FINALLY passed TopstepTrader's Combine!
- Thread starter JamesEM
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Overnight,
I have experience with TST for 3 months. Passing the Combine and proceeding to Funded is feasible, but the key is once you start the combine or FTP or Funded stage, you have to be sure that your system consecutive drawdown (ie, X amount of losses in a row) is within the range of TST starting account balances.
For example. If your system has a history of consecutive drawdown of -$1500, then the $30K account may not work. The $50K account will may have better chances of passing with a system consecutive drawdown of -$1500 because in that account you start with a $2000 balance. Or you can scale your contract size down so the consecutive drawdown your system is known to experience is within account balance size.
Thank you algofy...I was terrified to share the above but everyone has been quite nice about it! Maybe there is hope for us all
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Hey algofy
Not sure why I didn't get a notification but I'm just seeing this now that I was coming to post a little update.So I've passed two Combines since I last posted here, both $30K accounts. One on my own (which took 47 days) and one with my partner (18 days). We are now in a pretty nice position of having two FTPs, which don't need to be paid for and have no time limit in which they have to be completed. I ground one up to just over the halfway mark and, as my partner and I finished the joint Combine last week, we started work on where I left off...taking the account to new equity highs with its largest winning day to date!
If anyone's interested, I'd recommend checking out my YouTube channel as the videos go into all the details as to how and why I'm now working with my partner. In a nutshell, it's due to my unique challenges (which are thankfully, slowly disappearing as I've drastically changed diet, seen a therapist etc.)...my edge, although still profitable when worked by me, is SO much more effective when I just do the analysis and someone else is getting into and out of the trades. Strange, but it's working for now so we'll see how it goes.
Awesome James.Hey algofy
So I've passed two Combines since I last posted here, both $30K accounts. One on my own (which took 47 days) and one with my partner (18 days). We are now in a pretty nice position of having two FTPs, which don't need to be paid for and have no time limit in which they have to be completed. I ground one up to just over the halfway mark and, as my partner and I finished the joint Combine last week, we started work on where I left off...taking the account to new equity highs with its largest winning day to date!
If anyone's interested, I'd recommend checking out my YouTube channel as the videos go into all the details as to how and why I'm now working with my partner. In a nutshell, it's due to my unique challenges (which are thankfully, slowly disappearing as I've drastically changed diet, seen a therapist etc.)...my edge, although still profitable when worked by me, is SO much more effective when I just do the analysis and someone else is getting into and out of the trades. Strange, but it's working for now so we'll see how it goes.
Hey algofy
So I've passed two Combines since I last posted here, both $30K accounts. One on my own (which took 47 days) and one with my partner (18 days). We are now in a pretty nice position of having two FTPs, which don't need to be paid for and have no time limit in which they have to be completed. I ground one up to just over the halfway mark and, as my partner and I finished the joint Combine last week, we started work on where I left off...taking the account to new equity highs with its largest winning day to date!
If anyone's interested, I'd recommend checking out my YouTube channel as the videos go into all the details as to how and why I'm now working with my partner. In a nutshell, it's due to my unique challenges (which are thankfully, slowly disappearing as I've drastically changed diet, seen a therapist etc.)...my edge, although still profitable when worked by me, is SO much more effective when I just do the analysis and someone else is getting into and out of the trades. Strange, but it's working for now so we'll see how it goes.
Ok so overall would you mind sharing
- Have you spent more on "Combine" fees than actual profits?
On one of your you tube video (strangely named Goodby TST!) replies you have mentioned th following but it is hard to make out if it was worth it for somebody of your experience? ( Strictly financially speaking)
"It took me 2 years, 2 months and 3 days from starting my first Combine (an $100K) until passing my first Combine on 19th August 2016. I got funded around mid October of 2016. Lost that account by around January 2017 then, after a couple false starts, began the Combine, that got me funded for the second time, in March 2017. Funded in December 2017... So I was active with TST for roughly 3 years and 9 months."