341. Trading Nut

How Hans Made $109K in One Day (And Why He Ditched Prop Firms) with Sir Hans Felix

Sir Hans Felix

Eleven years in the game will teach you a lot about the markets—and even more about yourself. In this episode, Sir Hans Felix walks us through his journey from a broke college student eating ramen noodles to managing institutional capital and hitting a massive $109,000 profit day during a single FOMC event.

Hans doesn’t hold back on the realities of trading. He breaks down why he went on tilt in early 2024, how he recovered by going back to his foundational notes, and why he believes the modern prop firm space has become a gamified hamster wheel designed to burn traders out. If you’re tired of chasing endless rules, Hans’s transition back to personal capital will change how you look at funding.

Plus, in the strategy breakdown below, Hans reveals his exact mechanical system for trading US30 and Gold: the Previous Day/Session Retest. You’ll learn how he uses ‘Hold Time Psychology’ to know exactly how long to hold a trade, when to take partials, and how to stop micromanaging every single candle.

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Sir Hans Felix

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Strategy Breakdown

Key Lessons

[03:54] This is basically freedom at the expense of knowledge that is uncapped.
[06:52] You become the liquidity until you find out... why is it that I see a sell and it turns into a buy?
[10:11] One of the biggest weak points that I had... is how to walk away sooner from a loss.
[12:11] Information overload happens when you try to learn everything instead of finding a simplified system that works for you.
[15:11] My favorite go-to setup is the previous session sweep, one-minute or five-minute break and retest.
[23:32] If your exit is not as tight as your entry, you might not make a dollar.
[28:28] As soon as I saw a hundred and nine thousand, I closed everything. Five minutes after, the market retraced all the way back.
[32:20] If you've bought at least ten to twenty prop firm accounts... you could have just kept on depositing that money into a live account.
[36:42] I pay myself about twenty percent of my gains so that even if I mess up, I still did my part in paying myself.
[43:50] I use a method called hold time psychology... knowing how long the setup usually plays for keeps you from micromanaging.