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🚨 GIVEAWAY
28 followers in the last week or so. Appreciate everyone.
But let's ramp it up.
First giveaway from Pitstop Media will be a 5 stack of @fnfutures $50k flex accounts.
Accounts we have used, and with a company we rate. We are not affiliated with them.
The only catch - this giveaway will not happen until we reach 1000 follows here on X.
Everyone from now until then who:
1. Shares this post
2. Follows us on X
3. Comments Flex
Will be entered into the draw at 1000 followers.
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The progression of a retail trader
What happens to the average trader's wallet?
Month 1 - Trading course
Month 2 - Broker account
Month 3 - First blown account
Month 4 - Prop challenge
Month 6 - Second prop challenge
Month 9 - Better data
Month 12 - “I need a strategy”
The journey is not easy
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Why would someone pay more for instant funding?
Pretty simple.
They don't want to spend weeks trying to pass an evaluation, or waiting profitable trading weeks on challenges.
For a trader who values speed over price, paying more upfront can make perfect sense.
The consistency rules are tighter, but ultimately the required balance needed to get a payout is less. In other words, you need to make less money to get paid.
Every trader goes through up and downs, there is nothing worse than making $4k including challenges, plus some profit, then letting it slip and getting paid nothing.
With an Instant funding, that would be profit in your bank.
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We need more followers.
This page was just launched. With a platform coming very soon, something quite unique.
A media led company reporting on the industry of retail trading.
It was very important for us not to be affiliated or associated with any company or firm in order to remain fully unbiased.
As such, our giveaways will be funded from our own pockets with companies and challenges we use ourselves. Personal recommendations only.
We will not just chuck any rubbish challenge around, that will have you blow it and immediately need to pay.
Give us a follow, like and share if you want unbiased coverage in the retail space and good quality giveaways, including tech, software and challenges.
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The affiliate economy changed trading
The link in the bio used to be an afterthought.
Now it can be the business model.
A trader watches a video.
Clicks a broker link.
Signs up for a prop challenge.
Buys software.
Joins a community.
The creator gets paid at several points along the journey.
One audience can support an entire trading business.
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The trading funnel is getting longer
2015:
- See a broker
- open an account
- trade
2026:
- YouTube streams
- Discord
- course
- indicator
- prop challenge
- reset
- another challenge
- broker
- community
- watch podcast
- buy software
And a million discount code offering the exact same thing.
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Now that is good support. @Topstep
Hi traders, if you were impacted during today’s outage, here’s what we’re doing to make it right:
-Lost money on open trades? Erased. We’re wiping those losses from your account.
-Position reversed? Some trades reversed into an opposite “ghost” position in an attempt to flatten you. These are erased completely, whether they won or lost.
-Got flagged for hedging violations today? All violations are removed.
-Account violated due to the Maximum Loss Limit? We are reactivating any account closed due to an incorrect rule violation, with negative trades from the outage removed.
-Made a profit on open trades? You keep those gains. We aren't touching them.
If your account still looks incorrect after 7pm CT today, Sept 22, contact Trader Support: topstep.com/contact-support
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FTMO generated around $423 million in revenue in 2025, but profit fell 59% to roughly $38 million. At the same time, marketing costs reportedly jumped 85%.
This highlights how expensive growth in the prop industry can become, and just how competitive the market is, even at the very top.
FTMO has the scale and balance sheet to absorb a hit like this. Smaller firms competing through discounts, cheap evaluations and increasingly aggressive acquisition strategies have far less room for error.
Trader retention, lower acquisition costs, predictable sales and better control of infrastructure could become far more important as the market matures.
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