Topstep Approves $1,390 Max Payout for @RyansTrading_ on MNQ
Trader @RyansTrading_ posted on X that Topstep approved a $1,390 maximum payout, attributing the result to a 125 point move on Micro E-mini Nasdaq futures during the session. The post is dated Monday, June 15.
The proof is a public X post from @RyansTrading_ announcing that the payout has been approved by Topstep, with the trader citing a gain of 125 points on MNQ and a daily profit and loss of $1,390. The post also references a $10,000 payout milestone on the account, framed by the trader as a personal benchmark rather than a single day result.
The trader describes the setup as longs taken off a 9 exponential moving average on the 2 minute chart of MNQ. No account size is stated in the post, and the screenshot attached to the tweet documents the approval and the day session only, not the full history of the funded account or the cumulative withdrawals behind the $10,000 figure.
“Max Payout Approved on @Topstep!!”— @RyansTrading_ on X
Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, runs one of the longest standing evaluation programs in the futures prop space and routes traders into CME Group products such as the MNQ contract referenced here. The firm reports a 90 / 10 profit split on funded accounts, with accounts opened before January 2026 grandfathered to keep 100% of the first $10,000 in profits, a detail that is relevant context for any payout milestone referencing that threshold.
What this proof establishes is narrow but concrete: a dated public claim of an approved payout in the amount of $1,390, tied to a specific instrument and a specific intraday strategy described by the trader. What it does not establish is the account size, the length of time the account has been funded, the number of prior withdrawals, or any independent confirmation from Topstep itself beyond the screenshot the trader chose to share.
Read on its own terms, the post is a credible single data point. It shows that a retail futures trader using a simple moving average pullback method on a micro contract reached a payout approval and chose to document it publicly, which is the kind of granular, verifiable evidence that is more useful to prospective traders than aggregate marketing claims.