FINALLY passed TopstepTrader's Combine!

Pekelo said:
Folks, I am trying to leave this thread
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Unsubscribe from it, then - and preferably from the main TST thread, while you're about it - and then you won't get "alerts" from it.

(Mind you, to be fair, what you say above about live traders' first 10 trading days' profits being their trading capital is entirely correct.)
 
Pekelo said:
And that is why folks you don't celebrate such a non-event as passing the Combine. Celebrate your first paycheck from them, but until that, it is all a promise of a better life... I guess we shouldn't blame him for celebrating the passing of his 16th Combine (yeah, that is 15 failed ones) for the low cost of $3783.
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It's a learning experience, and the $3,783 is a small price to pay with 16 combines, much smaller than if he placed 3k to 4k in an AMP account with no rules, and burned through it. However, I think we both agree on the "non-event" part. I've even used the word "irrelevant" to describe passing the combine. After all, it's just a simulator to test one's ability to follow a rules based system.
 
Pekelo said:
Celebrate your first paycheck from them...
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Just an FYI, if you get their emails, then you'll see they actually just funded over a dozen more traders recently. If some of those survive past the "10 day rule" then at least some of them will celebrate, so it ain't all for nothing. :)
 
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Dear TopstepTrader Community,

I wanted to share with you all that I will be transitioning out of the TopstepTrader Funding Team tomorrow and have opted to challenge myself with an entirely new career path. Given my passion for the trading industry, I will continue to personally trade and further develop my trading expertise. Additionally, I am excited and grateful to continue working with TopstepTrader on special projects and unique educational opportunities in the near future.

It has been a great pleasure working with TopstepTrader, and our trading community, for the last 5 ½ years. I hold the people and concept in the highest regard! The TopstepTrader team has become family to me, and I look forward to continuing to assist them in their mission to empower traders.

Health, wealth and happiness to you all and, as always, trade well!

John Hoagland
 
ScalperJoe said:
It's a learning experience, and the $3,783 is a small price to pay with 16 combines, much smaller than if he placed 3k to 4k in an AMP account with no rules, and burned through it. However, I think we both agree on the "non-event" part. I've even used the word "irrelevant" to describe passing the combine. After all, it's just a simulator to test one's ability to follow a rules based system.
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There's even a smaller price to pay. He could have done it for free on a simulator and saved his money. At the very least, if he was set on getting TST funding (an apparently dubious proposition), he could have done it on his own on a simulator using TST's rules until he could comfortably and consistently pass their obstacle course trading criteria. Only then should an interested party pay for a "combine."
 
Frederick Foresight said:
... he could have done it on his own on a simulator using TST's rules until he could comfortably and consistently pass their obstacle course trading criteria. Only then should an interested party pay for a "combine."
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I fully agree, IF one is able to maintain the discipline to trade on another simulator and self enforce TST's rule. In fact, you can get a free AMP sim for two weeks, and do that with multiple vendors first.
 
ScalperJoe said:
...In fact, you can get a free AMP sim for two weeks, and do that with multiple vendors first.
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PSST! ScalperJ, I've got a secret. Don't tell anyone.

You can keep renewing your demo account for as long as you need. I did it for 4 months, and would have continued, but finally bought a full key.

Remember, don't tell anyone! Shhhh!
 
I really wonder people see TST equal to demo. Is there anyone on demo to stop you from adding to losers and wait for a turnaround a claim you are a profitable trader? Try that in real life or with TST and you are killed illico presto. In a combine there is somebody watching above your shoulders. Not in demo. That's a world of a difference.
 
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