Recent content by gmst

Baron, when I click on "New Posts", this thread is not displayed... any idea if this is a bug or something?

Hi ETers, Its a technical document and it will take an hour or more to understand each line. Maybe some among us already know in and outs of this. How big an impact will this make on the industry? Also, Can anyone summarize the main points of this doc...

Just logged to ET after a 10 days or so. Surprised to find this change in forum. So, the reason I have not updated this thread or sent any mails to people who are on my mailing list is because my computer has became very unstable. I have been working for last week to run various kinds of tests...

Welcome Maverick! Great to see you here :):)

V.Good Trading ILO :)

Given all above, still I started with 30k and ended with 50k after 9 months. I think thats my answer to non-believers. I am going to ask Mods to close this thread.

I forgot to mention it - This is not a paper journal. I have enough confidence in my methodology to run it on actual money now.

Hurricane, lets do it as per your suggestion. So, lets do the math. with close at 1936. Account Equity = 78,125. When I posted it, market price was 1905, so thats 31 points lower. I had 18 contracts. For journal integrity purposes, I close at 1905. So, additional loss PL = -18*50*31 = -27,900...

Fair point you make about posting an hour or two later and this is a swing journal not an intra-day stuff. May I draw your attention to the fact that I kept posting throughout the journal for 9 months almost real time. I went into a drawdown from 110k to 55-60k and still I continued posting...

I am a full-time career trader. When I started trading back in the day, I opened a brokerage account with Tradestation, wired 20k into it and promptly lost all the money. This process repeated few times with different brokers. Finally, after a lot of work, spending countless nights developing...

In above journal, I went from 30k to 110k in about 4 months. My Max DD allowed was 70% Then had a big drawdown came to 55-60k. Then again went to 98k and finally ended that journal at 78k. So, its certainly possible to go to 100k from 30k in one year, then next year it should be...

Yes, this time I just got distracted since I was undergoing a drawdown in my real account. Managing that drawdown was priority, rather than updating this journal. I hope it makes sense.

Haha :D:D Only difference is if you are interested, you can send me your email and you will get all the trades in real-time :) And I hope you don't doubt my sincerity on this. I maintained my last journal for months in real-time, when I was not even sure if anyone is looking at it. When...