ImanTrading

ImanTrading filmed his path from beginner to funded futures trader and gives every lesson away free, from hour-long guides to his own Categorical Trading method.

Futures traderYouTube educatorCreator, Categorical TradingFounder, Prop Firm Center

Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 17, 2026

Still from ImanTrading’s YouTube channel: “My Final Trading Guide - Built by Filming My ENTIRE Journey”▶ Featured video · Nov 13, 2025
Still from ImanTrading's YouTube channel: “My Final Trading Guide - Built by Filming My ENTIRE Journey”

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ImanTrading is a US-based futures trader and YouTube educator who recorded his own learning from his first day as a beginner. His channel now has about 338,000 subscribers. He trades Nasdaq futures through prop firms and teaches Categorical Trading, a price-action method he built himself. Every guide is free, and he has never sold a course or mentorship.

Trades

Nasdaq futures

NQ · through prop-firm accounts

Style

Price action

Categorical Trading · discretionary

Trading since

2021

options first, futures from 2022

Based

United States

YouTube

338K

subscribers · Oct 2026

Discord

29.1K

Prop Firm Center members · Oct 2026

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BEST KNOWN FOR

Free start-to-finish guides and Categorical Trading

Iman’s signature is the long, chaptered guide, cut from his own footage and given away free. By his count, My Final Trading Guide draws on more than 3,700 hours and 5,000 trades, packed into 93 minutes. He calls it his life’s work. Alongside it sits Categorical Trading, the price-action method he sums up in three words: categorize, adapt, trade.

Categorical TradingCategorize, adapt, tradeThe 2 paths to profitabilityATR set to a period of 1Reminder document and trade journal

IN IMAN'S WORDS

“There are only 2 paths to profitability, and neither can be bought.”

YouTube, October 2026 (How to Beat Prop Firms)

“A terrible trader can give good advice, and an excellent trader can give bad advice. All you can do is test the ideas you find.”

imantrading.org, The Complete Trading Guide

“I have no course to sell you, and I want you to succeed. I cannot possibly be more helpful.”

YouTube, November 2025 (My Final Trading Guide)

ImanTrading's featured video

“My Final Trading Guide - Built by Filming My ENTIRE Journey” · published Nov 13, 2025 · 398K views

Who is ImanTrading?

ImanTrading reached about 338,000 YouTube subscribers without ever selling a course. He has never offered a mentorship or a private community either, and he says he never will. What he offers instead is a record. Iman filmed his own trading from his first day as a beginner, and that archive became the raw material for long, chaptered guides that he gives away. The 58 videos on his main channel have drawn more than 18 million views.

He opened the channel in May 2021 with live options trading on an opening range break, and his early tutorials found a wide audience. His 2021 supply-and-demand guide has passed 1.3 million views, and its title now tells viewers plainly that the guide doesn’t work, pointing them to his pinned comment. That candor runs through everything he has made since. In 2022 he turned to futures and opened a second channel, ImanTradingLive. There he filmed his Nasdaq sessions as numbered episodes, learning, in his words, "through pure experimentation." More than 300 videos trace the climb. Episode 3 is titled "this is as real as it gets," and episode 207, in October 2023, shows him passing his first prop-firm evaluation live on stream.

His method grew out of those sessions. In December 2022 he posted "200 trading hours later, I created a strategy," presenting a fast scalping system he now calls his first draft. The final draft arrived a year later as Categorical Trading, and its guide has passed 510,000 views. Above any single strategy sits the lesson he considers most important: there are only two paths to profitability. Systematic traders find rules that could run entirely as code. Discretionary traders build their edge from experience with one strategy. Books, videos and people, in his framing, are simply sources of ideas to test.

Everything he teaches is free. His site, imantrading.org, collects his complete trading guide, a prop-firm trading guide, firm reviews and a page on free simulation trading. It holds a 4.8 Trustpilot score from 139 reviews. For traders on the funded route, he created the Prop Firm Center, a free Discord for active prop-firm traders with about 29,100 members. It offers verified funded and paid-out roles and a running list of firm sales. By his count, more than 500 free accounts have been given away there. On his main channel, the most-watched upload is a 65-minute beginner’s guide to day trading from March 2023. He spent three months making it, he says, and it has passed 1.9 million views. On ImanTradingLive, his beginner’s guide to prop-firm trading has passed 215,000 views, and his six-minute NinjaTrader tutorial has passed 320,000.

