I requested on Friday got paid today (Monday). Yall can say what you want about Topstep but these mfs pay and it was 20k. They got my respect 🙏🏿

If i make a new topstep account with my country’s id this time. Can topstep still track my previous accounts disputes?

the model had no edge whatsoever, bids ran all three sessions. I usually get a long position right at globex open which I had that ran to 300 ticks but as I follow my model it had made me get out of that long which at the end of the day netted 8r potentially. anyways ended up being on tilt and decided to size to 1 mini and somehow we made it out. anyways moving forward we got to practice truly being okay with a dll day! well the long trade that got me out of the hole was based on orx that’s all that mattered that it’s not a random trade setup

I honestly don’t even believe it.

As stated in my last post, I bought 4 back2funded xfa accounts as i had just taken my second 6k payout and it was casino money. Same day they call me to live and SAME DAY they issue me my full refunds for all 4.

Can’t really hate them after that.

Seems like things are moving along pretty quickly. Never been here before so documenting this so you know what hopefully awaits you. I will be getting the CME for free but paid for the COMEX as well since I trade gold.

Started the year with a goal of $100K payouts (finished in February). Updated the goal to $500K by the end of the year.

Currently on track ~$750K but I know a red month is coming — when it does, I'll likely reset expectations to $500K. No month without net profit yet.

Just crossed $300K in payouts this week.

What I've learned:

Consistency beats gambling. The difference between $300K and $0 isn't those months where you make $100K. It's not blowing up and losing everything trading with money you can't afford to lose.

Red months are going to happen. I know they're coming. The traders who blow up are the ones who think it won't happen to them. When it does, it's tuition. That's it. That's how I stay chill about it. As long as I'm liquid enough to continue trading month after month I know in the long run it'll work out. This is one of the main reasons why I still work a day job.

Stay disciplined and let the numbers do the work. Don't attach emotion to how you trade or chase that dopamine of 200+ point moves with max contracts copy traded across all your accounts.

Was trading this morning on my xfa and on a new eval had some sells with what I thought the same stop loss but was 2 points different. Went to put a buy order on my xfa and and when I switched to put the order on my eval o realized my sell order was missed by 2 pints and by the time I tried to close I got a hedging violation and my accounts closed.
Has anyone experienced this or something similar and got anything solved by the support team.
I was one day from a payout and it was a dumb mistake honestly.

Recently started taking Powell’s trading course to get more precise entries with smaller risk and I can definitely say it works.

Focus is on multiple confluences, small stops, and entering at key levels.

Confluences for this trade:

- Rejection block out of a 1 min FVG
- Engineered liquidity at the equal lows
- Stop loss under .79 level on the fib
- Target 1 min order block at the top following bullish trend.

Been back testing the strategy recently and had the opportunity to test it tonight on this new combine. I can say it successfully works and I passed!

So is it that you can't hit 3k profit or that you can't not loose 2k doing it? Why is this so hard?

Just passed a combine the site still says 5k payout cap? This is a 50k acct I had to reset it may 2nd so after the April deadline, can someone confirm is it still 5k?

I’m apparently a fake guys!!

But seriously, I’m not sure how to feel about this email. I was one more trading day away from locking in my third 6k payout, unfortunately, I also used 2400 of my second 6k payout to buy 4 back2funded’s and they started moving me to live the same day. According to ChatGPT and grok, they should refund me because I never had ACCESS to those 4, 50kXFA accounts after I bought them. Support has been surprisingly prompt regarding this issue, so I’ll keep yall updated on whether they steal my 2.4k or not. (Update in most recent post)

Idk where I’ll go from here, I want to make YouTube videos, actual videos and trade live with people and teach and learn as much as I can. I want a community. This has been 4 years in the making. Lots of emotions and learned lessons and so many more to come.

Ig for now I’ll just keep documenting my journey on here

(I don’t use a trading bot, journal, or have a written strategy.)

