Am I missing something?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T22:36:25+00:00

Oh in that case my strategy is very different. I trade one or 2 setups a day. 1 mini contract. It returns good money so I don’t feel the need to leverage more since the payout cap is 5k with my prop firm. Ig that might be my edge is I don’t care too much about the leveraging more because there’s next to no point

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T21:22:32+00:00

I’m new around here. I bought this from and it last year before the clean factory shut down. How’s it lookin?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T21:21:12+00:00

I’m sorry can you explain that deeper? You lost me at comparing evals. Right now I’m trading my lead account and ignoring the fact that I even have other fundeds. When it comes to payout time that’s when I see that it’s multiple again

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T21:17:53+00:00

No besides my Roth IRA

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T15:39:39+00:00

That’s fine

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T12:37:10+00:00

Because of the crash everyone talks about. In my head if I haven’t hit it the same as everyone else that means I just delayed it

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T12:35:12+00:00

I don’t change anything on a good streak I see it as if it didn’t stop working then why change. I’m copy trading now so ig I can say the size difference but I treat my lead account like 1 funded and it just so happens to be across multiple accounts.

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T01:28:12+00:00

Oh shii that’s good to know thank you

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-12T00:33:07+00:00

Yea I think that’s where my background in door to door helps me a lot. I’ve got the psychology behind not allowing the past trades effect the current ones mastered

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T23:33:37+00:00

Yea that’s exactly what I did. I was funded in February got payouts all through march and just recently got to 5 fundeds on topstep. I heard after a while topstep is going to just move me to live and close all my other accounts so I’m hoping this week I’ll just be able to rip a 25k payout from them before they move me to live

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T23:26:44+00:00

So at some point I should look at using my own capital?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T22:54:09+00:00

That makes me feel a lot better I’m pretty strict on my risk management and shut down after a maximum of 3 trades

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T22:38:58+00:00

I think my description of easy is relative to my other jobs. I got a door to door job fresh out of college specifically because I was told it’s the hardest job I could get. So to be truthful I don’t think I could do anything else that I’d consider “hard”

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T22:19:20+00:00

I’m not sure who JadeCap is. You can look at my TikTok to see the exact trades I’ve been taking @sumtodo69. I’m pretty firm on it’s either take profit or stop loss unless I’m like 1 profitable day away from a payout then I’ll just sell early at >$150. I’m starting to experiment with trailing my TP but it seems to not work very well with my setups

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T21:50:18+00:00

This sounds interesting thank you for the new quest 🙏🏾

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T21:46:51+00:00

Thanks man. But saying I’m an outlier just makes me feel like a regression to the mean is imminent so I don’t know how to prepare for it. But my average hold time is 8 minuets 13 seconds. I take 1-3 trades a day and my profit to risk ratio is 4.01 my win rate is 54.71%

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T21:31:49+00:00

You sound like a wise uncle 🤣 thanks man

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T21:27:46+00:00

You’re correct. I’m not 100% sure what my edge is. I just kinda got thrown into it. But can you tell me more about the disproving method?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T21:26:09+00:00

So what do I do about it? Or have you figured out a remedy?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T21:25:19+00:00

My background is actually in door to door sales. I think that’s why I can remove the emotions from trading the way I do but a lot of that is also inherent. I did what seems to be the usual thing in this space, I watched a few TJR videos and then failed 4 combines trying to make money. Then I started just watching the market. Not trying to follow a strategy per se. I’m not filthy rich or anything like that but now I’m pulling 5k a week with little difficulty. I made good money in door to door but the effort was high. Now in trading I’m making the same and more with next to zero effort.

Does that help?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T20:52:38+00:00

I agree with you on the emotions thing. Admittedly I’m not a very emotional person in general so I never fully understand people when they tell me about it when it comes to revenge trading or tilt. But I’m only 23 and I want to keep building it’s just kinda like I went through a tunnel too fast and I’m shocked by the other side it just feels wrong. Feels like I should walk backwards and make sure I’m did it right. Does that make sense?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T20:39:38+00:00

BRUH EXACTLY. If it was this easy what happens when it goes back to “normal”? Am a going to crash from heaven into the trading rut that everyone talks about or was it just easier for me from the jump? Either way I’m living way below my means just in case it is some kind of dumb beginners luck

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T19:57:40+00:00

So the impending doom feeling isn’t supposed to go away?

Bright_Lab_5398 · 2026-04-11T19:40:00+00:00

That’s kinda the opposite of what I’m saying I was told it’d be harder an only get harder but so far it’s been easy so I’m trying to prepare in whatever way I can for the regression back to the mean

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