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This rule is meant to ensure that a trader is consistent in their trading. There is no minimum time that a trade must be open to count as a trade.

What it Means:

• You need to trade a minimum number of lots to be eligible for the next step.
• This will be calculated based on all the Standard, Mini, and Micro lots you trade.
• A trade occurs when a position is opened and closed.

Why it is Important:

• Proves to yourself and the firm that your performance is consistent.
• Provides you and the firm enough information to evaluate and understand your trading.
• Gives you the opportunity to test your strategy across market conditions.

To see how this calculated, please click here.

You can buy or sell different amounts of each currency pair — from as low as 0.01 lots to 5 (the maximum position size in the largest account) at any point.

To calculate the lot size of your trades, we add up the number of lots traded by the lot size. For example, if you were to trade four separate 0.5 standard lot trades, that would equal 2 standard lots (0.5 x 4). Likewise, you could trade 500 mini lots (0.1 x 500) to equal 50 standard lots.

This is automatically calculated on your dashboard here.

The Maximum Position Size is anywhere from 2-5 standard lots at any one time depending on the account that you have chosen. This is calculated across all pairs that you are trading. We do allow you to trade micro and mini lots. So if you were in the $300K Trading Combine you can trade up to 30 mini lots or 300 micro lots at a time.

An example: If you are trading 2 standard lots of EUR/USD and 1 standard lot of USD/JPY at the same time you would not be able to open up any more trades in the $300K Trading Combine as that would exceed the 3 standard lots allowed. If you do open another lot, your account would break a rule and be ineligible for funding.

MetaTrader 4 may not reject orders that exceed the maximum position size, so traders are solely responsible for ensuring that their account complies with this rule at all times. Please make sure to include any outstanding orders that may be hit when calculating your position size.

View the maximum position size for your Trading Combine above.

What it Means:

• Your Net P&L cannot hit or exceed the Weekly Loss Limit at any point during the trading week (Sunday 4:00 PM CT- Friday 3:45 PM CT). The Weekly Loss Limit is based on your account equity as of the prior Friday after the close of trade and is automatically calculated on your dashboard here. In the Trading Combine® Step 1, the Weekly Loss Limit is $2,000. In Step 2, the Weekly Loss Limit is $1,000.
• In Step 1, the Weekly Loss Limit is $2,000 for the $300,000 Combine. If at the close of trading on Friday, your account balance was $301,000, your Weekly Loss Limit for the following week would be set at $299,000. If at any point during that week, your equity slipped below $299,000, you would violate the Weekly Loss Limit.
• The Weekly Loss Limit is especially important during Step 2 when it shrinks the maximum loss in any given week for all accounts. This goes down to $1,000 for the $300,000 Trading Combine. If we use the example above where you grew your equity to $301,000 on Friday at 3:45 PM CT, then your balance would not be able to dip below $300,000 at any point during the following week.
• The Weekly Loss Limit is factored based on each trading day’s realized and unrealized P&L. If your account falls below the Weekly Loss Limit, any open trades will be auto-liquidated and your account will become ineligible for funding.

Why it is Important:

• Adhering to a loss limit instills discipline and proper risk management.
• At a certain point, you need to call a bad week, a bad week (we all have them).
• It allows you to live to trade another day or week; the markets will be there tomorrow.
• Losses can be emotional, and emotions affect decision making.

What it Means:

• The Account Loss Limit is best thought of as a minimum account balance. It functions like a Trailing Maximum Drawdown and moves higher with each realized balance high you achieve in your account. The Account Loss Limit for the $300K Trading Combine Step 1 account is $2,000. This means that when you start trading in the account, your balance cannot drop below $298,000. If you add realized profits, the Account Loss Limit also moves higher to be $2,000 below your highest realized account balance. The Account Loss Limit will never move higher than the original starting balance of the account, which in this case is $300,000.
• Your realized balance high is calculated intraday from your realized profits. So, if you make $500 on your first trade in the $300K account, your Account Loss Limit will trail up intraday with this new realized balance high to $298,500. Your minimum account balance can not fall below $298,500 for the remainder of the evaluation period.
• If, at any point, your realized or unrealized account balance drops below your Account Loss Limit, any open trades will be liquidated and your Trading Combine will be ineligible for a Funded Account.

Why it is Important:

• Allows you to recognize and reevaluate when your strategy is not working in current market conditions.
• Encourages smart account management.

What it Means:

All traders must be flat by 3:45 PM CT Friday through Sunday at 4:00 PM CT. In the Trading Combine® Step 1, you can trade any other time during the trading week. In Step 2, traders will also have to be flat 1 minute before and after important economic events.

Why it is Important:

• You should only be exposed to risk when you are able to get in and out of the market.
• Trades cannot be closed over the weekend, increasing risk to the trader.

The Forex Pairs listed above are the pairs that traders can trade

TopstepFX® requires traders in Step 2 and a Funded Account to be flat for major, market-moving economic events. Those include central bank announcements and the monthly U.S. employment report. Traders are only required to be flat any pair that includes the impacted currency for 1 minute before and 1 minute after the release. Please refer to the economic calendar for releases that Step 2 traders need to be flat for.

What it Means:

• Economic releases cause extreme volatility and large price swings, therefore, are very difficult to trade consistently and profitably.
• Traders must close any open positions in impacted currencies at least 1 minute prior to a listed economic event. They can re-enter positions 1 minute after any economic event.
• Traders can carry positions in currency pairs that are not impacted through the event without breaking a rule.
• Those in the Trading Combine® Step 1 do not need to be flat during any releases.

Why it is Important:

• This allows the market to digest new information, ensuring responsible risk management
• It’s important to know what releases affect the pair(s) you are trading