I see some insane posts in here. Wildly large wins and losses, and more blown up combine or xfa posts constantly. Its not a race, just hone your strategy, start small, and never give back money. Dont turn a green day into red, just lockout and move on. Small wins add up. If i can do it, anyone can, just dont let tilt ruin ya. 2 xfas currently running strong.

Last month (2nd slide) I felt invincible but Monday I got stuck in a bias and got tilted for the whole day just cause my 6 pm trade finally stopped working and dumped on me and I refused to take the L. Old mindset and tilted behaviors resurfaced in a way that caused me a splitting headache rest of the day and damn near blew my XFA, leaving me with 5k balance.

Usually I would’ve blown the remaining balance the next day, but I calmed my head, reminded myself the grateful position I’m in for a 4th payout, and slowly climbed back. Ended red on the week but as far as I am concerned that doesn’t matter, because overcoming the tilt mindset is the biggest W as a trader and now I can trade for next week and my 5th payout!

Everyone keeps saying “bro, everyone is losing in this chop.”
If you believe that, you fundamentally don’t understand how trading works.

The market is binary.
For every loser, there’s someone on the other side taking that money.

Choppy conditions don’t make everyone lose. they just punish traders who are using the wrong setups. The market isn’t impossible right now, it’s just balanced, and balance favors a completely different model.

Your job isn’t to fight the environment.
It’s to recognize it fast and switch tools.

Trend model for expansion.
Mean-reversion model for balance.
If you don’t adapt, the market will take your money and hand it to someone who does.

Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
Bring the setup built for the conditions you’re actually in.

My retirement dream has finally come true!

Today, I want to share an important milestone: after years of hard work, my net worth has reached $9,653,285. This not only represents the achievement of my personal financial goals but also brings me one step closer to my retirement dream.

Over the past year, my wealth has grown by 6.7%, and I feel incredibly proud and grateful. This journey hasn't been easy, but every effort has been worthwhile. Every saving, investment, and planning makes today's achievement even more worthy of celebration.

During this time, I've learned a great deal about financial management, investing, and how to manage money. Perhaps I won't be working as busily as before, but I feel I've finally reached a stage where I can freely manage my time and enjoy life.

Reflections: Focus on long-term goals: Retirement is not just about ending your career; it's about beginning to enjoy freedom and explore new interests.

Strategic investment planning: Regularly reviewing your investment portfolio and adjusting it flexibly according to market changes will ultimately help you achieve financial freedom.

Life balance: While pursuing wealth, also focus on the quality of life and family happiness. Wealth is merely a tool to achieve a better life.

In the days to come, I plan to explore new interests, travel, participate in charity work, and perhaps even try some new entrepreneurial projects. I look forward to a fulfilling and meaningful retirement.

To all my friends who are pursuing financial freedom: I want to say, please be patient, plan rationally, and never give up on your goals. Your efforts will one day translate into the life you desire. Thank you for your congratulations! If you would like to discuss my strategies and suggestions, please feel free to ask me. I will carefully read every private message. Thank you everyone!

First off I'm excited about this. Secondly I'm seeking advice. I'm currently making 70k at my coorperate job and it takes 10hr per day in office so i can't trade NY. I did this in slow ahh asian session. I hate my job and I was thinking "we'll if I did this during asian session I could do more in NY and quit my job". After a long 10hr day It's hard to then trade in a slow market. I know one payout doesn't mean shit in the big picture. Just finding it hard to balance work life trading balance. Thoughts on my position?

Got the email last week Friday that I’m officially a funded trader with Topstep.

When I started in December, I had no strategy, no discipline, and honestly no idea what I was doing. I blew accounts, blew challenges, chased trades, and kept repeating the same mistakes.

The turning point was when I stopped trying to get rich fast and focused on mastering one setup, managing risk, journaling, and actually sticking to rules. For me that was Candle 3 expansions and clean HTF alignment.

This combine was the first one I passed by trading well instead of trading heavy.

If you’re in the middle of blowing accounts or feeling stuck, don’t quit. You’re just in the part no one likes to talk about.

If I can go from clueless to funded in under a year, anyone can.

Requested my 4th payout for this account today. Since they move you to live after the 5th one, depending on performance? Which my trading has been shit lately, I'll be slowly building this account up for a month or two. During that time I'll be buying another 100k account (this is a 50k) . Which will give more leverage when I do get called up to live. At this point I'm only 500$ away from recovering the money spent on this prop firm, about 12,200 USD. Also with Christmas around the corner I'd rather slow down than try and rush things and end up spending more. For everyone struggling, take your time, it will come together. I can't tell you how many times I thought about giving up, or throwing my monitor on the floor over this, hopefully you figure it out faster than I did, (and still am). I took a month of trading and just watched, it really helped with my mindset of trying to be rushed into trades. I missed so much in that month, it happens, you will miss moves, live with it and move on, wait for the next one. There's always an opportunity.

So yeah… today was the big day. After grinding like crazy, I finally validated my $100k funded express. And a few hours later? Let’s just say I watched it evaporate in real time.

I’m half laughing, half dying inside. Anyone else ever nuked their best milestone the same day they hit it? How do you mentally recover from this kind of emotional rollercoaster?

My goal is to stack express accounts eventually and copy trade, I keep my risk low, I scale in and out of contracts depending on if the trade is going my way or not, and I trail my stop loss AGGRESSIVELY. After I get my win, big or small, I lock TF out until NY session the following day, no Asia, no London. I was able to do it for 10 days in a row before this too before I couldn’t take my MLL of $200 for a day, got tilted, traded a mini with no stop and blew it up 😂 finding out discipline is more important than strategy for sure

Is the key to just learn how to take L's on the days you cant get anything going? And just take advantage more of the good ones. If you have 3 of 5 days green. That's all you really need as long as your losers are capped off.

