Daniel Inskeep

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The anti-guru who shows his work

Inskeep built his audience by testing money-making ideas on camera and reporting what actually happened. Day trading was the one that lasted. His first futures challenge has 4.3 million views, and his head-to-head with Trades by Matt has another 1.5 million. Today he streams NQ every weekday from 9:20 am Eastern, gives away indicators and bot code, and runs Prop Firm Gorilla, a free site for comparing prop-firm plans.

IN DANIEL'S WORDS

Daniel Inskeep's featured video

“I Tried Day Trading w/ a Trading Bot Algorithm” · published Apr 27, 2022 · 1.1M views

Who is Daniel Inskeep?

Daniel Inskeep calls himself the anti-guru. In July 2020 he opened his YouTube channel to find out, on camera, which ways of making money online work for an ordinary person. Fiverr gigs, print-on-demand shirts, NFTs and an Airbnb build in Joshua Tree all got their turn, and he reported the misses as plainly as the wins. Day trading is the one that stuck. Six years on, the channel has 296,000 subscribers and almost 24 million views. What began as an experiment is now a free live stream of Nasdaq futures every weekday morning, plus a free site that helps traders compare prop-firm plans.

Video was his craft long before trading. In 2017 he and his wife launched Mango Street, a photography and filmmaking channel that passed 500,000 subscribers in its first year and later a million. In August 2026 the couple closed the channel with a farewell video, calling it “our dream job.” He also makes music under the name Generation Lost and licenses it to other creators. The hustle goes back further still. In high school, he writes, he slept outside a Best Buy to get PlayStation 3s to resell online. His trading began with put options in March 2020 and a GameStop position the following winter. He credits part of that run to beginner’s luck and set out to learn how to be consistently profitable.

His first futures challenge came in January 2021, when he set out, with no experience, to grow a small account. It ended with an honest admission that he had failed, and it is still his most-watched upload, at 4.3 million views. The challenge became his signature format. That December he spent seven days head-to-head with Trades by Matt, both starting from the same balance, and thanked Matt “for schooling me at futures.” That video has passed 1.5 million views, and a second edition followed in 2024 with Carmine Rosato as the professional. Back in 2022 he shared the five lessons he credits with transforming his trading, and in 2023 a three-part series on the Topstep Combine ended with him funded.

The live stream grew out of that series. It starts at 9:20 am Eastern, 8:20 in Chicago, and runs about two hours through the New York open. The focus is NQ and its micro contract, and lately ES as well. Titles such as “CHILL VIBES ONLY” set the tone. By February 2025 he was trading five funded Topstep accounts on camera. This autumn’s replays log evaluations and funded accounts at several firms, and he shows the red days along with the green. In 2025 he also launched Prop Firm Gorilla, a one-person project (“Us? It’s just me,” its About page says) that lines up the rules and prices of up to five prop-firm plans side by side. The site hosts free indicators and links to his free Discord of nearly 2,000 traders.

In 2026 he has kept experimenting in the open. In the spring he added a run of streams on 15-minute bitcoin prediction markets, and in May he reran his first challenge, five years on. In September he released a free multi-timeframe supply and demand indicator. Two weeks later he published the code that turns his strategy into a bot: an open-source bridge from TradingView to NinjaTrader 8. His advice cuts against his own niche, too. Prop firms, he writes, “are not for beginners,” and they suit traders who are already around break-even. That candour, a camera that stays on through the open, and free tools in place of a course are why traders keep showing up at 9:20.

How Daniel trades

See how the wider prop-trading field is positioned in NQ while you study a method like this: MarketFramework's Positioning Edge shows live long/short splits across ES, NQ, MES and MNQ from real evaluation and funded accounts, and Prop Backtest scores strategies against prop-firm rules.

Daniel Inskeep's career timeline

Prop firms Daniel works with

Every stream description from 24 September to 13 October 2026 carries the Topstep link. From 14 October they send viewers to Prop Firm Gorilla, his own comparison site, and the 14 and 16 October replays add code GORILLA for prop-firm discounts. September and October 2026 stream titles track evaluation and funded accounts at Topstep, Lucid Trading, Tradeify and FTMO.

His stream descriptions also carry partner links for TradingView, Bookmap and Edgeful.

We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.

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