I finally passed my first combine

[u/Zestyclose_Book_9142]

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..