LumiTraders
Dasha of LumiTraders turns ICT concepts into plain-English lessons, trades ES and NQ live every weekday morning, and wrote a 407-page guide to the ICT 2022 Mentorship.
Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 17, 2026
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LumiTraders is the YouTube channel of Dasha, a US-based futures trader who explains ICT concepts in plain English to more than 150,000 subscribers. She streams ES and NQ every weekday morning and wrote a 33-chapter guide to the ICT 2022 Mentorship. She also runs the free LumiTraders Club Discord and Funded.Now, her prop-firm comparison site.
Trades
ES & NQ
ES first · gold and crude oil too
Style
ICT concepts
Midnight Open · Po3 · liquidity sweeps
Experience
4+ years
X since 2022 · YouTube since 2023
Based
United States
English & Russian
YouTube
152K
subscribers · Oct 2026
Live sessions
400+
since Nov 2024 · weekdays 9:00 am ET
Streams live
Mon–Fri · from 9:00 am ET
Next stream: Mon–Fri · from 9:00 am ET · open channel
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BEST KNOWN FOR
ICT, explained simply and traded live
Dasha teaches ICT one stage at a time, and her guides to the New York Midnight Open and liquidity sweeps have each passed 100,000 views. Intraday bias, Power of Three and the Market Maker Model get the same patient, chart-by-chart treatment. Then, every weekday from 9:00 am Eastern, she puts the ideas to work live on ES and NQ. She has streamed more than 400 sessions since November 2024.
IN DASHA'S WORDS
“I turn complex ICT ideas into simple, beginner-focused lessons so you can trade the markets with clarity.”
lumitraders.com, October 2026
“No fancy jargon or overcomplicated explanations, just real talk, practical insights, and tips that helped me understand the markets better.”
YouTube channel description, October 2026
“I believe that successful trading is open to anyone willing to put in the work. My mission is to take away the mystery from financial markets and make them understandable.”
lumitraders.com/about, October 2026
LumiTraders's featured video
“ICT NY Midnight Open Explained” · published Jan 14, 2026 · 111K views
Who is LumiTraders?
Dasha has a knack for making ICT feel learnable. The Inner Circle Trader’s ideas, from the New York Midnight Open to the Market Maker Model, are a lot to absorb. On LumiTraders she breaks them down one stage at a time: what to mark before the open, what has to happen next, and where the idea stops working. Viewers have responded. Her NY Midnight Open and Liquidity Sweep guides have each passed 100,000 views, and the channel she opened in June 2023 now has more than 150,000 subscribers.
She writes that LumiTraders began as a small passion project: a place to share honest, real information about trading, wins and losses included. Her @LumiTraders account on X dates to September 2022. By May 2023 lumitraders.com was offering a members’ Discord built around daily pre-market plans, and the YouTube channel followed in June. That October she published Unlocking Success in ICT 2022 Mentorship, a 407-page study guide in 33 chapters. It runs from market structure, order blocks and fair value gaps through kill zones and Power of Three to the full ICT day-trading model.
Her teaching follows the order in which she trades. Bias comes first, built from the New York Midnight Open, the equilibrium of the previous day’s range and the Asia and London sessions. The day is then framed as Power of Three: accumulation, manipulation and distribution. Her stream descriptions name two trading models. One is the M2 Model, built on the higher-timeframe candle and a two-minute entry. The other is a Turtle Soup reversal model she lists for gold and crude oil. Guides to the Market Maker Model, the Twins setup and standard-deviation projections fill out the library. Her NinjaTrader walkthrough for prop-firm accounts has passed 82,000 views.
Most of what surrounds the channel is free. The community that began as a small members’ group is now a free Discord, the LumiTraders Club, with close to 8,000 members. The promise is short: "No paid walls, just pure value." Her site adds a weekly newsletter and a 176-page ICT concepts PDF, alongside an ICT cheat-sheet desk mat. Funded.Now, her prop-firm comparison hub, tracks pricing, drawdown rules and payout terms across 17-plus firms. It also hosts a free 144-video ICT syllabus, calculators for lot size and consistency rules, and the prop-account giveaways she runs on stream. In August 2026 she added three free TradingView indicators. One of them, ICT HTF Candles + CISD, has collected more than 1,900 boosts.
The live stream ties it all together. Her stream archive starts on 13 November 2024 and now holds more than 400 sessions. She streams every weekday from 9:00 am Eastern, half an hour before the cash open. She builds the bias on camera and usually stays on for two to three hours. ES is the main market, with NQ, gold and crude oil when they set up. The titles keep an honest score: "W on ES short" on good days, "Small L on ES short" on the others. She trades a stack of funded accounts, thirty-five of them by her count in August 2026. In January 2026 Tradeify TV listed her among its hosts. For many traders learning ICT, LumiTraders has become the friendly front door: the concept explained patiently, then applied live the next morning.
How Dasha trades
Bias first: the Midnight Open and Power of Three
Dasha’s day starts with a pre-market plan. She marks the New York Midnight Open, the equilibrium of the previous day’s range, the weekly open and the Asia and London ranges. Then she asks which side of those levels price is likely to seek. Her Midnight Open guide frames the session in three stages (accumulation, manipulation and distribution) and gives invalidation and the retest their own chapters.
