Lost my Topstep challenge today. Not because of the strategy. Because I stopped following my own rules. I recovered almost $1,000, then increased my size trying to make even more. That decision cost me the account. Starting a new challenge with Apex Trader Funding, which integrates directly with TradingView and fits my workflow much better.

Channel
Nicola | EdgeTradingJourney
@EdgeTradingJourney
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
375subscribers
-19 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001876122651 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @EdgeTradingJourney |
| Created | Between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 7 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 7 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/EdgeTradingJourney |
Topic
Crypto & trading — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 94% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026, 16:01 | 375 | -3 |
| 27 Sept 2026, 02:00 | 378 | -2 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 11:56 | 380 | -2 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 09:01 | 382 | -3 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 23:14 | 385 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 19:44 | 384 | -6 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 17:47 | 390 | -4 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 06:00 | 394 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:59 | 394 | first reading |
Engagement
16 posts held, back to 30 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
🇺🇸 NQ Pre-London Price is consolidating above the overnight lows after yesterday's sell-off. Watching for acceptance around the current range before London opens. Key levels: PDH • PDL • Overnight Range
📊 Today's Watchlist 🔴 CAD/CHF – Short Waiting for clean confirmations before taking any positions.
📊 Daily Trading Recap | August 5, 2026 🔴 Result: -1.00% ❌ 2 Trades - ❌ 2 Losses Trade #1 A clear mistake. I entered on an M1 breaker retest while the market was still consolidating on the M5 timeframe. Even though I had a reason for the entry, I completely ignored the market context. Trading inside a range is something I need to avoid. Trade #2 This one made more sense. I waited for the range to break and then lo…
NQ Recap | August 4, 2026 📉 Daily PnL: -1.55% Not every good setup becomes a winning trade, and yesterday was a good reminder of that. I executed 3 trades: ❌ Loss ❌ Loss ➖ Break Even The idea was to fade a liquidity sweep into a H1 PD Array, looking for confirmation through an M1 Breaker retest. The first setup was actually valid and aligned with my trading model. Sometimes a well-executed trade simply doesn't wo…
📊 EUR/USD Market Outlook Is this the beginning of a bullish reversal... or just another bull trap? In today's analysis I break down: ✅ Daily market structure ✅ EUR & USD COT positioning ✅ Retail sentiment ✅ August seasonality ✅ The key resistance zone I'm watching for potential short opportunities. Read the full TradingView analysis
NQ NY PM recap 📉 2 short trades today, both executed on an M1 breaker retest. Trade 1 ❌ -0.30% Trade 2 ➖ Break Even (0.30% risk / 1.0% target) HTF bias remained bearish: • Previous Weekly High swept • Price traded into an H1 bearish FVG After the second entry, price immediately accepted below the previous low, confirming the shift in structure. I moved my stop to BE to protect capital. Price came back, tagged my …
📊 Today's Watchlist 🟢 CHFJPY – Long 🟢 CADJPY – Long Waiting for clean confirmations before taking any positions.
CHFJPY has reached one of the most important HTF demand zones on my chart. After an aggressive sell-off, I'm not interested in chasing shorts here. Instead, I'm waiting for price confirmation and a potential liquidity grab before making any decision. In today's analysis I also break down: ✅ HTF structure ✅ COT positioning ✅ Retail sentiment ✅ Seasonality ✅ My trading plan 👇 Full analysis available on TradingView.
📊 Weekly COT Report | Jul 28, 2026 🇺🇸 US Dollar Index (DXY) Institutional traders continue adding to long exposure, reinforcing the broader bullish USD narrative despite weaker GDP and Core PCE data. Bias: 🟢 Bullish USD 🇪🇺 Euro Large speculators remain net short EUR, although this week's increase in both long and short positioning suggests growing uncertainty rather than conviction. Bias: 🔴 Slightly Bearish EUR 🇬🇧…
Macro Outlook | Aug 3 – Aug 7 The first week of August will be lighter, but still includes several market-moving events. 🇺🇸 Monday • ISM Manufacturing PMI 🇳🇿 Tuesday • Employment Change • Unemployment Rate 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Friday • Canadian Employment Report • US Average Hourly Earnings • US Non-Farm Payrolls • US Unemployment Rate NFP Friday will likely be the main volatility event of the week and could reshape expectations …
📊 Weekly Macro Recap | Jul 27 – Jul 31 A week dominated by central banks and key macroeconomic releases. 🇺🇸 Federal Reserve The FOMC left interest rates unchanged at 3.75%, as expected. Policymakers acknowledged solid economic activity and a resilient labor market, while reiterating that inflation remains above target due to supply-side pressures, particularly energy. Three members voted for an immediate rate hike,…
Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @EdgeTradingJourney. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 7 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Nicola | EdgeTradingJourney” (@EdgeTradingJourney), 375 subscribers as measured 7 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/EdgeTradingJourney.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.