Pascal Henningsson
Pascal Henningsson is a 22-year-old trader from Stockholm, Sweden who trades stocks and forex on a strict, non-emotional, rule-based strategy, funded with FTMO and MyForexFunds. Here is his story, in his own words.
My name is Pascal Henningsson. I am 22 years old and from Stockholm, Sweden. I trade stocks and forex mainly, but sometimes commodities as well. I became a funded trader for the first time in July 2022.
What changed for me after becoming funded and getting access to the capital was not anything in my strategy. I used the return on my own capital, together with the profits from funded trading, to reinvest fully. The majority of that money went back into the stock market to diversify away from forex and build for the long term, turning active trading income into a much more passive approach. Reinvesting and transforming active income into passive long-term income is a rule I live by.
I only failed once before getting funded. After that I heavily increased my focus on risk management and became much more calculated, using a moving stop loss to mitigate the downside. What kept me going was simple: I knew I was a good trader with a long-term profitable strategy, so the cost of a second account was easy to view as a sound investment given the probability of completing the challenge.
Trading has not affected me mentally or emotionally, partly because I always have other income alongside active trading, including passive investments. Even if I depended solely on active trading, I would set clear rules so I never went into too much daily drawdown. Being happy increases the risk of acting irrationally, and so does being sad, so I keep my emotions outside of trading. I did not change my behavior just because I had more capital available. Taking more risk just because you have more money is an easy way to let emotions cloud judgement.
I can be slightly affected if I lose money on one or several trades, because I am human, but I never let that change my actions or my strategy. Emotions only cloud judgement, and clear rules keep them in check. I let myself feel, but I set firm boundaries so those feelings do not touch anything about how I trade.
My routine is to analyze the market using a strict, time-bound template. For example, around two hours analyzing the market, then 30 to 45 minutes calculating the appropriate stop loss and take profit while executing trades.
My worst losing trade was the Russian Ruble. I traded it before the situation in Ukraine escalated. The trade had a clear stop loss and profit target, but because of the halt in trading availability and the sanctions, it spiked and broke straight through my stop loss level.
The people around me understand what I do for the most part, and most of them also trade stocks, forex or commodities. Trading has impacted my life in a good way. It has given me more freedom to grow capital while using my active time on other money-making ventures alongside trading.
What separates me from someone who lost their third evaluation is the implementation of strict rules that do not get broken. A clear, non-emotional strategy is the foundation of anything that works long term, and minimizing human error should be a priority for every trader. The advice I would give my one-year-younger self is to not only follow the set rules, but also to work more with paper trading, to keep finding ways to adjust and improve the strategy over time.
My goal has never been to trade only prop firm money, and I have never done that. My trading is always diversified so that I am not financially dependent on prop firms. If they disappeared tomorrow, I would keep moving money from my active income into passive income like stocks and real estate, and keep trading forex on my own brokerage account when it made economic sense. And if someone handed me a million-dollar funded account, my answer is simple: my strategy is built on non-emotional rules, so I would do no trading at all unless the platform required weekly activity. Even though I am confident it would not affect me, a small percentage of risk is always there, and the smartest move is to remove that risk entirely rather than expose myself to it.
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About the writer - Pascal Henningsson
Pascal Henningsson is a 22-year-old trader from Stockholm, Sweden who trades stocks and forex, and sometimes commodities, on a strict, rule-based and deliberately non-emotional strategy. Funded since July 2022 with FTMO and MyForexFunds, he reinvests his active trading income into long-term passive assets and keeps his trading diversified so he is never dependent on prop firms.
