Most traders set an RTH window once and never look at it again. That works until the first Friday after Thanksgiving. The E-mini complex shuts 225 minutes early, and the window keeps waving orders through into a market that has already gone home. The window wasn’t wrong. It was just the only clock in the
Your strategy sends its exit, the position closes at market, and the account reads flat. Twenty minutes later the stop from that trade is still resting below the market, and the target is still waiting above it. Nothing broke. The OCO brackets TopstepX attaches to each entry have exactly one trigger, and your exit wasn’t
OneUp Trader changed its lineup on September 16, 2026. A new Pro Evaluation lets you qualify in as few as 5 trading days instead of 10, at about 1.5 times the monthly price. Express Funding now needs 3 trading days, but only within 24 hours of losing a funded account. Underneath sits a rulebook that’s
On September 17, 2026, we sent the ProjectX API a login with a username that doesn’t exist. It answered HTTP 200 with this body: On the login endpoint, errorCode: 3 means InvalidCredentials. The same 3 from Order/place means InsufficientFunds, and from Auth/validate it means ExpiredToken. So which one just hit your bot? That’s the trap
Blue Guardian Futures now takes a 3% processing fee on every payout, up from 2% in early August. Its late-payout guarantee shrank from $1,000 to a 10% bonus, and its Express accounts got new limits on September 2. There was no big announcement for any of it. So which rules apply to the account you’re
Almost every Funded Futures Family guide online went stale on September 9, 2026. That’s the day the firm rewrote its Premier+ plan. It added a consistency rule where there wasn’t one, then cut how many contracts a funded trader can hold. If you bought a Premier+ account on September 8, none of this touches you.
FundingPips allows automated trading, but not freely. Third-party Expert Advisors are permitted only when they act as a trade or risk manager, not as an autonomous strategy engine, and any other use triggers denial of the evaluation and account closure. If you built the EA yourself, full automation is allowed with proof of ownership. Here
If you’re trading TopstepX or thinking about starting a Combine, three things decide whether the account survives and pays out: how the drawdown floor moves, how the payout split actually works, and whether your automation setup is even allowed. Get any one of those wrong and you can pass an evaluation and still lose the
The Topstep API costs $14.50 a month with the promo code. A market order takes exactly four HTTP calls: log in, find your account, find the contract, place the trade. So why do so many traders stall before the first order ever leaves their machine? Because the pieces live in three places. You buy the
Update (October 2026): Since 28 February 2026, ProjectX is available only through Topstep as TopstepX. Other prop firms that previously used ProjectX have moved to different platforms, most commonly Tradovate or Rithmic. The guide below may be outdated for non-Topstep firms. Still searching for a way to connect Bulenox to ProjectX? That door closed months
