Nah, you read him wrong. He does nothing but troll other people here. Has nothing to do with thick skin. Life is all about energy, and it can be positive or negative. I avoid negative people in real life and online. It is a practice that has served me well. Please link to one positive energy post he has made at ET in someone else's journal. You won't be able to find one. I have him on ignore and look at how much of my energy he is leaching here today. I'll not acknowledge his existence again.
Now that I see how the comments played out, I see it was a waste of time to reply to him. I didn't realize he had me on ignore. You are right that it happened to all us, and me too! I had the best ideas, and did well in Sim, but my live trading went in the opposite direction. The reason of course was that I was doing things differently. The point I was trying to make to flash is that trading the full contract in Sim but the micro in a live account makes no sense at all. The fills might be a bit different, and this I know is true because I trade the micro and see how it spikes more than the full contract. It can have a few ticks slippage which will make or break some strategies. My platform is set up to chart the full contract, but the fills are on the micro, so sometimes I see fills at prices that the full contract didn't even get to. But the big difference is how you feel about the money. Many of us might not care about losing $20 in a trade, and go on to take 4 more trades and either do well at the end, or break even, or lose $100 for the day if all 5 trades are losers. And this still might not bother us. But now if its $200 per trade, and potentially losing $1000 for the day, well, this is totally different and will make us completely stop following the trading plan. Maybe after 3 losses we get scared, move stops and targets, and now those last 2 trades that could have been big winners aren't because we chickened out following the plan to hold. Then the whole idea about realizing how much money is left on the table after exiting a trade is also worrisome. Its like getting married and looking around to see how beautiful the brides maids are... you're bound to start second guessing if you should be getting married... LOL Anyway.. thanks for standing up for me. I'm happy to learn that I don't need to spend time replying to him anymore. Too bad there isn't a feature to state that a person has you on ignore so its pointless to reply to that post.
I feel for you and your frustrations regarding going from sim to live. Took me a long time to get over it. Frankly, adopting @volpri's approach of taking frequent small profits was finally gotten me over the hump. It gave me confidence and eased my anxiety. Don't give up and take care.
Hope you dont, but if you do, hope to keep seeing you in the ES thread. Nice work on quickly passing the combine; like a boss
You only have to pay attention to see that: - The title of the journal is clickbait. - Just look at the two comments I highlighted, this guy is full of shit. - Three trades and he already can get a funded account. Guys, these wankers are trying to promote prop firm accounts. It is way too obvious. Of course, he wants this journal to stop, because people are going to start joining in and calling his bullshit.
@Baron came up with a solution so I'm going to keep it open. I might keep the trades to myself until I build it up to $2K balance, just to keep any additional idiots out of my head until I switch to mini's. But I will continue here soon. Thanks for reading.