if you are good in options, why not increase your size for those? sometimes i wished i had stuck to swing trading stocks and ETFS and not ventured into futures at all! (unfortunately damage was done.. lol)
actually, were/are those in prop houses/trading teams already profitable before they joined?
i frankly felt like a lost penguin now, trying to achieve consistency, my range was -4 to 4 ticks of ES daily but consistently once a week i get losses like -10 (oh god why!!) i am not looking for...
IB is alright for retail traders, if you are not HFT then everything else seems the same to me.
if you are trading from the DOM, IB uses a 2 click method (1 click method trademarked by TT until 2016) fyi.
obvious statement :D but true, i had missed several short opportunities at 25.50/75 as there were no momentum to break 26. I wonder when am i going to stop doubting myself to take profitable setups :mad:
or 3. Shorters hiding in the bush for the price to be high enough to short? :cool:
the ES run ups yesterday and today fills the gap created on Monday.
alas, my timing, entry, exits were shit thanks to greed, fear and impatience :(
more of being addicted to the markets than trading. addiction in the latter resulted in overtrading :( (on the other hand maybe i just need to have better discipline)
that level was support sometime back, hmm, would be interesting to see if it would be a case of support becoming resistance.
will be sitting on my hands today, have a tough time reading the mkt today..