Recent content by freedom

Plan going forward ... As I have now cleared my head, I plan to continue trading very small position size - 1 ES contract, this is 1.6 : 1 leverage. I hope that the light leverage will keep heat to a minimum, and I will get my brains and common sense back. The goal is to show consistent...

Continued ... It was July of 2009 and I had $30K in speculative account to play with. Still under the influence of a run that I had with ETFs and craving the same returns, I started trading NQs again using very high leverage - MER of 75% - 100%, which amounted to 10:1 notional to equity...

Yes, there is a trading plan - see summary above. Here is my story from 2007, a short version. As I mentioned in the first post, I have never made a dime trading until 2007. After losing a number of trading since my first trade at the end of 90s, I took a break from trading in 2004. I...

I appreciate your feedback. Paper trading does not help me. It is heat of trading real money that I am struggling to overcome. I believe that I do have robust method that works over long time, but I lack discipline, and start doing stupid things after normal draw downs.

Are you sure you really want to know, considering the experience described above? On a series note, when I thinking clearly, and not doing idiotic things the method that I use is as follows: 1. Identify intermediate term trend (ITT) using 15 to 60 min charts. I leave time frame as a range...

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My trading background is a history of booms and busts. I started trading in late 90s during the dot com boom, and, unfortunately, doubled my money on the first trade in two days on one of the hot internet stocks. I was hooked, but, as one might expect, money was all gone in the next several...