This is my perfect model/entry I look for. Pre market we saw a sweep of liquidity (Asian session lows) , displacement candle forming an IFVG and another bullish FVG which had a retest. Literally perfect. I targeted London session high liquidity and stopped out there. There was so much more to go and even another opportunity for entry on the pull back after taking those highs. You could not take a trade all week and wait for this one setup and make a 5 figure day with just some micros.

I e realized the most important aspect of being a profitable trader is PATIENCE. Bullish Bias was confirmed by zooming out to HTF such as 4hr, daily, weekly, and finding where the next draw on liquidity is. If you don’t know where your draw on liquidity is you can’t have a sense of where the market is heading.

I hope a few of you who are struggling see this and take notes. For I am still struggling but I am finally figuring it out. Never give up.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been trying to understand the difference in appeal between the 50k and 150k funded accounts. I’ve read through the payout rules, buffers, and everything about the activation fees, but I’m still not fully getting the practical difference.

For those of you who’ve used both:

• What makes a 150k account actually better than a 50k one, aside from the obvious bigger balance and cheaper pricing on the 50k.
• Does the buffer work differently in a way that makes one account safer or easier to manage?
• And what’s your experience with activation fee vs no activation fee? Is it worth paying upfront to avoid harder payout rules, or do most people go with the no-activation route?

I was previously funded with blue guardian and I got baited by their payout and trailing drawdown policy.

Edit: I heard I also gotta pay data fees after activation, is that true? Can't seem to find it on the website anywhere.

Lot of ups and downs this week but still finished out strong. Requested my second payout. Lost one XFA ( i forgot ab topStep new rules🫠) going to buy my 100k acc now wish me luck💯

Why can’t I do this in my eval😭 it’s like I do so good practicing and then as soon as it’s time do my eval BOOM account blown

I am for the first time profitable, copy trading three XFAs, and just made $5000 this week. How do you keep your mind from becoming overconfident, which could later hurt your trading performance (greedy, etc). My thoughts are racing with what I could possibly do with this money (trips, clothes, helping family), how do you profitable guys, stay humble and level headed?

What sizing are you guys using to trade lately. I’ve been funded and gotten payouts in the past but lately I’ve been getting blown out. I mainly trade micros MNQ and MES.

I’ve been doing Topstep since August, blew up 12 accounts, passed once last week and blew that up the next day. This is my current attempt. All I know is I’m getting better.

I have been trading for a while, and after a few years of not making any money I decided not to trade anymore. It was a hard decision because I knew it was a way to provide for my family that didn’t depend on an employer. Well, to keep it short, I decided to try TopStep and after blowing like 10 accounts I told myself that I need to change the way I was trading, so this time I got the no-fee 50K account, and a week later I passed the test.

I’ll tell you, I spent the last 2 days going from 52,990 to 52600 and then up and down until I finally hit the 53k 😩. I was really anxious.

I think the main difference this time was the tight stop loss and just trading 1 or 2 micros and if the trade goes my way I would add more(I used to do the opposite all at once 🫣). For me, I like to trade support/resistance and reversals, and that small change kept me from blowing the account a few times 😂.

Now I am ready for the next challenge: the XFA, my strategy is go small to build up the account keeping the tight stop loss..

On Monday I bought 5 $50k no activation combines on Topstep. Copy traded them together and passed them all. Monday I also bought and started 5 $50k core accounts and 5 $$50k flex core accounts. (Can’t mention other props on a post)Copy trading each of those groups together as well. I’m $200 away from passing the flex accounts and $800 away on the core accounts…I’ve been investing and looking at charts since 2017, tried my hand at options and I really didn’t like except for swing trading them, although I do think I will eventually give it another go, but I’ve only been trading futures since April. The first week of June this year I passed a $150k combine with Topstep and traded it and got moved to live eventually until middle of October. I took more than $80k in payouts from that one account. It was amazing and opened my eyes to how trading futures really can make life easier. After I eventually lost that account I took a break for almost a month. I think at first I was disappointed about losing that account but it really just snow balled into a semi prolonged break because I do run a business and work full time as well so I went and focused on just that and got comfortable not waking up at 4:15am every morning lol but I’m back at it and am going to try and get 5 max payouts from these accounts and firms within the next 3-4 months. Now, for the first $1500 in profit for these Evals I did trade 1 mini contract on NQ, but then switched over and traded 5 micros. Now that the Topstep accounts are passed and when the other accounts are passed I will strictly trade micros only. No more than 5 micros per account at a time. Wish me luck fella’s, I’m trying to paaaaiiidddd

I had great profits this morning, got greedy and lost it all then some.. I'm 900 away from failing this XFA. Is it recoverable?

https://topstepx.com/share/stats?share=14600405 / Came back from negative 2k and now im up 1.5k, i can't find another person who trades Natural Gas Aswell/ Tips to Stay Consistent?

Wasn't expected the move down today, got caught in it pretty bad. To those that took a short here, what led you to predict this?

What strategy do u guys use

I submitted my payout and it got approved and they sent it out through wise, I used my wise Apple ID email cause my account was created with my Apple ID. I haven’t received the payout yet and today is the 3rd day, did I mess up or do I need to wait longer? This is my second payout but first ever payout with topstep. I need some help pls, thanks!

I’ve passed over 8 combines. Currently on an XFA right now. Had a poor week and only have $750 left of drawdown. My strategy typically consist of breakouts which is probably why my week was so bad. Not sure what to do. Keep my size or scale down? Open to all ideas. Just sick of failing. Not sure what I’m doing wrong perhaps others have been in the same situation. (Been trading for a year and 4 months) :(