This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Juno.
He walked us through his entire trading journey, from early crypto wins and painful losses to the discipline, structure, and strategy that helped him become a consistent, full-time futures trader.
Juno’s story is one of resilience, focus, and building a process-driven approach that prioritizes freedom over fast profits. In this episode, he shared powerful insights about trading psychology, routines, and how he turned setbacks into fuel for growth.
Juno didn’t start as a structured trader, he became one through experience, reflection, and setbacks. In this exclusive interview, he reveals how discipline and process became the pillars of his trading success.
Juno’s trading journey began during the 2017 crypto boom. Like many new traders, he made fast money during the bull run, but when the market crashed in 2018, everything changed.
By 2019, his gains were gone. He turned to forex, but the strict timing and structure didn’t fit his rhythm. Eventually, he stepped away from trading entirely.
In 2022, a serious health diagnosis forced Juno to reevaluate his priorities. He wasn’t chasing money anymore, he was chasing freedom. That clarity drove him to return to trading with a new purpose.
He discovered futures trading and started studying ICT concepts, focusing on market structure, liquidity, and breaker blocks. But this time, he didn’t just study — he built a system around discipline, structure, and sustainability.
Now based in Spain, Juno keeps a clean, simple routine. He wakes up around 10 a.m., gets coffee, clears his head, and doesn’t open charts until just before the New York session (3:30–5:00 PM local time).
Why the delay?
It helps him avoid overanalyzing or forming bias from pre-market action. This way, he shows up fresh, focused, and emotionally neutral key for consistency.
He ends his day by detaching from trading spending time with friends, hitting the gym, and doing normal life things. For him, that separation between trading and personal life is essential for mental clarity.
Juno’s strategy centers around breaker blocks, specifically “unicorns” — failed order blocks that turn into new support or resistance. He uses these with an indicator that plots the daily candle’s open, high, low, and close (OHLC), creating key zones of manipulation and reversal.
Here’s how he trades:
The method is sharp, data-backed, and built for consistency over hype.
Juno is a big believer that you can’t eliminate emotions, you can only reduce their influence.
His solution? A weekly emotional journal.
Whenever he takes a loss, he asks:
This weekly review habit has helped him avoid tilt, revenge trading, and overconfidence. It’s not about being perfect—it’s about understanding yourself better over time.
“You’re not trying to kill emotions. You’re trying to live with them, and not let them drive your trading decisions.”
Juno credits part of his success to learning from other traders. He didn’t reinvent the wheel. Instead, he took a working process from someone he trusted, and then refined it to fit his own preferences, strengths, and timing.
That’s how his unicorn model evolved: it’s built on solid foundations but shaped around how he likes to trade. In his words, it’s important not just to copy someone else’s playbook, but to understand it, test it, and adapt it.
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Drawdowns no longer shake Juno. When trades don’t work out, he turns to his journal and stats, not his emotions. He trusts the long-term edge.
Even winning streaks don’t throw him off. In fact, he becomes more cautious. Overconfidence is just as dangerous as fear, so journaling keeps him level on both ends.
Juno believes that no matter how structured your system is, trading is never 100% mechanical. As long as there’s a human hand on the mouse, emotion will play a role.
The key is to reduce how often emotion interferes, and to recognize when it does. That’s why he tracks performance and journaling together. The system handles the setup. The journal handles the self-awareness.
Today, Juno is consistently profitable and trades full-time. But his biggest lesson isn’t just about charts or indicators.
“Don’t stress too much in the beginning. If you’re passionate, it will click. Just focus on building your process, and enjoy the journey.”
Success didn’t come from chasing setups. It came from showing up daily, journaling consistently, refining his edge—and letting discipline drive every decision.
Because discipline isn’t just about trade execution. It’s about staying focused through drawdowns, staying humble through wins, and doing the work even when it’s boring.
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Juno’s story is a reminder that consistency doesn’t come from chasing signals or mastering one strategy. It comes from committing to the process, day in and day out, until trading becomes something deeper than just charts and setups.
He didn’t rely on luck. He built structure, tracked his growth, adapted what worked, and learned to stay grounded through wins and losses.
If you’re serious about trading for the long haul, there’s a lot to learn from Juno, not just in how he trades, but in how he thinks, reflects, and lives.
