First trade this week. +$2,093.
Been focused on building out my workflow utilizing the @Topstep API and becoming more selective with my setups.
This one was too good to pass up. $50K Static now ~75% passed.
Reminder to myself: you don't need to top or bottom tick to make money. Take your piece and move on.
Amazingly, onions are the only American agricultural commodity explicitly banned from futures trading.
This is thanks to an overzealous federal reaction to Chicago-based market manipulation in the late 1950s.
Now these heroic UChicago students are campaigning to overturn the Onion Futures Act of 1958.
Topstep is making 6 Labs drops permanent. Max 5 per trader, per month.
Labs is where they test new accounts for a limited time. These are the first to come out of testing.
This is exactly why @Topstep will always be my forever prop firm.
They take care of profitable traders while giving beginners the educational content, trader-focused tools, and risk management resources they need to actually develop as traders.
They're building better traders, not just selling accounts. That’s the difference.
lol theres been no futures firm that has banned me besides mffu, i withdrew over 300k from topstep and didnt get banned, at 50k on mffu i got banned, stop larping
@I_AM_KING012 Hmm almost like you always see the most ridiculous things on these open source un regulated platforms.. funny how that works.
I'll be impressed when this is done via the @Topstep API
You have a very fitting profile picture :p
Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills can realize how trader focused Topstep is compared to the majority
It's funny how traders pick the most trader focused firm while the x shills just push whatever can get them a quick buck.
Why are we glorifying the ability to lose 50%+ of our drawdown in a single session?
If you’re risking more than 50–60% of your max drawdown in a single day, let alone a single session, how sustainable is your trading approach really?
Sure, if your goal is to rinse prop firms, having access to your entire drawdown with no DLL might technically give you a higher pass rate. But passing an eval isn’t the same as developing a sustainable approach to trading.
The amount of traders I’ve spoken to who believe a DLL has SAVED their accounts is bar none compared to the amount of furus on X pulling the victim card because their account has a daily loss limit or xyz firm added incentives to the DLL plans.
Think about that. You’re upset that a firm is stopping you from trading after you’ve lost more than 50% of your TOTAL allowed drawdown in a single day?
A DLL isn’t necessarily there to scam you. It can be there to protect you from yourself on your worst days.
We should be glorifying risk management and consistency, not glorifying the ability to blow through half your drawdown in one session and calling a firm a sham when it prevents you from doing it.
Passing is one thing. Staying profitable and managing risk over the long run is another.
@manuelgolic1@HolaPrimeGlobal If you dont mind me asking how many accounts do you have? At my peak I was @57 and was only with reputable firms, never had to consider Hola Prime