Fourth Topstep XFA Payout Requested by @mTraderNDX

On Tuesday, October 6, the trader @mTraderNDX posted on X that a fourth payout request had been submitted from a Topstep $50,000 Payout Challenge account, with year-to-date net profit reported at $12,695.

The post, published to the trader's X account, documents a payout request rather than a confirmed deposit. @mTraderNDX writes that this is the fourth payout drawn from the current Topstep Express Funded Account, and notes that they have never personally extended a single account past four payouts. A screenshot accompanying the post is cited as the record of the request.

The trader quantifies year-to-date performance at $12,695 in net profit and describes the account as stable so far, while flagging that they are approaching a self-identified limit. The post does not disclose the instrument traded, the position sizes used, or the strategy behind the result, and no per-payout dollar figure is given for this specific request.

“I've never managed to get more than 4 payouts from a single account.”— @mTraderNDX on X

Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, routes its funded traders into CME Group futures markets and runs its evaluation, the Combine, as a monthly subscription with no fixed time limit. The firm reports a 90/10 profit split, with accounts opened before January 2026 grandfathered into keeping 100% of their first $10,000 in profits. For an account already on its fourth payout, that grandfathering is directly relevant to the economics of the run.

What the post establishes is sequencing and continuity: a trader cycling repeated payouts from one funded account, with a documented year-to-date profit figure. What it does not establish is the gross amount cleared on this particular request, the net wired to the trader's bank, or any detail about how the $12,695 was generated. Readers should treat the proof as evidence of an active, paying account rather than as a performance claim.