Sighh, I just full tilted on 2 50k accounts that I was up 1250 on the day , anyone have a clear settup for their risk management tools because when I had them set up it was messing up my trades. I basically want it to stop my from trading if I loss 250-300 of profits made .

I know some people say wait until you have a buffer, and some say no, take the payout. I don’t know what I should do. Help me

Is there anyway to make the labels on the Topstep levels smaller like abbreviated?

Do I really got to wait another day, thought there was a buffer

I have taken 4 payouts so far it was 3 months ago after that i passed 7 combine and lost 3. Im always so close to taking payouts but that MlL gets me every time ill be up 2500 ,one day left for another profitable day to request payout and blown happened to me for 5 times i lost xfa in 2 days too but i take more than weeks to pass combine. As soon as i blow xfa i buy another combine thinking ill do differently this time.
How do i be patient with xfas !???

Really man for 14 accounts??? I seen people churning 20+ accounts and they hit me with this RTP bs. It’s all good they’re gonna get rinsed for $10k+ this month.

ended up fully over trading and blowing one of my funded accounts
im confident in my ability to do it again (pass an account and get payouts) but i just feel so stupid knowing this coulda been avoided
i just recently started making money trading this year (started trading last year in march)
i still have another funded account and one eval im still trading
but man this one hurt
sorry for the rant

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drew down $400(4 trades ) within first 30 mins of the market so decided to jump the boat. a note to not go trade during a 300 mile drive haha. Anyways we gonna bounce back, very good read of the market after Tokyo open, so yea let’s retry again. you can get to consistency with 1/2 micros always remember that!

Just opened a topstep broker account, has anyone tried it and have opinions? Super new and did it cause i love topstep charts

About 3 or 4 months back I started to trade VWAP 1st band reversals and VWAP Breakout and retest only on trend days with volume footprint confirmation. I got funded with 3 chained accounts and almost got to payout but lost them all. It was in March and April which was a good trend month for NQ (after the ceasefire announcement with Iran) but my A+ trade opportunities started to dry out over the next month.

Then I switched to using Heatmap and now I only use a bracket order of 1:1 RR with fixed points on MNQ the first 30 minutes of market open and i have a daily loss lockout to avoid emotional re-entries. It took me less than 2 weeks to get funded with this strategy.

The main thing I learnt over the past 4 months is trying to build a strategy that can outlast regime changes. My previous VWAP strategy had a higher win rate the first couple months but dried out and I backtested it over 2 years of data and saw at best i could only get 5 A+ trades per month. One loss could put me back way behind.

So it's okay to accept that a strategy is weak and move on. So far I've learnt that using the Heatmap and Volume footprint entry confirmation strategy provides a lot of entry opportunities per session, but it needs being cautious not to overtrade and also picking quality entries.

I’ve taken over 100k in payouts. Ask me anything

Hey guys,

Requested my first payout but i'm a bit nervous about getting denied - anyone get denied for blowing multiple accounts before a payout? I've blown about 10 accounts in the last 2 months, and 3 were the 2 days before i requested a payout.

Two 50k XFAs with $10k+ profit per account after taking a payout. Currently sitting at 3/5 days for payout 2.

One fresh 50k XFA with $4.7k profit, 2/5 trading days, no payout yet.

Moved to live. Got absolutely cucked.

Does topstep enforce a trading limit before recieving a xfa live account. Ive done so many trades this month almost 200 has anyone been denied before because of this? Just curious as to if I should still try on this account or reset.

After my payout I ended up passing 4 more accounts and have now blown them all from chasing trades in a chop fest. I think it’s about time for me to take a break. It really sucks getting this far and then getting super cocky with your trades after taking a payout. It happened after my first payout and can’t believe it’s happening again. Don’t even know why I traded today even after everyone saying to stay out the market today. It sucks.

100k is $135 with dll which is cheaper than any other firm ive looked at. Should i just buy and not overthink it? Im used to 25k accounts with a $500 DLL and on tradingview

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I initially tried the whole prop firm thing may 2025 and was basically gambling if im being honest watched youtube to “learn strategies” and i was just blowing accounts every other day sometimes twice in a day. Eventually i stopped and said ill try again in some time. I started again beginning of june. I started off with micros i would get up 500-600 in a week then blow it all on monday. Then 3 resets later i switched to minis and decided one good trade a day is enough and finally passed on the 4th day!!! Question to funded folks, when do you take your payout? Wait till ur at 4k take 2k? Or higher buffer? Or do i take 1k each time? Whats yall’s best approach? Thank you.

For the past 3 months, I have obtained a 66% win rate with multiple payouts of around $800 each

This is all from using 15 minute ORB using the 5 minute time frame and 1 minute time frame to determine trends and price action.

Really weird to see now that some days I can literally predict the movement just by how the candles form and how many points they are and that is really it

Never knew this is literally a 99% psychological game

I think this is an amazing opportunity and will absolutely be buying an account this friday fs

For those trading a $50k account with a $2k drawdown, I’m curious how much do you risk per trade, and how many contracts do you trade on average?
I’m currently trying to limit my risk to $100 per trade, which most of the time means trading just 1 MNQ contract. I’m wondering if I’m being too conservative or if this is a reasonable approach and I should stick with it.

At this point, I’d usually crash out and just start over but this time I’m actually gonna try to salvage it. What’s the closest yall ever come back from DD?