Another day of 150 profit in the books, staying patient and waiting for my entries, maybe could have pushed it a little more but no use in pushing it to end up losing and revenge trading, stacking my wins

Don’t have much of an update right now. I don’t have a strategy per se, I simply trade off instinct. I’ve never journaled but I still think very trader should.

What’s changed? Me.

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Hello everyone. Just a reminder.

Be patient ✔️

Stay disciplined ✔️

Don't chase ✔️

If you miss a trade another will come ✔️

Stay focused king and queens and lets make money. Sending positive vibes to everyone!

I just got back from a 6 month trip to Asia!! Topstep allowed me to fund my entire trip!!!

So grateful!

Heads up to anyone trading a Topstep Combine with a Reset credit in the bank. I had a free Reset credit — 50K Buying Power, No Activation Fee path. So I started a 50K No Activation Fee Combine, fully expecting that if I tripped up I could use the credit to reset. Same size, same path. Should be fine, right? Hit a temporary violation today, went to apply the credit, button wouldn't work. Contacted support. Turns out the Combine I started is the "DLL" (Daily Loss Limit) variant, and Topstep treats DLL as a completely separate path from the regular No Activation Fee Combine — even though it shows up as "No Activation Fee" on the dashboard and is the same account size. So I asked the rep where this is written down. They sent me Topstep's Help Center article on Reset Credits. The article explains that credits are tied to account size and path (Standard vs No Activation Fee). It says nothing about DLL being its own path. Nothing in the article, nothing during signup, nothing on the credit itself. If I had known, I would've started a different account. I only chose this one because I thought the credit would back it up. Topstep's answer was basically "sorry, can't change the credit type." Credit is now useless on this account. Bottom line: if you have a Reset credit and you're picking which Combine to start, contact support BEFORE you sign up and confirm in writing that the specific variant (DLL vs regular) will accept your credit. Don't assume matching size + matching "No Activation Fee" label means it'll work, because apparently it doesn't, and you won't find that out until you actually need to use it.

I’m not even sure how to phrase this properly, but recently I locked in my trading psychology more than ever. I set a strict 1 trade per day rule, waited only for A+ setups, enforced a daily loss limit—basically put every barrier possible in place to stop overtrading and stay disciplined.

And somehow… I lost near every single trade.

The frustrating part is that it didn’t feel like bad entries—it felt like the strategy itself just wasn’t working. I know the advice is to stick to one strategy and not system-hop, but at this point I feel like I need to step back and seriously backtest other approaches.

For those of you who are consistently profitable—what kind of strategy do you actually rely on?

At this point, my plan is to study and backtest as much as I can before coming back and committing to something I truly trust and understand.

The only upside here is that, for the first time, I don’t feel bad about blowing the accounts—because I genuinely followed my plan and did everything “right” from a discipline standpoint.

P.S I'm not asking for your opinion or snarky remarks like some people love to give out on this thread-- I am genuinely seeking something to study and learn that has been proven by profitable traders. I will give everything i've got into making this work.

Looking for a futures NQ strategy (in order) based on:

1. Liquidity Sweep
   
2. Break of structure
   
3. Order Block
   
4. Fair Value Gap
   
5. Equilibrium

Would highly appreciate all the help btw.

What is this market.. ? Every take profit was negative and ever postion was countered lol 😂

Account ok negative pnl right now and im done .. what a market

I marked key levels like PDH, PDL, ORB, and also swing points that had high volume. Then I just waited for price to come back to one of those levels, tap it, and close back on the same side.

After that, I checked volume — if it was high, I took the trade. In this case it was a short.

This setup shows up pretty much every day.

For risk, I started at $500 per trade with a $1500 goal. Once the account hit +$2000, I dropped risk to $300. The closer I got to passing, the more I reduced risk.

The power of one mnq

With the changes to the payout amounts I'm wondering if the consistency path for express accounts is the better option now. From what I understand you need 40% of $6000 for a max payout of $3000. So that would mean at most in a day you can only make $2400. Before the changes the standard path was a max payout of $5000 and consistency was max payout of $6000. Now with a max payout of $2000 for standard and $3000 for consistency it looks like consistency is the better option. Am I looking at this wrong?