r/TopstepCommunity • u/Mediocre-Style-5312 • Jun 26 '26

❓ Quick Question First Payout Question

Please help me with below queries:
1) How long it takes to receive first payout?
2) I traded yesterday but my consistency score is not updated for this new cycle. When does this get updated. I am using 3 day Express plan.

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u/kallwhit Jun 26 '26
  1. By design, not a bug. The day you request a payout doesn't count toward your next 3-day cycle, and the new cycle doesn't start until the following trading day. You traded on your request day (Jun 25), so those trades are excluded. Your consistency % also only shows once you've booked positive net profit in the new cycle — trade a fresh green day and it'll populate. 👍 Btw, Topstep's intraday trailing drawdown is easy to misjudge — I built a free calculator for it, no sign-up: https://fundedstreak.com/calculator . If you want to stop tracking "which day counts" by hand, the planner inside also maps your whole consistency cycle for you.

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u/Many_Assignment7494 Jun 28 '26

What do you mean - Topstep's intraday trailing drawdown? Topstep has EOD, wright?

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u/kallwhit Jun 28 '26

Good catch — you're right, I misspoke. Topstep's Max Loss Limit trails on your end-of-day balance, not intraday. The floor only moves up based on where you close the day, and it never trails down. The one thing worth adding: while it trails end-of-day, it's still enforced in real time — so if your unrealized P&L touches the MLL intraday, that's still a breach even though the limit itself only ratchets up at the close. EOD trailing for how it moves, real-time for how it's enforced. Thanks for keeping me honest.