**$87,000 From Prop Firms in 2 Weeks - Road to $1,000,000 Starts Now (Ep. 1) — Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/87000-prop-firms-2-weeks-road-1000000/ JJ Simon shares his journey turning $87K in prop firm payouts into $1M, showing every trade and payout with full transparency. ## Key Takeaways - Consistency in prop firm payouts is rare; JJ has maintained $100k+ monthly for 13 months. - Transparency is key: showing all trades and payouts, including losses, builds trust. - Trading strategy focuses on pre-open price, break of structure, and reversion setups. - Risk management involves standard 25 point stop losses and profit targets up to 100 points. - Documenting the journey publicly helps hold accountability and educates viewers on real trading. ## What the video covers - JJ Simon earned $87,000 in prop firm payouts in the first two weeks of June. - He documents his goal to reach $1 million in prop firm payouts through a weekly YouTube series. - JJ has been a full-time futures trader for 16 months with over $1.5 million in lifetime payouts. - He trades primarily during the New York session and shares every trade and payout without hiding losses. - JJ explains his trading strategy based on pre-open price, break of structure, and reversion trades. - He emphasizes transparency by showing live video proof of payouts rather than screenshots. - JJ highlights the difficulty of consistent high payouts, noting his 13 months of $100k+ payouts. - The video includes detailed trade analysis from the first week of June with entries, stops, and take profits. - JJ plans to include actual trade pictures with fills in future videos for better clarity. - He encourages viewers to subscribe and follow the series to see his journey to $1 million in payouts. ## Chapters 1. 00:00 Introduction and Series Overview 2. 01:04 JJ’s Trading Background and Consistency 3. 02:19 June Week 1: Monday Trade Analysis 4. 03:22 June Week 1: Tuesday Trade Analysis 5. 04:27 June Week 1: Wednesday Trade Analysis 6. 05:33 June Week 1: Thursday Trade Analysis 7. 06:52 Trade Management and Risk Considerations 8. 16:27 Series Conclusion and Next Steps Answers ## Questions about this video What is the main goal of JJ Simon’s video series? The series aims to document JJ Simon’s journey turning $87,000 in prop firm payouts into $1 million by showing every trade and payout transparently. How does JJ Simon ensure transparency in his trading content? JJ avoids using screenshots or account balances and instead shows live video proof of payouts and every single trade, including losses. What trading strategy does JJ Simon primarily use? He trades based on the pre-open price, break of structure, and reversion setups, using standard stop losses and profit targets to manage risk. ## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown 00:00 Speaker A In the first two weeks of June, I did $87,000 worth of prop firm payouts. This video series is me turning that into $1 million. I'm going to show every single trade and every single payout that it takes me to get there. What's up? If 00:10 Speaker A you're new here, I'm JJ. I'm a full-time futures trader. I trade on prop firms and I have been doing it full-time for 16 months now. I've done over $1.5 million in lifetime payouts. And now I'm going to be running a series from 0 to 00:21 Speaker A $1 million in prop firm payouts. Basically documenting my journey from 1.5 million to $2.5 million worth of prop firm payouts. I've wanted to do this series for a long time. I'm running it on my Instagram as well. I'm a little 00:32 Speaker A bit ahead there, but this is for YouTube. I'm going to be posting once a week. Every Sunday, I'm going to show the exact trades that I took throughout the week in the New York session, as well as every single payout that I 00:40 Speaker A receive. Refreshing the screen, showing every single possible piece of proof that I can. So, no account balances, no screenshots, just videos. Okay, so now why does this actually matter? Well, lots of people online post prop firm content, but they barely even have five 00:53 Speaker A figures in payouts. And some people can get lucky, even exploit prop firms like Apex back in the day to generate millions of prop firm payouts, but no one really has consistency. No one can really do 100k plus a month in prop firm 01:04 Speaker A payouts for 12 months straight. So, uh, I've been able to do it for 13 months straight. And now I'm going to continue the series and personally try to scale that even farther. Obviously, anyone can show you a good week because you only 01:16 Speaker A see winners posting on social media, but I'm going to show you every single trade and every single payout. Most of the time I do have winning weeks because I take probably 80 to 100 trades per week, but I will still show you every trade 01:26 Speaker A from the New York session as well as every single payout. But yeah, let's get started. Here is the first two weeks of June. I'll be posting every week from now on, but I have $87,000 in payouts. 