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title: 'How To Day Trade Starting With $100 (Full Tutorial)'
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# How To Day Trade Starting With $100 (Full Tutorial)

> Source: [How To Day Trade Starting With $100 (Full Tutorial)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SSxTZKhAkG0)

## Summary

This video teaches how to start day trading with $100 or less using a simple, repeatable strategy focused on futures and crypto. The presenter shares a rule-based system involving change of character and fair value gaps, emphasizing risk management and consistency over high win rates.

### Key Points

- **Earning potential and starting small** [00:01] — The presenter makes $3,000-$5,000 per day but started with $25-$50, emphasizing learning the process before scaling.
- **Goal of the video** [00:28] — Share a full strategy to start trading with $100 or less, requiring 1-2 hours per day, focusing on simplicity and repeatability.
- **Consistency through rule-based system** [01:47] — The presenter uses a simple rule-based system with small losses and open-ended winners, being wrong about half the time but capitalizing when right.
- **Choosing the right market** [03:09] — Compares stocks, futures, forex, and crypto. Stocks require high capital; futures and crypto offer better leverage and lower capital requirements.
- **Capital requirements comparison** [05:35] — Shows how stocks need $47,813 for a trade risking $100, while futures and crypto with leverage reduce capital to a few hundred dollars.
- **Prop firms and leverage** [10:48] — Prop firms allow using theoretical capital for a fee; leverage allows controlling larger positions with less money, but risk is calculated based on stop loss.
- **Step two: Simple repeatable strategy** [14:34] — Strategy involves waiting for 9:30 AM NYSE open, identifying change of character, then fair value gap, entering at midpoint, with stop loss outside the gap candle.
- **Take profit and risk management** [19:41] — Set take profit at 1:4 risk-reward, move stop loss to break even after a close above structure high. Examples on S&P 500 and crypto show consistency.
- **Advanced profit targets** [25:37] — Using higher time frame fair value gaps can yield 1:8 risk-reward. With 20% win rate on 1:4 trades, breakeven; 30-40% win rate leads to profitability.

### Conclusion

Starting with $100 is feasible using futures or crypto with leverage, focusing on a simple, repeatable strategy based on change of character and fair value gaps. Consistency comes from risk management and letting winners run, not from high win rates.

## Transcript

day and can make anywhere between three to five thousand dollars per day. But, ago when I started trading. I was feeling lost, [music] confused, frustrated, losing money in this process. Wasn't until I built a simple
twenty-five to fifty dollars, [music] learn the process, and then scale it to actually become a profitable trader using this simple [music] process. Okay, don't realize that you can actually start with a hundred dollars or less,
learn the right strategy, the right process, how to make it repeatable, and time. So, in this video I'm going to share the full strategy and process of starting trading with a hundred dollars or less so that it's simple, repeatable,
it can be done with [music] one to two hours of work per day. Okay, so the goal is by the end of the day to show you how to start trading with only a hundred dollars, even less if you want, and be able to focus on this in a systematic
way, only have to do this for one hours per day. Obviously, if you want to do more, you can. Sometimes I'm trading for a good part of the day, other times I'm show you exactly how that's the case, but overall this can be packaged into
and repeatably. But, first I'm going to cover what instrument it makes sense for capital and what you're looking to do. Then we're going to get into step number two, which is the simple repeatable trading strategy that is the framework
to show you what I've been able to do over the past couple months. And then step three, how to actually apply this daily to be able to start growing your account. The goal is to keep this simple and repeatable. I can't emphasize that
enough. The more you can focus there, the more you can add once it actually is want to be. But, if you start jumping around or doing too many crazy things in the beginning, it's going to be too hard for you to be able to get to that point
Okay, and with this framework that I'm going to be sharing with you, I've been able to have really good consistency and results in my trading by focusing on a simple rule-based system, by keeping all of my losses really small and tight and
allowing my winners to be more open-ended. And you can see I've done this where I'm wrong about half the time on my ideas. And you're going to understand as you get into trading, it has almost nothing to do with being
