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Well to be fair, helping people on this thread is all part of my parole agreement. It was either this or picking up trash on the side of the road. :)

I think that is only for the first few weeks while you are still on evaluation. I could be wrong. I think they do that so one doesn't go balls to the wall the second they get funded. Makes sense.

Honestly, making someone trade ES intra-day is a worse punishment then water torture. :)

My criticisms aside, kudos to you for putting your numbers on display. I think your combine will hopefully send a message to all those lurkers out there that think they are going to make a living scalping ES. And that's not a knock against you, for the record you have been at this for over a...

Other then Bright, I think Echo, G2 and Chimera allow you to hold over nights. I'm sure a lot of firms do, but they might ask you to put up more capital. I honestly don't see overnight risk being that big of an issue. I've seen guys lose 10 times as much intra-day then over night. Haircuts...

Today's numbers?

Austin, why don't you ask Michael out of ALL the funded TST guys, how many are trading ES. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts less then 5% are. And the reason is because it's pure fantasy to think you are going to become a big ES baller. Many here on ET have that dream and a dream is what it is...

I've attached a chart of today's action in the spoos and oil. I'll ask one more time...why?

Longer term guys were more tricky because everything takes longer to develop. If a guy usually holds positions for weeks on end, it's hard to tell if he is sitting on losers because it's part of his long term plan or because he refuses to get out of bad trades. Also with longer term guys they...

The usual...over trading, revenge trading, trading too big, not getting out of losers. Very few traders had patience. Or should I say, they were incredibly patient with their losers. LOL. The warning sign was always when guys would cross over and try something new because they were...

Why did it HAVE to be fought? What did it accomplish? And please, try to stick with facts.

More importantly then simply seeing the raw numbers is actually seeing "how" they lose their money. You see the same patterns repeat over and over again regardless of their age, education background, experience, etc. It's very eye opening. Brett Steenbarger wrote a lot about it in some of his...

Bright is no longer in Austin.

I'll top that. We lost 550k men in WWII at a time where our country's population was 120 million. In today's terms that would be the equivalent of losing almost 1.5 million men in Iraq. So let's compare 1.5 million to 4k. And that does not include all the women and children we killed in...

I would say 99% of intra-day traders were net losers and 90% of overnight traders were net losers. So the longer term traders performed much better.

Look at that chart though and tell me you "really" want to trade ES. You know this is how it trades 90% of the time. Sure, the range opened up because we corrected 7%. That's over and done with. Back to the usual slop now.

King, when I said "I know" I was trying to speak on the poster's behalf as in, if HE thinks HE knows. I could care less if a market is manipulated and you're right, I have no way of knowing or confirming that it is. It won't change my p&l any if a market is or is not manipulated.

Austin, this is what you said last October: I'm just curious what has changed since then. And why are you trading arguably the hardest contract in the world due to it's slop and general lack of volatility.

Austin, weren't you doing this combine several months ago? You never really gave an update on that.

We don't have to import any oil. We have more oil under our soil then in Saudi Arabia. We're drilling it now but only a small fraction. BTW, even the oil we DO import, I think less then 10% actually comes from the middle east itself. The theory of middle eastern oil has been a boogey man for...