Background and Journey
We asked: Can you tell us about your journey into trading? How did you get started, and what inspired you to pursue it as a career?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Hello, my name is Adeniji Seidatu Temitope. I am an ex-beauty queen, multiple award-winning queen, and a fashion designer. I hold a BSc in Environmental Science and a diploma in Public Administration.

I ventured into trading during the pandemic lockdown when everything was shut down, and I was practically doing nothing. Someone introduced me to the idea of making money online and how I could be part of it. I looked into it and realized that it required bringing people in to earn from a pyramid scheme. However, they also had a forex-related aspect that caught my interest. I decided to focus on that and build myself in the field. Back then, the academy was called IML.

I was inspired to keep going and developing myself when I saw how trading could provide self-sufficiency and financial freedom—something I had craved all my life. I was never the type to want a 9-to-5 job or have anyone decide my worth and how much I deserved to be paid for my skills. This realization pushed me to give my all, ensuring I became better in this field and built a sustainable career in trading.

Starting Out
We asked: Did you start trading with your own capital, or did you begin with prop firms or other funding sources?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I started trading with my own capital from my fashion business. All I was making from my fashion business was burning into the market as losses. I sacrificed a lot.

Challenges and Overcoming Them
We asked: What were some of the biggest challenges you faced when you first started trading, and how did you overcome them?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Some of my biggest challenges were not having anyone around to tell me it would be “OK” when nothing was working, and it felt like everything was falling apart. Coming from the beauty pageant world, most of my friends were in entertainment, and none of them could relate to what I was going through during those difficult times. It was hard for them to understand, and whenever I tried to explain, they would say, “Just leave this forex thing; it doesn’t work.”

But I could see that the end of the tunnel was bright, and I had to go through it all by myself. I only had GOD. Most times, I went to bed frustrated, without any hope that forex would eventually work for me. I would pray, sing worship songs, and sleep off—that was my solace. It became a tradition for me to draw strength from GOD.

Trading Approach
We asked: Do you currently trade with personal capital, brokers, or prop firms? What do you prefer and why?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I trade with personal capital on a broker, but I love prop firms and the fact that I can make huge money from them when I get to payout. Prop firms, without some of the bad rules they are now bringing up, are a good means to raise capital for any trader.

We asked: What markets do you trade (forex, stocks, crypto, indices, etc.), and what timeframes do you focus on?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I do forex and sometimes indices. I analyze higher timeframes—monthly, weekly, and daily—and take my trades from the 1-hour and 30-minute confirmations.

We asked: What’s your trading style? Are you a day trader, swing trader, or scalper?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I’m Intraday trader, with fixed eyes on reasons the daily order low. When you hear the name ICTQUEEN with the phrase “eyes of the candle,” when you see it, you can’t unsee it. My eyes are that of an eagle; I see the flow in the market that others do not see. I like the RSI and Stochastic indicators.

We asked: How do you identify high-probability trading setups? What’s your edge in the markets?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: When I see my system, I see it clearly. MMXM and other high-value systems I trade are my edge.

Risk Management
We asked: Risk management is crucial in trading. What’s your approach to managing risk on each trade?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I have a huge appetite for risk, although I haven’t built the heart yet to take it to a higher level. I don’t like to play it small; for me, I like to go huge risk, and whatever the outcome is, I own full responsibility.

We asked: Do you have a daily or weekly loss limit? How do you ensure you don’t blow your account during losing streaks?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Yes, I have a $1,000 personal funds loss limit weekly and 500 daily loss limit. Losing streaks are crazy for me, so what I do is sometimes take it down in my risk. I don’t expose too much to loss. I stick to my plan. I don’t change my strategy during losing streaks, most especially I have an understanding about the market & its cycle flow no system is 100% win rate I know it will get back to normal, there is no point changing system each is prone to been flawed

We asked: How do you determine your position sizing? Do you adjust it based on market conditions or the strength of the setup?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I adjust position size based on market conditions? Not really. My setup system always informs me of the amount of risk that is meant for that trade. If it’s a high-probability or low-probability trade, that will determine how much I am willing to expose on that trade.

We asked: What’s your risk-to-reward ratio on average, and how important is it to your overall strategy?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: My RR is really high—many times 1:8, and sometimes above 1:30 on swing scales. Intraday scalp is 1:2/1:3 RR most times, but intraday can go up to 1:10 on gold. I give great gold trades.

