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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    after all these pages in this thread the only thing that has been proven is you don't know how to trade. understanding how a market "works" and making money are two different things. you have shown you cannot make money. whether you understand the how the market "works" is irrelevant.
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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    fair enough. the pic being posted showed a max drawdown on a 150k acct at 4.5k. the commissions are way too high for a prop deal though.
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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    they are really only giving you $4,500, the amount that you can lose. i'm surprised more guys aren't talking about the commissions. true futures prop shops in chicago have guys paying commissions at cost or very small mark-ups (.10-20 a round turn) over members rates. do some math on their...
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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    that wasn't nodoji's words. that's you taking different comments out of context. listen, nodoji could post a some p&l statements for a couple different days and that would end this. i don't understand why you are so hellbent that trading using technical analysis can't be done profitability...
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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    the only thing i can figure is marketsurfer can't make money trading. he has proven his "price drivers" are a joke. maybe at one point he tried using technical analysis and he couldn't make money with that approach. so he figures if he couldn't make money using ta no one can.
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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    so are you saying that you don't have a real edge? or is this not a statement about your "price drivers".
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    Why TA does not work

    says the guy down $4,220 in the tst combine.
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    Why TA does not work

    you are failing in the tst combine and getting housed with the wfc trade in your journal. not sure how you have any credibility.
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    Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

    convenient you can just forget about the 2k you lost in soybeans for tuesday and say this is how i would have done trading cl. it's also funny when you have a bad day trading it wasn't the positions you took, it was the software, it was the pressure to perform, etc. everyone has had a day...
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