Recent content by darktrader

If he/she/they is/are not profitable, it is really not encouraging because if someone have spent so far so much time and efforts to learn to trade and still fail, really we have no chances....

ssrrkk, basically i did what you said, and this is how I lost my money, actually half a of that money was wasted with bad investments in stock but my losses with daytrading affected my decisions with my long term investment. anyway I tried with a few, putting a lot of effort to program...

if I would have read a post like mine 4 years ago, I don't know if I have had the intelligence to understand that this could happen to everybody me included, but believe me it is full of stories like mine. I'm not telling you that you should give up, I think it could be done, but you should...

an advice from someone who is struggling like me could be aslo worth reading: It took me 4 years and the loss of all my savings (400k) to just understand what are the things that one should not do and to understand that one should not trade with real money untill he has found something that...

Hi Frank, thanks for your replay, could you please send me the link in a private message, I think the link has been disabled by the administrator, maybe we can't post external inks on ET. many thanks

this is last week resume, I didn't post because I didn't post in the forum a couple of trades... WEEK TOTAL (commission already subtracted)

 5-16-2011 monday = - $216 (c:$25) (t:5) 5-17-2011 Tuesday = - $6 (c:$60) (t:12) 5-18-2011 Wednesday = - $375 (c:$60) (t:12) 5-19-2011...

ammo thanks for the update, you made a perfect analysis of the market, one question: you know I draw trendlines on M-W-D charts of the main us and eu markets, which is the advantages to use also the bullish % index, should I use it too? many thanks

starting from tomorrow I will start simulating, I simulate because I want to understand which is the best way to trade my strategy. the money management rules I broke many times in my last days of trading are the fundamental to become profitable, the simulation is not to "cure" my behavior...

frank I see from ts statements that you trade with more than one lots, I'm trading my strategy with one lot and try to let the profit run, but it is very hard because you know you often give back good profits this way, starting from monday I will simulate with 2 lots, do you have any advice...

you are 100% right, but I'm working hard to change this, sure posts like those of emg are very hard to accept, if only he could tell us his story. There are also posts from people who claims to be profitable, but who knows... I sometimes feel I can make it, but now I have decided to go to demo...

bstay, I posted my story in my trading journal, I'm not profitable but I think I'm making lots of improvements, but yes when you read my story on my journal you will think that I will never make it. But I wanted to post everything and didn't hide what I've done. it's that I lost lots of...

bstay, sorry if I didn't explain well, my strategy is not trying to pick reversal with lots of trades, just 1, and sometimes 2, the problem is when I don't respect this rules, as Frank did. if you consider intraday time frame, my strategy is always picking a reversal, but I act at long term...

emg, i really think that 99% of traders fail, so I agree about what you are saying, you are asking me how can i earn $7000 per month, I'm trading now with 1 contract, if in 6 months I will have consistent profits, I will increase to 2 and so on, I'm not afraid of using 10 contracts In my crazy...

I'm not talking of stops I took because a setup failed, I'm talking about not respecting 2 precise money management rules like max daily loss, max loss from a profit. This two rules are there to avoid trying to pick up a reversal with tight stops that will never came, this is the very big...

emg, I don't know who you are because I'm preatty new to this forum, you always say that it is impossible to become profitale, could you please tell me your story? are you profitable? It is ok to say you will never make it, but you should explain why, we all know that 99% of traders end up...