by Tilley | Mar 10, 2026 | Trading
Hello all, it’s been a while. A few years, to be exact! I almost shut this site down, but the hubs convinced me to leave it up for the time being, and, well, I’m glad because I FINALLY have good news to share: I passed a Topstep eval! It only took me 3...
by Tilley | Apr 13, 2024 | Rules, Trading
I’ve been doing a lot of trading soul-searching these days. It has been a long slog of (almost) a year of trying to pass a prop firm evaluation to get funded. But it’s also been a very educational year; I have learned SO MUCH from Adam Mancini in terms of...
by Tilley | Feb 5, 2024 | Trading
After taking a pummeling in my accounts in mid-January, I mentally reset and got my act together to string a win streak for the rest of the month. Broke the streak today, womp womp. My eval account wasn’t in bad shape, but I had a free reset from Topstep that...
by Tilley | Jan 7, 2024 | Rules, Trading
Howdy, party peeps! Welcome to the new year. As far as trading is concerned, 2023 was a blah/slightly red year for me, but a very big year for learning. I focused mainly on ES (aside from the few times I derailed myself with SPX options and the occasional one-off...
by Tilley | Sep 28, 2023 | Trading
We finally got a tradable bounce today! And I was finally able to catch some points via the fake breakdown that happened this afternoon. In full disclosure: I took a few trades before this FBD. I did short this morning after it seemed like price was not making much...