01:36 Speaker A Let's cut to the proof. All right, so here are the payouts so far in June. I have $45,000 received in Rise and then 4.5K more pending. So we're basically at 50k there. Here are these. And then Take Profit Trader. I have 1440 pending, 01:48 Speaker A 13,860 pending, 4,810 pending, and then these two that I already received from Take Profit Trader this month. And here's my Take Profit account. I'll just refresh it to show that these are actually pending. They're not just like fake, whatever. Uh, yep, there's the 02:02 Speaker A accounts that I am, uh, pending payouts on right now. My Funded Futures as well. I have two in progress are basically 4.5K each. And then lastly on Topstep, a little $1,000 payout. Um, but yeah, that should total about $87,000 so far in 02:19 Speaker A June. All right, so here we are starting on Monday, June 1st. According to the strategy, I believe that the pre-open price is fair. And I would take a continuation if we got a break of structure, but, um, there was no structure 02:29 Speaker A broken. It was wicked. So not confident in that at all. And then I would start looking for a reversion back to the pre-open price. And I would enter off break of structure. So structure is here and here. And then there is one here. So 02:43 Speaker A the first structure that we get broken is this one right here. And entry would just be off the break of structure. 02:49 Speaker A Could also wait until here for a stronger entry. But this was just my first entry targeting the opening price gives me 100 points and probably do a 25 point stop loss. Now for Tuesday, same thing. I will mark out the pre-open 03:00 Speaker A price. And in this case, I would take a continuation short because we did break structure right here and here. I would just enter right when the candle closes. 03:08 Speaker A And the opening candle's 53 points. So, um, I would have to do a 50 point stop and a 76 point take profit, which hit take profit right there. From here, I would trade back to the pre-open price just off of a break of structure. And 03:22 Speaker A structure is when a wick is taller than the two next to it, which we just get right here. Obviously, it's taller than these two. And then mark it out. And then there we get the break. I would just enter long right here. And then I 03:34 Speaker A would trade it back to the pre-open price, which is giving 77 points and using a standard 25 point stop-loss. So, very good start to the month with those trades. There is another move up and I'm done trading at 11:00 a.m. So, if it 03:45 Speaker A does jump farther away from the fair price, which is the pre-open price, I will trade another reversion. So, let's see if we get a break of structure. 03:52 Speaker A There is structure here, but it does not break either of these two. Structure here, but no break. 03:59 Speaker A And then structure here. Then we do finally get a break of structure. And I would short going for about 38 points with the standard 25 point stop loss. There's another move up, another break of structure. I would short again right here. 04:16 Speaker A And this one would be the first loss of the month, unfortunately. And then it does hit 11:00 a.m. right here. And I am done trading for the day. Now, on Wednesday, I will mark out the pre-open price. I would not take a continuation 04:27 Speaker A on this candle just because there's a huge wick and it does not break above structure. This candle though does break above the structure up here, but not that one up there. So, it's a really bad setup, but I still took this one. Um, 04:39 Speaker A obviously should not have because it didn't close above all of the structure that it should have, which is this right here. It wicked it. So, um, I got greedy and got punished for that. Anyways, possibility for a continuation short, uh, 04:50 Speaker A here when it breaks structure, but because the opening candle is green, it does go a little bit against my bias for the day. Um, even though high time frame bias is short, opening candle is green. 