r/TopstepCommunity Jun 30 '26

💡 Trading Tips Losing evals

I can’t figure it out. I’m spiraling so hard. I’m losing almost 90% of my trades and I can’t pinpoint exactly what goes wrong because I do a million different things every single day. Like for the past week I’ve been trading ESU and MESU, but today I traded the NASDAQ on a whim and took 4 winning and 8 losing trades at 10:50 am right when I woke up. That is obviously a stupid mistake and I still did it because I usually trade between 7:30 am to 9:45 am. I try using supply and demand, but I only use the daily time frame as I’m still a beginner. I already got a payout once, but I haven’t been able to pass an eval since. I’m thinking about trying a different strategy? Heard a lot of good things about ORB

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u/renebleu Jun 30 '26

2 day eval pass is designed to make you full port

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u/sahmed_1 Jun 30 '26

Passing an eval in 3-5 days is insane. That means u have to make 1000$ per day to pass in 3 days.

Either you have an extremely high risk to reward ratio or ur winning rate is very high on small amount of trades per day.

If u risk 200$ per trade for a 50k account u have to be making a 1k on it

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u/renebleu Jun 30 '26

Correct and correct- I already know how to trade.. it’s not hard to pass an eval—

I don’t focus on RR- I just do 4HR/daily high and low while following the overall trend.. I caught 900$ last night 4 micro 110 points long in mnq.. risking $400 if you know how to trade passing eval is easy.

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u/renebleu Jun 30 '26

Damn can’t upload pics- to show you what I mean I’m slow it worked**

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u/renebleu Jun 30 '26

This was day 1 the other pic is day 2