Bullet Trader

I just requested my biggest single payout from FTMO since I started my trading journey. A little over 2 years ago I received my first payout from FTMO, which was 3998$ and I couldn't believe it back then. It took me a long time to be able to take big trades without my psychology going crazy and ruining everything. The start of the year has been great. I had broken my single payout record 2 times already this year, and we're still in Feb! If I could give some advice to myself back then, it is this: Slow down because the faster you try to go, the slower you're gonna progress. No one is running after you. It's you vs you. Don't compare your trading results to anyone else. Take everyone's trading advice with a grain of salt and only trust what you tested and experienced. Know that even your best of the best setups can fail, so never go all in on any single trade. It's okay to take a break when you're mentally fatigued, the market never runs out of opportunities.

@Topstep I mean, you don't need to deny a payout when you can just call them up to live before requesting it lol

Want a payout approved? Trade clean. Follow the rules. Don’t do weird stuff. 99.26% payout approval rate YTD says the system is working.

@Market_Emotions @AlphaCapitalUK Says a lot about a firm when they get rid of their profitable traders

My journey with @AlphaCapitalUK has officially come to an end. Not by choice though. Now, I will not speak ill of a firm that that has paid me $91,608. But as my followers know, I built my brand from the ground up with trust, transparency and full disclosure. And also as a partner and ambassador for @PropFirmMatch, it is my duty and responsibility to also share with you the true events which transpired towards the end of my journey with @AlphaCapitalUK. Those who followed my journey know I made a phenomenal performance of 14 payouts on one single $200k account to achieve the majority of my profits with this firm. @AlphaCapitalUK recognised my performance by inviting me to Alpha Prime. At this point, I was also awaiting a $200K Funded account which took me 2 months to pass. During my Alpha Prime interview, their Head of Client Support formally invited me to Alpha Prime and explained to me what it was. Long story short, it required me to give up $400K Funding ($200K Funded + pending $200K I passed) for a $10K live futures account which only had a 60% profit split. No salary offered. I don't even trade Futures and it didn't seem like a good deal, so I asked what would happen if I declined the offer? I was told that I would be allowed to trade out my $400K Funded account (and another eval I had parked) to finalisation, but I could not purchase any more accounts for a year. I found this fair, so I said I would have to decline the Alpha Prime offer. But after the interview, the conditions changed as the person I spoke with emailed me to say he was misinformed and that I would only be allowed to trade out the remaining $200K Funded account to finalisation. So in essence, they actually denied me the $200K Funding account. I protested that this was unfair and not what was agreed on the call, but to no avail. I then asked if the opportunity and potential to join Alpha Prime would be there upon finalisation of my remaining Funded account, and he said yes, there was that potential. Now, fast forward to a few payouts later, I have finally breached the $200K account. They informed me the offer of Alpha Prime is no longer available without any real assessment. Like I said, I won't speak ill of the firm, but if we are going to be transparent, these are the facts: - @AlphaCapitalUK paid me $91,608 in payouts total - They never denied me a payout unfairly - They gave me the conditions for rejecting Alpha Prime, but went back on the offer later and changed the conditions, under the reasoning that the Head of Client Support I spoke to was misinformed. - They denied me a $200K Funded account (refunded) under the guise of "being invited to Prime" - They did not consider me for Prime when I no longer had any Funded accounts left - To join Prime, I had to give up what I already had. Final Stats with @AlphaCapitalUK: Challenge Fees: $5,396 Payouts: $92,109 (Including Performance Bonus) The above are the facts with what happened. You will not find a single negative statement or opinion from me regarding this situation. You can make up your own mind about what's right and what's wrong. But you need to be informed with what actually happened, and I am here to be transparent and share with you the true side of things. At the end of the day, they paid me $91,608 in payouts and never denied me a payout, but that was also from my own skill as a trader.

@lemontradestand Man that sucks

make sure you're saving 40% of your payouts for taxes bc that's how much i just paid 🙂🔫

@lemontradestand Good job man keep it up

FEBRUARY 2026 ⛈️ topstep: 22.4k ⛈️ fundednext: 7k 29.4k total gross / 8k total expenses NET PROFIT - 21.4k had like no motivation to post this because it was honestly a tough month for me took two payouts at the start then lost those accounts and churned through evals but it is what it is. good luck in march everyone!

