“Trade The Pool has a max daily pause. It stops you and says, that’s it for the day, gather your thoughts, try again tomorrow”
Welcome to another Trade The Pool funded trader interview! Today, we have Sabrina D., a $26,000 funded, scaled swing trader from the USA.
Sabrina D., is a returning, funded trader with a $9,858 payout, bringing her total payouts to $15,263. She’s traded a 24K Swing account that scaled to 26K, proving that swing shorting penny stocks can work with focus and discipline.
She shares how she uses Trade The Pool’s platform to eliminate the psychological strain of risking personal capital, highlighting features like the max daily pause, which helps her avoid spiraling and gives her the opportunity to try again tomorrow.
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Sabrina’s Trading Style
Sabrina is a short-biased swing trader. She targets penny stocks up 50%+ in pre-market and uses dilution metrics, VWAP, and daily chart levels to identify fade setups. Her approach is technical with minimal reliance on news or order flow.
She scales into positions using bounces off VWAP or daily resistance, aiming to hold trades overnight or longer based on entry strength. Risk is managed with stop-limit orders and strict sizing until the trade proves itself. While she rarely goes long, she’s working to build that flexibility.
Her Performance Metrics
Her recent dashboard shows a 5.7 risk/reward ratio with a 23% win rate. Sabrina is focused on payoff potential over win rate. With $15,263 in total payouts, her results reflect a strong application of one’s strategy, even if consistency is still a work in progress.
She admits to missing withdrawal chances by chasing “one more trade” for buffer-building, but those lessons have shaped her focus. She tells us to trade the chart, not the P&L.
More About Sabrina
Sabrina began paper trading in 2021 on Webull before going live in 2022 with a $6,000 TradeZero account. She grew it to $28,000 by 2023 but hit a wall in early 2024 with a devastating $12,000 loss, compounded by the PDT rule. Switching to Trade The Pool, recommended by her mentor, gave her the structure and freedom to focus purely on trading execution.
She credits the max daily pause as a game-changer. Rather than letting losses snowball, she’s forced to reset, and break the negative cycle before it happens, reinforcing her trading discipline.
Sabrina’s Tips
- Picking stocks to trade: “I’m primarily a short seller, so I’m looking for anything in pre-market that’s moving 50% or higher, that already has my attention. I narrow it down by that, along with the dilution for that ticker. I look at key levels on the daily chart. There isn’t much I’m looking at. I don’t rely on a lot of indicators or fundamental analysis—just technicals and dilution. I don’t really look at news or order flow, as they don’t affect how I trade. For the most part, it’s technical… and I guess intuition”
- Swinging penny stocks: “The higher percentage, the better, because then you get a better fader—which is what I would really love to see. But it’s not always the case. The best stocks I like to see are the ones that fade all the way till the end of the market, not even overnight. Then I like to swing them.”
- How to tell if a stock has reached the top?: “You ultimately never really know. But on the daily chart, I like to look for support and resistance levels—those key levels. I try my best to enter around those areas. Doesn’t always happen. I’m not always as disciplined or patient as I want to be, but I do my best to enter at key levels on the daily chart with proper risk. Since we don’t know for sure, you just have to have proper risk. Maybe I’ll risk only like $200 in that area until I realize, ‘Okay, this is it—this was the top, this was the proper level.’ Then I’ll go ahead and scale in. If it’s not, then I had proper risk management.”
Funded Trader, Sabrina D. – Closing Thoughts
Sabrina’s journey shows that profitable trading relies on both psychology and strategy. Her resilience in recovering from losses, adapting to new environments like Trade The Pool, and continue to work on her edge makes her one of our favorite traders to interview
Check out Sabrina’s penny stock short-selling strategy, targeting 50%+ pre-market movers with VWAP and daily chart levels, and how her disciplined focus on charts, rather than P&L, leads to better results.
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