04:58 Speaker A So, I only like to take continuations in the opening candle direction. But from there, I believe this is a pretty fair price. And this entire move down is unfair. Um, this is not structure. So, this is not breaking anything. Uh, this 05:09 Speaker A is a good move up, but no structure being broken. And then we finally get structure broke right here with this candle here. I would just enter right here. Standard 25 point stop. And then take profit even offers 125, but I 05:21 Speaker A always go for 100. And then this one would have lost. I would then take another entry because we are breaking this structure here and here with this candle. And 100 points would be a take profit possibility as well, which would 05:33 Speaker A unfortunately have lost again. So, there was a really good reversion, but unable to catch it with these two large profit targets. Um, I also send some accounts in for smaller profit targets, so I do hit wins throughout the longer trades, 05:46 Speaker A but I'll just mark out the longer trades. Also, starting next video, I will get like actual trade pictures in here with like the fills and stuff. This is just a recap from the past two weeks. 05:54 Speaker A I just decided to do this challenge pretty recently. And let's get to Thursday. The opening price is right here. There's a red candle. So, continuation shorts are very good, but there's a huge wick and it doesn't close 06:05 Speaker A below the structure here. It just wicks it. So, there's no way I'm shorting that. Uh, learn the lesson from the last day. And then there's a move up. So, I would send something short right here just when it breaks structure. Very easy 06:16 Speaker A trade back to pre-open price. But, it's technically a continuation trade as well, just because the opening candle was red and we're still within 15 minutes. So, any take profit here would work. You could go for 25 just back to 06:26 Speaker A the pre-open. You could go for 50. You could go for 100. Um, I tend not to go for more than 100 as my longest trades though. So any take profit here with a 25 point stop loss. Very, very good 06:36 Speaker A trade. Uh, there's another move down revert. Another move down revert. But there's unfortunately no structure forms here. So we couldn't really take that position if w 06:47 Speaker A structure again trading back to the open which was a loss as well. And then it hits 11 a.m. and then it's trending up and I'm absolutely done reverting for the day. On to Friday, the crazy day. Uh opening candle was red, so bias was 06:59 Speaker A short. And then we got this huge green candle. So I would I would not buy out because the bias is short. I wanted to enter short. I just wait for a break of structure. Obviously huge wick here. Did 07:08 Speaker A not close below. So there's no way I'm taking this. And then we have new structure formed here, but it doesn't break. We're at 30,000 exactly. No break. No break. Then finally we do get the break of this structure. So this 07:17 Speaker A would be a entry for continuation. and it doesn't get hit by 0.5 which is amazing. Any size works there as well for your trade. You could also take this one which also barely does not get hit. 07:28 Speaker A So, two really good continuation shorts if you were taking those and then mark out the fair price as the pre-open price and then start trading reversions. First entry would be on break of this structure which is broken here. Depends 07:42 Speaker A on your takerit. If you're going for 30 points, you'd win. Um I usually go for 100 and then 25 point stop loss and then I lost this one and then there is another reversion here but unfortunately no structure to get in there. More 07:55 Speaker A structures formed here but wick and wick nothing is being broken so I am not interested in going long at all there. 08:02 Speaker A And then it hits 11:00 a.m. So really bad New York session for reversions. Um kind of pretty strong reversions but unfortunately just no entries according to the break of structure approach. If you enter off displacement candles, it's a little bit more aggressive, but you'll 08:16 Speaker A definitely get a lot more setups. Now, on to this week, Monday the 8th, I'll probably show displacement entries the next week as I actually include my personal entries. Um, I just decided to do this series yesterday. So, opening 08:30 Speaker A candle is green, but it's not closing above any structure. So, I am long biased, marking out the pre-open price as the fair price, but I'm not going to take continuations because it didn't close above any structure. Not going to 08:40 Speaker A short because the opening was green. And then waiting for break structure. We do get a structure right here that is broken, but unfortunately it's already back to the fair price. So I can't really buy for like three points in my 08:52 Speaker A favor for a reversion. Another move down structure here, but it's not broken. Structure here. And then we do get a break right there. So this would be my first entry targeting the opening price. 