Tanja Trades
A full-time NQ trader whose livestream ICT told his followers to watch, Tanja has shown the reality of funded trading live every morning since 2023 and become one of futures’ most popular streamers.
Compiled by MarketFramework editorial · Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026
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Tanja Trades is a US-based full-time futures day trader who streams live Nasdaq futures trading on YouTube Tuesday to Friday at 9:15 am Eastern, using ICT concepts on funded prop-firm accounts. Her channel, opened in June 2023, has about 146,000 subscribers. She is a regular guest on NinjaTrader Live and promotes five futures prop firms, including MyFundedFutures, through the code TANJA.
Trades
Nasdaq futures
NQ · also ES and MES
Style
ICT concepts
FVG continuation · Silver Bullet
Streaming since
2023
channel opened June 2023
Based
United States
YouTube
146K
subscribers · Oct 2026
Live
Tue–Fri
9:15 am ET · NY morning session
Streams live
Tue–Fri · 9:15–11:15 am ET
Next stream: Tue–Fri · 9:15–11:15 am ET · open channel
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BEST KNOWN FOR
The daily ICT livestream
Tanja’s channel is a live trading room in public. Tuesday to Friday from 9:15 am Eastern she trades Nasdaq futures on funded prop-firm accounts using Inner Circle Trader concepts, with wins, losses and the occasional push-up penalty shown in real time. In February 2024 ICT posted that viewers "should hang out in @TanjaTrades livestreams," and by that summer the streams were drawing more than 3,000 concurrent viewers. She is a fixture of the NinjaTrader ecosystem as a recurring guest on NinjaTrader Live and a competitor in its Arena Cup, and says she sells no courses or signals.
IN TANJA'S WORDS
“If you have a bad trading day the best thing to do is try to make the rest of your day as good as possible. Be productive, and make sure you show up prepared for the next day.”
X, July 2025
“I show the reality of trading, the technical analysis, the quick decisions, the risk management, and the ups and downs.”
YouTube channel description
“Never be afraid of re-entering! Each trade is different from the last.. just follow your plan.”
X, July 2025
Tanja Trades's featured video
“Giveaways! | DAY TRADING ICT CONCEPTS | 8/26/2026” · published Aug 26, 2026 · 11.9K views
Who is Tanja Trades?
Tanja, who publishes as Tanja Trades and does not use a surname publicly, is a full-time futures day trader in the United States. When she introduced herself to her audience in October 2023 she had been trading ICT concepts for about eighteen months, which places her start around 2022. The YouTube channel opened in June 2023. Its first video covered the 3 pm macro, and by December that year she was streaming the New York morning session live.
The stream is the product. Four mornings a week she trades NQ, "my favorite" in her words, on funded evaluation and payout accounts from 9:15 to roughly 11:15 Eastern. She narrates fair value gap entries, Silver Bullet windows and the ICT 2022 model as they set up, and shows losses as readily as wins. In February 2024 Michael Huddleston, the Inner Circle Trader, told his followers to watch her streams because he hid "easter eggs" in them. A podcast profile that August described more than 3,000 concurrent viewers. The channel passed 100,000 subscribers in March 2025 and stood at about 146,000 by September 2026.
She began on Topstep and announced a move to a Topstep live-funded account in April 2024. Since then her content has centred on Lucid Trading, Apex, Tradeify, Take Profit Trader and MyFundedFutures, with account giveaways a recurring stream feature and payout walk-throughs among her most-viewed videos. She is closely tied to NinjaTrader: a platform partner, a recurring guest on NinjaTrader Live and host of a sold-out "$1k Arena Challenge" in July 2025. In the 2026 Arena Cup she reported finishing first among the featured traders.
Interviews extend the reach: conversations with Trader Kane, Matt "Pax" Kenah and NYSE floor veteran Peter Tuchman, on Words of Rizdom, Chart Fanatics and her own channel. A 2025 Chart Fanatics conversation about her strategy has been watched more than 230,000 times. Her X bio states that she does not sell courses or signals. What she offers is the stream.
The endorsement that matters most in her corner of trading came from its founder, and the audience has followed: 146,000 subscribers, thousands watching live every morning, and a seat on the NinjaTrader Live desk and in the Arena Cup. Tanja shows the wins, the losses and the push-ups, and that honesty is exactly why traders trust her.
How Tanja trades
ICT concepts, one session
Tanja trades the Inner Circle Trader toolkit on Nasdaq futures during the New York morning. The core entry is the fair value gap, the three-candle imbalance left by a fast move, traded as a continuation. If a gap has just formed and price returns to it immediately, she enters on the touch; if the gap is older, she waits for a reaction before committing. Around that sit the time-based ICT models she names in her titles: the Silver Bullet window, the 2022 model, and the lunch and 3 pm macros. She also reads whether the day offers "high-resistance" or low-resistance liquidity conditions.
