Fede Esses
The Argentine Nasdaq futures trader who built a free 50-day Spanish-language bootcamp and a 39,000-member Discord around one ICT entry model, the inverse fair value gap.
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Fede Esses (Federico Esses) is a day trader and Spanish-language educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who trades Nasdaq futures with an ICT model built on the inverse fair value gap. He created the free 50-lesson Esses Bootcamp and runs both the paid Esses Club and a Discord of about 39,000 traders. He reaches 97,500 YouTube subscribers and 246,000 Instagram followers.
Trades
Nasdaq futures
NQ · on funded prop-firm accounts
Style
IFVG model
ICT and Smart Money concepts · intraday
Experience
4+ years
started while still at school
Based
Buenos Aires, Argentina
YouTube
97.5K
subscribers · Oct 2026
Language
Spanish
every video, class and stream
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BEST KNOWN FOR
The IFVG model and the free Esses Bootcamp
Fede Esses turned one ICT entry model, the inverse fair value gap, into a complete Spanish-language course. His Esses Bootcamp, fifty free lessons published one a day in early 2025, opens with his most-watched video, now past 374,000 views. He trades the model on Nasdaq futures and copies each trade across a stack of funded accounts, which he put at 47 in September 2026.
IN FEDE'S WORDS
“Hasta la noche de Navidad de 2023, descubrí la estrategia IFVG y marcó un nuevo paradigma para mí. El resto es historia [Then, on Christmas night 2023, I discovered the IFVG strategy and it marked a new paradigm for me. The rest is history]”
YouTube channel description, October 2026
“He dedicado mi vida al trading, perfeccionando estrategias y compartiendo conocimientos [I have dedicated my life to trading, refining strategies and sharing what I know]”
Esses Club on Whop, October 2026
“Vivo del day trading. Documentando el proceso real [I make my living from day trading. Documenting the real process]”
TikTok profile, October 2026
Fede Esses's featured video
“Arranca Ahora | Esses Bootcamp Día 1” · published Feb 17, 2025 · 374K views
Who is Fede Esses?
Fede Esses built a Spanish-language trading following on a single entry model. On Christmas night 2023 he discovered the inverse fair value gap, or IFVG, which he says marked a new paradigm for him. Days later he posted “La Mejor Estrategia Para Hacer Day Trading En 2024 - ICT x SMC” [The best day-trading strategy for 2024], now past 134,000 views. Today the 20-year-old, whose full name is Federico Esses, trades Nasdaq futures from Buenos Aires for about two hours a day. He teaches the same model for free to an audience of 97,500 YouTube subscribers, 246,000 Instagram followers and a Discord of about 39,000.
He is candid about how it started. During the 2020 lockdown, he writes, he lost his direction and spent twelve hours a day gaming. Online business looked like a way out, so he tried reselling, software and sales, thirteen business models in all, and none of them worked. Trading stood out because funded accounts meant he needed no capital of his own. He started while still at school, trading the New York morning between exams, and stayed with it through more than two years of losses before that Christmas night.
He opened his YouTube channel in May 2023, still in his teens. The first uploads that July included a beginner course and ICT’s Silver Bullet explained in Spanish. After the breakthrough the channel became a public lab. In January 2024 he began a day-by-day funding challenge built on his IFVG model, with live Nasdaq futures sessions. He posted backtests of the model, one of them on gold, and lessons on the three types of IFVG entry. From February 2024 he also filmed his students’ stories in a series called “Alumnos Fede Esses” [Fede Esses students]. In September 2025 he opened a second channel, Fede Esses Trades, to post his live trades, losing days included.
The Esses Bootcamp is the centrepiece. From 17 February to 7 April 2025 he published fifty free lessons, one a day, as a “Curso De Trading Desde Cero” [trading course from scratch]. The lessons start with patience and candlesticks, move through liquidity, the IFVG and CISD, and go on to journaling, backtesting and opening an LLC. Day 1 is now his most-watched video, past 374,000 views. Around the course sit the free Fede Esses Trading Discord and Esses Club, his paid community and mentorship, which members join after an application call. More than 6,500 people have joined Esses Club on Whop, where it holds a 4.7 rating from 115 reviews. His site says more than 1,000 members have come through his live sessions.
Every day brings several new Shorts, and the channel has passed 1,500 uploads. Between them come prop-firm guides, live masterclasses and, since August 2026, “Cómo es invertir en...” [What it’s like to invest in...] videos on real estate, imports, capital markets and crypto. On Kick, where 18,200 people follow him, his bio promises trading explained from scratch for free, good company and good music. He spent one October 2026 stream teaching his barber to trade. Traders Hub, which published his talk at Traders Day in Argentina, calls him “uno de los traders más jóvenes e influyentes del mundo hispano” [one of the youngest and most influential traders in the Spanish-speaking world]. Mítico Podcast, HU TALKS and Bitcoin Argentina have all sat down with him since, and on his own channel he has brought on DodgysDD to talk about scaling. For Spanish-speaking beginners, that adds up to a full curriculum at no cost, taught by a young trader who documents the process in public.
How Fede trades
The IFVG at the centre of an ICT model
Fede Esses trades with ICT and Smart Money concepts, which his titles shorten to “ICT x SMC”, and uses the inverse fair value gap as his entry model. A fair value gap is the imbalance left by a fast three-candle move. When price later closes through the gap instead of respecting it, the gap is inverted, and old support can act as resistance or the reverse. He taught the three types of IFVG entry in 2024 and followed up in 2025 with the two he rates most effective. His 2025 explainer “¿Qué es un iFVG y cómo usarlo para mejorar tus entradas?” [What is an iFVG and how do you use it to improve your entries?] has passed 63,000 views.
