For the record, you are trying to get fair treatment for traders.

Yes, we called you up to Live, and as you continue to build there, an amount equal to your XFA balances will be released into your Live Account. You earned four payouts in your first three weeks while purchasing accounts at a pace that annualizes to roughly 700 per year. Topstep exists to help traders learn to trade and pay themselves along the way. It isn’t a SIM lottery. Everyone is welcome, but repeatedly cycling through accounts will eventually mean proving your strategy in Live.

removing profits when being moved to live has to be the stupidest excuse firms have made to not pay you

That’s called greed … and these top prop firms are getting worse

Deliberately letting the trader trade the next cycle, costing him time and opportunity cost and then moving him to Live when he is almost hitting the payout is just not a good practice at all.

This should be standard. Your “live transition” email should come after a payout request and that payout must be honoured.

Everyone should be able to receive their last payout before moving to Live. It used to be that way. @Topstep @MichaelPatak You don’t understand how important that money is to a trader who spends thousands of dollars on evaluations. Please do the right thing and pay the trader.

Dear prop CEOs: we don't need your opinion on how we spend our money. Most of you can't (and won't) match what VEST is offering, so now you're trying to sway traders instead. We can afford what we're risking. If VEST fails, we'll move on. Go fix your own payout rules Go away plz!

You’re so close to understanding that this is a business. Not a charity for traders.

Bro you’re out here acting like everyone gets suddenly move to live accounts when that’s not even remotely the case. Anyone who has taken many payouts/large amounts of $ from a firm are the ones getting moved live before payouts. Firms have every right to prevent milking sim.