@12Mhustle Reports Over $10,000 in Cumulative Topstep Payouts

On Friday, October 9, the trader @12Mhustle posted on X that he has received more than $10,000 in cumulative payouts from Topstep, disclosed alongside a separate $2,500 withdrawal from another futures prop firm.

The post was published to X at the URL x.com/12Mhustle/status/2108376296577442114 and includes an attached image. The headline figure for the day is a $2,500 payout from a different firm, but the trader also states, in the same message, that he has received over $10,000 in payouts from Topstep across his history with the firm. He frames Topstep as one of only two prop firms he has personally used that have, in his words, paid him every single time.

The proof here is a self-reported cumulative tally rather than a single Topstep payout receipt. The post does not specify which Topstep account size produced the $10,000, whether it came from one funded account or several, which instruments were traded, or over what time window the payouts accrued. Readers evaluating the claim should treat the $10,000 figure as the trader's own running total rather than as a line-item confirmation from the firm.

“These are the ONLY two big dogs in the prop firm space I've personally used that have paid me EVERY SINGLE TIME.”— @12Mhustle on X, October 9

Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, is among the longest-running futures prop firms and routes traders into CME Group futures markets through its Combine evaluation. The firm reports a 90/10 profit split, with accounts opened before January 2026 keeping 100% of their first $10,000 in profits, and it caps individual payout requests at $6,000, with lower $2,000 to $3,000 caps on newer no-fee combines. Those mechanics mean a $10,000 cumulative total, as reported by @12Mhustle, would reflect multiple approved requests rather than a single transfer.

What the post establishes is narrow but useful: a trader who is actively posting under his own handle, with a public track record on X, is willing to attach his name to the claim that Topstep has paid him repeatedly. What it does not establish is the account size, the strategy, the holding periods, or the net profitability after Combine subscription fees. For readers using payout proofs as a filter, the signal is the pattern of repeat withdrawals the trader describes, not a one-off screenshot.