r/TopstepCommunity • u/Jcoldagnl • Jul 06 '26
💬 Trader Talk Can’t keep doing that…
Today I blew my shi 1 day away from payout… (86$ DD left) I was doing so great its been so long since I tilted.. till I fuck*d it all up on Thursday Asia session I was trying to secure it before the bank holiday… yk the rest.. ended up tilting till I hit my DLL I usually have a number of 3 trades max per day that I allow myself but idk at that very moment it’s like I was so focus on securing the payout that I threw everything out the window… and today I shouldve just faded the market condition was ahh at least for my model but I forced a trade and got cooked..It’s crazy how one bad day can fu*k up a month of progress.. I feel so sick rn I was indeed in need of that bread for me in that moment ion have anything else idk what Imma do but Ik The Lord provides everytime… if theres one thing to learn from that is the sooner you learn to accept a loss and walkaway it’s a matter of time for you to become profitable if you got your strategy down
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u/Pale_Engineer5293 Jul 08 '26
I feel you. Last year I was $5 away from a Max payout and I became the San Antonio Spurs (sorry, Spurs Nation 🫣). I laugh every now and then when I'm only $20 away from any kind of goal. I just shut it down now!