capitalize when you're right and how you can protect yourself when you're wrong. that are, you know, showing themselves make millions of dollars a month. To me, I don't know if that's really going on or not. I'm just a normal guy. I'm on my
encourage that from you guys, too, is to not draw so much comparison and just this video, being able to start small and then letting yourself scale at your own pace, in your own lane, on your own timeline. Comparison is the thief of
own journey. But I basically just want to share what's helped me because in the way. Okay, I spent three years of my life basically wasting time because I didn't understand it could be way more simple starting off, but that's just
That's what I'm going to be showing you in this video cuz for a long time, my trading was very inconsistent and would ultimately just lead to me burning cash going to show you, knowing what I know now, what would I do basically starting
figuring out what is the best market to trade for you. So, the major ones for trading are going to be stocks, futures, Forex, and crypto. Okay, stocks are very well regulated and very liquid, meaning it's easy to get in and out of markets,
but the bad side about stocks is there is a really high capital requirement for you to be able to make your trading account. You need a ton of upstart of leverage and you're limited only from
9:30 to 4:00 Eastern Standard Time, five days a week. So, you're a little bit limited in those hours where, you know, some people are working, etc. Futures, substantially better leverage. You're basically trading very similar
instruments to stocks, basically almost the same exact thing. There's a few gaps take a break, but basically you can trade it 24/5, which opens up a little bit more availability depending on your schedule. It allows for leverage. Not
we can use different things to do that. Okay, that's a bit of a separate discussion. Forex, on the other hand, is a large market, also 24/5, low capital to start. However, it's very news sensitive, and it's hard to find an edge
geopolitics really well and why different countries currencies are going very volatile, very unpredictable. Okay, and then you have crypto, which is open 24/7, so it never closes, a low capital
amount of capital, and as long as you understand how to gain access to very small amount and make it very effective. Okay, so what we're going to be primarily focusing on is futures and crypto for the reasons that it doesn't
it's more predictable than something like forex. You can trade this with any these two things, specifically crypto. And the reason that we're focusing on these two groups of assets primarily is because we're able to find opportunities
immediately in the day. Sometimes it happened fairly quickly that are going are going to allow us to play into edges in the market to be able to position profit. Okay, so if we're able to enter out of the New York open into our gap
with our other criteria being hit, then we're able to set our position up to hold the profit, keep our risk contained down here underneath a sweep low. This I'll show you me taking this in real time. Once again, you can see it was
able to provide me this opportunity. Okay, so once again, I'm going to show you don't understand what I'm saying. I'm going to get into that a little bit. trader, whether you're going to using stocks, futures, or crypto. Okay, and it
really boils down to number one, how much capital do we need? And number two, how much are we looking to make each time we're placing a trade and in each individual trading session. Okay, so if we were to try to take this position, so
this opportunity that I took just a few days ago, even risking $100 using stocks, basically what I'm doing when I'm calculating positions is figuring setting our risk if we're wrong about the trade and price ends up moving down
we're taking the dollar amount that we want to risk, say in this case is a two values. Okay, and that's going to give me 555 units or 555 individual slices of that stock to even
first place. So, if we're entering in at 8515 with that many individual units, the capital requirement on this trade if we were to be trading with stocks is $47,813 only to try to make 573
risking $100 on the downside. This is if we're just using the stock market. Sometimes, the broker will give you, say for example, 2x in form of what's called margin, which can drop your capital requirement for the trade down to, say,
20 3,000 dollars. But if you're using 23,000 dollars to try to make 500 dollars with a hundred dollars worth of risk, it's really hard to start with a actually count at all. Okay, so you really just need a lot of upfront
capital with stocks. If we look at something like futures, it operates a take an equivalent scenario. Once again, if we're entering in on a position here, we set up our risk amount, we're calculating this value minus this value
