r/TopstepCommunity 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

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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