I just realized with stage 5 they have detailed analysis report on demo trading and also the Jigsaw platform now allows sim to be used and their is a ranking system in their analysis reports so technically i could pay myself the combine fee and just duplicate the rules myself this could be an option if I find myself spending more than I would actually get in funding.
Out the Oneup “funded” account trying to meet the volume requirements I thought it would be a good idea to make trades after hour since it’s really a demo account my orders won’t affect the market and I can just take a few ticks and from there I just let it go until it hit the max drawdown. Mad profit was 800 my drawdown was more because of the trailing drawdown. I would consider topstep again but since they raise the profit targets. I think I’ll just trade my real account. Might consider TS if they lower it back to what it was
You have to trade at least 1/2 the trades you made during your combine. i made like 180 trades in 15 days. in my live i was making max 5 a day. Its more like trying to make you trade they claim so that the account isnt sitting there cost them money. But they have redundant requirements to ensure that no one is just sitting on an account.
Sounds like BS to me. I don't see no logical reason for this. I can see they want the same style in the Live trading what they approved on the Sim, but this is not the way to do that...