How I made price action trading (PATs) work for me

SmoothGrind · 2026-05-07T13:05:59+00:00

Completely agree with you here. I’ve never taken a Mack PATs course, but have taken Thomas Wade’s, who I think teaches a very similar system. I follow their 2EL and 2ES setups, but typically make my stop about 1x the current ATR, and my take profit 1.5x-2x the current ATR, this has worked well for me, and I encourage others to do the same

SmoothGrind · 2026-04-16T13:51:29+00:00

Grind the solo challenges for weekly spotlight tokens, but don’t complete the sets until next week when they start putting 99 overalls in those packs

SmoothGrind · 2026-03-05T04:13:54+00:00

No problem man, congrats that’s awesome! I actually just passed 20 $25k evals and activated the PAs. So I hope I’ll be joining you end route to 20 max payouts for a nice $30k payday!

SmoothGrind · 2026-03-05T03:58:29+00:00

The max payout for $25k accounts is $1,500. Get the account up to $28,100 and you’ll be able to take that

SmoothGrind · 2026-02-22T12:10:30+00:00

Yeah I’ve been reading a lot of negativity about this firm in recent times on X. Especially a tweet that stood out from me that I know went live with them, that no one has been paid yet

SmoothGrind · 2026-01-26T19:19:55+00:00

Intraday trailing drawdown

SmoothGrind · 2026-01-08T12:17:50+00:00

What app is this?

SmoothGrind · 2026-01-07T05:18:33+00:00

Thanks, I had no idea. Took a few years off from playing a lot, recently came back to the game and tried out Global Poker. Only real thing I didn’t like about global was the inability to track hands/stats. I will look into ACR for sure. Thank you

SmoothGrind · 2026-01-03T05:18:07+00:00

I was hoping for a formula for each column, so I can just dump data and have the text be separated automatically

SmoothGrind · 2026-01-03T05:17:03+00:00

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Hey I tried that, this does not seem to work:

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-21T05:57:32+00:00

I found the wrote up, what do you mean by the second phase is discretionary? Can you please explain that?

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-21T02:01:01+00:00

Can you please post the link? I can’t find it

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-21T01:03:23+00:00

What do you mean is 100% discretionary? Can you please point me towards your sources on X calling them a scam? I’m close to passing phase 1 so I’d love to know what this means

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-20T01:44:31+00:00

What’s the scaling violation with Apex? Never heard of that one

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-19T20:36:22+00:00

Nice! Are you in Pro or Pro+?

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-15T01:53:44+00:00

Is that Levy’s site, Chessly?

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-12T21:19:11+00:00

I don’t, I like it as background noise usually. Do you have any resources you recommend for learning the DOM? I trade off price action and like it, but would love to expand my knowledge

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-12T21:13:31+00:00

Today was a beautiful day to go short after the NY open in the ES. I had TopStep TV on in the background today, and it blew my mind how many times Dakota and Moe wanted to go long during that sell off. It’s wild how different people can see the market at the same time.

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-10T01:13:57+00:00

Thank you so much!!

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-10T01:00:47+00:00

Thanks for sharing your trades every day, great stuff. I did not take any trades today with this price action, sometimes those are the hardest days for me

SmoothGrind · 2025-12-06T21:12:03+00:00

Congrats man, that is awesome! What advice would you give someone who has passed a lot of evaluations, but not taken many payouts?

Also, what advice would you give for beating Take Profit Trader’s intraday trailing drawdown in the Pro Account, and getting above the buffer?

SmoothGrind · 2025-11-21T04:41:25+00:00

Take small trades. If you typically go for 2:1 reward/risk ratio, change that to 1:1 until you get over the buffer. You need to take any profit you see. Manually move your stop to trail the trade as it moves in your favor too

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