Thanks for sharing this journal - very generous of you. Two questions of clarification, i f I may:- 1) Once in a trade, you do not exit or...
Which better chat rooms are you suggesting? - rcm
Quote: Let me say this here, once and for all, LOUD AND CLEAR: Nobody gives a hoot how much somebody can make "per contract" in a day! This is...
Same thing happened to me today, except I followed my rule to STOP after the 3 rd trade if I am down by either 3 points or more or a certain...
You seem to have discovered the Holy Grail! Your daily average seems to be north of 3.5 points/day with hardly any negative days. What am I...
Delete the middle sentence, otherwise the 3 sentences are inconsistent (not profitable, so unless one is drawing a salary before determining...
Vision, seems to me you need an extra category. Those 95% of traders who don't make money (I would be in that category so far). Have been at it...
Dbanks, you are still showing a nice trading performance, but it would be more realistic if you included commissions. Especially since you do a...
The universal response I get is: "Isn't that stressful?" to which I answer, "No, it's boring" (Of course, it's very interesting, but that is my...
Then there is 1/9th of my household expenses, like heat, electicity, insurance (my trading office being 1/9th the space in the house). Then there...
"Yes, definitely, this is not a mechanical system - you've got to work it in your own way with some discretion and experience helps. Yet, I...
Funky, in my case, call it newbie ignorance. I wish I had found this board before wasting money with TI. There is gold in some of the posts on...
I also waisted $4K with these guys - learn from my mistake and don't waist yours. They promise you an "easy" 2 points a day out of the market....
You are showing 3 1/2 months without one single losing trading day. Please pardon my skepticism, but that is just too good to be true. These...
Any "average" you look for will be misleading. Beware of "survivorship bias" where you only average those still trading after a (long) period of...
Very good suggestion! - Rob.
Hurray! A most thoughtful answer to my original question. Would option 5) be meaningful as an absolute? The more months that pass by the...
A lot of wild claims get made in our business. You hear of annualized gains of 20%, 40%, 100% 1,000%. But how should we really measure our...
Sorry, yes I did get it now. Thanks, Rob.
No I did not. - Rob.
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