@Aramis Kudryashov Thanks Aramis!

@Jake Autry I use Topstep.

Congratulations!

Hi Patrick. Welcome. Glad you’re here.

You didn’t miss out. Coming into trading clear headed and rested is critical to long term success. Don’t look at market performance that occurred before you were ready to trade as ‘missed opportunities’. They weren’t missed. Only market events that occur after you’re ready are relevant to you. There will always be another opportunity for a profitable trade. It may not be the same day, but it does not need to be. If you trade one day and make $1k and don’t trade again for a week because nothing fit your criteria when you were ready, you are more profitable than the trader who felt that they missed out b/c of set-ups that occurred outside of their ‘ready time frame’ and chased the market every day. Those traders either die off or must choose a personal reckoning to become the trader who waits for the right entry during their ready time frame and disciplined to hold off when their criteria is not met.

Has the $1500 already been withdrawn and that’s the remaining balance? Or is that balance including the $1500? If the second, you should wait

Then you are safe to trade. Since you are nervous, you could use TV’s paper trading to place your next few trades or trade micros until you feel your confidence return. But I would have been nervous too taking a profit that close to my margin…I think that’s what you’re really grappling with. See if you can wait until you’ve built up to 56,500 before taking the next $1500 since that’ll leave you with much greater margin after the payout. And then record if you feel different than you do now.