--- title: '5 Steps to Scale Your Trading Account from $500' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=0G4EoNoozOc' video_id: '0G4EoNoozOc' date: 2026-07-27 duration_sec: 1255 --- # 5 Steps to Scale Your Trading Account from $500 > Source: [5 Steps to Scale Your Trading Account from $500](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0G4EoNoozOc) ## Summary The video outlines a five-step process to scale a trading account from an initial $500 deposit to managing a $1 million account through a broker's funded trading program. The presenter, Ramón, shares his personal experience using the Axi Select program, emphasizing trend-following strategies and disciplined risk management. ### Key Points - **Starting with $500** [00:02] — Deposited $500 of own capital, withdrew over $4000 through trading. - **Step 1: Deposit with a Broker** [01:28] — Choose a broker with a funding program. Axi Select allows scaling from $500 to $1M capital. - **Step 2: Activate Funding Program** [03:35] — Program phases: Seed ($500 funded to $5000), Incubation ($20k), Acceleration ($100k), Pro 500 ($200k), Pro M ($1M). Rules: earn 7% in one month with at least 20 trades, max 10% drawdown. - **Step 3: Be Profitable with Trend-Following** [07:30] — Use trend-following strategies on trending assets like gold, Nasdaq, S&P 500, and USD/JPY. 90% of price moves are upward, so buying pullbacks or breakouts works. - **Step 4: Strategic Plan and Risk Management** [10:40] — Risk 2% per trade in Seed, Incubation, Acceleration phases to pass quickly. In Pro 500 risk 1%, in Pro M risk 0.6-0.8% to preserve capital. - **Step 5: Maintain Long-Term** [15:18] — Focus on preserving the $1M account. Target 1% monthly or 10% annually, yielding $80k profit. Use automated robots for consistency. - **Current Status** [19:13] — After 10 months, reached Pro M phase. Account currently down 0.75% due to sideways market, but long-term positive. ### Conclusion The video provides a systematic approach to grow a small trading account into a large managed fund, stressing the importance of a funded program, trend-following strategies, and risk management adjusted per phase. ## Transcript trading account with 500 of my own capital and to this day with that account I have managed to withdraw more than 4000 by doing my own trading. In this video, you'll see the step-by-step process I followed to get from zero to where I am [music]. I'll share my best tips at each stage so you can apply them too, since many of you write to me, "Hey, Ramón, money with little capital?" Here's the video you've all into this great content, I encourage you to subscribe when I release [music] this type of content so you're the first to see it and get the information. Subscribe, and let's get started. If you don't algorithmic trader, and yes, that means I'm trading in the myself. These robots allowed me to withdraw over $100,000 throughout 2025 across various accounts, including capital management accounts, funding accounts, and platforms where you can scale your investment. of capital and being able to earn some profits, oh, the profits. In one of those accounts, I'm currently managing a million, and I'm one of only six traders in the world at that level. And in fact, today's video is about this account. I've divided it into five steps, and I'll explain a bit of theory in some of them so you understand the concepts and what needs to be applied. And in some of the steps, I'll also add a practical part where I'll go on the computer and show you some things I want to teach you. The first step is to deposit your $500 with a broker, but there are many brokers online, and it's important to be able to choose because you have two options. The first option is to choose a broker , you have some capital and you want to earn a percentage return at the end of the year, and you want to live off of that, or you want to have your extra income, or whatever. Of course, if we're talking about $500, if we 're talking about making our capital grow at the end of the year, maybe getting 30, 40%, or 20% getting 30, 40%, or 20% isn't a very appealing income; it's not what we about making your capital profitable is that you only follow your own rules, simply by your own rules, but the growth is very slow, as you've seen. The interesting thing, and what this video focuses on, is that we're going to create a track record. This is like a resume. It's about showing the world that you know your stuff and are profitable in trading. It doesn't matter how much money you need. That's why this video is about starting with little capital, because it doesn't matter if you 're profitable, if you demonstrate it with—I mean, it's important that you're use. If you demonstrate it with 100, with 200, with $0, people will trust you after a while. Therefore, high profit, because when people trust you, you'll get more money from these people who trust you, but obviously they're going to set their rules, Some sites will ask you More, other sites will ask for less. The Halel broker