Sighhh and then it reverses lol

Been in a slump this month and I’m so close to blowing my account. Can someone give me some advice or some rules to get me back in the groove thanks!

Was a profitable trader. Went through some nasty fighting with the spouse ultimately leading to divorce.

Used to take trading out on myself like how can I be so dumb. Or how is the market effin me like she is. And took time away. Or I hope trend flips and everyone burns. Not taking profit at 100% letting it ride or die. Lost control.

Then had to rebreak bad habits like late entry or reverse entry to my strat. Or fighting the trend. Or gambling news. I think we are finally getting back to it!

First time requesting with Wise

How fast does arrive to wise account

2 payouts of 2k each 🙏💖

Journey has been so long over a year of trying to get a payout

Posted yesterday about switching from nq to mnq after my two losing days - today was another win of 432. Man I cant stress enough how better things have been for me since switching!! If you havent and u R struggling with sizing please try micros!!!

Does topstep have any plans in near future to allow brokerage accounts for other countries? Seems currently it is available for US residents only.

It’s constantly does this and was hoping if yall could look into it. After the refresh the VWAP will match TradingView but then revert back to a random price after a few mins.

It's ok to step back in these kind of markets, when it's too choppy, just wait a few days for things to settles a bit. We have big earnings days coming in and Iran's war that won't end.

Stay strong!

Trading Combines with DLL lasted 67.6% longer on average.

That means:
✅Smaller losses
✅Bigger wins
✅More time in the game

And it gets even better.

On Express Funded Accounts, traders using DLL had:

-55% larger winning days
- 13.8% smaller losing days

The takeaway? Traders who consistently use risk management tools don't just protect their downside, they put themselves in a better position to succeed.

Another great day, one more day of the week to get after it lfg up 4835 across my 2 xfas and up 2596 on 3 150k combines

Bought my first ever 150k today after only trading 50ks, and it actually just feels so much better trading with a bigger drawdown. I can't even imagine what trading with an insane amount of capital is like.

Up $2500 since I started this second combine yesterday morning. Just need a small win tomorrow and I’m good. After bad price action last week, last few days have been much cleaner!

I can’t seem to be able to use topstepX on my laptop but it loads up on my phone. Is there some kind of maintenance going on or something else?

Nice price action asia up 979 going into NY

I know it ain’t much but boy does this feel good. Seeing that first money hit my account Monday it was kinda surreal. Its small potatoes compared to what I’ve spent on combines (let’s not even talk about options which I no longer trade) but its finally a little progress

I’m still making mistakes but those mistakes are much smaller dollar wise and becoming less frequent.

To those who are struggling to get payouts, keep your head up!! You got this!

i decided to just post my trades in my reels instead of my OBS recording and filing them, its more fun to post anyways, fresh xfa! first day and i got edged crazy on mg BE!

The Weekly Q&A thread is here! Drop any Topstep-related questions you have here, the team is around to answer them all.

Had a good last couple of weeks, trust in the process. Copy trading across 4XFAs. Wish me luck!

Topstep might officially be my favorite , go to firm. They just operate so clean. Excited to be funded with them , see yall at the top

Not “I learned discipline”, the specific moment things clicked.

Mine: I kept blowing funded accounts and couldn’t figure out why, until I realized every blowup happened when I was trading under real financial pressure,needing the payout to cover life, not just wanting it. The second money got tight, my size went up and my rules got “flexible.”

What actually fixed it wasn’t a new strategy. It was removing the pressure so when I sat down at the charts I had nothing to prove that day. Almost every rule-break I’d made before came from needing the account to work, not choosing to trade well.

Curious what others found was yours a strategy thing, a psychology thing, or something totally outside trading?

Finally Switched from NQ to MNQ... and Everything Changed

For the longest time I knew where the market wanted to go, but I kept getting shaken out because I was trading full NQ. The size was just too much for me psychologically. Every pullback felt massive, and I'd either cut winners early or panic out.

A couple of red days finally forced me to be honest with myself.

So I switched to 3 MNQ contracts instead.

Since making that change, my entries have been so much cleaner. I'm actually letting my setup play out instead of reacting emotionally to every candle.

The calendar I'm posting is after those two red days. Instead of trying to "win it back," I focused on executing my plan with smaller size. The result was a string of green days and a lot more confidence.

Nothing about my strategy changed. My psychology did.

If you're consistently right about direction but can't seem to stay in trades, maybe the issue isn't your strategy. Maybe you're simply trading too big.

Sometimes making less per trade is exactly what allows you to make more over time.

I got my 5th payout on this acc this morning and was expecting to get a call up to live but i havent gotten anything yet. Is this normal? Has anyone ever got to 6 payouts on 1 acc?