I F Around And Found Out Today – Didn’t follow My Rules – Take Profit Trader, TopStep, Apex

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What’s going on guys so uh yeah today was not the best of days before I jump into that we stream every day 1:30 till about 4:30 um we talk about prop firm stocks options whatever you guys want to talk about I am here probably trading it um if you like the video smash the old like button um big earnings coming up this week we have uh Google tomorrow morning which is going to be uh interesting Wednesday afternoon is meta Amazon is

After hours on Thursday so I think um today was just a just a chop Fest because they’re basically waiting for earnings um I think that’s kind of what we got was just kind of a choppy day I knew it was not a good day to trade early on and I just didn’t respect my rules and that’s kind of what happened um you know obviously I got one PA I I crushed it this one I did well on and then completely messed

Up right here um it’s just the way it is by not following my rules you know and then I got this is a funded account that’s not terrible this one I’m up 566 this is an eval and then I got this funded account I’m up 140 on yeah it was just one of those days um you know it it was super choppy and early on in the day I’ll just show you basically I took uh what did I tell I took

Short early on I took a bounce that was close to the pivot point and then I just recognized that we were in chop probably around here around 12 12:30 I kind of just said hey like this is going to be a chop day and I should have just stayed out of trading the rest and my bias what got me was my bias was Google’s tomorrow morning I figured we would go up at the end of the day we did not we

Actually sold off and I think having a bias hurt me and that’s kind of what I tell people is don’t have a bias just kind of play the chart uh the chart was showing that we were in chop I should have just stayed out and I I got dealt you get dealt sometimes so tomorrow’s another day um I’m kind of close on passing a bunch of accounts so tomorrow being that earnings will be out um whatever way we start trending after

The earnings I’m probably going to start pounding some of these uh evals to just pass them or not pass them but kind of get them off off my plate and hopefully I can get you know five or so more funded accounts here and um just work those up and that’s pretty much my goal this account was day two so I got to keep stacking that and then this one I’m actually eligible for a payout I just got to get the account

Up to take money out um but I’ve had enough days over $100 so that’s where I’m at with that man my indicators were spoton today I should have just listened to myself you know what it is is I like trading on the stream with everybody and I should have just I should have just said hey we’re in chop and I should have played like micros and just kind of that’s it should have just listened to my gut it was right and

It is what it is so I am not going to be around first thing in the morning tomorrow I got an I got a Christmas picture appointment at 8:45 in the morning and then uh I’ll be back probably around 10:30 and I’ll be back for the stream so that’s all that really matters and um hopefully we can uh stack some gains tomorrow I mean that’s pretty much you know hopefully we get the moves we’re looking for and uh and just stack

It so hopefully you guys did better than me and I will see you on the stream tomorrow

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Today’s GEX Levels

Aug 10, 2026 · gamma regime: POSITIVE

NQ

Flip 29,203 · Call Wall 30,107
Put Wall 28,045 · HVL 28,870

ES

Flip 7,683 · Call Wall 7,793
Put Wall 7,592 · HVL 7,793

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