One Prop Trader a Day – Episode 140
Nakibar Zaman
Nakibar Zaman is a 22-year-old futures trader from Barpeta, Assam, India, who trades NASDAQ and sometimes ES (S&P 500) using order flow. He passed his first funded account on 5 February 2026, took his first payout in July 2026, and has since traded with E8 Markets, Tradeify, Apex Trader Funding and many more futures prop firms. Here is his story, in his own words.
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What do you do when you fail more than 50 evaluations and still refuse to quit? Nakibar Zaman, a 22-year-old futures trader from Barpeta, Assam, in India, trades NASDAQ and ES with order flow, passed his first funded account in February 2026, and has since taken payouts from E8 Markets, Tradeify and more. In this interview, he explains why he locks his account once the daily target is hit, how he reads volume, delta and gamma levels around the 9:30 EST open, what a gap down over a weekend taught him, and how he explains his work to family who think a trader is a gambler.
Intro & Origin
Hey yoo, wassup everyone! My name is Nakibar Zaman. I’m 22 years old, I’m from Barpeta, ASSAM in INDIA. I’m a Futures Trader and I usually trades NASDAQ but sometimes I trade ES (S&P-500) using Orderflow.
I passed my first funded on 5th February 2026 but was unable to take any payout, I kept trying again and again and took my first payout on 6th July 2026 from E8 Markets Futures side, and then some payouts from Tradeify and so on. So many things changed over the time, I was following my strict plan with proper risk management and whenever I was making required profit I used to lockout my accounts for rest of the day which prevented me from giving back my profit that I made. So sticking to a strict plan helped me a lot.
The first thing I bought was 5×50,000 dollar accounts from a firm, SierraCharts 12 month subscription and options flow data subscription.
The Grind
Before getting funded I failed 50+ evals but one thing I kept in mind that I should never give up.. I should do something big to earn big… and believe in myself.. These thought helped me keeps on grinding until I get a payout.
most expensive lesson was “never keep your profit on table” so what happened was, I was in a open position and at that time I was trading my real account on exness, I was in a long was in the profit on Friday so I expected a higher price but unfortunately on Monday it opened big gap down and I blew my real account. So that was the most expensive lesson that I learned when I was earlier trading CFD.
Of course yes, if you are not prepared mentally then you can literally get emotionally toll by the market. So now I usually take a break whenever I had a bad day or the market keeps on consolidating, I go outside, touch grasses, roam here and there and keeps myself away from my trading system.
How You Trade Now
I have traded with E8 Markets, Tradeify, TopOneFutures, Apex Trader Funding, FundedNext Futures, Blueguardian Futures, MyFundedFutures, Topstep, Lucid Trading, AquaFutures. These were from futures prop and here are some CFD prop firms that I traded earlier was Blueguardian, Maven trading, aqua funded. The one thing I love the most is a larger drawdown, big payout cap and the firm with good max allocation like Apex which allow 20x funded accounts.
I use OrderFlow to trade for which I have different and fast platform like SierraCharts which provides me with a lot of advanced tools. Some of the tools I use is Volume profile which allow me to see where how much transactions happened, TPO profile which allow me to see where most business happened, Delta profile to see who is dominating the market buyers or sellers, big trades indicators which allow me to see large executed contracts by big players and much more. I also use options level to add an extra layer of confirmation, so this provides me with gamma levels. I usually trade at 9:30 EST market open where most of the big players participate. So using all these I trade Nasdaq at 1m timeframe or 32 range chart.
My days starts 1hr before 9:30 market opening est, I come and look liquidated zone like previous day high and low and also overnight high and low, the look for big orders and mark those levels. So after that when market open I looks for zero gamma, call wall and put wall for options level, then when market opens I look for certain reaction like absorption or aggression at key levels which allow me to decide if market will continue or rotate there and trade according to that I look for 1 or 2 high quality setup and done for the day.
My most recent losing trade was the one I took yesterday, it was a full ranging Monday, I used gamma levels to look for an absorption of sellers it did reversed from that level but buyers took back the control and it was a losing trade, I looked for another setup but day ended ranging up so I simply locked my account, closed my trading system and move away from it. I should have avoided the ranging day but it was fine. I took a small loss and stopped myself as there’s always a fresh new day upcoming.
My biggest milestone was my 800 dollar payout as it was my dream to get it and now I am planning for higher targets like 5 figure then 6 figure and as on, because after my 800 dollar payout I took more than 3,000 dollars payout so my 4 figure was done there.
Life & Reflection
Not really because I can’t directly say that I am a day trader, because for them a trader means a gambler who lose everything they have. So I just tell them that I work with a foreign financial companies and managing their accounts. Which makes a bit more sense to them.
The moment I enter in this trading industry I made a promise to myself that I will never give up. That’s what kept me alive because I saw many people who came in as to make money as a side income and lose everything and get out losing money. I was never like that I came in to make it a full-time profession.
I will simply open a live accounts use the 50% of the money to trade and 25% in any real estate business and rest 25% as an emergency funds. And after some time I’ll turn 500,000 dollars to 1 million dollars+ and invest more on businesses.
My take on the firms
I have traded with E8 Markets, Tradeify, TopOneFutures, Apex Trader Funding, FundedNext Futures, Blueguardian Futures, MyFundedFutures, Topstep, Lucid Trading, AquaFutures from which I passed accounts from E8 Markets, Tradeify, Apex Trader Funding, FundedNext Future and took payouts from E8 Markets and Tradeify.
Verified funded – the receipts
Challenges passed – the receipts
About the writer – Nakibar Zaman
Nakibar Zaman is a 22-year-old futures trader from Barpeta, Assam, India, who trades NASDAQ and sometimes ES (S&P 500) using order flow. He passed his first funded account on 5 February 2026, took his first payout in July 2026, and has since traded with E8 Markets, Tradeify, Apex Trader Funding and many more futures prop firms.
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