Timeframe alignment does the rest. She pairs a higher timeframe with a lower one: weekly with four-hour, daily with hourly, four-hour with fifteen-minute. Then she looks for order blocks and fair value gaps where the two agree. Liquidity is the target, and one of her thumbnails calls the potential sweep her favourite ICT model. She waits for price to run a higher-timeframe level, sometimes two or three times, then trades the reversal with a set stop, a target and a plan to scale.
Two entry models and a copier
The M2 Model reads the higher-timeframe candle and its wicks to anticipate where the next candle will go, then times the trade on a two-minute chart. The Turtle Soup model, the one she lists for gold and crude oil, fades a raid on an obvious high or low. Through 2026 most of her streamed trades have been on ES, with NQ, gold and crude oil when they line up.
Execution is built for a stack of funded accounts. She runs NinjaTrader with the Replikanto copier to mirror each trade across them, a setup her NinjaTrader guide walks through step by step. Charts run on TradingView with her own free indicators for higher-timeframe candles, CISD and session levels. As with every trader profiled here, the approach is described from her own material and is not a recommendation; futures trading involves substantial risk of loss.
See how the wider prop-trading field is positioned in ES 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.
LumiTraders's career timeline
Opens the @LumiTraders account on X in September; it has since passed 13,000 posts and 61,000 followers. source
By May, lumitraders.com is offering a members’ Discord built around daily pre-market plans; the YouTube channel opens on 7 June. source
Publishes Unlocking Success in ICT 2022 Mentorship, a 407-page study guide in 33 chapters, on 8 October. source
Publishes step-by-step guides to the ICT pre-market plan and the Market Maker Model in June; her intraday-bias guide follows in October and passes 88,000 views. source
Her live-stream archive begins on 13 November with an NQ short; it now holds more than 400 sessions. source
Publishes the M2 Model (May) and Turtle Soup (June) guides, then Liquidity Sweep Explained (September), which passes 100,000 views. source
Appears in Tradeify TV’s host line-up in January and publishes ICT NY Midnight Open Explained, now her most-watched video at more than 110,000 views. source
Releases three free TradingView indicators in August: RTH Gap Fibs, ICT HTF Candles + CISD and Key Levels. source
LumiTraders's videos
LATEST
Shorted Oil / CL 🔴LIVE Day Trading Futures | ES NQ | ICT Concepts | Oct 16
2 BIG Ws and 1 small L 🔴LIVE Day Trading Futures | ES NQ | ICT Concepts | Oct 15
W on ES short 🔴LIVE Day Trading Futures | ES NQ | ICT Concepts | Oct 14
W on ES short 🔴LIVE Day Trading Futures | ES NQ | ICT Concepts | Oct 13
HOLDING NQ LONG 🔴LIVE Day Trading Futures | ES NQ | ICT Concepts | Oct 9
SHORTS
Prop firms Dasha works with
All five firms appear in the description of her 16 October 2026 live stream, alongside a NinjaTrader Prop partner link. The same description carries code LUMI for the TradeZella journal and code lumitraders20 for the Replikanto trade copier. She describes herself there as a funded futures trader.
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
LUMITRADERS: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does LumiTraders trade?
Dasha trades E-mini S&P 500 (ES) and Nasdaq-100 (NQ) futures intraday using ICT concepts, with gold and crude oil when they set up. ES has been her main market on stream through 2026. She builds a bias from the New York Midnight Open and Power of Three, then trades liquidity sweeps and her M2 Model around the New York open.
Who is LumiTraders?
LumiTraders is the brand of Dasha, a US-based, English- and Russian-speaking futures trader and ICT educator. She opened the YouTube channel in June 2023 and has since published more than 490 videos, building an audience of over 150,000 subscribers. She also wrote Unlocking Success in ICT 2022 Mentorship, a 407-page guide published in October 2023.
What is the LumiTraders community?
The free LumiTraders Club Discord has close to 8,000 members and offers live market talk, setups and giveaway updates. Around it sit a weekly newsletter, a free 176-page ICT concepts PDF, a free 144-video ICT syllabus and Funded.Now, her site comparing prop firms’ prices, rules and payout terms.
What is LumiTraders’ net worth?
Dasha has not disclosed her net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.
Which prop firm does LumiTraders use?
As of 16 October 2026, her stream descriptions carry code LUMI for Take Profit Trader, Tradeify, Lucid Trading, Apex Trader Funding and Vest Markets. They also include a NinjaTrader Prop partner link. She has traded the Tradeify Grand Cup on stream and appeared on Tradeify TV. She copies trades across her funded accounts with NinjaTrader and the Replikanto copier.
SOURCES
- LumiTraders: YouTube channelaccessed Oct 17, 2026
- YouTube, 16 October 2026 stream (description with partner codes)accessed Oct 17, 2026
- LumiTraders.com, About pageaccessed Oct 17, 2026
- Funded.Now by LumiTradersaccessed Oct 17, 2026
- Funded.Now: Unlocking Success in ICT 2022 Mentorship (book page)accessed Oct 17, 2026
- TradingView: LumiTraders indicatorsaccessed Oct 17, 2026
- Tradeify TV, 7 January 2026 stream (host line-up)accessed Oct 17, 2026
- YouTube: earliest archived LumiTraders live stream, 13 November 2024accessed Oct 17, 2026
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