In this episode, I sit down with Dan Cooke to unpack one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about what trading really is — and what it isn’t.

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Dan drops a line early that sets the tone: “Trading is an excellent money accelerator… but a terrible money generator.”

We dive into:

- Why trading should not be viewed as a guaranteed 9-to-5 paycheck

- The dangerous mindset of “I hate my boss, I’ll learn to trade in 3 months”

- Why full-time trading doesn’t have to be the goal

- Using trading as supplemental income instead of a pressure cooker

- How chasing consistency the wrong way destroys expectations

Dan shares his wild origin story — discovering trading while locked down in Shanghai during the 2022 COVID restrictions. What started as boredom and excess savings turned into a deep dive through YouTube University, indicator strategies, and eventually the painful realization that “easy systems” don’t work.

One of the biggest shifts for him? Watching real traders execute live. Seeing the trades happen in the moment — not hindsight screenshots — brought strategy to life and gave him the conviction to finally start.

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- Fear of losing money causing “perpetual learning mode”

- The moment his wife told him to stop studying and start trading

- Why most traders delay execution because they’re avoiding discomfort

- The importance of realistic expectations around payouts

This episode is about maturity. It’s about understanding that trading can amplify capital — but it’s not a salary replacement machine.

It’s about building skill while keeping pressure manageable. And it’s about recognizing that the path to consistency requires execution, not endless preparation.

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Austin Silver sits down with Chris Drysdale for a tactical VWAP Wave breakdown built on auction market theory: markets are either in balance (rotation/value) or price discovery (trend), and the edge comes from matching the setup to the condition across timeframes. Chris explains how he uses VWAP (Globex/weekly/monthly), deviation bands, volume profile/value areas, and POC to find high-probability zones, then executes with defined max risk and targets the next logical level.

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They also hit the real reason traders don’t get paid: overtrading. The payout guys keep it simple—one or two instruments, one or two favorite setups, hit them in an hour or two, then stop. Chris shares practical discipline “hacks,” plus the biggest mistake he sees: calling breakouts too early—wait for acceptance before labeling price discovery.

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First year PROFITABLE!! Tyler Davis and Austin Silver sit down to discuss the journey to achieving consistent trading profits and the learning curve involved in day trading on a live stream.

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Tyler shares his experiences with futures trading, including successful prop firm payouts from firms like Topstep, MFF, and Top One Futures. It's a look into the reality of trading for a living and managing a funded trading account.

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On The Day Trading Show, Austin Silver breaks down what actually drives sustainable success heading into 2026: capital protection, consistent execution, and building a professional trading mindset. The conversation centers on how disciplined VWAP-based trading, proper risk management, and repeatable routines create long-term consistency — especially for traders operating inside modern prop firm environments.

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Randy’s evolution highlights the process in action. One year ago he had zero payouts. Today, he’s stacking consistent prop firm payouts by tightening his daily habits, eliminating emotional decision-making, and surrounding himself with high-accountability traders.

The edge wasn’t a new indicator or flashy strategy — it was structure, confidence, and execution discipline compounding over time.The discussion also explores how today’s prop firms are reshaping trader behavior. With fewer artificial constraints, faster payout cycles, and scalable account structures, traders can focus on process instead of chasing profit targets. VWAP itself is simple; mastery comes from patience, sizing, decision quality, and emotional control.

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In this video, Austin Silver sits down with Brian Shannon for Part Four of their VWAP series ahead of Brian’s keynote at the Futures Bootcamp in May. We dive deep into a powerful trading strategy focused on reacting to market movement rather than forecasting — a core principle of using the VWAP indicator effectively in day trading strategies.

Brian explains why he’s not interested in “buying the touch,” but instead prefers to “buy the bounce,” waiting for confirmation that a VWAP level is holding. They break down time frame trading across the 2-minute, 15-minute, and daily charts, showing how the same approach applies to beginners and experienced traders alike. What separates consistent traders is risk management, execution, and operating without needing certainty.

The episode includes live trade examples, including Brian’s Qualcomm trade management and Austin’s ES execution, plus common trap setups around VWAP and a critical mistake traders make when anchoring VWAP on the wrong instrument.

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Ace (“Ace of Trades”) joins Austin to break down one of the most extreme prop firm success stories in futures trading. He walks through scaling from a $2,000 account to six and seven figures, including a stretch where he generated over $300,000 in prop firm payouts in a single month by running multiple funded accounts in parallel.

Ace details his performance across major firms like Topstep and Top One Futures, discussing leaderboard runs, max payouts, clean months, and how copy trading allowed him to turn consistency into six-figure months rather than one-off wins.

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The core lesson is clear and highly relevant for YouTube traders searching prop firm strategies: risk management beats strategy. Ace explains his “overs” framework—overleveraging, overtrading, overanalysis, overconfidence—and why avoiding them is what led to repeated payouts, not indicators.

He breaks down why straight-to-funded accounts, end-of-day drawdown rules, and scaling through copy trading are the most realistic path for traders who already have proof of concept. This episode focuses on real prop firm payouts, futures trading psychology, funded account scaling, and how traders actually make money with prop firms, not simulated P&L screenshots.

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Most futures traders don’t fail because they lack a strategy—they fail because they’re trading alone, overtrading, and blowing prop firm accounts with zero discipline. In this episode, Randy breaks down his path from struggling futures trader to consistent prop firm payouts, why your first payout doesn’t mean you’re profitable, and why dry spells between payouts are normal in the prop firm game.We talk real futures trading—VWAP, discipline, boredom, ego, and why the goal isn’t trading all day, but extracting money from prop firms without self-sabotage. We cover budgeting for prop firm challenges, trading from abundance instead of scarcity, and why most traders never make it past this phase.

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In this episode, Austin interviews Aaron, a seven-year trading veteran known for his consistency, liquidity-based strategy, and long-standing relationship with Topstep. Aaron shares how he went from blowing his first account following hype signals to developing a disciplined, reactive trading approach focused on simple liquidity levels and quality over quantity. He emphasizes that consistency is not about winning every day—it’s about being a good loser, eliminating low-quality trades, aiming for repeatable $100–$200 days before scaling, and avoiding the emotional spiral that wipes out weeks of progress.

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In this episode, Austin and KV break down the chaos surrounding ProjectX pulling out of nearly every futures prop firm, leaving Tradeovate/NinjaTrader — now under Kraken — as the dominant platform. They discuss how this shift impacts traders, why platforms struggle to match ProjectX’s simplicity, and what the future of prop trading may look like in a more monopolized ecosystem. The conversation also touches on crypto prop firms, payout economics, and whether a new ProjectX–style platform could realistically be built.

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In this episode, Austin sits down with Brian William from Strong Trading to unpack how he went from burning through $50,000 of savings to becoming a consistent ES futures trader. Brian breaks down escaping the boom-and-bust cycle, why sizing down changed everything, and how he built a profitable, repeatable system using hourly levels and continuation trades.

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