College student by day, trader by night. At 11:00 PM, after wrapping up his daily routine, the US market opens and his trading session begins.
Trader "Seong-gong-hae-yo" is in his third year of trading. He started with crypto futures and shifted focus to prop trading Nasdaq futures this year. What stood out in his performance review was his exceptional patience—holding positions for half a day or longer.
Yet reading his interview reveals an opposing rule operating on the other side of that patience: hold for half a day when the setup demands it, cut without hesitation when it fails. Here is how those two principles coexist in one trader.

Q. Hello! Please introduce yourself and walk us through your trading journey.

A. Hello. I go by the handle 'Seong-gong-hae-yo.' I’ve been trading for 3 years. I used to trade crypto futures frequently, but starting this year, I’ve been focusing on MNQ (Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures) with prop firms.

Q. How did you feel when you received your Payout approval email? Did you brag to anyone first?

A. I kept the celebration to myself. I was simply glad to have unlocked a new path to generating consistent returns.

Trader Seong-gong-hae-yo, with net Payouts exceeding 6 million KRW in a single month

Q. Your profits are heavily concentrated between 11:00 PM and the early morning hours. Why do you focus on trading at night?

A. As a college student, daytime is taken up by classes and daily commitments, so trading in the evening naturally became the routine. Plus, the biggest moves happen around the US market open, so aligning my trading to capitalize on that volatility made the most sense.

Q. Finding your current edge in the Evaluation stage must have involved trial and error. How many attempts did it take to pass?

A. As I recall, I passed my first 25K account on the first try. But after purchasing a 50K account, I failed about three times before passing. Holding on to losing positions was my biggest issue. Now, I trade without fear of taking losses—once price hits my predetermined loss limit, I cut it immediately and step away.

Q. If you cut losses short, your winning trades need to pay out significantly to make the math work. How do you identify high-reward setups?

A. My win rate isn't bad, but my weakness was letting losing trades drag out to painful levels. That's why I now focus heavily on maximizing runners when I catch a solid entry. The key to hitting large gains is a top-down approach—confirming trends and patterns on higher timeframes first.

Q. You hold positions for an average of over two hours, sometimes for half a day. What is the secret to staying disciplined through such extended holding periods?

A. My strategy builds trade plans around directional bias on the 4-hour and 1-hour charts, which naturally leads to longer holding times. Because the timeframe is relatively high for day trading, I keep my size modest—usually 2 MNQ contracts on a 50K account, maxing out at 4. To stay psychologically grounded, I define my invalidation zone and dollar risk beforehand, and I never oversize.

Q. What indicators do you currently keep on your charts?

A. I’ve tried various tools, but these days I only reference Bollinger Bands and the RSI.

Q. Conversely, do you have any strict "never do this" rules?

A. Emotional impulse trading without assessing risk-to-reward, and doubling down out of stubbornness on a losing position. Those are my absolute red lines.

Q. What is one thing you gave up for trading, and one thing you gained from it?

A. On days without a regular schedule, I spend most of my time studying charts at home, so social interaction takes a hit—it can get lonely. What I gained is a tangible path toward financial freedom and the competence to read broad market structure.

Q. What did you like most about LifeUp, and what would you like to see improved?

A. Being able to trade directly through TradingView is a huge plus. The downside is that multi-account trade copying isn't supported through TradingView yet.

Trader Seong-gong-hae-yo's minimalist trading setup

Q. Finally, if you won first place in the lottery, would you still trade?

A. If I won the lottery, I would park most of it into cash-flowing, conservative assets, and continue trading steadily with an appropriate size until reaching my net worth target.

Even with a lottery jackpot, he would allocate the winnings to safe assets and trade 'steadily with appropriate size.' For someone who rejects gambling even when handed overnight wealth, his rule against stubborn revenge sizing is clearly not lip service.

He openly acknowledges the isolation of sitting before charts late into the night, yet when asked what he gained, he cites 'hope for financial freedom.' A 3-year trader whose handle—meaning 'I will succeed'—sounds like both a greeting and a personal mandate. LifeUp will continue backing him until that mandate turns into 'I have succeeded.'