You don’t need a big account or a massive position size to make serious money trading. Today’s trade is proof. I booked $958.88 profit for the day copy trading ONE MICRO ES contract across five TopStep accounts — $191.76 per account — all from a single trade with small, defined risk. No luck, no guessing, no hype — just the same rules, same process, and the same repeatable edge I use every single day.
We do this every single day. The market opens, the prep is done, and we wait for the setup. Nothing changes. This isn’t a lucky day or a one-off home run — it’s the same process, repeated with discipline. Today just shows how even with ONE MICRO contract and small risk, the results can add up fast if you stick to the plan.
Pre-Market Prep
At the 9:30 AM bell, the work was already done. Liquidity zones marked in red, bullish bias confirmed, and the 15-minute fair value gap (FVG) drawn in purple. The game plan was simple: wait for price to retrace into the FVG and look for our long setup. This is the same routine every morning — no guessing, no chasing.
Price Retraces to the Sweet Spot
Price initially pushed higher, then pulled back under the 50% mark of the move that created the FVG. That’s the first checkpoint. When this happens, we drop to the one-minute chart to dial in our entry.
Volume Confirmation
On the one-minute chart, price dipped into the lower half of the FVG and — at the same time — printed a huge, out-of-place volume spike above the 10 SMA. This is exactly what we wait for: location plus confirmation. No spike, no trade. Patience here is critical.
Break of Structure & Risk Calculation
Once we got the volume spike, price broke structure to the upside — that’s our entry signal. We marked the BOS entry and the swing low stop, then measured the risk: 17.75 points on ES. With our risk cap, that meant one contract today. This is why risk calculation comes before the order, not after.
Execution
Here’s the TopStep execution — entry at 6427.75 with a little slippage. Five accounts all taking the exact same trade. No surprises, no deviations from plan.
Targets & Risk-to-Reward
With the larger-than-usual stop, partial profits weren’t an option. The only move was to hold for the final take profit at the high of the S&P — a 2.08R trade. My rule is simple: if I’m risking one, I want at least two back, usually three. This one required patience.
Final Target Hit
It took until 2:20 PM, but price hit every target and then tagged the final take profit at 6466.25 before reversing. That’s why we take profits at our planned levels — the market doesn’t hand out rewards for being greedy.
Confirmed Results
One micro contract, $191.76 profit per account, across five accounts. Nearly $1,000 total on a single trade — all from following the same steps we take every day. The same exact trade with 10 micros would have been $10,000. The math is simple, but the discipline is what makes it happen.
This is proof that you don’t need big risk or massive size to make serious money. You just need a repeatable process, strict risk control, and the discipline to execute it without emotion. That’s how we trade, every day.