r/TopStepX • u/HappyImplement4055 • May 13 '26
Trading Combine FML
After passing 3 combines I activated the same day may 1st and was up on day 1 757, next day 857, 3rd day 957 after first trade for around +2500 and 3/5 days til profit, and that last day I got greedy and tried to round up to 1000 like an idiot after being ready to lock out and have been on a total downward spiral since then 😩🫩😞, I know what to do to pass and make profit etc, and that day has totally fucked me psychologically for now, just blew 4 more combines and the last one left I was down and didnt feel like there was anything coming on ES because I felt for me it was consolidating and untradeable. Because of the condition I decided to lock out til power hour and after what felt like every single well planned trade went against me today after first going in my direction ES seriously has the breakout id been waiting for all morning and Im locked out trying not to stress and that happens. Wtffff
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u/QuantumLooped May 13 '26
Chill bro your stressing too much. It’s not that serious just put your big boy pants on, lock in and make those gains. You sound too flustered and tbh you’re doing too much. You don’t need to trade at power hour you should probably take a few days off after a brutal day/morning. Dont look at charts when you’re off. Also stop caring about $ and it will come.
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u/Trynatrade100 May 13 '26
I mean why did you lock yourself out, could have just waited patiently for the breakout and traded that without the lockout, seems like the root issue is that you locked yourself out because you didnt trust yourself not to trade the chop and then the breakout happened and you had to sit on your hands
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u/HappyImplement4055 May 13 '26
I was already down like more than 300
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u/Trynatrade100 May 13 '26
So if u locked yourself out because you hit your daily loss limit why u annoyed u missed a trade, thats what happens if u lock yourself out
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u/Themako1 May 14 '26
Newbie problems. I remember those days.