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Well deserved payment for stupidity. Sometimes $ is the best form of punishment.

Haha, that was inexcusable. I completely deserved that one.

Day 3 finish, nothing special so far. One good idea off the open, which offered a bit over 15 points, missed the fill by 1/2 point. Had to cut the other winners short when we couldn't break support. 5 trades a day seems rather excessive, 2 or 3 seems better for my style. Although this is showing...

Appreciate it, read through some old threads and have seen a good bit of people knocking the combine. The sim has felt pretty real to me so far. Definitely been an experience, even over just 8 days. I can see a lot of holes, that I'm hoping are just a product of my newness.

Two more trades. nothing special. stopped on a single lot for plus 4, went 8 points and reversed. A two lot trade, goal was to trim 5 and hold a runner. Getting the 5 was tough, stopped half for 4.25 and stopped second half for 2. 2090 zone wasn't giving up easy. Leader names holding in too...

Missed initial trade by 1/2 point. Was a good zone, just wasn't aggressive enough. Would've hit a plus 10 target. two more trades, both -2's. Will take one more today if I see something, if it fails, cutting it off for the day.

Appreciate it, it is certainly my approach to run those winners. Today's mismanaged trade should've been an easy ride for 4 hours or so. The execution was just poor. I agree, need to cut out a lot of those probes in the chop. I hope it's something that comes with more experience.

Good job, appreciate the offer. I don't trade oil, and I won't get anywhere just following people.

Yes, have to adjust how I approach Friday's and Monday's. Give it one or two shots, and pack my bags if it isn't working. I've noticed in my regular trading often I've caught swings on Tuesday's and Thursday's. The days I actually trade Friday's, I performed poorly. Often I still had the swing...

Figured I'd attach the failed combine from last week as well. The complete mental collapse of hitting my daily loss limit on Friday. Was going pretty well up until that point.

Results for day one and two of my restarted combine. Did not manage the first winning trade of the day well, would have been quite a good one, over $1k. These are the trades I need to exploit, it tends to be where all of my gains come from. Very subpar numbers so far when I look back to last...

Topstep, I'm not trading my real account for this 10 day anymore. wanted to focus a bit. I find this top step sim account to be just as difficult than trading my real account to be honest. Probably has to due with the way I'm approaching it. Hopefully I can settle down and get a little more...

1 loser, 1 winner, 1 open trade. All trade entries were perfectly fine. Poor management of the winning trade though. May have been trading a bit scared on that one. $350 on the winner, $200 on the loser. b/e or better on this last trade. Commission roughly $20, 5 total lots.

Yes, my approach was not good in a trend day. I don't typically buy the breakouts. I would be more likely to buy a pullback to support.

Thesis for today is all wrong. I'm ok with being wrong, as long as I limit my losses, which i really didn't do that well. -$370 for the day, and getting in to a little run here of bad trading. These are the times, especially as someone new when you really start second guessing/doubting yourself...

Trade 1 was good this morning, stopped for minus 2. Trade 2 was not a good entry, stopped it quick for 1/2 point. ES hanging in a bit better than I assumed. Looking for weakness today to come in at some point. VIX, IBB, NQ's, IWM all telling me I'm wrong.

What I meant by that is I will trade this combine account but not trade my personal account at that time. The funded account is the account I would trade for Topstep if I were to pass the combine. The idea of the funded account in my opinion is better than trading my personal account as far as...

Those are good points. i agree that there is a bit of conflict. I will likely just trade the combine account next time to have absolute focus. My trading in NQ would not be good at all for a combine. I do less trimming, trade it a lot less, basically not as good of a day trading instrument for...

Awesome. I've read back through a few of the old threads before I took a go at it. A lot of people seemed pretty negative on it. Made me want to try more.

awesome, congrats. How many combines did it take you? How long have you been trading?