Recent content by Gedman

Your approach in your very long term commodities system should not be argued with. It makes sense, especially since you also have a profitable intraday system. You are a perspicacious fellow. My comment had I think a larger group of traders in mind and was from an intraday perspective.

I trade intraday only. Never hold anything overnight. My comment was from this perspective. A down market for a few weeks/months, an up market for a few weeks/months doesn't affect my trading plan.

I believe you are a successful trader Handle123, so my comment is not directed at you but rather at the idea a successful trading system might be one that accepts "...15 losing trades in a row...[and] 2% risk [per trade]...". Could there be such a system and a profitable trader who trades it...

Though most are not, some day traders are very successful. If you read back through all of schweiz's posts I think you will find sufficient evidence to give him (at the least) the benefit of the doubt. If a successful trader posts on ET but is unnecessarily bashed for the effort, the result is...

Learned a lot by studying the posts of these two traders and miss both of them: i am nobody fortydraws