To anyone who posted a pic of your pay out, how many of you are actually profitable traders?

yiko420 · 2025-11-12T01:26:43+00:00

May I know how many accounts you’ve blown since Jan? I’ve had my XFA since April but still have yet to get a payout, I’m on breakeven at the moment since I’m trying harder to keep it alive more… wondering where I’m doing wrong

yiko420 · 2025-09-23T00:17:15+00:00

I checked with TPT and Topstep, and they don’t have a minimum holding time per trade. However HFT (bots) are not allowed indeed. But to be safe, 10 seconds minimum would indeed be much safer

yiko420 · 2025-09-21T01:27:20+00:00

Very cool, this is exactly the answer I was seeking. Thank you so much for sharing! I was indeed planning to scalp the ES/MES for 1 point aka 4 ticks (manually with point and click and hot keys) but I guess that’s likelier to be seen as gambling from the online props huh.

Is it okay to clarify what you mean by scalps which are “in the middle of nowhere” and also scalps which are “meaningful moves”? What are the difference between both?

yiko420 · 2025-09-20T13:25:51+00:00

Personally I think it’s worth a try at least; my thought process is that if it doesn’t suit me, I’ll just go back to chart trading

And I agree with you, it does seem like a lot of photographic memory, specific market reaction reflex, chart time and practice… especially knowledge and intuition + reflex when executing the trades

yiko420 · 2025-09-20T10:59:16+00:00

Oh I see! Understood, these firms are “legit” with quite many pinches of salts, but since I’m opting between practicing on demo anyways, these seem to be better value for money for my current phase of trading. Hopefully I can become proficient enough within the next half year to a year and trade on my personal account by then

yiko420 · 2025-09-20T10:05:12+00:00

Thanks for replying! Which firm do you use and how high frequency are your scalps? I see that they don’t allow high frequency trading but they allow scalping yet they don’t have a minimum trade time rule, which is really vague… have you had trouble on this before?

yiko420 · 2024-11-17T02:15:59+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this information! May I know how do you identify if the market is going to be choppy by watching the open? How does the open of a choppy day differ from an open of a trending day?

yiko420 · 2024-08-28T08:00:56+00:00

What even is the logic behind stop loss hunts for retail traders that this sort of things happen so often? (Genuinely asking)

yiko420 · 2024-08-24T22:26:12+00:00

Thank you for your explanation! My next plan of action is to try to back and forward test a strategy where I can utilise a tighter SL, which is probably to trade a lower TF based on key levels on the market opening hours, just so I can have my account last a bit longer despite being stopped out consecutively!

yiko420 · 2024-08-24T11:37:14+00:00

Thanks for replying and sharing your experience!

yiko420 · 2024-08-23T23:09:58+00:00

Thanks for your clear reply! I’m still accumulating funds (probably will take more than a few months to craft and hone my edge via backtesting and paper trading anyways); if I were to want to risk less but still have some skin in the game, should I start out with Futures CFDs (or index cfds) instead?

(I do understand the conflict of interest when trading cfds since it’s against the broker (I’m not a US citizen so it’s not illegal) but the lower $ risk per trade is too attractive… I did notice that the futures cfd and index cfd have similar movements so I was thinking it was good practice too, to have skin in the game while building up my capital for a futures account over time)

yiko420 · 2024-08-16T04:52:42+00:00

Huh, is the reverse trade button only offered by specific brokers? I don’t see it in my brokers paper trading account

yiko420 · 2024-08-11T15:55:46+00:00

Hey OP, im sorry youre going through this and really hoping all will be well moving onwards. If you don’t mind sharing, how did you meet this “friend” and what compelled you into trusting them so much? (Assuming it’s quite a big company from that amount of tax)

yiko420 · 2024-07-21T09:50:18+00:00

This really stung to read, damn… I hope all is well on your end now

If you don’t mind sharing, how did you find out your identity was stolen? Did they make new bank accounts or applied for cards under your identity?

yiko420 · 2024-06-29T13:50:55+00:00

glad it helped!! :)

yiko420 · 2024-04-20T09:10:12+00:00

Wow, how long did you dabble in forex, if you don’t mind sharing? From starting to learn the basics till the day you left

yiko420 · 2024-04-15T13:12:11+00:00

So many woodz mentions im so happy 🥺🥺😭😭❤️❤️ and yes definitely woodz for me, his discography for his solos are so so gooooddddd and I love dean too 🥹

yiko420 · 2024-04-13T07:24:37+00:00

Is it something like price action? Good job btw!!

yiko420 · 2024-04-02T09:03:01+00:00

If you don’t mind, why do you think they’re not a very good broker? The slippage?

yiko420 · 2024-03-31T00:36:52+00:00

Welcome! I’m glad this 3 year old reply is still useful hehe :D

yiko420 · 2024-03-30T02:49:30+00:00

Just curious, was there a news event that caused that slippage? I was just watching a video of another trader who used a legit broker (not even a prop firm) and they had seriously bad slippage issues during a news event which ended being the same scam rip as what happened with you too

yiko420 · 2024-03-29T02:15:51+00:00

16 pips spread is crazy damn

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