I mentioned is where I deposited the $00 to start this adventure, and it which I'll explain in the next steps. To give you an idea, this program funds your phases. I'll explain these phases in detail in the next key section , but know that it rewards traders who perform well. achieve the results I've shown you in this video. The second step is to activate the funding program. As you saw a few seconds ago, I chose an Axi broker, which has a program called Axis Select. I'll explain how to activate it in a few seconds, but what I've included here are the rules I mentioned earlier that this program imposes. These rules, which I 'll illustrate, consist of the following: Up here We can find all the phases, from Seed to Pro-M. In each phase, notice that you'll be funded with increasingly higher amounts of capital. We can see that we start with $5,000, $20,000, $ 100,000, $200,000, 100,000, $200,000, half a million dollars, a million dollars, and you might ask, This money is provided by the broker; they provide it and allocate it to you. You will never see this money. You won't large amount of capital. You will trade with your initial deposit and make small trades. Okay, what are the rules of this program? Very simple. If you start with Seed, you have to pass the Seed phase; you have to earn 7%, meaning you have to earn $5 out of your $500. It doesn't matter 10 trades, or 20 trades. The point is that to pass this phase... In this phase, you need to be above 7%, have been trading for a month (this stage lasts a month), and have made at least 20 trades. Okay, once you meet these requirements and don't drop less than 10% (this is the second rule, the first and strictest is to gain 7% without dropping 10%), what does " without dropping 10%" mean? It means your balance, your trading account, doesn't fall below $400 or $450. If you hover around that, nothing will happen , but you have to gain $35, meaning you have to finish at $535 to move on to the next phase, which is the to move on to the next phase, which is the incubation phase, and so on. through the phases, which I'll discuss in a later step, how to approach each phase. I've applied different this video, but keep in mind these rules so they're clear. Here, for example, you see an account. This is my real Axislet account, where I've accumulated a 55% return with this whole curve here, which is pretty good, quite cool with sweeping strategies. Notice that the maximum drop is 7%. If at any point in the life of my trading account, this had exceeded a 10% drop, it would have... well, what this particular program does is skip you to a previous phase again; it simply penalizes you for one phase . So, rules well understood to be able to move on to phase number three. But first, I'll show you how to the Axislet program in your Axi trading account... Uh, right now I'm in my back office. Here I have a deposited account of 500. You have of account it is, if it's the Pro account, whatever. This is a standard account. You can enter, uh, add capital, which is a bit of the previous step, with these methods of bank transfer, card, etc., etc. And most importantly, here on the left, where it says "tools," you have to go to " Access." I'm going to click here now, and it will take me to my status. I'm in the 1,000 phase, and here you can see my statistics. But you should know that there's a button here where you can start this program and from here reach the minimum they require to enter the first phase, which is phase S. Step number three, mainly, is to be profitable, and you'll say, "Ramón, man, I know, this is what I've been looking for my whole life." It's not give you the best tips and the best information so you can be profitable in trading account. Well, what has worked for me to be profitable, and all my results are more than proven, is using trend-following strategies. And I'm going to briefly explain why. Because trend-following strategies, which obviously operate on trending assets, are assets that the 90% of the time, prices move in one direction, and it's usually upward. So, 90% of the time, if you use a strategy that opens up buying opportunities, whether on pullbacks use breakout strategies, that is, when it surpasses its highs. These are the ones that have worked best for me because most of the time you'll win when that asset is falling. You wo promise you that when it's trending upward, it will more than compensate for all your losses and much more. This is how I've managed to get through so many phases in this program. And the next thing I want to say is that gold is doing very well, the Nasdaq is doing very well, and so on. I'm referring to the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the German DATs in Europe as well. And if you're more interested in Forex, use pairs against the JPI, because the JPI is a very volatile asset; it's the most volatile Forex pair. Volatile, anything that goes against the JPI of the entire Forex market. And what volatility, or rather, direction— we could call it the direction