10 Days With TopStepTrader

[Maverick74]

Quote from Pekelo:

Oh what the hell, I will throw in the math for the 20 days combine comparisons:

"Current 30k 20 day minimum combine to be completed in 2 months:
In two months there are an average of 42 trading days. The profit target is currently $2000. Therefore an average of 2000 / 42 = $47.62 per day is required

New 30k 20 day limit combine to be completed in 2 months (BUT: when you reach 20 traded days the combine ends). The new profit target is $1500
Therefore an average of 1500 / 20 = $75 per day is required"

Now 75 is not double of 47, but close enough. I worked for Arthur Andersen....

No, no, no. You CANNOT trade for 42 days under the current system. BET ME. Under the current 20 day combine, you can trade any 20 trading days within a 60 day window. ONLY 20 trading days. You have to request a CUSTOM combine to change the deal. I know this for a fact because a guy on ET pmed me who signed up and assumed he got all 60 days to trade but they cut him off after the 20th day. They said he needed to request that BEFORE the combine started.

Soooooo.....as it stands now, for the 20 day combine you can trade any 20 days out of a 60 day period and you need to make 2k on the 30k account. Starting on Monday, that 2k level drops to 1500. You can ONLY trade 20 days out of the 60. After your 20th day, your combine ends. IF you want something different, it has to be REQUESTED as a custom combine.

I did not work for Arthur Anderson but I'm literate and can read the website well.

 

[outsource100]

Quote from Maverick74:

can read the website well.

No,you cannot.

10 Day Combine allows 30 calendar days to trade only 10 days.

20 Day Combine allows 60 calendar days to trade only 20 days.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Maverick74:

No, no, no. You CANNOT trade for 42 days under the current system. BET ME. Under the current 20 day combine, you can trade any 20 trading days within a 60 day window. ONLY 20 trading days. You have to request a CUSTOM combine to change the deal. I know this for a fact because a guy on ET pmed me who signed up and assumed he got all 60 days to trade but they cut him off after the 20th day. They said he needed to request that BEFORE the combine started.

Soooooo.....as it stands now, for the 20 day combine you can trade any 20 days out of a 60 day period and you need to make 2k on the 30k account. Starting on Monday, that 2k level drops to 1500. You can ONLY trade 20 days out of the 60. After your 20th day, your combine ends. IF you want something different, it has to be REQUESTED as a custom combine....

THIS is what I was thinking, but someone else said they thought if you were profitable and hadn't broken any rules. You could continue beyond the 10 or 20 trading days. Although that would only be useful if you hadn't made the profit target yet.

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from outsource100:

No,you cannot.

10 Day Combine allows 30 calendar days to trade only 10 days.

20 Day Combine allows 60 calendar days to trade only 20 days.

That is EXACTLY what I said. Good lord people READ!!!!!!

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Lucrum:

THIS is what I was thinking, but someone else said they thought if you were profitable and hadn't broken any rules. You could continue beyond the 10 or 20 trading days. Although that would only be useful if you hadn't made the profit target yet.

You probably heard that from Pekelo. LOL. No, Michael spoke about this at length at the time when they started offering it. IT was a CUSTOM combine. However, if you CHOSE that option, they cut your drawdown limit in half. So basically, you just had to trade a lot smaller.

 

[outsource100]

Quote from Maverick74:

That is EXACTLY what I said. Good lord people READ!!!!!!

Sorry,i thought you was saying after 20 calendar days period the Combine ended,my bad.I suppose you meant after the 20 cummulative trading days within the 60 days window.

 

[Pekelo]

Before anyone offers a bet to me about combines and rules, I would like to point out that I already won a bet against Austin (still waiting for the delivery) and I can read basic English, not to mention I have personal experiences with Combines. You have been warned!

Quote from Maverick74:

No, no, no. You CANNOT trade for 42 days under the current system. BET ME. Under the current 20 day combine, you can trade any 20 trading days within a 60 day window. ONLY 20 trading days.

Alright, first I will quote the TST website:

"You may choose either a MINIMUM of 10 or 20 days of trading evaluation, each to be completed within 30 or 60 calendar days, respectively. The ability to trade additional days in the Combine is dependent upon the following scenarios:"

Before you ask: http://www.topsteptrader.com/Combine (click on See Details)

The reason that guy who Mav is talking about couldn't trade more than the minimum days because he didn't pass those scenarios/criterias... Simple as it is.

By the way, I practiced English reading skills by reading GWB's favorite book, My pet goat. It is a hoot...

Oh for extra credit, here is a 10 days Combine I traded for 21 days:

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Pekelo:

Before anyone offers a bet to me about combines and rules, I would like to point out that I already won a bet against Austin (still waiting for the delivery) and I can read basic English, not to mention I have personal experiences with Combines. You have been warned!



Alright, first I will quote the TST website:

"You may choose either a MINIMUM of 10 or 20 days of trading evaluation, each to be completed within 30 or 60 calendar days, respectively. The ability to trade additional days in the Combine is dependent upon the following scenarios:"

The reason that guy who Mav is talking about couldn't trade more than the minimum days because he didn't pass those scenarios/criterias... Simple as it is.

By the way, I practiced English reading skills by reading GWB's favorite book, My pet goat. It is a hoot...

No, wrong again. When you read that part it was under a heading called "personalize" your combine. I agree this is bad advertising on TST's part but they ARE enforcing it. You HAVE to EXPLICITLY tell them before you make your first trade you want to be evaluated on the full allotted days. Once you do that, they will send you back an e-mail giving you modified rules that will CUT your ALLOWED DRAWDOWN in HALF. You don't have to accept it, you can tell them you want the standard combine which stops at 10 and 30 days respectively no matter what. The reason I'm pointing this out is because they will NOT let you trade those extra days WITHOUT changing your max drawdown limit. This is VERY IMPORTANT to understand. Yes, the website is somewhat ambiguous with this feature as they almost make it out to be standard. But trust me, if you do the extra days, your drawdown is getting cut. So you have to make a choice, trade more days with tighter risk limits or less days with the normal risk limits.

 

[Pekelo]

Dude, seriously, give the fuck up. I traded a 10 days combine for 14 and 21 days, here is the evidence:

And no, they were not custom combines... If you keep insisting, I have to bet you for 1000 bucks....

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Pekelo:

Dude, seriously, give the fuck up. I traded a 10 days combine for 14 and 21 days, here is the evidence:

And no, they were not custom combines... If you keep insisting, I have to bet you for 1000 bucks....

You had to REQUEST that.