09:02 Speaker A There's also a bunch of different approaches you can do in terms of risk management with my strategy. You could target exactly this price right here. Or you could target a static amount of points like 76 points, 75, sorry, 75, 09:15 Speaker A 38, 37, 50, 100. Like those are very round numbers that work on prop firms because static risk is a little bit better than exact measurements on prop firms. But um obviously depends on your account. Some accounts is better to do 09:28 Speaker A exact, some it's better to do static. And obviously different accounts is better to do 1.5. Different accounts I do two, some accounts I do four. just all that sort of stuff. Anyways, that was the entry there. Loss unfortunately 09:39 Speaker A and then just take another entry here just when we get the next break of structure and then 25 point stop is just something I always do. So the stop is kind of a static take profit. I'll do 38, I'll do 50, I'll do 100, I'll do 75 09:52 Speaker A or I'll do exactly the amount of points in my favor. So 62 in this case. So pretty good reversions on that day specifically right there. Like I mean tons of reversions but I guess the entries weren't the best. And then it 10:03 Speaker A hits 11:00 a.m. and I'm done looking for shorts. All right. Now for Tuesday, mark out the pre-open price. Continuation short. Let's see. So this opening candle is red, but it doesn't close below here. 10:16 Speaker A The next candle does close below here. So it is a better setup than usual because we do get a break of structure. 10:21 Speaker A U take profit. You can go for 50, you can go for I usually don't go for 100 on continuations, but uh pretty easy continuation win right there. And then look for reversion back here. We do get structure broken, but it's past the fair 10:34 Speaker A price. So, I'd sort of be done there. And then structure forms here because this one is lower than the two next to it. So, I would enter short here. And you're getting 37 points in your favor. 10:43 Speaker A So, very, very good trades right there. Just continuation and then reversion. And then there's another move down. I would buy right here off the break of structure. Crazy high volume day. So, you could consider going for 300 points. 10:53 Speaker A Kind of a lot. Um, I'd just go for 100 most of the time. Um, if you're trading evals, you usually don't want 100 points because they have the consistency rule. 11:01 Speaker A So easy win here for evals uh if you're going for like 70 but funded account was a loss for me specifically and then I did another trade which was right here when we broke structure again same thesis as the last one trading back 11:14 Speaker A towards the opening price and then I was done after this move down here because it was clearly not in the mood to revert. Next let's go to Wednesday. 11:23 Speaker A Opening price is right here. Opening candle green. There's a bit of a wick. Um, but continuation longs are not bad at all because it did break above structure. Opening candle 70 points. So, you would definitely use a 50 point stop 11:35 Speaker A and a 76 point take-profit. And then, unfortunately, this one is a loser. You could then take another trade right here when it continues back up again. 11:45 Speaker A And then 50 points on funded is pretty good for continuation or 38 on Eval. Uh, you could also go 76 because the opening candle was so large. This one loses. And then one final one within the first 15 11:58 Speaker A minutes is when I'm done with continuations. There's the final attempt. Finally, it works out. After that, I would definitely look for a reversion back towards the opening price. The first entry would be right here because we Okay, break the 12:09 Speaker A structure barely. So, this is a a pretty normal first entry. Second entry would be just looking for another break of structure. Nothing here until here. 12:20 Speaker A Broke this structure and this one in one. So, that's a good setup. did not win unfortunately. Another break of structure here. 12:28 Speaker A Another break of structure here. And then another break of structure here. So there's a ton of entries that I took on this specific day just because the volume was so large. Like it it ran almost 350 points um on the open. So 12:43 Speaker A tons of opportunities to revert just based on your take profit, based on your stop-loss, based on your entries. Maybe you win, maybe you didn't. Um, I had a a good day on two accounts and then a bad day on all the rest of my accounts, but 12:55 Speaker A I ended net positive because I had good risk management with the bias. And then it hits 11:00 a.m. right here. It's back to exactly what I think the fair price is, which is pre-open. So, I was done. 13:04 Speaker A And then it just kept reverting to and from the the fair price the rest of the rest of the afternoon. Now, on to Thursday. Apparently, that was Wednesday. Mark out the pre-open. No continuation longs here because it didn't close with any structure. Uh, no 13:18 Speaker A structure here. And then we do get a finally break of structure. It is at the 15-minute mark. So, the final candle that I would even consider continuations. Pretty easy 50 point win right there with 25 point stop after 13:30 Speaker A this. Look for reversions back to obviously the pre-open price. This one actually doesn't break any structure. 