Weekly Payouts in Front of 2000+ LIVE Spactators - Fabian Klaussner

Fabian is a trader at Bitbull. He streams live every day to several thousand viewers on his Bitbull Altcoin channel, showing his losses just as openly as his wins.

He’s also one of the first streamers to have completed an IQ Capital Challenge live in front of hundreds of viewers.

That sounds like a great story.
But the real story is a different one.

It’s not about what he does in front of the camera.
It’s about what he learned before he ever went live.

The Beginning: An Aircraft Mechanic with an Observation

Fabian didn’t have a traditional finance background. He was an aircraft mechanic at Nuremberg Airport, specializing in private jets.

And then he noticed something.

The clients boarding those jets were talking about crypto. About Bitcoin. About returns he could barely imagine.

“They had truly massive private fortunes. And I thought: there must be something to it.”

He was young. He had nothing to lose—except the training salary he might reinvest. So he jumped in. Not into stocks, not into ETFs—but straight into low-cap coins.

“I didn’t have enough capital for Bitcoin. So I went into altcoins. Full risk, all in.”

It worked—well enough to pull him into the markets. Deep enough that he never really wanted to leave.

The pattern that destroys almost everyone

Over time, Fabian got better. But he kept making the same mistake almost every trader knows.

In evaluation: too fast, too big, too greedy.

“I had a really good setup. A massive setup. And then I thought: I’ll just double the position, and it’ll go faster.”

What followed was predictable. He opened the second position so quickly that he didn’t notice the stop-loss on the second trade was placed below the first one. The price moved straight into both stops. Maximum drawdown. Evaluation gone.

“But I learned that this impulse is there. And since then, it hasn’t happened to me again.”

That’s not a marketing line. It’s the honest version of a lesson most traders end up paying for multiple times.

The system Fabian uses today

Fabian trades exclusively the Bitcoin 15-minute chart. No altcoins at the moment—not because he doesn’t understand them, but because the market isn’t offering a clear trend right now.

“I’m waiting for altcoins until Bitcoin finds its bottom. Then we’ll get parallel trends again - and I’ll trade them in parallel again. But this sideways range structure? It just doesn’t fit my style.”

“If I didn’t have that, I’d slip into overtrading. And then I’d lose accounts I don’t want to lose.”

The cash-flow strategy: multiple accounts, one plan

What sets Fabian apart from many other prop traders is that he doesn’t think in terms of single accounts, but as a system.

He manages multiple funded accounts at the same time and structures them in a way that allows him to generate consistent payouts.

“I always plan in a way that allows me to withdraw from at least one account per week. It’s not about making the biggest trades. It’s about building capital consistently.”

Anyone who can withdraw from IQ Capital every ten days across multiple accounts is building a real cash flow. Without risking their own capital.

“My own capital can work elsewhere right now. That’s the real leverage.”

What live streaming really means

Fabian is one of the few streamers who completed a prop trading challenge live in front of his community. Hundreds of viewers were watching.

That sounds like pressure. And it is.

But Fabian has a clear mindset about it:

“We’re not show traders. We don’t trade to prove anything to anyone. Either there’s a good setup—or nothing at all.”

What that means: if no trade develops during a stream session, then there is no trade. No forced entries, no switching to low-timeframe noise just for entertainment.

“I live the next day with the story of my trades. Where was the entry? Why? That’s my standard, not the viewer count.”

And that’s exactly what makes him credible. He shows losses. He shows mistakes. He explains why he took a bad trade.

“Everyone likes to show their wins. Hardly anyone shows their losses. But the losses are part of the training. And that’s exactly why people trust me on stream.”

Why prop trading became Fabian’s logical next step

Fabian wasn’t using prop trading at first. He initially thought he didn’t need it.

Then he started running parallel trades on both his own account and on IQ Capital.

“I do the analysis anyway. I take the setup anyway. So I can execute it on both platforms at the same time—once with my own money, once with funded capital.”

The result: double output without taking double the risk.

“What’s the worst that can happen? I lose the evaluation. Then I do a new one. But I never lose my entire personal account.”

What Fabian learned about psychology—and why it matters more than any strategy

In the conversation with Christoph Radecker, one thing became clear very quickly: both of them learned the same lesson through different paths.

Trading is not primarily a technical problem. It’s a psychological one.

said Christoph, and Fabian nodded.

“The majority of traders don’t lose because of 100 trades. They lose because of one. A single one where they go all in. That was the reason we built these safety mechanisms into IQ Capital,”

The message behind the stream

Fabian could have taken his path in silence. He could have simply traded without a camera, without a community, without the daily exposure of wins and mistakes.

He chose not to—not out of ego, but out of conviction.

“I want to show that it works. Not with Photoshopped screenshots. Not with cherry-picked winning trades. But live, in real time, with everything that comes with it.”

And in the end, that’s the most important trait that makes a trader sustainable: not the perfect strategy, not the right market, not the ideal entry.

But the willingness to stay honest—with the community and with yourself.