u/joshrgraham

Grateful for yet another payout. This only my 2nd payout in the last 3 months. I need to focus more on this account. I’ve been slacking.

I’ve been trading like 💩 over the last 2 weeks even though price action has been to my liking. I had an issue where I was rushing my trades for no apparent reason other than maybe greed. I was not really losing but I’d end every trading day BE even though I should easily be clearing $1000-$1500 per day. I had to have a long talk with myself and I had to realize that the path I was on would literally lead to me blowing up everything I’ve worked for as far as my prop firm accounts are concerned. 

I’m just happy to have overcome that period and have something to show for it. 

That was a wake up call for me. I had to lock in ASAP!

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As far as strategy is concerned, nothing has changed for me. I still use bookmap to read orderflow and market orders. If you EVER end up using it, DO NOT use it as a signal thing, because you will be disappointed. Remember, institutional orders can change and you may have situations where an institution can change their position and this is where you can SOMETIMES see big reversals i,e last Tuesday with Gold and last Thursday with indices.

Good luck to all the traders reading this. I am wishing you all the best.

I cracked up when I saw this. Even though this is a meme, there's definitely someone out there who lives like this.

Please take care of yourselves🤣

Grateful for yet another payout. This only my 2nd payout on my live account and maybe my 7th/8th ever live payout in my 5 years of using topstep, which isn't great but I hope to maintain this account for as long as I can. I must say that the transition from eval to live was kinda trash FOR ME. I was 2 days away from another max payout and I was moved to the live program. I believe that I’ll make all the money up but damn… missing that payout hurt my pockets lol. 

I’ve been trading like 💩 over the last 2 weeks even though price action has been to my liking. I had an issue where I was rushing my trades for no apparent reason other than maybe greed. I was not really losing but I’d end some trading days BE even though I should have easily been clearing $1000-$2500 per day. I had to have a long talk with myself and I had to realize that the path I was on would literally lead to me blowing up everything I’ve worked for as far as my prop firm accounts are concerned. 

I’m just happy to have overcome that period and have something to show for it. 

That was a wake up call for me. I had to lock in ASAP!

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As far as strategy is concerned, nothing has changed for me. I still use bookmap to read orderflow and market orders. If you EVER end up using it, DO NOT use it as a signal thing, because you will be disappointed. Remember, institutional orders can change and you may have situations where an institution can change their position and this is where you can SOMETIMES see big reversals i,e last Tuesday with Gold and last Thursday with indices.

Good luck to all the traders reading this. I am wishing you all the best.

It's been a while since i made over $10K from a single withdrawal. Typically I'd go for $5-6k in profits and then request a payout and do that every 2 weeks but gold has been a treat as of late with the exception of the last 2 days.

I typically trade it in Asia going into London but it has been so range bound lately.

I plan to purchase 2 more accounts see what I can do with that.

My new sort of strategy for these accounts has been to have at least 1 consistency account and leave the rest as standard. This gives me the ability to initiate at least 1 withdrawal in 3 days and the rest after 5 days. I was so close to achieving this before losing 3,2k last Thursday. If I were to share a breakdown of how and why I lost that amount, I'd be the laughing stock of this community lol.

I lost $3,2k after being up $3072... I lost all of that trying to chase $3,4k. I essentially had different profit targets each day which would allow me to try to maximise my withdrawal on the consistency xfa, but it was a dumb decision because I ended up losing 6,3k while trying to chase $328.

That was a wake up call for me. I had to lock in ASAP!

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As far as strategy is concerned, nothing has changed for me. I still use bookmap to read orderflow and market orders. If you EVER end up using it, DO NOT use it as a signal thing, because you will be disappointed. Remember, institutional orders can change and you may have situations where an institution can change their position and this is where you can SOMETIMES see big reversals i,e on Tuesday.

Good luck to all the traders reading this. I am wishing you all the best.