He uploads sparingly, and each upload is a project. My Final Trading Guide, released in November 2025, runs 93 minutes and follows every phase of his learning with live clips. He calls it "the most in-depth and enormous project I’ve ever done." He says he has drawn small but consistent payouts from funded accounts since July 2024, passing $34,000 in total by the end of 2025. In March 2026 he reported his second promotion to a live funded account. He trades part time and is open about it. His October 2026 guide, How to Beat Prop Firms, applies what he calls "proven math" to evaluation strategy and drew 180,000 views in just over two weeks. What Iman gives newer traders is rare: the whole middle of a learning curve, filmed as it happened, organized into lessons and handed over for free.

How Iman trades

Categorize, adapt, trade

Categorical Trading sorts price action before any entry. When the market is consolidating, Iman expects it to stay where it has been. He trades mean reversion inside the range, selling near the top and buying near the bottom, with targets inside the range and stops outside it. When the market is directional, he expects it to keep going until proven otherwise and trades with it, never against it. When it is too chaotic to categorize, he does not trade.

Adapting means watching for the category to change. He sets ATR to a period of 1 to read volatility candle by candle, drops to a lower timeframe when volatility is high and moves up when it is quiet. Brackets start at 1:1 and are sized to the structure of the recent candles. If a trade fails, it should be because that structure changed. He grades process rather than outcome. On his own scorecard, a good trade that lost still earns "nice job," while a bad trade that won does not.

A discretionary trader with a data habit

Iman puts himself on the discretionary path. Categorical Trading has rules, but it is not automated, and he says plainly that it requires discretion. He builds that judgment with data: recorded sessions, a trading journal and a reminder document with pictures of the price action he trades well and the price action he should sit out. He warns against writing rules like these too early, because they only become clear after many sessions.

He trades Nasdaq futures through prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts on NinjaTrader, his platform since 2021. He likes the model because the cost of an evaluation is known up front: the firm takes the loss instead of the trader, and payouts can later fund a personal account. His positions last anywhere from seconds to hours, and he trades part time with regular breaks. 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.

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.

ImanTrading's career timeline

2021

Opens the ImanTrading channel in May with live options trading on an opening range break; a July supply-and-demand tutorial goes on to pass 1.3 million views. source

2022

Begins filming numbered futures sessions on a second channel, ImanTradingLive, and in December posts the first draft of his strategy after 200 trading hours. source

2023

Releases his most-watched video, a 65-minute beginner’s guide, in March. Passes his first prop-firm evaluation live on stream in October (episode 207) and publishes the Categorical Trading guide in December. source

2024

Begins drawing consistent payouts from funded accounts in July, as he reports on his site. source

2025

Publishes My Final Trading Guide in November, 93 minutes of lessons built from footage of every phase of his learning. source

2026

Earns a second promotion to a live funded account in March, as he reports on his site. source

2026

Publishes How to Beat Prop Firms: The Complete Trading Guide on 1 October; it passes 180,000 views in just over two weeks. source

ImanTrading's videos

Prop firms Iman works with

No prop-firm partnerships announced.

Trades prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts on NinjaTrader, and publishes free firm reviews on imantrading.org and plan walkthroughs on ImanTradingLive.

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

IMANTRADING: FREQUENTLY ASKED

What does ImanTrading trade?

He trades Nasdaq futures through prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts on NinjaTrader. His style is discretionary price action using Categorical Trading, his own method. Trades last anywhere from seconds to hours depending on conditions, and he trades part time.

Who is ImanTrading?

ImanTrading, who goes by Iman on his site, is a US-based futures trader and YouTube educator. He opened his channel in May 2021 and filmed his futures learning as numbered episodes on a second channel, ImanTradingLive, before turning that footage into free guides. The main channel has about 338,000 subscribers and more than 18 million views.

What is the Prop Firm Center?

The Prop Firm Center is a free Discord for active prop-firm traders, created and run by ImanTrading. It had about 29,100 members in October 2026. Members discuss firms and strategies, can earn verified funded and paid-out roles and can see current firm sales. By his count, more than 500 free accounts have been given away there. His free guides and firm reviews live on imantrading.org.

What is ImanTrading’s net worth?

Iman has not disclosed his net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.

Which prop firm does ImanTrading use?

He trades through prop firms and says he has no plans to change that. He passed his first evaluation, with TradeDay, live on stream in October 2023. In March 2026, he says, he was promoted to a live funded account for the second time. His current firm reviews are on imantrading.org.

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