to get our stop loss value. We have our profit target value from our entry up to when you buy a contract, you're basically paying to maintain control of lose value. Okay, and if each one of
these values is a point, each contract is going to be worth five dollars either gain or loss per point traveled. So, if we're calculating the risk by subtracting these two, we get 5.75 points, which times the five dollar
amount is going to put us approximately at 28.75 dollars worth of risk per contract that we hold. And what we're trying to do on the profit side is 5.78 times our risk, which would equal that 166.25. Now, with
fractional contracts. You have to either round down or round up. But say in this example, if you were able to hold about four contracts, now if you operate those contracts based off of where you're trading, usually it's about $50 of
what's called margin that you need to keep per contract that you're operating. in your account and you wanted to operate four contracts, that would mean you need to maintain a $200 margin buffer. And if you have a $100 stop
loss, approximately, that means that if your total position of four of these contracts dropped down to your stop loss, your account buffer would only go to 300, in which case you're above that $200 worth of margin to be able to
you can see now the capital requirement is substantially lower. Pretty similarly with crypto, okay, if we take this trade example where we're entering right here, looking for price to come up. We set our risk down here. And say in order, okay,
this should say 15. Sorry about that. Okay, so if we're calculating, once Okay, so if we're calculating, once again, 86.12 - 85.94 to figure out how going to give us 0.81. If we want to risk, say for example, $100 divided by
0.81, that's going to give us a requirement to purchase at this level 555 units. Now, what's different about crypto is that even if I'm risking or aiming to risk this $100, technically my
capital requirement is this amount to attempt to make the $578 I'm basically able to use something called leverage. Okay, and basically, leverage is the exchange allowing you to use multiples, usually ranging between 1
and 50 or even 100 of the capital that you're using, which is effectively dividing the value required for you to actually enter into the position. So, if would bring our capital requirement all the way from up here down to a much more
manageable amount. And then if we say go use something like 100x leverage, now our capital requirement in order to risk $100 is about $473 there is some nuance to that. I'm going to explain how leverage works here in a
second. But basically, if we wanted to start with $100 and take this same exact if we want to start with $100, we're not going to risk $100 on the first trade. But if we have proof of concept of a
strategy, say we want to risk something like $20 on a trade, even though that that's still a lot, okay, that would now require 111 units, which would require require 111 units, which would require about $9,500 in order to make 115. With
100x leverage would bring the capital requirement down to about $100. Now, I'm can start a lot smaller. If you want to start with $10, $5, or put a couple hundred dollars into an account, say $300, and you're able to start with you
Okay, it's always going to come down to what the individual is comfortable with. Okay, but leverage is going to give us better access to capital, and that's and mastering this access to capital is going to allow you to be able to start
actually make the trades count once you there's two main ways that traders can do this and get access to larger amounts of capital. So, the first is through something called prop firms, which I'll
just discussed with leverage, but I'm going to go into a little bit more detail explaining how this works. So, starting with prop firms, basically what prop firms are are there companies that allow you to use a theoretical, say,
allow you to use a theoretical, say, 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 dollar account. And as long as you're following their risk, you can pay, say, 50 to 100 dollars to use, in this example, 50k worth of capital. And effectively, what
you're able to do is start with using that amount of capital if you're able to pass an evaluation. And say their rule says that you can't lose more than 2.5 thousand before making 5,000, you can effectively pay, say 50 to 100 dollars
as you're following all of those rules, and you're able to get to your profit to the point where any profit that you make over here within their rules, you're now able to take either all of it or a profit share of it. So, it's going
size if you know your strategy works without needing [music] a ton of upfront capital. And if you end up failing, you're not liable for the capital here. All you're liable for is the fee that you paid to start this evaluation.
