A $13,500 Topstep Payout Ends a Year-Long Dry Spell for @JayTradezNQ
On July 30, trader @JayTradezNQ posted on X that a $13,500 payout from Topstep had cleared, describing it as his first from the firm in more than a year and part of a $20,000 six-day stretch across two prop accounts.
The post, published from the handle @JayTradezNQ, pairs the Topstep payout with a separate $13,500 result at FS Futures over the same six-day window. The trader frames the Topstep transfer as notable on its own terms: his first with the firm in over a year, and larger than the two payouts he received from Topstep in all of the prior year combined. A screenshot was attached to the post as supporting evidence.
The public record here is narrow but specific. It establishes an amount, a date, a firm, and a trader identity tied to an X account. It does not disclose the account size he traded, the instrument or instruments involved, the strategy behind the run, or how long the funded account had been active before the withdrawal cleared. Readers evaluating the proof should treat those blanks as unresolved rather than inferred.
“20k in six days. I honestly can't believe it.”— @JayTradezNQ on X
Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, is among the longer-running futures prop firms and routes traders exclusively into CME Group products. The firm reports a 90/10 profit split, with a grandfathered arrangement letting accounts opened before January 2026 keep the full first $10,000 in profits. A $13,500 single payout is consistent with a trader who has accumulated profits across multiple withdrawal cycles rather than in one request, given the firm's stated per-request caps.
What the post genuinely documents is a receipt, not a track record. The trader's own framing, that last year produced only two smaller Topstep payouts, is a candid reminder that funded payouts at established firms tend to be uneven rather than linear. For readers weighing Topstep against alternatives, this proof adds one more dated data point to the pile, no more and no less.