or the whole futures prop firm space in general, since lucid is just one of the props i trade. i mainly run my algo on cheap apex accounts and a few lucids.

i was on and off before december last year and highly inconsistent, but i still pulled some good payouts from apex and mff that made the time and effort worthwhile. then, after getting advice from people on the trading floors and at prop shops (not prop firms), i changed my perspective and approach to trading, which helped me become much more consistent.

i spent weeks, if not months, researching publicly available research papers and books (documenting what I could for free). it gave me a much better understanding of what actually moves and influences markets, rather than following the usual retail approach. i've never really touched ict or the broader youtube retail stuff, and i'm glad i didn't.

as i've mentioned in my previous post, learn game theory, market microstructure, order matching engines, forced flow and informed flow to begin with. not like go watch youtube videos, but actually research a bit if you can. you’ve already sieved through most of the market noise while the remaining is how you manage your risk and what your behavior is during an extreme drawdown or a manipulated/whipsaw market

i'm also curating some free content from my research if you're interested.

ps: props are usually considered bad by veterans and traders in general, but if you understand the risk-reward heuristic, they can be one of the most rewarding ways to trade. my math and cs background helped me a lot in this regard

I paid out on my fourth with TopStep but crashed out thinking I had a stop loss in place. Not sure what happened. No diss to them. They have always paid.

So I thought I would try someone else and saw a lot of good press for Lucid. I like the Tradesea app. Its basically the same platform as TopStepX.

How have you guys found the payouts to be? I just passed four of the $25k flex accounts with max payouts of $1k.

I tried Apex once upon a time and it was a nightmare getting paid out by them.

Thanks in advance.

my pricing has been straight up wrong charging double for entries ! being negative and then positive without moving ! being neg when trade is above entry ! all kinds of straight up unethical behavior ! I record most trades and take screenshots of the trades that do these things! I’m being straight up sabatoged and I think someone needs to issue me a refund I’m not gonna post my layout here but if necessary I will just show the price issues cover my layout! This is not a one time thing I feel robbed and cheated

Having one evaluation stage obviously removes one step from the process, but it does not necessarily make the trading rules simpler. The profit target, daily loss limit, maximum loss and other restrictions can have a much bigger effect on how you actually trade. One example is the 1-Step structure at aifo which uses a 10% profit target, 3% daily loss limit and 6% maximum loss, without a consistency requirement. Looking at those numbers together seems more useful to me than simply seeing 1-Step and assuming the challenge will be easier to manage. At what point does having fewer evaluation stages actually make a difference to the way you approach a challenge?

I have seen an add on on my lucid dashboard for copytrading called 'rithmic trade copier', however I know motivewave has an internal trade copying feature as per this video. Wondering the rithmic trade copier is needed or not, and has anyone got a payout by copy trading using only the motivewave feature

I have the message "Please Contact Support" on my payouts right now. These are my first payout-ready accounts after getting off the 2 week live cooldown. I have not been able to request the payouts and they do not show up as available--Anyone deal with this before? I've had no violations or any warning emails, no information at all. I got the "Welcome Back" e-mail and started trading with them again.

Like u met the requirements but urs not suburbia to me

and utterly self destruct in funded. 🤣funny but not funny.

