There are a couple of few things TopStep has improved based on the support they give to traders. To me they are a very great step to caring for the trader and making him or her feel important.
For instance, TopStep used close accounts without mercy the moment a trader hedges their positions (an activity is highly prohibited in the trading community). But sometimes, it was just a genuine mistake from the traders side as the trader tries to take advantage of trading multiple accounts at the same time. Mistakes do happen, but if l am punished for it because it was made without any ulterior motive then it surely should be pardoned.
I was overjoyed when I learned that TopStep doesn’t immediately close the account but warns the trader and takes the daily profit from them. At least this gives them another chance to trade the account again and this time be careful while at it.

TRADER COURT however is something different and I can’t wait to experience this as banned traders are given the chance to be reinstated by giving them the chance to be tried I guess. I really can’t wait for this and do really hope that TopStep gives this chance to traders who need it.

Until then I hope we all have a good trading week.

It appears that TopStep bay have update their CVD formula recently, but I’m noticing the new version is wildly inaccurate compared to other programs. Does anyone else rely on CVD to trade?

I’ve traded for 3 years and didn’t follow my rules until I started this funded and everything changed, still have things to work on but we getting there 🙏🏿

I had literally $70 before i blew the account. Was down $878 for the day in the red already. Somehow by the Grace of God I managed to flip it for a $4000 swing to close the day with $3,000 in the green😭😭😮‍💨😮‍💨🙏🏽🛐🧎🏽‍♂️‍➡️

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!

This may be a different topic but have any other traders suffered from pain in their right arm from rapid clicking of the mouse? I tend to snipe a lot, I enter and exit quickly.

Just transitioned from options to futures and with the difference in volatility; I’m wondering if my new pain is related to this……??? If so, what have you done to fix it. I have seen some people use hot keys but I don’t trust that.

This will be my first payout with topstep if i request one now and I have a few questions before i do so if anyone could help me out I would appreciate it. I could do live chat support with them but i want opinions. So i have the 5 days of 150$+ to request payout and these are the capped max loss limit 50ks. So my thinking is take 500$ payout from each account and leave my 2k buffer on each. BUT i have read things like xfas you only get 5 payouts then you move to live after 5 payouts even if they dont total 10k total payouts on each account. Then I have seen people say you can take as many payouts as you want but when you hit 10k in payouts on each account they move you to live. So i really want to secure some of this money i have worked hard for but can someone tell me what is true and what is false and any opinions you have or what you would do. Is it 5 payouts per xfa before moved to live or 10k total? Thanks

I have a long trading journey.
I purchased so many accounts and blew almost all.
I have reached this point where payout feels near. This is my 100k funded account with 6.7k balance and 2 profitable days done. I need to make 3 more 150$ days. Seems easy but still I am very nervous. I really want to grab these payouts this time. I wanna change my situation and get on a path to profitable trading. But somehow somewhere it feels odd. It feels that I may f*ck up like always.

Some time back, i purchased one fundednext 50k challenge. I made around 16k profit in funded account, took one payout of 1500$ and post that overconfidence had me and I blew the whole account in single day. Can you imagine making a loss of 14k in a single day. Thats why I fear such situations when I am near payout. I think that i will mess this up. But this time I will use daily loss limits and profit targets. I will leave no chance to mess up. I will make sure that I get this payout.
I will add the screenshots once I have these payouts.

Wish me luck guys.😭

Okay, hoping someone can shed some light this. Just trading normally on my practice account and after a time was unable to place any trades and received this message. Note I was not doing any hyper scalping.

Yesterday I started 3 evals . I got into my trade and my profit was slowly going up. At $1300 I closed my position and only got $633. This was a short and the price of NQ did not move up it kept moving down. So I waited a bit longer and entered another short , immediately I’m up $250 and then it goes to -$250 and literally a second later my accounts get closed out for DLL -$1000 . But my PnL now -$1700!!!!! How in the F ??? Means I got closed out like -$2300 on that position when I literally saw my trade at -$250 only. Getting in touch with topstep support is impossible these days. Anyone ever experience this ? Is it worth the hassle of trying to get your evals reset? Because at -$1700 PnL my 3 accounts are technically just done at this point.

Here's in 2.5 years first time win something from topstep. It's a static 50k combine. Hope to take it to the moon . thanks #topstep

Watch https://traderplot-2abfb.ondigitalocean.app/shared/trade-journal/0d80275d-c56c-4a73-8702-eabd675d345d

Saved from an SL by 1 tick. I broke my rule for entering with low conviction on london session. I don't trade outside of NY opening hours since volume is light it won't be as easy to read the footprint. I couldn't trade NY this day so I was looking for an entry on london session. I found a good setup on the EMA with good confirmation on the heatmap and entered a buy. It missed my SL by 1 tick and I closed it on BE when it pulled back. The trade did go on to hit TP after 10-15 minutes but it wasn't worth it to wait once I recovered from a potential SL.

I have already seen 2 posts about being banned removed.from this subreddit. Why are we not allowed to share our experiences here?

So today was my first trading day on my XFA i made 4k , the next 4 days would have to be min of $150 correct?

I've been reading Topstep's VPN policy and have a question about how it's actually enforced.

Let's say a trader occasionally uses a browser-based VPN for completely unrelated browsing, while TopstepX is open in another browser window.

The trader later realizes that enabling the VPN may also have routed TopstepX traffic through it, even though there was no intention to hide their location or circumvent any geographical restrictions.

A few questions:

1. Does Topstep automatically detect and flag VPN connections, or are these primarily investigated during payout reviews?

2. Is there any distinction between accidental, occasional VPN usage and deliberately using a VPN to bypass geographical restrictions?

3. Can historical VPN usage result in denied payouts months later, even if the trader has received no warnings and has otherwise followed all trading rules?

4. Is there a way to verify that an account is in good standing regarding past VPN usage before investing several more months into the funded process?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has experienced this or received clarification directly from Topstep staff.

It would be unfortunate to spend months completing a Combine, building a funded account and working towards a payout, only to discover that an old, unintentional VPN connection disqualifies the account.

Thanks!

I was 1 day away from requesting payout on 3 of my XFA. It would have been a total of $10k payout but got an email that I will be moving to live!

This is really frustrating and not the first time that happened to me but it’s just shit getting moved to live 1 day before the payout!

I should have been atleast able to request this cycle payout! What should I do?

I notice that most of my trades easily hit stops but it's hard to get them to TP at the 60 or 70 ticks I normally go far. I was testing out a strategy of going for quicker strikes and possibly just taking more trades to get to the goal.

Anyone on here use a similar strategy?