i’m just gonna go for $200 dollars for the next two days so i can get first payout! i have been using the lockout feature everyday

Secure my 4th green day on my XFA with a lockout?? Sounds like a good idea!

Started my Topstep Combine today and accidentally made $27,384.42 on NQ. Felt great — until I realized I violated the Consistency Rule. Now I have to either grow the account to over $54K, lose $25K to get back under $1,500, or pay $50 to reset.

I chose to lose it.

Been trading 5-lot NQ trying to bleed it out… and I can’t. Market refuses. Every bad setup I take still goes green. I’m literally trying to lose and keep winning. I’ve never been more frustrated making money.

Topstep, I get the consistency idea — but this feels like I’m being punished for a good day. Can we get a better solution than “pay $50 or nuke your own trades”?

Anyone else run into this? This is the dumbest win I’ve ever had.

In my last post I had a rough day I was down after like 9 trades then the day after i made like $80 and was happy. Today i did things a little different and made $500+. Pulled out early but hey Chase winners, and slow and steady. Any second could have a crazy reversal so I'm happy with my 500.

I broke my rules and traded minis which probably won’t happen again

So on the combine i risk more then my normal strategy as shown on the picture. Usually i risk 10% of MLL. My strategy is catching bigger moves ranging from .6% - 5% on NQ/ES. My strategy also allows me to have tight stop losses. I look for a minimum 1 - 1,5 risk reward. If my entry is a top tick type entry i will put tighter stop loss with bigger position.

Day 1: i was $1,800 profit but got greedy and wanted $4,500 and lost some trades, i very rarely let my emotions control but slip ups happen.

Day 2: My trades were simply wrong.

Day 3: Got a perfect setup where all my critiria for what i call a 'guranteed' win trade hit, Witch includes: Liquidity, FVG, IFGV, MACD, SMT divergence, previous session levels and a bit Fib retracment.

Day 4: Got a good entry for a long and reason for '11' trades is because i trade between the ups and downs until my TP hits. So my TP without those trades in between would be $2,300.

I started my trading career 4 months ago and been studying an avg of 6+ hours a day. I don't watch any program or game. i sleep 8 hours a night, go to 6 hours school and go to the gym. I am a person who takes in information extremelly fast and learn almost instantly from my trading mistakes.

Now that you know how i trade and a bit how i am as a person, have you got any tips for my XFA and rest of my career. Would mean the world for me if you have ny advice.

Hello been trading a funded account for a while and I’m eligible for my first payout but I’m confused .

I use a topstep tradovate account so my platform is a little different but this is the only topstep subreddit

“I understand going forward, my account cannot go below $0. (Required)” is the prompt I’m receiving

I understand you can withdraw 50% of your account balance

So if I have a 1000$ account balance and withdraw 500 I only have 500 to trade now ?

trying to just play it pretty safe here and go for decent profits each day, 1-2 trades a day (1 or 2 MNQ contracts & 5-7 EURUSD contracts)

So I had my trade locked with my tp and sl set on the chart this morning. I only had 650$ to make to pass the combine and my tp was at 760$. I closed my cellphone to do my things and looked back at it 5-10min after. The price touched my tp, touched the sl but still ran through it and I lost my account to that. What do you guys think I should do.

Is this normal during times of economic ehh… panic? (For lack of a better term)

It’s like no one knows what to do! Candles flip flop up and down, and they don’t even make a proper “fence” lineup, with the next one suddenly showing up way lower or higher than the one right next to it, instead of the usually somewhat connected structure…

New to trading since beginning this year, I’m probably not using the right description here but you know what I mean?

Keeping my fingers off the buttons today 😅

It actually has me up on the new account even though I tilted on Friday and cooked the account. Im so confused

I have another $50K XFA that is at $57K balance. I’m at the max allocation for a transfer to live account. Plan now is just taking $10K payouts weekly until the callup.

Hi all,

I’m looking for a serious trader, to trade with on live ny session

I trade nasdaq on TopStep. I'm 1 year into trading, lost $16k (converting to $), struggling with psychology (revenge trading, not being patient. That's why I want to find someone that struggles with the same thing, so we can hold each other responsible. My english is not perfect, but we can sure understand each other.

Im also into getting to know each other and talk about other stuff too

If you are interested, comment here or hmu through dms 🙏

Taking out 1k and reinvesting into more accounts this is a crazy feeling I’m really making this shi a reality

Hey, so I bought 5 accounts and by mistake I traded 5 full NQ contracts instead of 5 MNQ and made 3,400.

What will happen now ? They will ask me to make additional 3,400 ? Close my accounts?

Thanks guys.

Go to your chart setting scroll all the way down and thank me later implemented it into strategy and it works wonders might help you🤝🏾

I just wanted some Clarification from you guys. I’ve blown two combines already and am hoping the 3rd time is the charm.

If I do $1500 dollars tomorrow will I have successfully passed the combine.

Thanks again for all the advice on this Sub

Micros now are technically minis.

Why isn’t there an extra micro. Which less value

The market js completely untradable.

Can’t even trade 1 micro. Without is swinging 100s of dollars. Per tick. What is going on.

. Is this a result of increase of global money printing?

For those trading NQ, do not trade below 16612 today…

Although if you’re trading a combine, I believe the price limit rule does not apply.

And please, anyone in the community that has a different level, do share and challenge, but Im pretty sure I am right.

For long, I've been a huge proponent of trading the larger trend and ignoring any trades on the opposite side. I enter on the 10-second timeframe and aim for a 1:2 risk-to-reward.

But I've been recently flirting with scalping on the 15-second timeframe, and my backtesting shows that I get a lot more trades – and ultimately a lot more returns.

I was wondering what do the people here think? I've seen some crazy account gains recently on this channel.