Iman’s Free Trading Guide for Beginners and Experienced Traders
I want you to succeed, I have no course to sell you, and I have clear instructions for navigating every phase of the trading journey - from pure beginner experimentation all the way to the final development of your trading strategy. I publicly and transparently filmed my entire journey, and, years later and after thousands of hours of work, I’m finally done creating this guide. I am not a full-time trader, but I’m happy with the consistent payouts I’ve received from funded accounts since July of 2024.
There’s only so many ways to say I’ve done the best I can to help. The two videos below this took 6 months to make. There is no hidden motive - use ad-block on YouTube if you want. I’m currently working on improving this page after finishing my 1.5 hour video covering my entire journey. It might look a bit messy for a bit.
If you are completely new to trading and need a general introduction, then start here.
This video covers the most important topics in trading at an extremely introductory level. For example - brokers, indicators, technical analysis, order types, trade placement, journaling, candles, timeframes, charts, pyschology, what to trade (futures, Forex, crypto, stocks, options), general advice, and more. This is an intro to trading class.
That video has outdated information on my trading performance. I’m certainly no trading guru or full-time trader, but I’m very happy with the consistent payouts I’ve received from prop-firm funded accounts since July of 2024. In 2025, I surpassed $24,000 in payouts 🙂. This is my full prop-firm trading guide, and this is my trading strategy. If you’d like, you can explore those after this initial guide.
Ready? This is the full guide (and pretty much my life’s work)
I recorded my entire trading journey from the day I first started as a beginner. Because of that work, I was able to create a 1.5-hour-long trading guide backed by LIVE clips from every phase of the journey. Here, you’ll learn how to experiment as a beginner, make the first draft of a trading strategy, experiment and test ideas, and then finally execute the final version of your system. How? Because I filmed myself going through ALL of it for years, and I now understand where I went right and wrong. It took me 4 months to make, and I’ll never make a more important video. This is everything - I genuinely cannot be more helpful.
The video is timestamped to navigate sections as needed. For example, if you’re not a beginner, then you can skip the first experimental phase and get right to everything on creating your trading strategy (including tweaking an existing one).
Becoming profitable is up to you - NOT some trading influencer.
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you read indicator or trading strategy?
RSI, EMAs, Keltner channels?
Supply and demand, opening range break, smart money concepts?
All popular trading strategies (like supply and demand) and indicator-based systems have already been automated with 100% precision, and you can actually find most of them for free on TradingView. So, why would someone give away an algorithm that perfectly follows the rules of a “profitable” trading strategy? Because they don’t actually work on their own. Of course there are profitable algorithms, systems, and indicators, but they’re not being sold for $15/month to retail traders! Imagine how silly it would be for Jim Simons’ massively successful algorithmic hedge-fund to start selling a trading bot or indicator.
They wouldn’t give up their edge for $15/month, because they’re too busy using it to make billions!
This video has been embedded to start at the section that clarifies the difference between systematic vs discretionary trading systems and what’s required to succeed with them.
Yet, there ARE profitable traders using indicators and these strategies!
So, how is this possible, and what exactly is going on? Most traders don’t last long enough to understand the answer:
The system or pattern either works, so automate it and become a millionaire
Or:
The system only works when you choose how and when you will or will not follow it, making discretion what truly makes that system “work.”
A full introduction/guide to trading futures or options
General terms, how everything works, what to trade, and more
Personally, I believe futures are the best to trade for many reasons, but you already know that because you watched the 1-hour guide up at the top of this page! Right? RIGHT?? Futures have no PDT rule (you can day trade with less than $25,000), fantastic liquidity (great bid/ask spreads), flexible trading hours, and more. Options allow for many different strategies of varying degrees of complexity. It’s what I started trading with, and documenting my use of the opening-range-break strategy with options is the whole reason my channel started.
For Trading Futures
For Trading Options
Trading influencers, YouTube videos on day-trading, who to follow, what to watch, how to not get scammed, and important info
You learned from the first section that nobody is giving away a system that works without discretion, so, when you buy a course, you’re paying for a broken algorithm. Most courses contain some helpful information, but all of the real learning is actually up to you. The only value a course has is the information that you learned for free in the beginner guide at the top.
I know several consistently profitable traders. None of them sell courses, mentorships, or private communities.
Please watch the video above, which will teach you about the red flags for a fake guru. You should now understand the specific information and value that can be extracted from trading videos. However, it’s not that simple. You are at a very high risk of completely ruining any chances of succeeding by following advice that is blatantly wrong. That is why it is essential for you to watch the video where I exposed the “#1 day trading podcast in the world.” It’s not an exaggeration to say that just by understanding the fundamental differences and the implications of systematic vs discretionary trading, your understanding of trading will be greater than most trading influencers.
EVEN IF THESE TRADING INFLUENCERS WERE PROFITABLE (they’re not), WHAT THEY’RE SELLING CAN STILL BE LEARNED FOR FREE.
Once again, I am asking you to let me help you 👽
I spent thousands of hours and multiple years learning to trade through pure experimentation and without ANY outside influence. That means I did a lot of stupid stuff, and I also learned a LOT about crucial topics that others don’t discuss. I poured my entire life into this and became hyper-obsessed for several years, so please benefit from the lessons, breakthroughs, and realizations that I turned into videos in order to benefit others.
And, only once the simulation environment is no longer of use…
I think prop firms are the best way to eventually transition yourself to real money, or maybe you stay with prop firms like me for the advantages they offer. MyFundedFutures (guide on them here) is currently the cheapest and easiest path to funding in the entire prop firm industry. However, just like with a personal brokerage account, do not start with real money until you are ready. I have made a complete prop firm trading guide here.
Join my Prop Firm Discord with constant 50k account giveaways (only if you use firms)
Completely free to join and takes maybe 10 seconds to enter ⏬
I started the Prop Firm Center Discord after my video on Apex Trader Funding made them shut down their Discord server to public chat. I wanted a place for all prop users to have a home and to discuss trading, firms, issues, news, and anything else (without getting banned by crazy moderators). Plus, MyFundedFutures lets me run free giveaways there!
Why I trade through prop firms instead of risking my own money
The firm takes the loss, but you keep the profits. Sort of. Read below.
Risk-free trading
You pay a set price to take an evaluation (hit a profit target before the max drawdown), and, if you pass the evaluation and follow the rules, you are guaranteed funding. If you fail the funded account and lose the firm money, you don’t pay for any of that (the firm does). You just have to take another evaluation if you want to get funded again.
Less pressure
Since the only costs from you are paying to take the evaluation, you can’t lose anything beyond that. So, rather than being paralyzed by fear while trading with your own money, you can trade with the firm’s money. That makes it safe and easier to trade with larger sized positions. It’s much easier to trade when the money being risked isn’t yours!
