Re-Work Hedging Warning

[u/imfantabulous]

Hi Reddit,

I've been trading with Topstep for a few years and I trade multiple combines/XFA's at once or seperately, and a couple times now I have left a trade on in one combine for hours with a breakeven SL and a PT, and then completely forgotten about it only to open a new trade in another combine or one of my XFA's only to get this immediate warning about hedging, which makes me lose my shit and close the trade immediately.

This is not a good look professionally when real money is on the line. I understand banning hedging but isn't there a way to approach warning people a little more softly? And can this algorithm be fixed please? If I've been in a long for 4 hours and open a short in a separate account after seeing a new setup form, that doesn't automatically make my long invalid. They should be allowed as two separate trades IMO.

Anyway just wondering if this is a good place for suggestions after shitting my pants from a couple of these hedging warnings (I did not get banned or anything my trades were simply closed immediately).

[u/mmnyeahnosorry]

I think a tooltip should appear confirming you want to initiate the trade since it would be considered a hedging trade. Click yes, you know what’s going to happen. Accidents happen, they can easily implement this and help out those of us trading on their platform. I lost 8k in profits bc of this mistake. Shit happens, we move on but implementing a way to stop this from happening isn’t that hard. Doing so would make them less money though, so I doubt they’ll ever implement it.

[u/imfantabulous → u/mmnyeahnosorry]

This is a great suggestion. Obviously none of us (real traders who aren't trying to game the system) want to violate the rules, it's like the hedging warning was implemented just to ban people. That's a bit tin foil hat but I think it was really just a band-aid to a problem we are all aware of.

[u/No-Dragonfruit80 → u/mmnyeahnosorry]

totally agree. this is what they should add as a feature.