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    No one on EliteTrader will beat the market… here is why

    Like the idiots with 401K for the last 10 years. LOL one needs only 1% per year to beat that. Need proof. Look at it! You can't see that in some cases there is better than 50% chance for the price to go from A to +X rather than from A to -X? You must be blind from greed or fear or both...
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    Position size & Money management..

    You need to start from your financial goal which will give you your Win/Loss ratio, our win % and number of trades needed. Let say your plan is to have 3R winners and 50% success rate. If you have 50K and want the 2% rule your stop will be $1000. Your win should be $3000. Now look at the...
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    Those making a killing- what are you doing risk mgmt-wise (that i'm not!)...

    There are too many week hands in ER2 ES and YM. This is the reason of the big short term volatility. You need bigger stops and this will lead you to bigger profit targets, hence longer time frame. Or increase your winning % and keep your profit target close but then to have high winning %...
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    Successful traders keep silent because trading is so simple...

    Trading is very simple and very difficult. Simple does not mean easy. Here is the Holly Grail: If F stands for the % of wins (the number of wins divided by the sum of wins and losses) then plot this: (1-F)/F on a chart with horizontal access of winning % and vertical access of...
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