How much money can you make trading forex in one session?

How much money can you make trading forex in one session?

There's no fixed answer. In one RihariFX video, a small group reports roughly $13,000 in floating profit during a single Asia session, but that figure comes from one unverified personal account, not an audited or typical result, and independent data shows most retail CFD traders lose money over a full year.

The video in question, titled "We Made $13,000 Trading Together in One Session," follows Rihari and two trading partners as they trade live together, narrating their entries, stop losses and running profit and loss on camera. It is presented as a real-time look at one Asia session, not a case study, a backtest or an audited performance record. Nothing in the video states whether the accounts shown are live-funded, demo, or a mix of both, and the transcript gives no independent confirmation of the dollar figures displayed on screen.

That distinction matters for anyone searching this question. A single session's outcome, whether up $13,000 or down, is one data point from one group of traders on one morning. It says nothing about what any other trader, or the same traders on a different day, would produce. Where the video makes a claim about that session, this article labels it clearly as coming from the video or from Rihari; where a figure is independently checkable, it is drawn only from the two sourced references used throughout this piece. The rest of this article separates what the video's speakers claim from what can actually be verified.

What did the $13,000 session actually show, according to the video?

The video follows Rihari and two trading partners live-streaming from New Zealand during the Asia session. On screen, a running profit figure climbs from around $11,000 to nearly $19,000 before the session settles, with the video's title anchoring the headline result at $13,000.

According to the video, the group opens by reviewing the hourly and four-hour charts as the Asia session begins, noting that price had been "absolutely pumping" into a prior high before retracing. Rihari and his partners say they are looking for a pullback into a marked point of interest before entering, and describe waiting through what they call "the boring part of trading" for that setup to form.

As the session develops, the traders call out their individual entries on camera, for example one saying his entry was "417," another entering at "4132.7," and a third at "4128.9." Later in the session, one trader says he is up "$1,500" for the morning, while another, referring to his own entry, calls it "rubbish... but not rubbish, just not at the best point." The video does not state how the headline $13,000 figure relates to these individual numbers, whether it is one trader's running total, a combined figure, or something else, so the transcript does not support treating it as a per-trader or per-account result.

Partway through, the group also notes that the Shanghai market was about to open, roughly 20 minutes into their Asia session tracking, and says this brought "a bit of volatility in the spread" and "creating some more internals for liquidity." They describe this as fairly ordinary, calling it "pretty standard, generating liquidity before hunting it on the open," and use it as a reason to keep watching for a pullback rather than to treat the added volatility as a special event. The video frames this as routine market behaviour around a secondary session opening, not as a factor that changed their process for that day.

What trading concepts and timeframes did the group use to find entries?

The video shows the group reading price across multiple timeframes at once, from the daily chart down to the one-minute chart, using concepts like points of interest, liquidity, and breaker structure to decide where to look for entries, and moving averages and market structure to judge momentum.

Rihari and his partners talk through a top-down process on camera. They start with the four-hour and hourly charts to set a bias, noting a "breaker structure" and watching whether price closes above or below key levels. They then drop to the 15-minute and 5-minute charts, marking "points of interest" and "internal liquidity" levels, for example calling out levels like 4124, 4140 and 4148 as targets or reaction zones. One trader explains a personal rule of entering on the 1-minute chart while still watching the 15-minute trend, so as not to exit winning trades too early.

The group also references the 200-period moving average on the 1-minute and 15-minute charts, and describes market structure in terms of "higher high, higher low" patterns forming as price pushes up. Later, one trader mentions entering off a "fair value gap." These are the specific technical terms used in the video; the transcript does not explain them in textbook detail, and this article does not add outside definitions or claim these methods produce reliable results, only that they are the tools the group says it used that session.

The video also shows the group weighing conflicting signals rather than a single clean setup. At the start of the session, Rihari says price is "structurally... still pushing bearish," but adds that "the only thing sort of stopping that is the four-hour," which had just closed above a key level, something he calls "a positive." That disagreement between a bearish structural read and a bullish four-hour close is presented as part of the normal decision-making in the video, not a guaranteed edge, and the group says that if the bullish case fails they would shift to targeting 4106 as a bearish level instead.

What risk-management steps did the traders use during the session?

The video shows the group repeatedly moving stop losses to break-even shortly after entering a trade, rather than leaving full risk on the table, and doing this multiple times across the session before the trade that reached their stated target played out.

Based only on what the video shows and describes, here is the sequence the group follows that session:

1. Review the four-hour and hourly charts before the Asia session opens to set a directional bias.
2. Mark points of interest and liquidity levels on the hourly, 15-minute and 5-minute charts, for example the levels at 4124, 4140 and 4148 mentioned in the video.
3. Wait for price to retrace into a marked point of interest on a lower timeframe rather than chasing the move, which the traders describe as the "boring part of trading."
4. Enter off confirmation on the 1-minute chart while continuing to watch the 15-minute trend for context.
5. Move the stop loss to break-even soon after entry; the video shows this done at least three times in the session, with the group counting "three break evens for the session."
6. Let the trade run toward the marked target, adjusting the stop again as price approaches it, for example moving one trader's stop to 4136 as price neared the 4148 target.
7. Note the result on camera once the target is hit, as the group does at the end of the session when reporting figures like "up $13,000" and "up $1,500."

