Trader @stefanytrades Credits Topstep With Half of $62,000 Year

Trader @stefanytrades posted on X on Monday, October 19 that Topstep accounted for roughly half of the $62,000 she earned in her first year of trading futures, naming it the largest payer among four prop firms that have funded her.

In a post dated Monday, October 19, @stefanytrades reflected on nearly a year of trading with Topstep, writing that of the four prop firms that have paid her, Topstep accounted for roughly half of the $62,000 she earned in her first year of trading futures. The post was published on X and includes a partner disclosure.

The proof here is the trader's own public accounting rather than a withdrawal certificate or broker statement. She does not disclose the account size she traded, the instruments she favored, or the strategy behind the result, so the $62,000 figure should be read as a self-reported annual total across multiple firms, with Topstep credited as the largest single contributor.

“Of the four prop firms that have paid me, Topstep has paid me the most, about half of the $62,000 I earned in my first year of trading futures.”— @stefanytrades on X

Context matters for interpreting the Topstep share. Topstep, founded in Chicago in 2012, pays funded traders on a 90/10 profit split, and the firm reports that accounts opened before January 2026 keep 100% of their first $10,000 in profits. Payout requests are capped at $6,000 per request, which means a Topstep share near $31,000 would have been assembled across several approved withdrawals rather than a single transfer.

The post also carries a #TopstepPartner tag and offers a discount code, so readers should treat the commentary about the TopstepX platform as a sponsored endorsement rather than independent review. What remains verifiable is narrower and still meaningful: a trader who has been active for close to a year is publicly attributing a documented portion of her annual futures income to payouts from this firm.