Recent content by iankotze

Hi Neke, I am sorry to hear of your loss, I think you should consider to spend some time on a structured program like Topstep Trader to get your mind right about shutting down and to learn how to control your down side better. I mean you do well but your blow out days seems to undo a lot...

Yes all true, it is a bit complicated and it all depends on what you trade, how you trade and so on. What I was saying before is keep your trades the same size before moving to the next level only once your account justifies such a move. I personally don't work with % but rather dollar...

a Safer way to approach it would be to keep your risk as small as possible and even go smaller on it as your account grows. So for instance if you start out with 2% risk your aim should be to bank enough money to get to 1% risk without changing size, from there you could even go for a 0.5%...

I was allowed to start with 2 contracts out of the gate so the answer is no it is not true. I don't think you can start trading 15 out of the gate on your first day but put up a good first week or two and bank some money then I am sure it is possible. Not that I can understand why anybody wants...

All this talk of piggy back and what not is just crazy. Who the hell cares if someone follows your trades or not, wont make you any more or less money in the end unless.... I get some big firms or maybe the boys over at the central bank that likes my style. I mean I would really not mind if...

No offence but you can't really blame anybody but yourself here. I mean how can you trade your own money if you can't shut it down before you hit a daily draw down limit be it 1k or 15k. I see most people fail the combine because they can't shut it down on a bad day or take that last trade...

It is not just the process goals that are gone and now it is easier. The kicker is that your max draw down will now be trailed up. That is the major change. I think the changes came because the process goals as it were forced many traders to focus on stats and gaming those stats to get funded...

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Thanks Maverik, I did not know that. Looked at a the dom once but did not see how it could be day traded with TST so never paid attention to it. Good to know though.

Well I think you are approaching this thing from a fantasy perspective. In reality this will be much harder than you think. First, it is easy to punch in some numbers in your calculator and work out favorable results. You are failing to see the problem with these generic numbers and that is...

Ok I can't figure out what you are planning to trade here, from your price it looks like the 30 year? Well I don't know but what I do know is that you must adjust your commissions to $5 per contract per trade. And I don't know which contract has a tick value of $25 so if you could please just...

Well I don't want to be overly negative here but I think you are unrealistic about your win/loss amounts. I mean on the down side you expect to lose a very small amount in a losing day whereas you expect a decent profit on the upside. This can happen of course but I doubt you will have a 60%...

To austinp, If I may I would like to suggest you slow things down rather than speed things up. You are only down 3k so I think you should rather now scale down in size and focus on meeting the performance goals and just get back to break even for a roll over. That way you can start of fresh...

Yes, you have to do the full 10 days - Well done to Market Surfer for a great start.

Very nice start Marketsurfer :)