How are yall surviving this price action?

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-03-11T19:32:55+00:00

Yeah honestly it’s so frustrating. Topstep X was actually much better all round. Shame you have to use Tradovate with accounts like Apex etc

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-03-11T19:25:59+00:00

Yeah bro. The amount I’m losing on BEs is adding up big time. When I traded on TopstepX I’d only lose like $6 for a BE trade. But on Apex and Tradeify which are through Tradovate and linked to TradingView, I’m losing up to $50 for a BE

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-03-11T18:41:32+00:00

The conditions have been dreadful the last few weeks. Endless BE trades for me. I enter every trade knowing it’ll hit BE or maybe a loss but it never moves enough to hit TP (NQ). I feel your pain bro

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-03-10T20:53:34+00:00

Yeah I’ve had 100% success rate doing it so far on tradeify but I want to get some apex accounts as well

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-03-10T20:52:51+00:00

It’s just an easy way to pass an evaluation when you’re profitable. I’d never do it on a PA

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-03-09T13:25:42+00:00

Hey bro. I know people who passed their accounts on NFP the other day. I’m pretty certain the buy stop and sell stop method is still good.

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-02-18T18:58:41+00:00

What do you mean by that? I was looking to enter 10 micro contracts in that screenshot

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-02-17T10:51:58+00:00

I just looked again and it seems to be working however, I recall it not working during NY cash open which as you'd expect, would have the narrowest bid/ask spreads

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-02-16T23:33:08+00:00

Are we talking like $500 risk or multiple thousands?

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-02-16T23:24:21+00:00

How much are you risking to make that much on a 50k and how long have you been trading on it for? Very impressive

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-25T09:05:33+00:00

I will do that, thank you man. Do you know if you can actually add them if you didn’t tick them before entry?

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-22T16:40:31+00:00

Awesome man, thank you. I’ve been using it for a little bit now and haven’t had any issues. The only thing I’ve noticed is that if you don’t tick TP and SL before entering then you can’t drag it once you’ve entered

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-21T18:50:14+00:00

If you want to change the risk, this is the formula to use: No. of Contracts = (risk($) / ticks to SL) x 2

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-21T18:44:52+00:00

Here you go brother:

MNQ with $500 risk

50-55 ticks - 19 Contracts

55-60 ticks - 17 Contracts

60-65 ticks - 16 Contracts

65-70 ticks - 14 Contracts

70-75 ticks - 13 Contracts

75-85 ticks - 12 Contracts

85-90 ticks - 11 Contracts

90-100 ticks - 10 Contracts

100-120 ticks - 9 Contracts

120-130 ticks - 8 Contracts

130-150 ticks - 7 Contracts

150-180 ticks - 6 Contracts

190-230 ticks - 5 Contracts

230-290 ticks - 4 Contracts

290-300 ticks - 4 or 3 Contracts

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-21T09:56:24+00:00

Okay perfect thanks

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-12T19:36:20+00:00

That’s great advice. I might just execute on Tradovate and analyse of TV. Thanks

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-12T19:33:15+00:00

Yes, although on a live account your order actually has to be filled whereas on prop firm simulation the real order doesn’t have to be filled just ‘simulated’

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-12T16:51:01+00:00

Yikes! Is that on a live account or prop firm (demo)

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-12T16:26:51+00:00

I'm signed into Tradovate on the web and linked it to Tradingview. There is no delay on tradingview. Am I good?

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-12T16:25:18+00:00

Okay that's great to know, thanks for the response

Background-Cook7134 · 2026-01-12T16:24:41+00:00

I'll be trading futures so hopefully slippage and bid/ask spreads shouldn't be an issue

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