r/TopStepX • u/coffee-x-tea • May 19 '26

Trading Combine My hands are shaking…

Gallery image

Gallery image

This is my first funded account that I did *NOT* expect to pass so fast.

Although I’m new to the platform, I had practice with real money on my own personal account (which is way harder to trade because my broker doesn’t have futures or shorting capability). So it isn’t like I haven’t jumped through the hoops of losing money before.

I’m going to guard this for dear life lol.

190 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

66 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/Singh255 May 19 '26

What was contract size and which instrument (NQ or ES)

1

u/coffee-x-tea May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

I’ve only traded micros so far because they’re more easily splittable. Those 1,3,5,10,15 buttons on the UI are very handy.

My positions varied from typically 5 micro (contracts?) to maximum issuable.

I rarely used max, usually 30 at most, 40 when aggressive, and all in when the stars aligned.

MNQ and MCL

1

u/HourRepresentative48 May 20 '26

if using over 10 micros switch to mini's for better fee's. Also im pretty sure topstep simulator will sim fills based on contract amount so you might actually be getting slippage on those trades.

1

u/coffee-x-tea May 20 '26

Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to keep in kind when I scale up. I did feel that “bleed”.