The Coffee Challenge!

The following is a verbatim copy / paste of a larger post with more market context and ideas:

Well, That Was Fast

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August 1, 2025

Session Lab on amtjoy.com for Thursday’s session - nightly builds and updates should be up soon.

At my current day job, the companies are merging, and we’re going to lose small perks like free coffee and chocolate (yes, chocolate - it’s Switzerland, okay?)

I’m going to attempt to become the company coffee / chocolate supplier with a simple challenge.

The current plan:

1. $1000 account start

2. MNQ only

3. Max 2 contract size (should be doing 1, but I want to work on managing runners / trailing stops, and so on)

4. Daily / Weekly / Monthly profit targets set to $250, or 125 MNQ points (62.5 with two 😉)

As always, I have to constantly remind myself that a month is a LONG time, and 125 Nasdaq points is DEFINITELY achievable within that time frame! To be honest, I’m looking most forward to hitting the $250 lockout - I’m extremely confident I can do it, and can continue working on other things in the AMTJOY universe in the meantime.

Hitting it will mean a fresh restart, and new perspective to my trading. It’s not much money at all in the futures trading world, but hitting this small goal is what I desire more than anything right now.

I just have to prove to myself that I can do it.

-Chris