Trading my way to $100k.

Last bull run I tried to flip $1,000 into $100,000. It was working. Then I blew the account in two days, in a headspace where I'd stopped caring, and I went quiet.

That is the exact problem I'm building Temper to fix, and it's why this time is different. The edge was never the issue. Following it when it mattered was.

This time I'm starting with $500 of my own money on a real exchange, and documenting every trade in public. No highlight reel. The red days and the break-even scratches stay in.

The personal account is the farm. It grows at a steady 5% risk per trade, and its profits buy funded prop accounts, which is where the real size lives. Personal trades and funded trades both show up in the daily recaps.

And the scoreboard is deliberately strict: the milestone ladder only counts money I actually withdraw to the bank, net of what the prop accounts cost. A balance can evaporate; take-home can't. The ladder runs $500, $1k, $2k, $5k, $10k, and up to $100k. Bank one, climb to the next. Small, real, and honest beats a moonshot every time.

Every trading day gets a recap: the trades, the P&L, a short video, and Temper's honest read on how I handled the session. Win rate, profit factor, drawdown, all of it, reconciled to the cent on the analytics page. Nothing reconstructed.

The strategy was never the hard part. Following it was. Temper is the app I'm building to call out the rule-break in the moment, before it costs me the account again. This challenge is me putting it to work on my own money, in public. When I ignore it and pay for it, that stays in too.

I'm not starting from zero as a trader. Across my previous challenge I logged a record worth showing. This run is whether that edge compounds up the ladder for real, with the discipline to match.