You can trade with Topstep while traveling, as long as you aren't doing it in a country that's on the list of countries that are ineligible.
1. There may be certain countries and regions that they can't legally provide the service to. 2. There may be certain countries and regions that they want to completely block because of abuse, hacking attempts, etc. 3. There are illegal strategies such as using multiple unconnected accounts to enter opposite orders. Detecting this is much easier when VPNs are not allowed. 4. Detecting HFT abuse. The list goes on and on. The bottom line is that they want your logins and trading activity linked to a single IP or just a few at the most. But having your IP jump all over the place via a VPN like you're in New York, Pakistan, and Bulgaria all in the same day isn't going to fly.
If it were a legit business they wouldn't need to block anything. But we all know already that these prop firms are dodgy as hell.
If people were honest about how many accounts they have to open with those prop firms we would see a different picture. But you guys hide your failures with those prop firms, so we can't see anything. How many accounts have you opened and why? let's start with that.
I probably tried something like 5 times before I passed, lost my first funded account after a few days with no payouts, got to the live funded stage with the second and had multiple payouts totaling into 5 figures to date. Even if I had to do it 100 times, and there probably are traders who are spending way too much money at firms like these, that still doesn't make it a dodgy firm. Most people who buy these accounts just have no idea what they are doing and don't stand a chance, but then again, that still doesn't mean it's a dodgy firm.
Can you prove any of that? And I don't mean that I don't believe what you are saying. As a Topstrep trader, is there any way to share your progress with the rest of us?
I am not going to share how much it exactly is that I got paid out, but here are the mails confirming it was paid by them.