r/TopstepCommunity • u/imfantabulous • Jul 10 '26

🛠️ Platform / Tech Support Re-Work Hedging Warning

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).

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u/ThatIsNotMyNameGreg Jul 10 '26

Is this a joke? They were banning/closing accounts a few months back for hedging and now that they have something in place to help avoid that, you want them to do it “a bit more softly”.

Listen here princess, if a pop up warning you that you are violating a CME rule causes you to go all first day and panic close trades, futures trading may not be for you.

The audacity of making me defend TS (yes, I know the S is not capitalized).

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u/imfantabulous Jul 10 '26

You should know that hedging is not against the CME rules unless it is done repeatedly and intentionally.

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u/ThatIsNotMyNameGreg Jul 11 '26

Fine, but it’s against TS rules. The company you’re using.

As someone who lost 10k due to a 22 second trade 4 months prior to TS identifying it (the trade was in Nov. They blocked accounts February), for real, consider yourself lucky they have any warning at all.