This is a description of one group's routine in one video, not investment advice or a formula for a particular outcome. The video itself does not claim the sequence guarantees any result, and moving a stop loss to break-even limits risk on that specific trade, it does not remove risk from trading as a whole or from the trades that do not reach break-even before reversing.

What other results and higher-timeframe targets does the video mention?

Beyond the $13,000 headline, the video mentions a trade from the previous day that the group left to run unattended, and a set of weekly and daily levels they were watching alongside the session's short-term targets. None of these extra mentions come with a dollar figure attached, so this article does not assign one to them.

One trader recalls a trade from "yesterday" that he "just held it, left it while I went and dug holes," with a take-profit order already set at what he calls "that high time frame liquidity zone that we spoke about," describing it as a "set and forget." The video says that trade's take-profit was hit, but gives no dollar or percentage figure for it, so it cannot be added to or compared against the $13,000 session result. The group also mentions extending a prior "FX session" by roughly 15 minutes afterward "just focusing on those continuations," again without stating a result.

On higher timeframes, the group frames this session inside a broader weekly view. They say the daily chart had pushed up, come back down, and closed lower, and say they are hoping for "another bullish day" because "this week is looking very, very good." They mention it "would be nice if the week closes above 4,220," calling that "a nice little internal shift," and separately name 4180 and 4202 as further bullish targets sitting above the session's immediate 4148 target. These are stated as the group's own hopes and marked levels for the days ahead, not as predictions with any independent backing, and the video does not report back on whether any of them were later reached.

How does this one claimed result compare with independently verified data?

The $13,000 figure comes from the video alone and has no independent source behind it. Two facts can be independently verified: the forex market itself is enormous, and most Australian retail CFD investors do not come out ahead over a full year, which is a very different question from what happens in any single session.

The BIS 2025 Triennial Survey reports that average daily OTC foreign-exchange turnover reached US$9.6 trillion in April 2025. That figure describes the size and liquidity of the global market that a session like the one in the video takes place in, not the odds of any individual trader profiting from it.

Separately, ASIC Report 828: Risky business, published in January 2026, records that 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in the 2024 financial year. That statistic covers a full financial year of outcomes across the retail CFD population, not one session or one video, so it cannot confirm or deny what happened in the $13,000 session specifically. It does show that most retail CFD investors, taken as a group over a full year, end up behind rather than ahead, and it is the most directly relevant independently verified figure available for weighing a headline like "$13,000 in one session" against typical outcomes.

| | Claim in the video | Independently verified | |---|---|---| | Session result | Group reports being up roughly $13,000 in one Asia session | Not verified; single unaudited personal account | | Risk management | Stop losses moved to break-even multiple times during the session | Shown on screen in the video; not evidence of overall profitability | | Trading routine | "That's what we do every single Asia session" | Not verified; no performance history is shown | | Market size | Forex described as a large, liquid market | BIS 2025 Triennial Survey: US$9.6 trillion average daily turnover, April 2025 | | Typical trader outcomes | Not addressed in the video | ASIC Report 828: 68% of Australian retail CFD investors lost money in FY2024 |

Does the video's mentorship mention change what the $13,000 figure means?

Near the end of the video, Rihari says the session shown is what the group does "every day with our mentorship as well," and invites viewers to train with them across the Asia, London and New York sessions. The video gives no pricing, licensing status or performance guarantee for that program.

That closing invitation is worth separating from the trading session itself. The $13,000 figure is presented as one morning's outcome for the people on camera, while the mentorship mention is a separate call to action layered on top of it. The video does not say the mentorship is licensed to provide financial advice, does not state a price, and does not claim that people who join will see similar results. Because none of that is stated in the transcript or covered by the two independently verifiable facts used in this article, this article does not make any claim about the mentorship's licensing, pricing or typical results either. A single session's reported outcome, shown alongside an invitation to join a paid or unpaid training group, is not the same thing as a verified track record for that group.

What should you take away from a single profitable trading session?

A single session, whether it is the $13,000 outcome shown in this video or any other result, is one data point. Independent data on the broader population of Australian retail CFD investors shows most of them lost money over a full year, which is the more relevant number for judging what to expect over time.

Videos like this one are useful for seeing how a specific group of traders talks through entries, exits and risk management in real time, and the terminology and process described here, marking points of interest, waiting for pullbacks, moving stops to break-even, are accurately reported from what the video shows. What the video cannot do is stand in for an audited track record, a guarantee, or a typical outcome. Anyone weighing a headline like "$13,000 in one session" against their own decisions should weigh it alongside the independently verified fact that most Australian retail CFD investors did not end the 2024 financial year ahead, according to ASIC Report 828.