@TylerG_Capital @FTMO_com I've been swing trading with them for years and it's been balance based, did they change it?

@tradermike1234 Is 1:1 all you can talk about?

You will not have a 3:1 risk reward and a high win rate It won't happen And no, it's not a skill issue It's called not being delusional Want a high win rate? Stick with 1:1 Simple

@HookdonPA Someone said it

Forward testing > Back testing IYKYK

@PropJoshD @elonmusk But then your competitors could use bots to downvote and destroy you

I think its time that @elonmusk puts a thumbs down button on the app so that we can filter out fake slop. The algorithm should punish any users with too many downvoted posts and eventually lead to suspensions and bans. Its not the public square anymore, its a slop machine.

@lemontradestand Yeah same I'd milk them dry if they do that haha

@BulletTraderx i'd actually cry

okay so we all have no choice but to buy apex accounts now yes?

@TylerG_Capital Finally someone said it

One thing that people always say that I will never agree with is…. TIMEFRAMES ARE FRACTAL. I absolutely disagree with this theory. You are telling me the price action on a 1 minute chart and the price action on a 1 HR, 2 HR or H4 is weighted the same. Go and test your model and see how many more losses you incur because you believe this theory. Back it with data I can almost guarantee this theory will be null and void. All you get on those lower timeframes is excessive noise of what’s going on inside of a higher timeframe candle. 🕯️ You think you get more opportunities by saying “timeframes are fractal” so my model will have the same results on a lower timeframe it absolutely will not!! Higher timeframes over everything 😤

@Wepth @Topstep You know why

Why is this a thing..? @Topstep

@lemontradestand I try, but every time I take a look at this site, I feel like I need to stay away from this shithole lmao

@BulletTraderx yup but that's why people like you need to keep posting haha

why are we pretending like transparency is the norm and brian is just one bad apple? most people on here, even many criticizing him, have done the same if not worse. let's be honest. much of this has little to do with integrity. people are quick to condemn behavior they quietly engage in when it benefits them. many align with whatever narrative protects their reputation or grows their platform. a lot of this selective outrage is hypocritical and exposes a clear double standard.

@lemontradestand I get it, there are too many fake gurus in the space that even fake gurus call other fake gurus out haha I mean the space is full of these roaches what can we do

@BulletTraderx not saying it's okay and fully agree that we should call out fake gurus more so a dig at influencers who criticize the same behavior they benefit from many of them choose to keep it vague and move in similar ways sorry my post could've been more clear

@Market_Emotions @AlphaCapitalUK Crazy consistency

One @AlphaCapitalUK $200k Funded Account. 13 payouts. $83,851 profit. Again, one account. Only limitation is yourself. Only person you're competing with is yourself. Don't give up on yourself and your future. Keep fighting and I guarantee it - you will win 💯 LFG legends 🔥 No excuses now 💪 P.S. The strategy to achieve this result has been shared 100% freely in full on my page 👀

A lesson I learned the hard way recently is never put all your eggs in one basket Topstep was the only futures prop firm I traded with because I believed they were the best, but then they destroyed 200k$ of profit and 2 months of hard work in a second Resilience is a necessary trait for a trader, because you're gonna take hits either from the market or from other forces, but what matters is that you always get back on your feet I got myself 5x50k Lucid flex and 5x50k Tradeify flex accounts and started a new journey My advice to profitable traders is never trade with only 1 firm, and try to diversify as much as you can

@iamJMinx @Topstep If you ask me, they deserve to be rated much lower

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Looking at the payout page on Topstep and knowing you cannot request the payouts because they called you to live 1 hour before you could request them is the worst feeling in the world I should've been able to request 40k in payouts as 5th and 6th payouts (the before-live payout) and then given a 150k live account, but I'm getting no payouts and only a 10k live account 2 months of trading are gone, and I don't know what to do next