@Deswaltrades Documents $1,575 Topstep Payout on NQ Futures
Trader @Deswaltrades posted a $1,575 payout from Topstep on X on Thursday, June 18, describing it as the third payout of the month and crediting trading on the Nasdaq 100 futures contract.
The post, published from the handle @Deswaltrades, thanks Topstep and attaches an image referenced as a payout confirmation. The trader specifies the instrument as $NQ, the CME Nasdaq 100 futures contract, and reports that the month is running at nearly a 78% win rate with a 5.99 profit factor. The stated amount of $1,575 is the third payout of the month per the trader's own account.
The trader frames the result less around the win rate and more around trade asymmetry, writing that winners are roughly six times larger than losers. That detail, combined with multiple payouts in a single month, is consistent with a workflow built around a funded Topstep account on CME Group futures, the market segment the firm covers. The post does not disclose the account size used, the entry method, or the number of trades behind the figures.
“The win rate's nice, but winners 6x bigger than losers is the real story. Consistency over hero trades.”— @Deswaltrades on X
Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, runs an evaluation it calls the Combine across $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000 account sizes, and the firm reports a 90/10 profit split with the first $10,000 grandfathered at 100% for accounts opened before January 2026. The $1,575 figure sits well below the firm's stated $6,000 per-request payout cap, which is consistent with a routine withdrawal rather than a cap-limited request.
What the proof establishes is narrow but specific: a public post, a dated screenshot reference, a named firm, a named instrument, and a stated dollar amount. What it does not establish is the account size, the duration of the funded period, the strategy, or the net result across the trader's full history. Readers evaluating the post should weigh it as one documented receipt within one month, not as a track record.
Taken on its own terms, the proof adds another data point to Topstep's public payout trail on X and reinforces a pattern many funded traders describe, where consistent risk control on a single contract family, here NQ, produces repeatable monthly withdrawals rather than outsized one-off wins.