Short version: I had a working strategy, but my mindset kept destroying my payouts. Automation with Claude Code changed everything.
"Your strategy is profitable, but your mindset keeps costing you your payouts?
Automation with Claude Code is the answer."
I'm a young professional working in the engineering field, with a long-standing passion for daytrading and technology. That combination — the rigor of a technical mindset paired with a deep interest in the markets — is what pushed me to seriously dig into the subject. And it's also what made me live, like many others, the classic trader's trap: a mindset that sabotages an otherwise valid strategy.
For months, I fought with prop firms. I had identified what I believed was a clear edge — a strategy on MNQ that did its job in backtest and paper trading. On paper, I was already profitable.
Live trading was another story. I'd pass the eval. I'd start the funded account. I'd make my first gains. And then... something shifted in my head as the payout got closer.
I'd skip perfectly valid trades "just in case". I'd move my stops because "it'll come back". After two losses, I'd double size to make it back. One bad day would wipe out two weeks of patience. Account gone.
I blew multiple prop firm accounts that way. Not because my strategy was bad. Because my mindset sabotaged execution every time there was something to lose.
I'd known for a long time that automation was the answer. The problem: I didn't know how to code. Learning Pine Script or Python is a 3-6 month learning curve. I had neither the time nor the patience.
When I discovered Claude Code, everything changed. I'd describe my strategy in English — "I buy when price touches the EMA 20 in an uptrend, stop loss at 2 ATR" — and Claude would output the complete Pine Script. If it didn't compile, I'd copy the error, Claude would fix it. In one day, I had my first strategy running live via TradersPost.
And then the miracle: the algorithm doesn't feel payout anxiety. It takes the trades I would have skipped. It holds winners to the target. It cuts losers exactly at the stop. No hesitation, no revenge trade, no tilt.
First payout cashed in with my automated strategy. Not because the strategy got better. Because the no-human-mindset version could execute what my human mindset would sabotage.
I've seen too many traders in the same situation as me. A strategy that works on paper, a mindset that destroys live. Forums full of people saying "be more disciplined" as if that's a solution.
Discipline doesn't save you. Live trading psychology is hardwired in your brain (loss aversion, goal-gradient bias, ego depletion). You can know it intellectually — live, you'll still feel it. The approach we propose is to remove the emotional decision moment by handing execution to an algorithm that feels nothing.
Tradelo shows you exactly how I did it. Not a theoretical method. The concrete workflow I use today:
The entire Level 1 is 100% free — we don't want any beginner showing up at a prop firm without these foundations. Module 1 of paid Levels 2-3 stays free to test the quality before buying.
Brutal honesty:
I'm a prop firm trader like you. I struggled, I blew accounts, I found a method that works for me. I'm not a hedge fund manager or a professional trading coach with 20 years of experience. I share what I've built, that's it.
If you're looking for a guru promising you millions, you're in the wrong place. If you want an honest, tested, reproducible workflow — welcome.
Question before buying? hello@tradelo.app