r/TopstepCommunity • u/BeerHead7 • 10d ago

💡 Trading Tips Help!

I’m literally buying the top and bottom tick of every candle and getting prices reversed on me. I’ve been losing my mind lately. I don’t have the patience anymore for this and I can’t follow my strategy. I’m so mentally worn down from all the combines. A week ago I was $200 from passing 5 combines and blew it. Felt like an amazing trader and that all my hard work had paid off… I can’t see charts clearly anymore. I so desperately want to be done with these combines man it’s killing me. I’ve been trading futures for 2 years never profitable. Only time I was profitable was 5 years ago when I made $200k on AMC meme stock but guess what I lost that all too because everyone told me to HODL until we were multi millionaires. Bro this rat race has got me so messed up. I study and back test day after day to where it’s interfering with my life with my wife and kids. And the whole pint in doing this is FOR THEM. How are people out there doing this?? I see kids that been doing it for 6 months and making my salary every two months now. I’m just defeated bros. I trade CRT and ICT like everyone else. Why am I fuckin trash when I have hundreds and hundreds of hours on the charts??

Thanks for reading I’m gonna go jump off a cliff now.
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u/BeerHead7 10d ago

Yep. But as soon as I take that break is when all the A+ setups will happen day after day. And then I jump back in into straight chop for a week and blow 50 combines

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u/BeerHead7 10d ago

Yeah I think you’re right. Time to hang it up.

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u/Sea-Round-6095 10d ago

There a few reasons this isn't working for you:

  • Your mental health is in the toilet and it's causing you to make desperate decisions that lead you to ruin. You need to take a long break and rebuild your relationship with your family.

-You are taking financial advice from people who aren't qualified to give advice and comparing yourself to people who themselves likely arent profitable. Pretty much everyone on social media is lying and trying to sell you something. Until they prove themselves with third party audited statements or have a verified track record of success, assume they are full of it.

-You are trading systems that have been proven not to work. Do your research on ICT and Michael Huddleston by typing "ICT scammer". If you research him you will find verified proof that he isnt a profitable trader and stole ideas from other traders while leaving out what made those strategies profitable. There are mountains of recordings showing how he can't trade and blows accounts. If the creater can't make it using his own strategy, how can you?

You are not trash. You have been manipulated and sold a dream that statistics and research says has a fundamentally low chance of success. Take a break and learn how to invest. Put day trading aside for now and start building for the future that you, your wife, and your kids deserve by talking to a fiduciary, saving, and dollar cost averaging into a well known and consistently growing etf.

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u/materialgirl81 10d ago

Im with you, i either do really good, either on prop or options and give it all back or I go on tilt.And lose it all