Gold finished the week near $4,070 an ounce, up more than 4%, its strongest weekly gain since August. A weaker dollar, falling yields and a sharp drop in oil did the work....
Tech stocks had their worst day in months on Thursday, November 5, as fears of tougher rules on AI data centers hit chip makers hardest. The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.52% and the...
The Topstep Trading Combine is a paid, simulated evaluation. You trade a practice account, reach a profit target without breaking the loss rules, and, if you pass, move to an Express Funded...
October's CPI report arrives on Tuesday, November 10, at 8:30 a.m. ET, which is 7:00 p.m. in India. It is the last inflation reading before the Federal Reserve meets on December 8...
The US added 165,000 jobs in October, more than double the roughly 65,000 economists expected, and traders now see a December Fed rate hike as likely. Here are the four things worth...
If you just signed up for Topstep and opened TopstepX for the first time, the screen can feel overwhelming. However, once you understand the layout, placing trades and setting stop losses becomes...
Passing the futures 50K combine Topstep isn’t about being a genius trader. Instead, it’s about surviving long enough to prove consistency.
In fact, most traders fail not because they lack strategy, but because...
The strategy library gave you forty setups. The diagnosis routine tells you which playbook to open. However, one massive gap remains—and it's the gap where most "good traders" quietly lose their edge.
What...
The strategy library is now complete. You hold four playbooks: continuations for trend days, sweeps for the raids, reversals for the turns, and ranges for the sideways grind. However, a new problem...
So far, this strategy library covers three market moods. First, the continuation playbook handles trend days. Next, the sweep playbook handles the raids at key levels. Then, the reversal playbook handles the...
The continuation playbook ended with a warning: when the trend structure breaks, all continuation setups are suspended. However, that moment—the suspension—is not the end of the trading day. It's the beginning of...
The sweep playbook taught you how to catch reversals—the moments when the trapped majority becomes fuel for the other side. However, here's the statistical reality most reversal traders ignore: once a trend...
Fibonacci tools sit on every trading platform in the world, and consequently, they're the most abused tool in retail trading. Most traders draw fibs on random swings, watch price ignore every level,...
If there's one concept that appears in every profitable playbook in this series—the NY session setups, the FVG strategies, the ICT scalps—it's the liquidity sweep. The reason is simple: sweeps are the...