to reattempt it, but it keeps this upfront capital requirement very, very small in order to try to scale once you know your system and strategy actually works. Leverage works a little bit differently, but also gives you similar
theoretically a thousand dollars in an account, if you were to just buy something and hold it, in order for you to lose that total thousand dollars, down and go to zero for you to be
allowing you to do is move this liquidation up to higher levels. So, explain how leverage works. A lot of people think that leverage automatically is risky. Okay, but it actually doesn't really matter that much if you
trading, which is what I'm going to try to explain to you today. Okay, say I wanted to buy something with 4X leverage. All it's doing is taking this liquidation level and moving it up 4X. So, if this is our 50%
this is our 75%. Okay, so now, in order for you to lose your entire investment, price only needs to travel down by this amount versus needing to travel down the entire amount. But, now you're able to use 4X the size. So, if we look back at
an example like this, as long as that liquidation value is outside of where your stop loss is going to be triggered, you're not adding any more or less risk. All leverage is doing is allowing you to use less amount of money in order to get
more size to take the specific trade, but as long as you're calculating your risk with this, the $100 risk is $100 whether you're using $10,000, $50,000 in thousand. Okay, so we can see as an example, say I wanted to enter in here,
okay? In order to risk $100, that would require me to enter with 384 units, which you can see would cost $32,000. If I change this, say up to 50, now the
capital requirement is $679. You can see once again if I go up to 100, now you can see that capital requirement is $357. Okay, and in order for me to get liquidated off of just $972
that is in this example account, price would need to travel all the way down to 8180 in order for me to lose the entire amount. So as long as I'm calculating my risk off of my position, it doesn't matter whether I'm using this much of my
own money, or at 10x if I'm using 3200, or if I'm paying the whole amount, we're still risking only $100. Okay, most people don't understand this about covered how to evaluate what instrument is right for you, we're going to move on
to step number two, which is going over the simple repeatable day trading every single day, and the goal is once again, repeatable, simple, keep the Okay, so first I'm going to show you the model with diagrams, and then I'm going
to go over real applications of where this is happening and how repeatable it to go over all the past days, and you're going to be able to see how often this is going to appear, and if you're framing it properly, how repeatable it
can be in multiple markets. Okay, so the first step, we're going to be waiting for 9:30 a.m. That's when the New York Stock Exchange, which is right down there, opens. And what that's going to do is that's going to increase market
people start buying and selling, institutions are placing their orders. There's a lot of movement, a lot of opportunity if we can position ourselves and what I'm looking for is something called a change of character. And what a
change of character is is basically where we see a trend developing where we have price moving down, up, down, up producing a low. And then that price is now rejecting off of that low and actually coming up and moving above this
going to see we have a downtrend over here. Price is coming up, comes down to this low. We have a high here. And then you can see we have a push in a close above this level. Okay, this gray level is right where the 9:30 open happened.
1-minute time frame, which means that each one of these candles is showing me 1 minute worth of price move. Okay, the next step of this process is now I'm waiting for something called a fair value gap to appear. Now, a fair value
gap is basically where we have a sequence of 1 2 3 candles where the wick of the high candle does not overlap with the wick of the third candle and it leaves a space in here, which is called a fair value gap. And there can be
bullish or bearish fair value gaps. So, the same thing in the opposite direction if we have 1 2 3 bearish candles, in which case my black candles, the first wick and the third wick have an overlap space, which is now a bearish fair value
directions. Okay, in step three, what I'm doing now is I'm waiting for the midpoint of this fair value gap to develop. What this is going to do is develop. What this is going to do is allow me to enter right at the 50% of
this fair value gap after we have this change of character level. Because often times what's going to happen is price is going to come into this midpoint and if it responds off of it, it's going to close above this level and then continue
to make highs. Otherwise, it's going to absorb all of the orders in this area and continue to move lower. Now, the reason fair value gaps are important is because basically this is showing us an area of momentum. And often times when
there's momentum, there's an excess of people making a decision in one place additional orders that may have been skipped through where price is going to want to seek equilibrium at, come down, fill that inefficiency, and then
continue displacing in that direction once those orders have been filled up. impact areas where the market is going to be drawn to, but also, considering we just changed into a new direction, that could be the last stop that price moves
we're trying to target these areas. Now, this alone isn't going to give you everything that you need, but being able to evaluate simple rules and play into these key areas and position yourself accordingly based off of the way the
Basically, this can get more and more advanced as you go, and that's how we making it better and better over time. But, the next step, like I said, we're into this midpoint. We're going to be setting up our entry right here. Now,
there's a few key things that we need to focus on. Okay, so the first thing is placing our stop loss. So, what I'm doing is I'm looking at this fair value gap producing candle, and all I'm doing is trying to place my stop loss outside
of high important areas, but at least comfortably outside of the fair value gap producing candle. Now, I'm going to show you some nuances and some things in common sense based off of trading information to place this, but overall,
we're placing our stop loss just outside of the fair value gap producing candle and placing our entry here. The next thing that I'm looking to do is make sure that once I have a candle close, so as soon as a candle opens and closes
past this level, which is the push up before a pull back down into our fair value gap, you can see we didn't have a close here. We pushed up, moved up beyond it, but we didn't close past it, and then price came back down right to
that's important in a second. What I want to do is as soon as we get this close, whereas we're having a change of character here, if we have a new close in the current trend direction. That is something called a break of structure.
