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🧠 One More Lot, One More Meme, One More Payout Delay
📬 Welcome to the inbox that gets it.
Not run by suits. Not written for tourists.
Just raw prop intel: 💸 deals, drama, and slippage so dumb it’s poetic.
Here’s what hit the desk this week 👇
🔥 The Opening Print
When “just one more lot” feels like risk management.

📈 What Hit The Desk
This Week in Prop Land:
🔁 Apex Again? – Payout hoops are back. New forms, same circus.
Not going to lie @ApexTradeFund, I’m not doing all that 😂
If that’s a issue, feel free to keep my payout and I’ll head over to @Topstep or @MyFundedFutures
They seem to do good business.
— Chermane (@ChermaneTrades)
9:02 PM • Jun 16, 2025
🛑 TopOne Tightens the Screws – Kicking profitable traders for “consistency”? Oof.
Top One Futures is a joke. Got my 4th payout today and boom, banned instantly. No warning. No reason. They closed my accounts and nuked from Discord.
Guess once you cross 2–3 payouts, you’re too profitable for them. Better to ban you than take you live, huh?
If blowing funded
— Phoenix (@Phoenix_TraderX)
9:57 PM • Jun 13, 2025
📉 TopStep’s Leaderboard: Quiet at the Top – No 7-figure earners yet. Discipline? New rules?
📊 TOPSTEP BIG BOARD
Top 5 holds steady this week, but some traders are making moves 👀
Waserek put up $8.3K yesterday and landed in 18th place 🔥 Jeremiah picked up $1.6K and climbed to 19th 💪 and Matthew S. in 20th added $6K and locked in a $15K payout! 💸
Let’s see who
— Topstep (@Topstep)
5:39 PM • Jun 13, 2025
🖼 From the Charts
🛢️ Crude Oil: Volatility called. It’s bringing friends.

Iran, Israel, inventories — strap in, this isn’t over.
🤑 Spend It
Because compounding is great… but have you tried blowing it all in style?
🏁 McLaren Hypercar Experience – Two years of arrive-and-drive racing with your own pit crew. It’s giving “funded and feral.”
Read more
🤖 Your Own Humanoid Robot – $134K to never carry your trading laptop again. Because walking is for drawdown.
Meet H1
🌊 Underwater Hotel, Anyone? – €175K a night to sleep in a submarine with soundproof suites, a private chef, and champagne at crush depth.
Book a night (or three)
🧠 Legends Speak
“The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.”
– Alexander Elder
📂 Desk Favorites
The stuff we actually saved this week — not just opened and forgot about.
🔥 MyFundedFutures 50% Off – Futures traders, your turn. First challenge half price. Grab it here
💥 APEX 80% Off – Best value per R multiple on the street right now. All challenges discounted. [Grab it here]
🧪 Market Milk – Super visual FX strength/weakness dashboard with volatility overlays. Sneaky good for trend bias. → marketmilk.babypips.com
We’re done here. You? You’ve got ticks to catch and traps to dodge.
– The PTR Desk
🧩 P.S. Riddle Me This…
I follow every trader.
I grow when you hesitate,
Shrink when you commit,
And vanish the moment you stick to the plan.
What am I?
(Reply with your guess — first correct answer gets a shoutout next week)
👋 Got a meme, chart, or confession to submit? Hit reply — we might feature it next week.