From No Trading Plan to Funded Payouts: Jaša’s Macro Mentorship Story

Where Jaša started

Jaša did not arrive as a beginner. He arrived as someone who had already put in years and had little to show for them. In his own words, once the first payouts landed:

“Every sleepless night and all the work I put in for the past couple of years is starting to show.”

Jaša came into the mentorship with years of effort behind him, but without a trading process he fully trusted. He could analyse charts and identify opportunities, yet his decision-making remained fragmented: there was no consistent sequence for forming a view, selecting the right market, defining risk and reviewing the outcome. The problem was not effort or ability. The different pieces had never been organised into one repeatable method.

What Ken diagnosed

From the opening sessions, Ken’s diagnosis was that Jaša did not need another collection of setups or more disconnected information. He needed a clear decision-making sequence: understand the market environment, narrow the instruments, define the invalidation and risk before entry, then review each trade against the plan rather than simply whether it won or lost. The work was about turning what Jaša already knew into a process he could execute consistently under pressure.

What they worked on

This is the process the desk builds with a mentee. Jaša’s sessions concentrated it on EUR/USD and GBP/USD, which is the chart on screen in the call above.

1. Read the regime before the chart

   Rates, inflation, the dollar, risk appetite and positioning. Five lenses, in that order, before a single level goes on a chart. The chart is where a view gets expressed, not where it gets formed.

2. Narrow the universe

   Trade the pairs the macro actually speaks to and leave the rest alone. For Jaša that meant concentrating on EUR/USD and GBP/USD rather than spreading across everything that moved.

3. Size so the winners are bigger than the losers

   Fixed risk per idea, targets set by structure rather than by hope. A win rate around half only pays if the winners are meaningfully larger, and that is a sizing decision made before entry, not a hope held after it.

4. Define invalidation before the entry

   Where the idea is wrong gets decided before the position exists, so closing it is an instruction rather than a judgement call made under pressure.

5. Review against the record, not the memory

   Sessions are reviewed against the actual trade record. Recollection flatters, a spreadsheet does not.

What changed afterwards

During the documented period from February to June 2026, Jaša passed both FTMO evaluation stages and received ten documented payouts or rewards across two firms. The FTMO Challenge in February, full Verification in March, then five rewards running from 2 April to 16 June, alongside five payouts at a second firm on a separate $90,000 allocation.

The important point is that this was not one isolated payout. The records show repeated FTMO rewards across April, May and June, alongside five payouts from a second firm. That does not guarantee what happens next, but it provides a more meaningful record than one exceptional month and gives Jaša a documented foundation from which to continue building.

The documented record

Every headline figure comes from a firm-issued reward certificate, payout confirmation or authenticated account dashboard. The running total is the desk adding up FTMO’s own reward documents, and at two points FTMO’s separate overall-rewards document confirms that total independently.

1. 26 Feb 2026

   Passed the FTMO Challenge

   Phase one of the FTMO evaluation, cleared. The first time the process held through a formal prop-firm evaluation with defined profit targets and drawdown rules.

   

2. 12 Mar 2026

   Passed Verification, account funded

   Phase two, cleared fourteen days later. That completes the full FTMO evaluation process. From this point, every reward entry below is supported by a payout or reward document issued by the relevant firm.

   

3. 2 Apr 2026

   First reward, $535.83

   Three weeks after the account was granted, the first reward is documented. The reward record from here runs April to June.

   FTMO documented total$535.83

   

4. 30 Apr 2026

   Second reward, $1,963.71

   The second documented reward, roughly four weeks after the first.

   FTMO documented total$2,499.54

5. 15 May 2026

   Third reward, $2,835.29

   The first point where FTMO’s own overall-rewards document independently confirms the running total. The desk’s addition and the firm’s aggregate agree exactly.

   FTMO documented total$5,334.83Confirmed by FTMO’s overall rewards document

   

6. 1 Jun 2026

   Fourth reward, $2,011.17

   The second independent confirmation point. FTMO’s overall-rewards document for the same date reads $7,346.00, which matches the four documented rewards above.

   FTMO documented total$7,346.00Confirmed by FTMO’s overall rewards document

   

7. 16 Jun 2026

   Fifth reward, $2,429.23

   The most recent documented FTMO reward. Five rewards across the April to June period.

   FTMO documented total$9,775.23

   

Additional Ufunded evidence, source dates not visible

These records come from the second firm. They are kept out of the dated timeline above because the source screenshots do not show a date, and the desk will not imply a precision the evidence does not carry.

Date not visible on source

The all-time report below is the firm’s own aggregate: five payouts totalling $3,914.43 on a $90,000 allocation, at a 50.00 per cent win rate. An earlier dashboard in the archive shows the same account at four payouts and a 48.28 per cent win rate, so the win rate moved as the record grew. Both are included rather than only the flattering one.

What the evidence proves, and what it does not

In his own words

“So happy I took the Mentorship man, thankyou. Now first payout and then new challenge.”

“It’s only May 5th and I already made freaking 6k through all my Funded combined. That’s my biggest win yet. I just can’t believe man.”