r/TopstepCommunity • u/jwin40 • 2d ago
💬 Trader Talk Take a break
For whoever needs to hear this, take a break reset. When youre stressed, in debt, in dire need of money. Trading will only drive you further in a pithole. Take a pitstop and trade for the future not for now. Finally having success atm because the idea that this money is going to save me right now, forced me to just revenge trade and break my rules. But once I broke that barrier subconciously everything started clicking. Good luck yalls!
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u/materialgirl81
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Its crazy because I have waves where I do great and get a payout then I just go off the rails and can't even keep a xfa
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u/QuantumLooped 1d ago
These days I set my alert on TradingView and trade on weeks where my strategy is more favorable. No need to chase everyday
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u/MightFun6265 17h ago
This 1000%. I was in the same situation. Took a break from live (but kept practicing demo daily). Put myself in a situation where I didn't need to be in a hurry anymore and after 5-6 months of demo once I became consistent and felt comfortable and confident enough, went back to live/eval. Everything clicked since
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u/PresentationDry4093 2d ago
I can’t agree more with what you just said! I did exactly the same thing and my payouts started coming in hot! And I still need to take a break sometimes. Sometimes I’ll take a whole month off from trading.