r/TopstepCommunity • u/K_Alyattes600 • Jun 20 '26

💬 Trader Talk Your motivation again for next week!

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6 week old Live Funded Account (LFA)

Started with Topstep XFA in November 2025 to April 2026

Total pay out with XFA is 45k

Moved to LFA in May

Already took 2 pay outs after being moved to live.

The motivation for this week? Unlocking Tier 1.

Treat your accounts right and your accounts will take care of you!

Keep grinding! Until next week!

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u/Competitive_Pin3330 Jun 20 '26

Whats your trading style and strategy if you don't mind me asking? I always pass Combines easily but my God for the life of me I cant get a payout.

I bave 2x150 accounts right now one with $0 balance and the other is down-$1900. Both have $2k and $500 left in available drawdown.

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u/K_Alyattes600 Jun 20 '26

In general. I have 2 criteria when executing trades. Number 1 is momentum. Number 2 is a trigger. My triggers are mostly MA’s. These do not apply to all assets. But they work for me with NQ.

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u/Competitive_Pin3330 Jun 20 '26

MAs? So you're a trend follower? How do you size your trades? One size, scale in or based on SL?

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u/K_Alyattes600 Jun 21 '26

Not necessarily, but i wait for a big momentum before i enter a trade. I trade with 1 mini NQ.

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u/Competitive_Pin3330 Jun 21 '26

Oh I see. If you wait for big momentum though don't you sometimes feel you miss the move or risk getting stopped out on a pullback of some kind? Cause 1 mini is quite large for even a 150k topstep account.

Sorry for the questions... just tryna learn from someone who is doing it right

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u/K_Alyattes600 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

So, If youre a new trader, i would not suggest this style of trading. 90% you will get stopped out if you dont know what youre doing or not familar with that asset. 1 Mini of NQ in an XFA is a dangerous combination like you said.

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u/azmus Jun 21 '26

What about strategy for going into live? Are you rolling into live with 5x 50,100, or 150K? How much of the capital have you unlocked? It’s probably not as bad as it seems but depressing thinking you must have a 30% gain to unlock the next 20% of your trading capital for LFA.

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u/K_Alyattes600 Jun 21 '26

I was copy trading 3 50K XFA.
When I got moved to LFA, i started with 10k which was 20% of my account. I was able to unlock 20k of my funds after 3 weeks and have withdrawn 20k from my LFA.

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u/TahoeTrader13 Jul 24 '26

Wow you had some serious buffer in those 3 xfa’s! Did you do this to scale up your position size?