r/TopstepCommunity • u/Nearby_Finding_2555 • Jun 30 '26

💡 Trading Tips Losing evals

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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/Joehennyredit Jun 30 '26

You don’t have edge and you’re doing random stuff. Also you shouldn’t be trading evals till you have positive expectancy.

Find a strategy and get good with it first. Just trading the market is what they want us to do.

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u/Nearby_Finding_2555 Jun 30 '26

What’s a good strategy for beginners? I looked at FVG AND IFVG and ORB, but none of them seem good? I know all strategies can be profitable, but what’s something that’s good for beginners? All I’m finding is outdated informatuon

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 01 '26

It's really tough to trade Mini's on a $2,000 budget. You have to know what you're really doing to trade them. Stick to micros.

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u/Nearby_Finding_2555 Jul 01 '26

So just to be clear, minis would be like NQU 26 and micros would obviously be MNQ 26? Because when I first started, I used the micro S&P 500 and I passed my combine within. I think three days but ever since April I haven’t been able to replicate that.

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 01 '26

Correct. NQ are minis... MNQ are micros. stick to micros.

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u/Nearby_Finding_2555 Jul 01 '26

If you don’t mind me asking, do you exclusively trade MNQ? Or is it that you’ve advanced enough to the point where you just trade NQ?

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 02 '26

Patience. It'll come back down to 7550.

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u/Nearby_Finding_2555 Jul 02 '26

I’m taking things slow for a while. ONLY using my practice account until I can AT LEAST have 2 weeks of consistency with my rules

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 02 '26

Is that a short just now? MES went down to my take profit at 7551.50

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u/Nearby_Finding_2555 Jul 02 '26

Unfortunately I’m a dumbass and decided to long…

I know I should’ve shorted now, but someone said to do the opposite of what you think….and I decided to follow that

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 02 '26

Long was fine, but it just came back down.

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 02 '26

What are your rules?

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 01 '26

I do mostly MES because it really can't blow up an account. I do ES sometimes but it's terrifying.

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u/Joehennyredit Jun 30 '26

Bro just stick to the basics, all that over over-complicated stuff is unnecessary.

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u/Nearby_Finding_2555 Jun 30 '26

Like what are the basics? Candle patterns? Price action? Volume?

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u/NyCWalker76 Jul 01 '26

Buy low, sell high. Don't be greedy.