Yamaç Dinç
Yamaç Dinç is a 22-year-old futures trader from Turkey who blew more than ten accounts before getting funded with Alpha Futures, trading MNQ around volume profile and delta levels. Here is his story, in his own words.
I am Yamac, 22 years old, from Turkey. I started out trading EUR/USD, switched to XAU/USD, and now I mostly trade MNQ and NQ, the Nasdaq futures.
I became funded about two weeks ago. Losing constantly made me think a lot, but strangely it also gave me the courage to place the next trade. My first payout was 70 dollars from an instant account, and I spent it on a great dinner. By Turkish standards even small amounts mean a lot.
I have lost count of how many accounts I failed. Most of them had a 30 to 40 percent win rate, and I have blown more than ten accounts in total. What kept me going, and it might sound cringe, was the fear of not living my life the way I wanted. I did not want to settle, so every loss pushed me even further.
The single most expensive lesson I paid for was around 100 dollars, which is a big amount by Turkish standards. The lesson was simple: never overleverage and never revenge trade. Most of the time when I lost, I would just scale up and enter more positions, and that is exactly what ended in blown accounts.
My lowest point was around December 2025 to February 2026. I had no money, the things I had learned made no sense, and losing 70 percent of my trades made my heart hurt. I considered quitting more than once, but I wanted a great life, so even when that thought crossed my mind I never let it stop me from my dream.
Trading has affected me mentally and emotionally, of course. I stressed about missing trades and would get carried away opening high-risk positions. I always doubted myself: what happens if I am wrong, am I going to lose money, and so on. Learning to sit with that is part of the job.
These days I mostly trade MNQ. I use the 1 hour and 4 hour timeframes for direction and the 1 minute for entries. My tools are delta levels, volume profile, sometimes VWAP, and the value areas of those profiles. My approach is not about predicting every move, it is about waiting for price to come to a level I have marked in my direction.
A typical day starts at 8am New York time. I review what happened in the market overnight and look for my direction. If it is clear, I adjust my weekly, previous-day and developing volume profiles and watch them. With a clear direction I position myself around strong delta levels and the value area highs and lows of those profiles, wait for one to get hit in my direction, and enter on the retracement. If the move goes against my direction, I do not enter.
My most recent losing trade was about three weeks ago. I was shorting the market and had marked everything I needed, but I got my delta levels wrong. Price went through my stop, tapped that delta level, and then ran to what would have been my full take-profit. I was in with two MNQ contracts. What I would do differently is be more careful marking out my delta levels before I enter.
The popular rule I completely ignore is trading every day. I once forced myself to take more than one trade a day and it just sucked the energy out of the work. I do not like forcing trades, because forcing eventually blows the account. If I do not like the price action, I close the charts for the day. I cannot lie though, I love watching the way price moves.
No one around me really understands what I do except the friends I have met along the way. Others tend to call it gambling because it is not guaranteed, which is frustrating. But trading has completely changed the way I think. It taught me that success comes from following a process rather than chasing quick results, and that sometimes the best decision is to do nothing at all. Waiting patiently for the right opportunity has become just as important as taking the trade itself. It has also exposed my emotional weaknesses, especially impatience and the need to be right, and learning to manage those has made me more disciplined and more patient.
What separates me from someone who washed out at their third evaluation is not that I am smarter. The difference is that I was willing to learn from every failure instead of trying to make my money back as quickly as possible. Every failed evaluation taught me something about my psychology, my risk management and my discipline. If I could give myself advice a year ago, it would be this: you are not smarter than most people, but never stop just because you cannot understand a term or why you keep losing. Crying and whining is okay, just do not let your emotions push you into revenge trading. If prop firms disappeared tomorrow I would still be trading, whether for a company or on my own, just with a lot less risk. And if someone handed me a million-dollar account today, I would wait a week to get myself together and then do exactly what I am doing right now.
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About the writer - Yamaç Dinç
Yamaç Dinç is a 22-year-old futures trader from Turkey who trades MNQ and NQ using volume profile, delta levels and value areas, taking direction from the 1 hour and 4 hour charts and entries on the 1 minute. After blowing more than ten accounts, he got funded with Alpha Futures by learning from every failure and building the patience to wait for his levels. He believes success comes from following a process, not from chasing quick results.