So, as soon as we get a close over this high, that is where I'm taking my stop loss and I'm reducing my stop loss perfectly to my entry level. So, now I have a risk-free trade because I have confirmation of a new high moving up in
we have done it only when we got a temporary move over this high, we would price would have stopped us out for our direction. What I'm doing for my
target is I'm basically starting it at about a 1:3 or 1:4. I have different ways of trailing it depending on market conditions and depending on data. It all little bit too advanced for this video, but I'm just going to show you a simple
way to do this to start off. And that's to set it at a 1:4 take profit. Meaning that once you set up your risk, your reward, you want it to be 4x. Okay, and yielded us in this case three. So, this would have given us $300 worth of gain
while risking $100. Okay, so first example is going to be on the S&P 500, on my chart, you can see this gray area. This is the New York Stock Exchange open starting from 8:00 a.m. pre-market to 9:30 Eastern Standard Time for the New
York Stock Market open. And you can see immediately we have our overall downward happens, we have price push slightly above this area, but we finally have a close here, which is giving us our confirmed change of character. Okay, you
can see this is our most recent fair value gap right here. So, if I set up my into it and then moved out of it pretty quickly. Okay, so I can set up my case, if we set our stop loss right underneath this candle, it's going to be
do is just give it a little bit of space and I'm going to set up my 1:4. So, you'll see this position is in order for us to risk $100 is going to take a quantity of 10 contracts, which means we would need a total of 10 contracts. So,
you want to risk something like $30. Okay, this would bring us down to about three contracts, which we could do with between one and $200. And risking $30, and you can see price comes beautifully down into that exact zone after the
confirmation of this high. This is the level we're waiting for in order to not quite doing it yet. Then you can see price reacts off of that area perfectly and then comes up right out of the open to get us our one to four. That only
open, in and out, catching that momentum. And then even though the don't care. We're just trying to play into momentum if it works out and let it play out into our favor. Okay, let's go to the previous day now and we'll just
cherry-picking dates. We're just going back to the next available day. So, we have 9:30 open. You can see we have our structure here. Candle pushes down, gives us that change of character. In this case, we have our bearish gap. We
can set entry inside of here, comfortably outside this candle. Set take profit at one to four. See, price comes in and fills that exact level, comes down, closes below that low. On this candle, we can reduce our stop loss
to break even. So, now we have a risk-free trade. Okay, and in this case, price comes back up and stops us out for break even before coming down to take lot. That's why we're reducing risk on these trades. Okay, if we go to the next
day back, you can see this would be our area. Price came up really, really close which would have been an amazing trade. Weren't able to catch that. We go to the downward structure here. We have our New York open. Price barely closes above
this swing point. Okay, which gives us our bullish gap. Place stop loss outside of that candle low. Set one to four. Price comes into that level, closes above this low. We bring stop loss to break even. Then price comes down again.
