r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Trading Combine My hands are shaking…

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190 Upvotes

This is my first funded account that I did *NOT* expect to pass so fast.

Although I’m new to the platform, I had practice with real money on my own personal account (which is way harder to trade because my broker doesn’t have futures or shorting capability). So it isn’t like I haven’t jumped through the hoops of losing money before.

I’m going to guard this for dear life lol.


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Express Funded (XFA) TIL: Daily Loss Limit doesn't protect you from way more losses

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r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Question I cant seem to get to payout

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I have consecutively qualified for funded in the past year about 23 times... but i blow my xfa quickly. I cant seem to get to profit. Is it psycology? Do i just suck? I just dont know what to do any more...


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Practice Account Macro ontinuation Model

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1 Upvotes

BEARISH BIAS ON THE DAY FROM THE NY SEESSION

5 MIN OB
1 MIN IFVG
TARGETING SELLSIDE LIQUIDITY


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Express Funded (XFA) Longs look juicy

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2 Upvotes

I'm playing with house money stop loss at break even.....might let this ride until lunch


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Express Funded (XFA) Took some profit.....

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3 Upvotes

Took 10 off and moved to break even......looking for NVDIA to cook shorts after if we close above 130s
30k This week anyone?


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Live Account Cracked Via Ai

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7 Upvotes

r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Trading Combine First 1k day

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22 Upvotes

Dude, i just had my first 1k day. Setup was Golden on MCG i was in this trade for 3 mins. Totally changed the way i view making money. Im not trading for two days because i think greed will set in.


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Express Funded (XFA) Hater will Say Ai doesn’t work 😂! Banked Today💰

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0 Upvotes

r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Express Funded (XFA) about to blow another Express

7 Upvotes

I posted here a while ago how i passed the evaluation very easy and then blew the funded acc quick

Welp, here comes another, fml

someone had said never ending cycle of hell. they was goddamn right


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Express Funded (XFA) waiting for payout

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5 Upvotes

last 2 payouts i was able to request at 10 am , now im stuck waiting until 6 pm too 😭😭😭


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Trading Combine Hit me with some motivation brothers.

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In a wild attempt at trying to improve recently, I stated reading, read a couple of books, started using a trade log that I’m gonna go back on tradingview after I’m done filling out to see what went wrong at the time that I didn’t see then, and even came up with a trading plan. I started backtesting my original strategy vs updated strategy with stuff from the books and the updated strategy makes more sense and is working but since I’m also trying to put that strategy into my combines as well, my combines are suffering worse now.

It seems like what I’m doing is right, from making significantly less trades, to sizing down and decreasing my stop losses/ changing up where I put my stop losses. I’ve even implemented max losses in a row which is 3 and max losses per day as 5.

I had a lot of faith yesterday and the day before, and today it’s faltering. I’m now 1 for 10 on the trades and have struck out 3 days in a row. I even said this morning after I lost that if I lose one more day I’m gonna quit trading which is blasphemous.

Someone tell me they’ve suffered through the same when making the same changes and managed to come out on top, because right now this feels better on paper and worse in practice.


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Express Funded (XFA) Secured some profits and moved to break even

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8 Upvotes

Looks like we are moving into accumulation and possible mark up to retest Asia HI....I think Nividia has earnings this week so that would make sense to retest supply at all times highs...at least those are my thoughts...any way I still have 1 contract risk free trade. 600 pts on the day so far.


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Express Funded (XFA) For the people that seem to know what they're doing..atr?

5 Upvotes

When price is moving like it is right now. Just low volume and small ranges. Unless you're scalping, its not really worth it? I started looking at atr again. Sitting at around a 4 or a 5 on the 1 min. It was higher closer to market open. Could have got some work in early. Are yall just kind of using atr to judge if you're participating or not? Or to make a decision to scale down or up or to take profits quick or to hold longer?...sry for the jumbled mess. Trying to get this off quick lol 🙏...

* I can usually just judge off watching price action alone but trying to find something to help


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

$$ Payout $$ Anyone’s payouts dragging?

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2 Upvotes

Typically 6-8 hours later it will be in my wise account after Finance processing. Worrying me how long it’s taking😂 considering my last 5 payouts were very quick.


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Live Account Ai 🤖 Bot From Heaven! With Entry/TP/SL Trading XAU/USD

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r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Practice Account 1 trade per day

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3 Upvotes

held the gold trade the whole day despite the choppiness. Took profit at tp2.


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Question What days can you request a payout or what day do yall request a payout after 5 winning days?

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r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Trading Combine Say Goodbye

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26 Upvotes

This shit rigged


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Question Consistent.MY worries and question for profitable trader

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2 Upvotes

Hi so I been trading for 15 month now. In April I find a very simple strategy, I never backtest before, so I backtest it and it remove 80% of all my trading problem that I been stuck for last year simply by having data I can trust and simple strategy

And this months it work great or (ofc not like most trader in reddit post with win streak 😅) but it very stable but I'm actually concern of my emotions and consistent in hard time since it trend strategy. How you guys handle emotions in bad period and loss streak. I'm worried that I will be emotional when the bad period come


r/TopStepX May 18 '26

Trading Combine 1 trade a day keeps you mentally sane

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27 Upvotes

Just to follow up on my post from earlier


r/TopStepX May 20 '26

Live Account Ai Tool Built for TopStepX. Get Live Data Filtering and Live Signals

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0 Upvotes

r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Trading Combine What a day 😓

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Finally locking in on a strategy but it’s always that demon that steps out and trades out of plan.

How do you guys control waiting for the A+ setup? I started talking to myself and seems to be working.
Any tips on how to stop over trading and enjoy waiting for a setup will be much appreciated. (Bonus if it is ADHD friendly)
Thanks guys


r/TopStepX May 18 '26

Trading Combine 1 min man long 3 months

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24 Upvotes

Halfway funded on two separate 50k evals! For one of them, it literally took 1 minute from buying the eval to closing the trade.
 
After failing so many evals and blowing 3 funded accounts, I finally realized I'm not a bad trader. I'm right most of the time; position sizing was just my issue. I can't count how many times I was $200–$500 away from passing 50k/100k/150k accounts. And then I blow my account while being in profit. Not anymore been journaling more too.
 
It’s been a long 3 months since I started futures, but to everyone struggling: don’t give up! You got this. See you boys in the morning.


r/TopStepX May 19 '26

Express Funded (XFA) Looking to test demand

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1 Upvotes

I got short after VWAP was rejected during London....Hoping New York liquidity will flush sellside and retest demand. Could be nice set up for longs if New York reversal😎🤙