Zero Day Jay

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Power hour, live, every trading day

Most futures streamers trade the open. Zero Day Jay trades the close. At a few minutes past 3 pm Eastern on every trading day he goes live for the last two hours of the US session, trading a stack of funded prop-firm accounts in gold and Nasdaq futures until the bell. He has screen-recorded every payout request since his first in May 2024, which took, by his own count, 61 funded Apex accounts to reach. The tutorials that grew out of that climb, on copy trading through Tradovate, setting up an Apex payout method and the cost of a Take Profit Trader reset, remain the channel’s most-watched videos. The channel itself has grown from 192 subscribers in April 2024 to about 9,400 in October 2026. Topstep had him on TopstepTV three times in 2025.

IN JAY'S WORDS

Zero Day Jay's featured video

“How To Copy Trade With Any Prop Firm Using Tradovate” · published Jun 9, 2024 · 6.1K views

Who is Zero Day Jay?

Zero Day Jay publishes under his handle only, and the handle is the point: a trader who started from zero and says so in the channel description. Most futures streamers trade the open. Jay trades the close. At a few minutes past 3 pm Eastern on every trading day he goes live for “power hour”, the last two hours of the US cash session. He trades a stack of funded prop-firm accounts in front of a chat he calls the Degen Fam until the bell. The channel tagline sums up the arc, “from zero to habitual payout receiver”, and the videos are the receipts: every payout request screen-recorded, the setbacks left in, and every “WE DID IT JOE” when a payout lands.

He dates the start precisely: 16 October 2023, his first Apex Trader Funding evaluation. The YouTube channel had existed since August 2022 and still had only 192 subscribers in April 2024. The next month, by his own count, it took a 61st funded Apex account to reach his first payout request. He filmed it. “If you still haven’t ever received a payout trading with prop firms, just know it is possible. Because if I can do it, there’s no reason you can’t,” he wrote underneath. The tutorials that followed became the most-watched uploads on the channel, and still are: how to copy trade on Tradovate (he is a Mac-only trader), how to set up an Apex payout method, and what a Take Profit Trader PRO reset costs.

The method evolved on camera. He traded the Nasdaq first, then found what he calls his edge in gold during 2025. From October that year he traded gold exclusively across twenty funded Apex accounts, copying one trade into all of them, until Apex paused metals trading in February 2026 and sent him back to NQ, “which I detest”. By September 2026 gold had his attention again. Along the way he collected first payouts from a widening list of firms: MyFundedFutures in October 2024, Topstep in December 2024, Take Profit Trader in March 2025, Bulenox in July 2025 and Tradeify within two weeks of opening an account in August 2026. The numbers he does state, he states in titles. A New Year’s Day 2026 stream was headed “$34K+ Payouts In December”, and a February 2026 update called “$40K Month In Jeopardy” was about chasing a second such month in a row, both by his own account.

The stream is the product. There is no course, no paid Discord and no signal room. There is the 3 pm start, a title that tells you how the day is going (“Frustration Level Peaking...”, “What A Relief... Time To bAnK...”) and the partner codes in the description. And there is a running vocabulary the regulars know by heart: #FORTHESTREAM, the DCA Gang, the Focused Degenerate Program, and “ZFG Concepts” as the tongue-in-cheek name for his approach. He adds Asia and London sessions when he has time, “no set time”, and celebrates stream records the way he celebrates payouts: 364 concurrent viewers was the mark to beat in May 2025. Topstep noticed, and had him on TopstepTV three times in the first half of 2025, including an April segment alongside CoveTrader and another where he met chief executive Michael Patak.

What makes him matter is the transparency. In January 2026 he put every Apex purchase and every payout since October 2023 on a spreadsheet and published the arithmetic. He posts the full record, approvals and denials alike, and signs off the losing days with the same energy as the winning ones. For the traders grinding evaluations after work, he is proof of a specific, unglamorous thing. A self-described degenerate who kept showing up at 3 pm every day became, in his own words, a habitual payout receiver, and the whole route is on tape.

How Jay trades

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Zero Day Jay's career timeline

Prop firms Jay works with

All seven firms appear with code ZERODAYJAY in the description of every power-hour stream from 22 September to 7 October 2026; the channel’s About page links Take Profit Trader, Apex, TradeDay, Bulenox and Lucid. He has also traded Topstep accounts and appeared on TopstepTV in 2025.

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

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