. So based off this math, we can have, let's say, two contracts of AMD. So we'd lose $200 if price came all the way down in towards our stop loss. And now let's say our take profit is all the way back up in towards this 294. At this very moment, once price hit our full take profit, you can see the contract in this case would be closer to $8 a contract. So if we had two contracts at a $5.50 average, and we sold the other two contracts at an $8 average, that essentially means for every contract, we made $250. And if we times that by two, that means we would make over $500 on this exact trade compared to the stock, which is $460, which is roughly the same as if we have 100 shares, that's the same thing as having two options contracts. But the main difference here is, of course, the amount of capital. If we were to trade the option contract, we would only need to put up roughly $1100 compared to the stock, if we were to trade 100 shares at a 289 price, we would need over $28,000 of capital in order to put on this trade. So you can see the power of options in this case is we only need to put up $1100 to make $500 compared to putting up $28,000 to make $460. And that is the power of options right there. Of course, if you had a $28,000 position size on AMD, our gains would be extremely, our gains would be a lot larger, but of course, that comes with a lot more risk.
[18:18]And that brings me to my next point. And my next point here is understanding risk to reward/win rate. So as you can see, you've probably seen this cheat sheet plenty of times before, but this is a very good understanding of exactly where you are on the profitability chart, if you're profitable or if you're not. So based off of your trading statistics, you can have anywhere between 40 to 50% with a round, a 1 to 1 all the way to a 1 to 3. If you're in this area, specifically trading the break and retest, this is a very good spot to be in. And this is where I personally lie. On any given month, I can be closer to the 40% range with a 1 to 2, the trades have been well and I'm reading the market nicely. I can have closer to a 60% win rate with a 1 to 2, maybe a 1 to 2.5 risk reward ratio and above. But this right here is very important to understand, because as you can see, if we have a high win rate, that means we need a lower risk to reward to become profit. Of course, if we have a smaller win rate, in this case, 20 to 30%, that means we need to make it up with the risk to reward in itself. I personally am a trader that likes high risk to reward trades compared to having a high win rate. I know a lot of people like being right more often, so they're going to opt in for having a higher win rate and locking in more profits compared to having a higher risk reward ratio. And as you can see, these are my trading statistics this month so far. I'm up $51,000. I have a 52% win rate, 3.29 profit factor, 63% day win percentage along with an average win to loss ratio of close to three. And as you can see, on average, I'm risking around $2.5,000. This, of course, is my P&L graph here as well. So based off our calculation, I essentially have made over 20R. So 20R, $2,500 with the risk per trade, gives me $50,000. If we're basing off our multiple, if you have $100 worth of risk at 20R, that gives you $2,000 on your account size. And of course, if you're risking $30 per trade, and you have 20R, that gives you $600. So no matter if you have a $100,000 account, or if you have a $100 account, what matters is your R multiple. How much you're willing to risk on a given trade, and based off my numbers, if I was to start with a $100 account, and based off this calculation, if I was to start with a $100 account, risking $30 per trade, I would increase my account from $100 to over $700 within one month. And this, of course, is the calculation based off my trading statistics that I have right in front of me. With that being said, I hope you guys found some value out of this video. I hope you guys learned something new. And if you did, I appreciate if you guys drop a like and sub, and I'll see you guys all next week for a brand new video. Peace.