Her most-viewed Shorts are about behaviour rather than setups: sticking to the plan, what to do when the market dumps, and why most funded accounts blow up through overtrading in difficult conditions. The stream format enforces that discipline in public.
Funded accounts and the copier
She trades on prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts rather than a personal account, describing the channel as showing "what it’s like to be a funded trader that trades futures." Trades are executed on NinjaTrader, mirrored across accounts with the Replikanto copier and journaled with Tradezella. All three are partners whose codes she shares with viewers. Her most-viewed video of all, a 14-second Short, is about the truth of copy trading.
As with every trader profiled here, the method is described from her own streams and statements 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.
Tanja Trades's career timeline
Opens the Tanja Trades YouTube channel in June; first video in July; begins streaming the morning session live in December. source
ICT publicly recommends her livestreams in February; she reports a $15,000 single-trade day the same month. source
Announces a move to a Topstep live-funded account in April; appears on the Words of Rizdom podcast in August. source
Passes 100,000 subscribers in March; becomes a recurring NinjaTrader Live guest and hosts the sold-out "$1k Arena Challenge" in July. source
Chart Fanatics interview on her strategy draws more than 230,000 views. source
Publishes a Lucid Trading payout review in January and reports a maximum payout in April; says she finished first among featured traders in the NinjaTrader Arena Cup. source
Visits the NYSE floor and interviews Peter Tuchman. source
September streams run 12K–21K views each, led by her 22 September session during the UN General Assembly; adds FTMO Futures as a partner the week FTMO launches futures accounts. source
Tanja Trades's videos
LATEST
Loss on shorts and missed re-entry... chat got in my head.. | DAY TRADING ICT CONCEPTS | 10/16/2026
EPIC LONGS AT THE END MAKE UP FOR EARLY LOSS | DAY TRADING ICT CONCEPTS | 10/15/2026
🔴 WIN ON NQ SHORTS! CPI!!! DAY TRADING ICT CONCEPTS | 10/14/2026
Giveaways! | DAY TRADING ICT CONCEPTS | 8/26/2026
i lose on longs and do push-ups | DAY TRADING ICT CONCEPTS | 8/25/2026
SHORTS
The Real Edge in Futures Trading Is Not Strategy, It’s Patience
3.7K · Oct 16, 2026
Economic Calendar: I Check This Before Every Trade
3.1K · Oct 14, 2026
How to Eliminate FOMO/chasing from your trading
5.8K · Sep 4, 2026
Am I afraid that ICT concepts will stop working? The answer is NO. Here’s why.
13.5K · Sep 2, 2026
These are the most vulnerable points where you are at risk of blowing your funded account!
6.7K · Aug 31, 2026
The truth about copy trading…
272K · Sep 23, 2025
STICK TO THE PLAN
200K · Jan 11, 2024
Prop firms Tanja works with
The five partner codes appear in the descriptions of every live stream from 18 to 26 August 2026. She is also a NinjaTrader platform partner, tagged #NinjaTraderPartner on a 2 September 2026 Short.
We list a firm relationship only with dated public evidence from the last 30 days, re-checked each editorial pass.
TANJA TRADES: FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Tanja Trades trade?
Nasdaq-100 futures (NQ) primarily, with some ES and MES, traded intraday during the New York morning session on funded prop-firm accounts using ICT concepts: fair value gap continuations, the Silver Bullet window, the 2022 model and session macros.
When does Tanja Trades stream?
Tuesday to Friday at 9:15 am Eastern on YouTube, typically running to around 11:15, with replays posted to the channel afterwards.
What is Tanja Trades’ net worth?
She has not disclosed her net worth, and MarketFramework does not estimate net worth for the traders it profiles.
Which prop firm does Tanja Trades use?
Her recent streams carry codes for Apex Trader Funding, Lucid Trading, Tradeify, MyFundedFutures and Take Profit Trader, with FTMO Futures added in September 2026, and she has published payout walk-throughs from Lucid. She started on Topstep, moving to a Topstep live-funded account in 2024.
Does Tanja Trades sell a course?
No. Her X bio states that she does not sell courses or signals. The channel offers YouTube memberships, and her code TANJA gives viewers discounts at her partner prop firms and tools.
SOURCES
- Tanja Trades: YouTube channelaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- tanjatrades.com, official siteaccessed Sep 14, 2026
- X: ICT on her livestreams (February 2024)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- Words of Rizdom: EP.127 (August 2024)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- Chart Fanatics, strategy interview (July 2025)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- YouTube, 26 August 2026 stream (description with partner codes)accessed Sep 14, 2026
- YouTube, 5 Lessons from Trading ICT Concepts for 18 Months (2023)accessed Sep 14, 2026
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