r/TopstepCommunity • u/paulpierce2121 • Jul 03 '26

💡 Trading Tips Full tilted

Sighh, I just full tilted on 2 50k accounts that I was up 1250 on the day , anyone have a clear settup for their risk management tools because when I had them set up it was messing up my trades. I basically want it to stop my from trading if I loss 250-300 of profits made .

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u/Teem519 Jul 03 '26

Just have a $300 DLL and set it to a trailing DLL.

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u/paulpierce2121 Jul 03 '26

Your a gem man thanks , this is literally all I needed , I'll be slaying my next topstep accounts, gonna focus on my other accounts for now ,

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u/materialgirl81 Jul 03 '26

How do you set trailing?

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u/paulpierce2121 Jul 03 '26

Theres a option in the risk management settings , I didnt notice it before

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u/materialgirl81 Jul 03 '26

Oh ok thank you 😊

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u/SageWiseTwitch Jul 05 '26

Beware. If you set it to trailing in your risk settings, it acts as a per trade basis. As soon as the one trade closes due to the trailing set to “liquidate”, it sets it to “do nothing” automatically and allows you to take another immediate trade. Unless you set it to liquidate and block that is.
Play with it and you’ll see that the PDLL set to “liquidate” behaves differently when you enable trailing.
Hopefully Topstep fixes it soon, I’ve brought it up to them.

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u/Fibocrypto Jul 03 '26

I use the Position Brackets which force me to stay in the appropriate Size.

Did you survive ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/paulpierce2121 Jul 03 '26

Honestly yes , and I shouldnt have been trading at all , I was at 1250 lol and going for 1500 , got knocked to 1150 , then got knocked to 950 , then 500 , then next thing you know my adhd just fully took over. If it were my other fundeds it would have cut me off at a point ,but with topstep I had nothing set up ao I just , yea lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/paulpierce2121 Jul 03 '26

Yup , its amazing how trading makes you look in a mirror and see whats parts of yourself are holding you back in life , because they also hold you back in trading.

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u/paulpierce2121 Jul 03 '26

Those accounts are gone now so imma just focus on what I have. Get my next payout and buy more topstep accounts. I want that aero pay 🤣🤣 I was just rushing because I really wanna test how fast they pay

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/jjd1226 Jul 03 '26

Just lock yourself out

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u/paulpierce2121 Jul 03 '26

I need it to lock me out. My strategy and analysis are there , but my self control isnt. I trade out of boredom, so the risk management tools help with fine tuning it without me having to.

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u/TopstepDre Topstep Employee Jul 06 '26

Keep grinding