of skill—allows you to do is that it spends a lot of time going up Therefore, when you detect the general trend, simply open trades in that direction. And I also want to remind you that on my talk about gold strategies, NASDA strategies, and USD/JPI strategies, all of which are free on my profile, so subscribe and I use profitable strategies. This one here is the one you saw earlier, you can see that there are upward movements and then phases where it's more sideways. These are trend-following strategies. Next, I want to show you can see gold strategies. These are strategies. Now, each line you see here in a different color represents a different gold strategy. showed you earlier. This is a demo account; I use it to monitor potential strategies to be implemented in live accounts. You can see that it has upward momentum runs and then sideways periods because these types of strategies are profitable when the underlying asset, in this case gold, is moving upward. Obviously, each of these strategies has better and worse versions. Or, I can show you other types of strategies, like those for USD/JPY. Now, the strategies have been loaded, and you can see the lines here. Each line is a different color, representing a completely different strategy. For example, this green one shows an upward momentum, then sideways phases, and then it goes back up . And this is what makes you win faster. Yes, especially if that's what I've done: you four is to apply a strategic plan. And when I talk about a plan, I you can see all the phases you already know from this program. And what I want to explain clearly, besides showing you the capital allocated to you in each phase, is the risk I assumed in each of these phases. Okay, look here at City Incubation; these are the initial phases. This is how I separate them. Then we have Acceleration Pro and Pro 500. And then we have Pro M. Something I haven't told you is that if you, for example, are in the acceleration phase and you drop by -10%, that is, you break the rule—the only rule there is—what they do is demote you. And here's where I got carried away . There you have it. . There you have it. What they do is start the incubation phase again; that is, they don't close your account. don't close your account. The penalty here is that they demote you one level, and therefore, by demoting you, you have another opportunity to invest another 7% to get Unlike a funding account, where when you hit -10% or the The maximum drop is removed. In this program, I repeat, you only drop one level. Therefore, with this information and knowing the maximum capital we're going to manage in each of these phases, I applied a completely different risk depending on the phase. And the risk is as follows. When we're in the follows. When we're in the seat, incubation, and acceleration phases, I risked 2% per trade. Why 2%? You might ask, if you have 5 Why 2%? You might ask, if you have 5 consecutive TRs, you drop to the next phase. Yes, but this way I've also passed the phase with 3 consecutive TRs. Good. Therefore, what interests me in the first phases is passing them quickly because, honestly, you're not going to make much money in seat incubation. These are a few preliminary passes which the program uses to test you a bit to acceleration phase is when you start earning, reaching $100,000 When I'm talking about money, I'm talking about four figures, either per month or when the phase ends. Whatever. So, the phases above, 2% per trade, relatively quickly, at least with the minimum number of days the program allows, starting from acceleration. And here I'm telling you, this is what I've used. Okay, but we could also talk about being able to risk 1% per trade in the acceleration phase as well, right? It depends a bit on your trading level. If you're starting from scratch, then lower the level in acceleration, don't keep it first money. But since I've been in this world for so many years and have some savings from other sources, I wanted to go directly to the pro phase, or as quickly as possible. That's why, up to acceleration, I put in 2% per trade. Then, in pro 500, 1% of the trade. It's true that this slows you down in moving through a phase, but it also increases security in terms of not losing, not having so many possibilities, or further reducing the chances of losing that level. No, I repeat, the punishment here isn't taking away your account. If you 're in the Pro 500 and you hit a minus 10, nothing happens. You go back to Pro, they don't take it away , they don't take away all the work you've done. Okay, you go back to Pro and try again, nothing happens, you can have losing streaks, but the interesting thing here is that you have to be open to the possibility of having a minus 10 streak, that you can go back and then move forward. It actually took me from March 2025 to December 2025 to go from the SIT stage to the PROM stage. It's not the norm. I'm the top, and more people are joining the PROM club. But hey, don't set yourself the goal of doing it in 10 months