challenge drops at 10:17 i buy an account at 10:20 first round passed at 10:26 final payout round passed at 10:29 9 minutes from purchase to payout stage. fastest STP ever? maybe @dotjosh can confirm. just going off the email timestamps 😹 don’t try this at home, kids. i got lucky.

love the topstep labs @MichaelPatak

CPI coming, and my accounts going far, far away. course dropping soon.

250K TopStep Freedom Combines be like…

favorite email of the day 🙏@ApexTradeFund

Hey @ApexTradeFund 👋 Made a video documenting my journey to the $30K approved payout, including the trades, mistakes and everything in between. Check it out :) youtu.be/0TEaLkTMwn8?is=0i_L…

smt divergences are overrated as fuck

+$6,000 trading NQ today post NY Open 9:30 on my XFA at TopStep. 100 point trade from an OB/FVG using a Candle Close (CC) Entry

took another round of payouts today. ≈$11,000 from apex (15 accounts at roughly $750 each) + another $2,000 (-10 % split) from topstep. none of these are particularly large payouts on an individual account. that's the point. you don't need massive payouts on one account. you need a system that scales. but scaling does not mean buying 5, 10, 15 or 20 accounts on day one. start with 1 account. get a payout. cover your costs. then use that payout to buy another account. 1 → 2 → 4 → 8... scale with payouts, not with your own money. if an account blows, replace it with payout money, not money from your paycheck. keep your costs low. that's how you stay in the game. that's how you win.

+$1,102 Shorting 4x MNQ from OB after a massive trump candle post 9:30

funny how the loudest topstep critics all seem to have affiliate links for competing firms, especially lucid trading. not saying they’re wrong, some of the criticism is justified. just saying incentives matter.

prop traders who have a few red days on their PNL calendar are far more impressive than the ones who are green only. one red day and the latter are gone.

why is everyone a scammer smh