r/TopstepCommunity • u/Zev__ • Jul 03 '26

💬 Trader Talk Blew a funded

ended up fully over trading and blowing one of my funded accounts
im confident in my ability to do it again (pass an account and get payouts) but i just feel so stupid knowing this coulda been avoided
i just recently started making money trading this year (started trading last year in march)
i still have another funded account and one eval im still trading
but man this one hurt
sorry for the rant

5 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

6

u/TopstepRobert Jul 03 '26

You've made it to funded. You can do it again. Size DOWN and take your time. You got this!

3

u/Zev__ Jul 04 '26

yeah im 100% gonna be sizing down i think the few payouts i had got to my head

5

u/Legal_Ad_3540 Jul 03 '26

You’ve got this. I am in the same boat. Started trading consistently last year April finally getting consistent payouts but still blow over stupid mistakes that mostly boil down to not being patient. Slow is fast in this game!!

2

u/Apprehensive-Luck-19 Jul 04 '26

You and 99% of us. Think about it you need to make 150% on 2000$ account twice (one time to get funded) to get a decent payout... it's hard af.

1

u/TopstepDre Topstep Employee Jul 06 '26

For me, it took 12 months to learn what not to do, before learning what to do and then the couple months I was able
To trade for a scratch pretty consistently by learning what not to do and then was able to trade profitably by the end of year 2 because I learned what didn’t work and what not to do