like I did, but rather set yourself the goal of reaching PRM in a year and a half to two years, which is the most common timeframe. Okay, and The ProM I 've done, which is now the final dollars, and I'm already making quite a bit of money from it. So, I've lowered the risk, taking between 0.6% and 0.8% per trade. From here on out, my capital. I'll talk to you later about the potential returns , but I don't have anything else to add. I'm staying at this level. This is the Acis Elite dashboard for my account, and I want to show you the payouts, depending on the stage I've been in . In fact, you can see that the largest has been $24,000, and this withdrawal was thanks to achieving 7% on the Pro 500 account, meaning managing half a million. These ones here, October and September, these last two, are from managing $200,000. Then the $6,000 one is from managing $100,000, and so on. Back. As I mentioned, in the first phases I only withdrew $247 and $41. You withdraw very little in the first phases because you use the profits to fund your equity account. The five is closely related to how I finished step four in the explanation, and that is maintaining this account long-term. This $1 million account is probably the largest financial asset you'll ever have in your portfolio, in your lifetime. And I say "in your lifetime" because the returns depend on you. That's why I've lowered the risk here, because there are no more levels to increase. And now I'll show you what I can earn simply by achieving these returns you see right now. Keep in mind that in this phase I keep 80% of the profits. That is , if I withdraw 1% from this account, we're talking about $10,000, applying the 80%, I'm keeping... $8,000. Imagine you set up this account, right? I'm going to earn an average of 1% per month. Wow, 1% on average per month on per month. Wow, 1% on average per month on $500 is very little, but 1% per month on a $ 1 million account, where you keep 80%, is $8,000 in your pocket. What salary in Spain today gives you that? And no, I don't want to assign it to a salary, compare it to a salary, but on average, if you could achieve it, which is totally realistic, earning 1% per month, on average, this would come into your pocket every month. If you think of it as another stage, upon reaching it we would be talking about $6,000. And that's how I approach it; the third option is annual returns. I always approach trading with annual returns in mind. I go for higher annual returns of 10% in other trading accounts, but in this one that manages a million dollars, why would I risk going... At a 20% or 30% profit when that could lead to losses of 10% or more? I want to preserve this account. Let me repeat, it's the largest asset you can have from a wealth perspective. Therefore, I significantly reduce the before, and earning 10% a year means I'm and earning 10% a year means I'm earning $80,000 because I trade with robots semi-passive. The trading is entirely passive , but I say semi-passive because I do n't believe anything truly passive exists in this world. And $80,000 is four times the average salary. I think it's five or six times the average salary in Spain. Not bad at all. Very important. This is the largest financial asset you can have. And this here is so you can see that Rabón I'm in the ProM phase. I just sorted it; here, for example, there are 5,812 traders on this list. It's the ranking for this program, and I sorted it from highest to lowest. I'm lower and I'm up there . Well, this sometimes seems random, but I'm along with eight other people who are down here. Notice it says ProM, from now on it says Pro 500. There are eight of us out of 53 in this program at 1 million. And I've used it, I've also see that since I started with 1 million, which was a month or a little less than a month ago, my trading is currently down 0.75%. Look, by reducing the risk I mentioned, right now , for example, in December I finished... I was born at -04 and this January I'm going to My assets that I'm trading are a bit sideways in their strategies. When they pull up, this will turn green at 1.5, at 2%, at 1, at 0.5. But in the long run, throughout 2026, it will most likely end up positive and around 10-15% by the end of this year. I've been talking to you about strategies that I have, a few that I'm using with automated strategies. I haven't shown you this in this video, but I will show it to you in some classes I'm going to do soon if you sign up using the link comment. I've also included the first Axi account. You can start this journey or this path where you can start with $500, reach up to $1,000, and if you can do it with trading robots because there we remove the emotions, and you will learn to create new strategies, all the better. So I'll leave all the information description of this video. And if you liked this piece of content, smash that like button, because this helps can learn real trading with audited and proven results. So see you in the next video, trader, subscribe, don't forget. Ciao.