Mindset and Psychology
We asked: Trading can be emotionally challenging. How do you maintain discipline and avoid emotional decision-making?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I will have to be honest; I am still a work in progress in this aspect. Yes, I do not make trading decisions emotionally, but sometimes I allow my emotions to cloud my judgment on a lost trade or a winning trade. I will hold a winning trade with huge profit for too long, and sometimes it messes up my psychology when it reverses and gives me a round trip. I have significantly improved, though, and better yet to unfold. Discipline? I am just 65% on this.

We asked: How do you handle losing streaks or periods of drawdown? Do you change your strategy, or do you stick to your plan?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I stick to my plan. I don’t change my strategy during losing streaks.

We asked: What’s your daily routine like? Do you have any habits or rituals that help you stay focused and productive?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I am a focused person naturally, one who needs no reminder to pursue a daily goal. It’s just who I am built to be. I go to the gym thrice weekly, but my daily ritual is listening to a lot of GOD’s word from powerful servants of GOD like Apostle Joshua Selman and Bishop David Oyedepo to keep my mind highly fruitful and build me in a spiritual positive light.

We asked: How do you manage stress and avoid burnout, especially during volatile market conditions?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Stress? I simply watch movies and surf the internet. I think stress wears off me quickly when I take my mind off to something else.

Success and Lessons Learned
We asked: What do you think sets successful traders apart from those who struggle to achieve consistent profitability?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Be very determined and set goals that are achievable. Do not build castles in the air or assume that life is a bed of roses. Successful traders were determined to achieve success; they remained consistent and never gave up, even when things got tough. Many traders are too dependent on others and blame everyone else for their failures, which is not the right path to take. The moment you take responsibility for your mistakes and actions, you open the door to valuable lessons and opportunities for growth.

We asked: What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned in your trading career so far?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Follow life in patience and let go of any hurts. It only burns you and eats you up. Hence, revenge trading is a cancer that kills traders. Revenge trading, I see it as taking offense to market hurts and acting on the emotions. Emotional actions are not always the best, but logical reasoning is.

We asked: What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made as a trader, and how did you recover from it?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Losing more than $100,000 of my personal funds—not borrowed, not loaned. Losing it all in a losing streak spiral down. How did I start recovering? I had to turn off the memory of losing money. It’s not easy, but I had to fight hard not to think of the losses. That was the only way I could start thinking in logical reasoning and not try to recover it all at once. That mindset of recovering all at once—you never get to recover; you will keep losing.

We asked: How long did it take you to become consistently profitable, and what steps were most important in getting there?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: It didn’t really take me long. I think determination and curiosity can make anyone become profitable if they are consistent in doing the right thing.

Advice for Aspiring Traders
We asked: What advice would you give to someone who’s just starting out in trading? What’s the most important thing they should focus on?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: It’s not always roses and shining objects like you see on social media. There is an underbelly dark side that can make you think the worst of life. Stay focused on your journey and do not try to jump fences. It almost never works well. Take it one day at a time.

We asked: What common mistakes do you see new traders make, and how can they avoid them?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Looking to make it big in a short time without following the process. This wears them out quickly, and they end up saying, “This doesn’t work.” I will advise the same thing: take it step by step, slowly but surely. You will get there; do not jump fences.

We asked: Do you think trading with personal capital or prop firms is better for beginners? Why?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: For beginners, I will recommend prop firms. It will teach you naturally how to be a risk-minded and disciplined trader and also give you leverage to bigger capital.

We asked: How important is having a mentor or community in a trader’s journey? Did you have one, and how did it help you?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: It’s very, very important to have a mentor. Yes, I did have one when I started, and that helped me in my beginner stage to know what the right steps were and how to avoid taking the longer, clueless route. “You can’t do it alone.” This will take you on an Israelite journey.

Fun and Personal Questions
We asked: What’s the story behind your social media name or nickname? How did you come up with it?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: The name “ICTQUEEN” was coined by traders on a public forex trading platform. My Telegram and WhatsApp username is PRETTYQUEENTEMI, and I trade the ICT concept. So, when people are looking for me on those Telegram communities and haven’t seen me for a while, they ask, “Where is that queen that trades the ICT concept? Remember PRETTYQUEEN.” So, the name “queen” was taken from my username, and I thought to join it up with my forex professional name—ICTQUEEN.

We asked: Outside of trading, what are your hobbies or interests? How do you unwind after a long trading session?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: I love spa, shopping, and staying out with friends to see nice places in the city.

We asked: If you weren’t a trader, what career do you think you’d be pursuing instead?

Adeniji Seidatu Temitope: Fashion designer, 100%. And I still do it till date.

Social media handle: ICTQUEEN (@QueenTea__) / X