The context comes first. The Bootcamp builds it in order: market hours, structure breaks, liquidity and liquidity sweeps, fair value gaps, order blocks, daily bias, SMT divergence, the IFVG, quarters theory and CISD. His one indicator is ICT Killzone & Pivots, which a 2025 title calls “el ÚNICO indicador que uso” [the only indicator I use]. He backtests in public, from IFVG sessions in 2024 to a full month of October 2025. The model keeps evolving. A new version for 2026 arrived in November 2025, and in August 2026 he released what he called his definitive strategy for the year.
Nasdaq sessions, copied across funded accounts
His market is the Nasdaq-100 future, NQ, traded in set session windows. As a schoolboy he traded the New York morning between exams. In May 2026 he published a strategy for the Asian session, and in his September 2026 Mítico Podcast interview he talked through trading the Nasdaq session by session. His channel sums up the routine in one line: “Opero 2 horas por día” [I trade two hours a day].
His scale comes from copying. Each trade is replicated across a stack of funded prop-firm accounts with a trade copier. He teaches the set-up in “Cómo replicar tus trades en varias cuentas de fondeo” [How to replicate your trades across several funded accounts]. The stack has grown in public, from more than 20 accounts at the end of 2025 to 30 by June 2026 and 47 by September. On Mítico Podcast he described running them with conservative risk. In a June 2026 interview he called accepting losses the hardest skill, and the Bootcamp has lessons on journaling and on taking a trade without letting emotions decide it. As with every trader profiled here, the approach is described from his own material and is not a recommendation; futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
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Fede Esses's career timeline
Spends the lockdown, as he tells it, adrift and gaming twelve hours a day, then turns to online business and from there to trading on funded accounts. source
Opens his YouTube channel in May; his first uploads in July include a beginner course and ICT’s Silver Bullet explained in Spanish. source
Discovers the IFVG strategy on Christmas night; days later posts “La Mejor Estrategia Para Hacer Day Trading En 2024 - ICT x SMC” [The best day-trading strategy for 2024], now past 134,000 views. source
Launches a day-by-day funding challenge built on his IFVG model in January, with live Nasdaq futures sessions on YouTube. source
Publishes the Esses Bootcamp, fifty free daily lessons, from 17 February to 7 April; Day 1 becomes his most-watched video. source
Opens a second channel, Fede Esses Trades, for his live trades in September; in December Traders Hub publishes his talk at Traders Day in Argentina. source
Appears on Mítico Podcast (February, September) and Bitcoin Argentina (June); publishes “Mi estrategia DEFINITIVA de trading para 2026” [My definitive trading strategy for 2026] in August. source
Starts the “Cómo es invertir en...” [What it’s like to invest in...] series in August. On 16 October, the day his HU TALKS episode airs, hosts the live masterclass “Los 6 Pasos para Convertirte en Trader Profesional” [The six steps to becoming a professional trader]. source
Fede Esses's videos
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MOST POPULAR
Arranca Ahora | Esses Bootcamp Día 1
La Mejor Estrategia Para Hacer Day Trading En 2024 - ICT x SMC
Que es el trading | Esses Bootcamp Día 2
Plataformas & Broker | Esses Bootcamp Dia 4
Mi estrategia DEFINITIVA de trading para 2026
SHORTS
Prop firms Fede works with
His video descriptions from 29 September to 23 October 2026 link Apex Trader Funding, Lucid Trading, Tradeify and Alpha Futures. They sit under the line “Codigo de descuento en todas las plataformas: ESSES” [discount code on every platform: ESSES], beside a Tradesyncer link labelled “Replicador” [trade copier].
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
FEDE ESSES: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Fede Esses trade?
Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ), intraday, with an ICT and Smart Money model built around the inverse fair value gap, liquidity and set session windows. He says he trades about two hours a day, and he copies each trade across a stack of funded prop-firm accounts. His early videos also covered forex, and he has backtested the model on gold.
Who is Fede Esses?
Fede Esses is the name Federico Esses uses online. He is a 20-year-old day trader and Spanish-language educator from Buenos Aires who started trading while still at school and opened his YouTube channel in 2023. He discovered his entry model, the inverse fair value gap, on Christmas night 2023. He now teaches it to 97,500 YouTube subscribers, 246,000 Instagram followers and a Discord of about 39,000.
What are the Esses Bootcamp and Esses Club?
The Esses Bootcamp is his free course, fifty daily lessons published between 17 February and 7 April 2025 under the title “Curso De Trading Desde Cero” [trading course from scratch]. Esses Club is his paid community and mentorship, which members join after an application call booked through fedeesses.com. More than 6,500 people have joined it on Whop, where it holds a 4.7 rating from 115 reviews. His free Discord, Fede Esses Trading, has about 39,000 members.
What is Fede Esses’ net worth?
Fede Esses has not disclosed his net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.
Which prop firm does Fede Esses use?
His October 2026 video descriptions carry code ESSES for Apex Trader Funding, Lucid Trading, Tradeify and Alpha Futures, and link Tradesyncer, the copier he uses to replicate trades. He has published step-by-step guides to Apex (December 2025) and Lucid Trading (July 2026). In a September 2026 interview he described running 47 funded accounts at once with conservative risk.
SOURCES
- Fede Esses: YouTube channelaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- YouTube: Esses Bootcamp playlist, Curso De Trading Desde Cero (2025)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- fedeesses.com, Esses Clubaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- Esses Club on Whopaccessed Oct 24, 2026
- YouTube, 11 October 2026 (description with code ESSES)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- Mítico Podcast with Fede Esses (September 2026)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- Bitcoin Argentina Podcast, episode 21 (June 2026)accessed Oct 24, 2026
- HU TALKS with Fede Esses (October 2026)accessed Oct 24, 2026
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