13:36 Speaker A There is no structure here, believe it or not, because the left one is always lower than the right one. So, no structure. Uh, we get structure here and that is broken right there. 25 point stop. Unfortunately, loss. then re-enter 13:47 Speaker A here just when it breaks this structure and 200 points in your favor. Amazing. So, risk 25, go for 100 points most likely here. Uh, we do get another break of structure, but it's pretty much already back at fair price there. No 13:59 Speaker A breakup structure here. This one's a break, so I'd enter here just like this. And then this one is a loss as well. And then one more entry probably right here just because it breaks this structure. 14:09 Speaker A And then move down. It does hit 11 am. So, I would be done. But it is good to see that it does keep reverting back towards the fair price pretty much all day until obviously a tweet. Now, on to 14:19 Speaker A Friday, last day of these two weeks. Mark out the pre-open price. Continuation short does not break below structure. So, I would probably not take that. This one does break below this structure. Um, you could definitely take this. It's not the best because you are 14:32 Speaker A shorting at the bottom of the move, but I would still take it for sure. End up in a loss, which is fine. No structure here to keep shorting. Uh it does break structure here. So you could take one 14:42 Speaker A more short here just like this obviously with with good risk management. Um and then this was a tweet. So after this tweet there was some consolidation here. 14:53 Speaker A U move up here and then 10 a.m. news was released. So the pre-news price is the fair price. So I was seeing this is definitely a fair price now. Uh so this whole move up would be unfair. I would 15:03 Speaker A definitely be excited to trade a reversion of that. just enter off break of structure which we get the first break here and then you're even getting 185 points. So really good trade number one here which unfortunately loses. I 15:14 Speaker A have no idea why this wick was even a thing because I just reentered when it broke structure again back to the pre-news price and hit an insane trade there. So the good thing about proper risk management is if you lose these 15:24 Speaker A trades then you're only losing your EVA money. So I'm sort of losing like $300 per trade if I'm losing like one EVA worth of a funded account per trade. But then when I win with these very large targets, I'm winning like $10,000 and I 15:37 Speaker A can get a 5k payout from that. So just have a really slight positive expectancy with the strategy on top of prop firms with optimal risk and you can make an absolute ton of money. So that was the first two weeks in terms of the payouts 15:48 Speaker A showed you earlier and all the trades right here for the New York session. If you have any feedback on the series, things you'd like to see, definitely let me know in the comments. I will try and adapt the series over time. I also take 15:59 Speaker A trades in Asian session and New York PM. I can show them as well, but the videos might get pretty long. Uh, it's fine with me if it's fine for you guys. I also post short form day in the life 16:07 Speaker A content on my Instagram as well. It's it's JJ Simon as well. So, I do show like the exact entries there as well as how much I win on each trade. Um, I could also put them in the YouTube 16:17 Speaker A videos, but they would get like very very long. So, if you guys would like that, definitely let me know and I will adapt the series. But I just wanted to provide full transparency on how I'm executing the strategy in New York AM 16:27 Speaker A session and how I'm approaching prop firms in order to generate a million dollars of payouts hopefully before the end of 2026. So, if you're interested in the series, make sure you turn on the notifications and subscribe. Topics: prop firm trading futures trading JJ Simon trading strategy trading transparency trading payouts break of structure pre-open price risk management trading journey --- This is the markdown twin of https://sozai.app/transcript/87000-prop-firms-2-weeks-road-1000000/ — the same content, without the markup. Published by SozAI (https://sozai.app). Reuse and quotation are allowed with attribution and a link back. 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