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"For now" (it's been 11.33 years already! LOL!) I'm enjoying it. It's like my spiritual practice...a meditation of sorts. If I stay present and don't push away "unfavourable" circumstances or cling to "favourable" ones, I'm free to follow what the market is telling me, filtered through the lens...

Hey Pekelo! No, long and short trading 6A, 6B and 6C (Australian $, British £ and Canadian $). Today (Fri 1st Dec) was a small loser.

LOL...no comment :rolleyes:

Haha - thanks for the passionate response Vanz!! :) And for checking out my channel... "I promise you, from your posts and your vids... I KNOW you'll make it talk. Its in you." I'm curious to know what you saw exactly in my posts and vids that gave you this feeling?? Not sure if you've...

Thanks for your comments (and compliment re: writing!) Simple :) Yes, my focus now is to fill my days with other personal pursuits and spend even more time with the kids. I'm now able to take my daughter to school, dance/play/sing with them both without the markets being on my mind. Within the...

I don't feel that way about my trading business. As one person mentioned here, I study diligently and I'm very hungry but the chase is over. It's not something that consumes my whole being...difficult to explain. And, of course, there are the real challenges of increasing size, as well as R &...

Thanks Algofy! The problem isn't so much things to do/learn as I'm always engaged in both (gardening, chopping wood and IFS for example), it's that feeling of decompression after working really hard for the longest time and then realising that you've got it. I will be busy engaging in my first...

I'm already helping my girlfriend - that's enough for me! :)

For some reason, I decided to look for the details of my first ever live trade to share it on Twitter (you can check it out HERE). As you do when going through old documents/photos etc. I started to stop and read... I saw 4 binders, rammed full of charts...some printed in colour, others black...

Hey algofy :) Not sure why I didn't get a notification but I'm just seeing this now that I was coming to post a little update. So I've passed two Combines since I last posted here, both $30K accounts. One on my own (which took 47 days) and one with my partner (18 days). We are now in a pretty...

Good to see you(literally!) too Xela! More than the Combine, it's the FTP adjustment that's a life-saver for me. No more must-be-positive-after-10-days nonsense means I can actually use the draw down I paid for. That and the indefinite duration of FTP, previously 60 days tops, makes this less...

I read your post with interest. The first piece of bold text is what concerns me going back into their funded accounts. I didn't enjoy the eyes on me late last year at all and the annoying phone calls. By the way, I know EXACTLY who that 'arrogant prick' is!!!! A bit confused as to why you...

I'll be able to provide you that proof shortly :) I can assure you that they are not making up those funded traders...I virtually know a number of them and I too was funded last year.

Thank you algofy...I was terrified to share the above but everyone has been quite nice about it! Maybe there is hope for us all :).

Here's an update for everyone who has been wondering. First of all, I want to say a big THANK YOU to wrbtrader and Gotcha for the kind and considerate words (particularly regarding health, more on that later). Those two comments are the only reason why I've returned to post here. To people...

THANK you so much for this message! Genuinely warmed my heart...God, some people are really thoughtful and perceptive :). I'm going to share all in an update after catching up with comments.

Man, you are GOOD! Will update after going through these comments.

BOOM! Nail...head!!! :)

I think I answered that somewhere above but I would say, if you really are confident in your profitability, it would be better to exhaust all other possibilities before going the TST route for funding. If you are someone who knows they are "nearly there" and want a shot at getting funded, I'd...

This is what I find difficult about the ES...it's "chunky". Slippage costs a lot more as a percentage of your stop, but this is less of a problem due to the liquidity. On the flip side, commissions eat into your expectancy a lot less due to the larger tick value. The fewer ticks per given...