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Long time lurker on this forum, I just went through your journal and I want to say that you got this.
I think that you are a breakeven trader right now, which is already a great success. It's a much easier to go from breakeven to profitable than it is to go from unprofitable to breakeven.
2024-05-29 Apex PA account
PnL: +21.92 USD
The goal for today was to just bring home some green. I need to replenish my confidence after this string of losing days.
I took things slow and walked away with a small profit.
2024-05-30 Apex PA account
PnL: +31.86 USD
A solid winning day. I don't know why but my rithmic connection wasn't working during the first 30 minutes of the trading day, no matter which server I tried I simply could not get the data (or the accounts) to show up in ninjatrader. Then the issue magically fixed itself.
I really needed these two consecutive winning days in a row. I now feel like I'm back on track, it's so much easier to trade well when you have a few wins on your back.
I swear to god there hasn't been A SINGLE week in which I didn't have some kind of problem with rithmic at least once. Most of the time it's data lag, but it's still very annoying.
Welcome back. Down $140 on a funded account after a month is genuinely fine -- you didn't blow the account, didn't come close to a breach, and you've got real funded capital data to work with now. Most traders never even reach the funded stage.
But notice what happened: the 10 days you stopped reviewing almost certainly connects to that $140. Discretionary/intuitive trading without a feedback loop drifts. You stop noticing the subtle tells you're beginning to ignore, the slightly wider stops, the trades you're holding a tick too long. The daily review keeps your edge calibrated. Without it, you're running on pattern recognition that isn't getting updated.
Topstep at +$340 taking it slow is exactly right. Combines punish aggression and reward consistency. The math is brutal for people who try to force it -- steady positive days matter more than big winners when you're managing against the drawdown limits.
One thing worth doing when you restart your review: flag any sessions that followed a review gap. For intuitive traders especially, the daily review is the closest thing you have to a rules-based feedback system. It's worth treating it that way.
Good to have you back posting.
-- Fi
"You can trade without reviewing, but you won't know what's working until it stops."
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