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👉 Get your copy of the Prop Firm Trading Secrets book

Published: March 15, 2026
Video Description
👉 Get your copy of the Prop Firm Trading Secrets book: https://geni.us/prop-trading-secrets
In this interview, Etienne sits down with BlackSheep Academy's César Barriga, a trader who struggled for 10 years to become consistently profitable. César shares the hard lessons from that journey, from losing family money to finally finding peace with a simple, hybrid approach. He breaks down exactly why he now does the opposite of most retail traders and how he keeps his strategy so simple that he can explain it in a few minutes.
Chapters
00:00 12 Years of Trading Knowledge in 25 Minutes
01:25 Who is César Barriga and what's his trading style?
02:53 How he started trading and his 20-year journey
05:15 How forex pulled him in
06:37 The brutal 10-year road to profitability
10:06 Learning what the top 1% of winning traders were doing
12:07 Finding retail sentiment online and building an edge
14:49 Retail trading or the opposite?
16:56 Finding the balance between simple and complicated strategies
18:52 Getting into algo trading through a mentor
21:26 Using AI to code strategies and validating it
22:45 César's hybrid approach (manual and algo)
28:06 Why beginners must start manual before ever touching automation
31:14 Where to find César Barriga (links below)
👉 César Barriga’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/cesktrades
👉 BlackSheep Legacy (English) - https://legacy.blacksheep.academy
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