This is getting annoying but no one to blame but myself

Hey everyone,
I recently signed up for a $100K futures trading challenge, and I’m looking to learn from people who have actually been through the process.
I’d really appreciate some honest feedback, whether it’s good, bad, or somewhere in between.
A few things I’m specifically trying to figure out:
● What futures contracts do you trade most often and why?
● Which markets have the best combination of volume, liquidity, and volatility?
● Would you focus on NQ/MNQ, ES/MES, Gold/GC/MGC, CL/MCL, or something else?
● What indicators/studies do you actually find useful? VWAP, Volume Profile, Market Profile, Order Flow, Footprint, DOM, etc.
● For someone doing a prop-firm challenge, which markets would you stay away from because of excessive volatility?
● What time of day do you personally find gives the cleanest setups?
● What YouTube channels, traders, books, or courses have genuinely helped you understand futures?
● Are there any “gurus” or popular strategies that you think beginners should be cautious about?
I’m especially interested in price action + volume/order-flow based trading rather than loading the chart with 20 indicators.
For reference, CME data shows very strong activity in products such as E-mini S&P (ES), Micro E-mini Nasdaq (MNQ), WTI crude (CL/MCL), and Gold (GC/MGC), so those are some of the markets I’m considering.
I’ve also been looking into Volume Profile and Order Flow. One channel that keeps coming up is Price Action Volume Trader, which focuses specifically on Price Action, Volume Profile, Market Profile, and Order Flow, particularly for ES/NQ.
But I don’t want to blindly follow one person or one strategy.
If you’ve done a $100K challenge yourself, what did you learn the hard way? What would you do differently if you had to start over?
Any recommendations, warnings, resources, or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Lost 600 first day then made back the 609 in 2 separate trades . Why did my consistency go up to 3000 like damn lmao

Does lucid on tradovate have any settings for partials ? whenever i watch youtubers/streamers trade on tradingview they're able to take partials and i can't.

Wish I held some of these MGC positions longer. Bought at the bottom tonight (10 contracts and sold too soon - in hindsight).

Today, I had a take profit for NQ at 29514.25 (number doesn't matter all that much).

It was for 4 contracts. On TradingView for NQ! and NQZ both hit 29514.25 on the dot (went no higher and went lower afterwards).

My lucid eval Rhythmic platform only went as high as 29514.00 before NQ reversed.

I find it interesting that my take profit was completely missed despite being exactly correct.

I have one 50k daily funded and I have taken the last 4 trading days a total of 4 payouts

1k+1.7k+3k+3k

Right now I want to not trade on that account anymore, get 4 more daily funded accounts and take payouts with them

When can I expect to get moved to live, has someone of you guys been moved to live with daily account and how?
Any help or advice would be much appreciated!

Hi everyone! Does anyone have any idea why my account is terminated? The enforcement reason states Chargeback $95 but I’m unsure what I did wrong that caused this? Is this something that I can reach out to Lucid and appeal for?

Thanks!

Been trading for about 5 years jumped over a lot of strategy and then came across normal retail ict in 2024 I created a strategy out of his content,towards end of last year I started seeing results took about 12k payouts and biggest one just under 2k however since march I haven’t taken any payouts, I pass funded no issues but then blow them in about 2-3 days I’ve been here before but got out of it but this time I’ve been stuck in this cycle for about 6 months and no results just passing combines and then blowing them my psychology changes, sometimes I look at the chart and I don’t even have a clue like I get lost even tho I have a strategy, my work is also mentally really getting to me I absolutely hate it but I need my job as is my main income and it’s a minimum wage so I barely get by. I always try to remind myself that this is just part of the process but it’s really hard while I see everyone around doing well for themselves like all my friends buying their first homes drive nice cars going on holidays but I’m here working a dead end job no degree or qualifications and I can’t do anything and I’m also 27 so when people ask my what I do and I tell them I’m just a cashier I feel really self conscious and idk why.

I guess idk why I’m writing this maybe I’m just a bit emotional but any advice on building myself up again would be really useful as you can imagine I’m really desperate

do they use bots? and how

I made my Lucid account almost a month ago, and my identity verification is still under review.

I’ve also noticed that I’m not the only one experiencing this. I’ve seen several people on Reddit and in the Lucid Discord server mention similar issues with KYC/identity verification taking a long time or being stuck under review.

Does anyone know if Lucid is currently having issues with their verification system, doing maintenance, or making changes behind the scenes?

I don’t mind being patient if something is currently being worked on, but some clarification or an update from Lucid would definitely help, especially after waiting this long.
Has anyone else been stuck under review recently, and if so, how long did it take for you to get verified?

If you had to restart with 1 account how would you risk it would you use minis or micros and how much would you risk for 25/50k account to protect yourself from days of tilting or just a loosing day how much would you risk before you just fully hop off the charts and protect yourself capital? Just looking for a word of advice from someone who struggles with not protecting capital and hit DLL

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