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PodcastTrading Nut | Trader Interviews - Forex, Futures, StocksOctober 7, 2026

His Simple Method to Extract $20,000 Payouts From Prop Firms w/ Joseph Pena

Pena treats prop-firm challenges as a disposable, horizontally diversified cost-of-business arbitrage rather than accounts to preserve.

  • Horizontal vs vertical trading: Pena spreads ~$1,000/month across multiple prop firm challenges (e.g. Lucid) rather than risking one personal account, aiming for $15,000-$20,000 payouts per cycle.
  • Disposable account mindset: He never 'marries' an account, expecting to lose a funded account after roughly three or four payouts, then rebuying challenges and repeating.

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