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Trading·6 July 2026·5 min read

How I Make $6,750 A Week Doing Almost Nothing (Full Method Inside)

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In this article I disclose everything you need to do to replicate these results.

That exact style of headline, big number, full method inside, is plastered across your timeline every single day. If that headline made you click, good. That was the point.

Now let me be the first person in your feed today to be straight with you. Most of the people posting it are selling you a dream they do not actually live. Screenshot at the top, checkout link at the bottom, and if it does not work for you, well, you must have held it wrong.

I am going to do the opposite. The number is real, it is logged in my own platform, and I am going to show you the boring machine behind it, including the part they always hide.

Here is the actual maths, because I am not hiding it behind a 47 page slide carousel:

  • 5 x $50k Alpha Futures accounts.

  • Around $450 risk per trade.

  • 80% win rate mechanical system: 4 winning days ($1,800) minus 1 losing day ($450) = $1,350 per account per week.

  • Across five accounts: $6,750. Run the numbers yourself.

Nothing here is a secret. It is a rule, executed without interference, at scale.

Disclaimer: the number is not fixed. As you can see, some weeks are good, some are bad, some are still negative, some days do not trade at all, but overall it makes money.

A profit and loss calendar of real daily results, green winning days and red losing days, with weekly totals.

And it is linear. The strategy does not care whether it runs on one account or five. Add two more funded accounts, which are cheap to run, and the same system points at around $9,450 a week. That figure is what the maths leads to, not a week I am dressing up as already done. I will always tell you which is which, and that honesty is the whole reason you should keep reading.

Because for a long time, none of this was true for me. I lost. Not dramatically, not all at once. I lost the way most people reading this lose. I had setups that looked perfect in hindsight and fell apart live. I would take the trade, it would go against me, and I would tell myself I read it wrong. Wrong entry. Wrong bias. Should have waited. The method was never the problem. I was always the problem. Everything went against me and I sat there certain the fault was mine.

Self blame on subjective edges was actually the trap. If every loss is your fault and every win belongs to the method, you can bleed for years and never once question the method. I did exactly that.

The thing that finally changed was boring. I stopped trading anything I could not write down as a rule. If I could not define the entry, the exit, and the exact point where I am simply wrong, with no room left for a mood, then I did not have a strategy. I had feelings wearing a strategy's clothes.

So I wrote the rules down and tested them on data they had never seen.

The IB50 setup on a chart: the Initial Balance box, the entry, the stop loss and the take profit.

Most of my edges died on contact, and that was the best thing that ever happened to me, because the one or two that survived were finally real. Not a story I told myself after the candle closed. A number I could stand behind. The $6,750 in the title is what one of those survivors pays.

Here is the part I think you will recognise. The reason most people never make this switch is not intelligence. It is that the discretionary story feels good and the mechanical truth feels like an insult. Nobody wants to hear that their genius reads are mostly noise. I did not want to hear it either. But once you accept it, everything goes quiet. No more ten loss streaks and a red mist blow up trade to follow. No more sitting up at ten at night thinking you are broken. Just a rule, a result, and a cold decision about whether that rule has earned its place.

Now the doing almost nothing part, since scale is the whole appeal. I do not do nothing, and I will not insult you by pretending I do. I did the hard part. I built the system, validated it properly, and automated the running of it, so the day to day is genuinely quiet. That is the honest version of the dream those other posts sell you. It is not free money while you sleep. It is front loaded work that buys you a calm screen and a system you can copy across accounts. That single distinction is the entire game, and it is the one thing the dream sellers will never tell you, because "I did months of unglamorous testing" does not move product.

Everything I got wrong for those years, I have since packaged, so you do not have to bleed for it the way I did.

The IB50 Quantower Automation Kit is the mechanical version of a setup most people trade on vibes. Defined entry, defined exit, defined invalidation, automated.

The IB50 Complete Automation Kit, a 12 page owner's guide for Quantower.

Not a course full of hindsight charts drawn after the move. A rule you can run and judge for yourself.

If you want to start smaller and spend nothing, this free guide breaks down the thinking first.

Everything lives in the marketplace.

Straight with you on the platform, since I know most of you are on TradingView. Good news there: the TradingView version is now live in the marketplace, a manual indicator that draws the setup and sizes it for you. The full automation kit runs the whole thing hands-off on Quantower, which is what I use and what I would recommend if you are open to the switch. Quantower is worth it in my view, but I appreciate that changing platform is a real ask, so I am not going to pretend otherwise.

I am not selling you a dream. In fact I am not selling you anything, I am offering a hand. An alternative path that worked for me, after years of drowning in a sea of courses that led to nothing but more losses. I am showing you a real number, the maths behind it, and how it scales.

Anyone selling you the same figure is only showing the wins and hiding in hindsight, where nothing is ever a rule, so nothing can ever be wrong. A number you can check kills that game.

Learn to blame the method instead of yourself, and you are already ahead of your entire feed.

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