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IDK who I am posting for but I don't really care.
I just want to document my progress and share what I am doing. Hopefully I can make some trading friends along the way.
Alrighty - I torched that TS funded and got 3 more combines. Half passed as of last night.
This morning I took a long at the NY open on 4 micros. Stop set wider than normal, and it paid. A lot of different catalysts verified the move for me and I went for it.
Now I just gotta hit the minimum days this week, and i'll be set for another $4k payout on Friday for the 3rd straight week.
#NQ
The DLL on @Topstep settings came in clutch for me in September. It allows me to trade larger size on days where I feel the convition is strong, knowing I cant lose more that $1000 before lockout comes. It has also allowed me to have a full month of trading on a single funded acct and protected me from my tilt blowing everything in a single day.
After the 4th payout I decided to just swing for the fences.. you can see -$4k over the last 4 days hahaha but for spending $85 and pulling out over $8k... Ill take it.
The account is pretty torched now - only $125 left to trade tomorrow. Lets see if I can survive 😂. After it is gone (assuming...) Ill start over with Topstep with 5 accounts instead of 1 and see where we go. Can I 5x September's numbers?? 🤔
Milestone week for me! Multiple payouts and the most I’ve made in a single week/month since I started trading.
I’m proud of myself! Let’s keep it moving.
Todays price action was dog water on NQ. However, my dumbass still traded. I was convinced longs were the answer today due to a couple of things:
1. My fib level at -.786 aligned with a pink level from @Equ1ty_Engineer's indicator. Generally speaking when a fib level and a pink level align, that price is more magnetic than usual and its not a bad idea to target it.
2. I just need to hit 2 more minimum days to pull out the max payout on a couple of Lucid fundeds... so my psychology wasn't focused on "should I trade today" my internal answer was "yeah of course you trade today you pussy!".
Took a few small losses - but ultimately, this shit hit, and I made it out alive. took profit right at the level and closed it up for the day. Shit is still ripping but I have what I need. No need to risk anything more.
Alrighty, now back to my e-commerce job. ✌️
This mornings trade on two new @Topstep combines - $29686 has been a steel wall since last Thursday. At this point its rejected hard AF every time. Especially during NY session.
Quick and easy this morning - I go heavier on combines evals hence the 10 micros. This one had conviction behind it though.
Banked in 6 trading days - using 1-3 micros on MNQ and trusting the pink levels from @Equ1ty_Engineer.
Thanks for the alpha braj.
@Topstep
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The market doesn’t owe you anything.
On the contrary, it generously offers you the daily opportunity to take a small, respectful bite from the enormous pool of capital that flows through it — but only if you respect it.
Stay disciplined. Follow your rules. Never oversize. Kill overconfidence. Take your profits. Embrace the boring setups. Because the moment trading starts to feel boring and routine… that’s exactly when you begin to become consistently profitable.
Statistically, only about 15-20% of trading days in the SPX/SPY are true trending days (roughly 35-40 days per year). The rest are choppy, ranging, accumulation, or distribution environments. That’s why discipline is everything. Some days you’ll capture solid gains, other days smaller ones, and yes — there will be losing days.
But if you’re disciplined, those losses stay small and controlled.
Here’s the most important part — and it’s pure psychology:
When you miss a big move or an entire trading day (which, statistically, doesn’t happen often), the natural human reaction is to chase revenge. You secretly hope the market reverses just to prove you were right for not entering. That’s a proven cognitive bias — the urge to fight the trend because you feel left behind.
The correct mindset is the opposite:
“Tomorrow is another day.”
Or better — patiently wait for the next high-probability opportunity inside the actual trend, where your risk-reward is optimal.
The even more dangerous bias is loss aversion: selling your winners too quickly while holding onto losers, desperately hoping they come back.
The day you start spotting these biases in real time — when you catch yourself emotionally attached to a position and consciously choose not to be — is the day everything clicks.
That’s when your position sizing improves, your risk management sharpens, and you stop fighting the market. You’ve matured as a trader. Profitability begins to compound, not because of better charts, but because of a better you.
The hardest (and most important) work in trading isn’t on the screens.
It’s inside yourself.
— Advice from a former losing trader who refused to quit and chose to become disciplined and consistent.@Basssem666 @shentrades @market_sleuth @TheProfInvestor @BeardoTrader
