About XSR

Built by a trader, for traders: the XSR community

XSR was founded by xStarRiver. There are no signals and no promises of profit here — just a group of people who take trading seriously and are willing to share their process, their mistakes and their reviews in public.

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Group photo from the trading seminar at HKUST with Apex Trader Funding

Community members

2,000+traders

Discussing futures, prop firms and US stocks on Discord every day.

Our mission

Beginners and veterans, improving in the same place.

The hardest part of trading is not finding an indicator — it is finding people who will tell you the truth. XSR exists to put information, method and discipline in one place so nobody has to lose years to the same mistake.

2,000+

Members in the Discord, with someone online around the clock.

Daily

Pre-market notes, live discussion and post-market review.

Tracks: futures prop firms, US stocks and technical analysis.

The founder

xStarRiver

From blowing up my account to a seven-figure year in HKD.

You can also call me Haru. I'm 21, a university student and a futures trader. I started trading in my first year at university, and since then I've made fast money, blown up an account and ended up in debt. That taught me one thing:

Trading without risk management is just gambling dressed up as investing.

Traders who came before me helped me a lot along the way. Now it's my turn: to pass on the risk-management habits I paid for with real money, so the people just starting out can take the shorter road.

Haru

xStarRiver · Founder of XSR

Motto

“Life is all about taking risks. If you never take a risk, you will never achieve your dreams.”

Trading since: Oct 2024; Self-taught from YouTube in my first year at uni
Total payouts: US$200K+; The first one: Topstep, Feb 2025
Talks: Apex · HKUST; Korea, Jul 2025 · Hong Kong, Nov 2025
What I trade: NQ
BTC
US stocks; With ICT at the core

Experience

The road so far

From my first trade to today: the wins, the blow-up and starting over.

01Oct 2024
The beginning
My first trade, as a first-year student, teaching myself from YouTube videos. I started with ICT index futures, but my account was too small, so I moved to SPX options to try to turn a little into a lot.
HK$50,000Starting capital
02Oct – Dec 2024
Beginner's luck
I turned HK$50,000 into HK$100,000, and once made HK$100,000 in the first 15 minutes after the open with a short call. I thought trading was easy, got overconfident and kept sizing up.
HK$50K → 100KAccount doubled
03Jan 2025
Blown up, on borrowed money
I gave back every dollar of profit and all of my capital, and lost a loan I had taken from the bank on top of it.
−HK$200,000
Total loss
04Feb 2025
Starting over
I went deep on ICT theory, moved to prop firms, and built the XSR strategy with a partner. Then I took my first payout at Topstep.
US$20,000First Topstep payout
05Jul 2025
Invited to speak in Korea
Apex Trader Funding invited me to Korea to give a talk.
06Nov 2025
A seminar at HKUST
I ran a seminar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, sharing how I approach trading with young people.
07Jan – Apr 2026
Consistent six-figure payouts
Six-figure HKD payouts every month, several months running.
6 figuresHKD paid out, every month
08Now
Building XSR
I only meant to keep a record of my own trading, but more and more people messaged me for advice, so I started the XSR community. Today 2,000+ traders talk through the market and review their trades there every day.