@FarmforAnswers Documents $25,000 Topstep Payout Hitting Bank
On September 15, 2025, the trader @FarmforAnswers posted on X that a $25,000 payout from Topstep had cleared into his bank account, sharing a screenshot of the deposit landing just above the family credit card balance.
The post, published from the handle @FarmforAnswers, describes the $25,000 transfer as arriving from a payout request submitted the prior week. The trader frames the deposit casually, noting it landed in the same statement view as a family credit card bill inflated by a recent trip to New York. The accompanying screenshot is the primary artifact of proof, showing the credit and the surrounding ledger context rather than a standalone certificate.
Alongside the payout confirmation, the trader reports being on day two of a Topstep Express Funded Account run, with five accounts each sitting at $9,600 and a stated plan to add $150 per day across three more sessions before the next request. He does not disclose which instrument he traded, the original account size that produced the $25,000, or the strategy used to generate it, and this article does not infer those details.
“My wife was telling me she was watching our spending on the family credit card so I showed her this screenshot of topstep payout hitting right above the credit card.”— @FarmforAnswers on X, September 15, 2025
Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, is among the longest-running futures prop firms and routes traders through CME Group futures markets. The firm reports a 90/10 profit split, with accounts opened before January 2026 grandfathered to keep 100% of the first $10,000 in profits. Standard per-request payout caps sit at $6,000 on funded accounts, which means a $25,000 transfer of this size typically reflects multiple accumulated requests rather than a single withdrawal event.
What the proof establishes is narrow but concrete: a public, timestamped social post; a screenshot of a bank credit attributed to Topstep; and a trader who is openly continuing to trade and request further payouts under the same program. What it does not establish is the funded account size behind the figure, the instruments traded, or the time horizon over which the profits were earned. Readers evaluating the evidence should weigh it on those terms.