So, break even trade. Play this forward. We have a close over this swing point structure, which gives us our change of character. Entry set up here, stop loss placed outside the candle. Price comes
down into that zone, comes up to this area, we reduce risk to break even, and then comes up and smashes that full take profit. So, that's another 4X of what here, reducing risk in case you're wrong quickly and the momentum is not there,
I'm going to show you in a few more examples here how I can really let these big R. Okay, so now we're doing a crypto example. Once again, we have the 9 30 open. I have my downward structure here. Price is moving around. Basically, we
can't do anything until we either break this level or break underneath this to trade this crap figuring out which direction it's going, I'm basically just waiting until we get a decisive move that is going to allow me to pick a
we're coming up to that area, we don't quite break it. Right there, you can see confirmed change of character. We're going to the first fair value gap, which is right here. Stop loss outside of the candle. TP at 1 to 4. See if price comes
down and fills it. You can see price it just comes down and barely misses that, exact 1 to 4. Okay, so the trade idea was almost perfect. Okay, so if we go to structure here, change of character break over this high. This is a little
trade that I took a few days ago. We have a gap right here right out of the character, stop loss comfortably outside of this candle. Again, you can see right response. There's your 1 to 4 right away. But, let's say even if we were
that first opening candle, we can see we broke out of the structure, price is moving up, no fair value gaps yet. We have a fair value gap here, but nothing we have this level, stop loss placed a few ticks outside of this candle low
into its own range. This is a change of character on the high. So, it's a little not this would be an entry, but just to kind of showcase, price comes down. In stop loss level, so maybe we would gotten stopped out. Okay, price comes
down, test that level, and comes up to that one to four. Okay, so if we look at structure here. This is our change of character level, which you can see New York opens, price closes above the change of character. If we look here,
our first fair value gap is right here, stop loss outside of that candle, take profit at one to four. Price comes in, fills that level, comes up, closes above here, reduce risk to break even, and then comes up through our take profit.
This works a lot of the time. And you'll also see sometimes the price runs four. What I wanted to show you is a simple model that you can just set at profit off too early, and it's a little bit easier. But as you get more and more
hold positions. Okay, so one of the things that I like to do is wait for a 15-minute chart higher time frame fair value gap to take my profit, which in which would allow me to wait for price to come up to that area, then have a
rejection off of that area, which would now allow me to make a one to eight risk reward. So if I'm risking $100, I would be able to make 850 dollars. Okay, because with this model, the goal is to not be right every single time. This is
going to have a lot of losers, sometimes consecutive back-to-back-to-back losers, full days of losses, but the point is is that if we're able to get at least a one to four, sometimes I'm able to get one to seven, one to eight, and we're able
to do that at least 20% of the time. So out of 10 trades, are we able to hit two of those? Okay, even in that case, we are going to be be pretty much break even. So then the goal now turns into how can we be a little bit more
selective and truly find the best trade setups to get between this 30 in 40% range, which you'll see is going to put us into very profitable territory, and that's all we're really trying to do is just make sure that we're on this side
So if you look at one of my weeks, for example, even not trading every single day, just allowing myself to let the winners run, I do have losing days as well, but on good weeks, I can end up say eight total R, sometimes even more.
50% win rate, but usually it's around high 30s to 40s. It's still early in the year, but even with this week with a $100 worth of risk, it puts you inside this capability. Or with $20 risk puts you in this capability. And obviously
good day. Some days you'll have losers, some days you won't find trades at all, but just steering in this direction, you can see even if we can achieve in this to put you into once again that profitable stage. Okay, so I wanted to
YouTube to be able to get started with this infrastructure, but as you get into professional trading, there's a whole lot more things we can do to be more trades run, to be able to scale accounts, and know the whole inner
the private side of our team. You can see Kevin was able to have an amazing month. Okay, you can also see Eli executing and using that as well, cuz to get started with the process to be able to see if it's going to work for
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