So, I never really liked the idea of trading with a company that doesn’t want you to succeed so I opened an account with Topstep (someone on here recommended them on a random thread I read_ and had a go just trading price action.
Initially I traded Crude Oil, then tried US30 and now Gold (well, micro gold to be precise).
Just started getting the hang of it now.
I may do this alongside my other strategy. This is me trying to qualify for a $50k account, will update periodically. Trying to make $100 a day for now, no real targets as such.
I just need to be patient, up $126 today, need to stop but I really cannot help myself.
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Oh man thats great! Nice job.
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So, I ended up losing about $900 overall trading Gold (MicroGold) on the Topstep account as I was just trying stuff out. This isn’t real money yet as I haven’t qualified.
Now I am a bit more experienced trading this, results have improved, I have recovered all that loss and am now into profit overall on the account, here’s the recent trades;
If I can keep this up I will qualify (need $3k profit) by around the end of July on current results. This is me purely trading price action, there’s no real system as such.
Some people would say that “trading price action” is a system?
You maybe have specific criteria or at least recognizable criteria for deciding when to enter a trade?
You’re not entering positions randomly? So it’s a system? 
Good luck for qualifying with Topstep. I have a friend who got funded that way not long ago and has been paid out promptly a couple of times since that. They seem to be one of the few “safe ones”! 
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Thanks, yeah I can kind of recognise things that make me enter trades, Gold seems to have longish moves in one direction then the other, usually 2-6 hours so once I see a reversal and that confirmed by the price action I enter on a pull back.
It’s amazing what a bit of experience can do and just trading that one instrument helps spot things.
Fingers crossed.
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