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If it's discretionary I don't see how you'd do anything other than going back and looking through charts one at a time. Even then you might have a bias because you know what happened. That's why I'm a fan of forward testing in real time with real money, but with the smallest size possible...

And please enlighten us on how that has anything to do with the topic of this thread.

Who is deleting BillyDeuchBob's posts? If the guy wants to come on here and call me out as a fake and debate some trading related issues, I welcome it. The only posts I've requested to be removed from this thread are either wildly off topic or offensive. So come on mate, you're obviously...

It depends on the strategy, anything intraday, I look at 2 or 5 minute charts. Other stuff like swing trades is just daily charts.

Somehow managed an ok week, all I remember is grumbling a lot about how much the market sucks. Glad the month is over, I like a clean slate. +$13k for the week, 415,000 shares traded. Daily pl +7, 0, 0, +2, +4. Thursday saw some good stock movement, was the best day for intraday rtm in a...

You are definitely on the right path, just keep doing what you are doing. Don't rush to up your size, just keep growing your account and gathering stats and refining the system. You're off to a great start, but two months is a long ways away from thinking about quiting your job. You can make...

Intraday I use Trade Ideas. For end of day scans I use Telechart.

I have News Strike audio during the day. Pre-market I use Briefing and Fly. Regarding a few posts asking about details of some rtm trades. I definitely apply a fair bit of subjection when deciding to enter or not. The speed and size of a move, liquidity, sector, etc all factor in...

I have detailed stats broken down per strategy. The overall sum of all strategies is what's important though. A few numbers from 2010 so far: winning days 93 (65%) losing days 51 (35%) $ sum winning days $850k $ sum losing days -$323k daily profit factor 2.6

More spinning of the wheels. Not much to show for this week or the last two months. Got hammered on some opening orders on Monday, then lost $4k in flash in CMTL on Wednesday. A lot of good stock moves on Friday, but nothing I made anything on. For the week +$3100 635,000 shares traded...

An Ironman triathlon is 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26mile run. My best time is 10:12 at Ironman Canada 2008. Post your times and I'll tell you where to send the check, lol.

Blah week. Started out good, then sucked. Good timing exiting my swing positions in ES, NQ and VXX on Tuesday, but a few other longer term positions did poorly on today's sell off. Not much intra day trading this week. -$3,400 381,000 shrs traded. Daily pl of +4, +5, -6, 0, -6...

Agreed, that particular workout favors the smaller guys. Crossfit workouts cover the whole breadth though. Did this one a few days ago: 5 rounds for time of 12 deadlifts, 9 power cleans, 6 push presses with 135 lbs. My time was 12:10. Btw, did the above mentioned workout last night...

I rarely trade etf's aside from using them as a hedge. Today was ultra slow, I traded about 9 different symbols, one of the slowest days of the summer so far.

It's intensity that brings the results. I become a bigger advocate of CrossFit the more I do it, and I've spent almost my whole life working out. Here's the workout some friends and I are doing in two days, it's a classic CrossFit workout. If you think you're in shape, try this on for size...

I don't allocate a certain amount to one strategy or another. Remember, I have prop leverage so I generally can take what trade setups I see without worrying about that. But I definitely do not hold big one-way positions that would significantly hurt me on a surprise gap. I am a singles...

As I've posted before in this thread, my commission rate works out to roughly .25 cents/share. That is blended between Echo and IB and accounts for all fees and rebates.

I should have put a smiley at the end of my comment about the Neke comparison, it was tongue in cheek. I actually have a lot of respect for him. He's dedicated, well organized, seems to persevere through tough times with a level head. I like the way he approaches trading, very analytical and...

The only time that would ever happen would be where I went from trading live with 100 shares just to test things out, to something more in line with my equity. But with 'real size', no.

You're wrong. I've never had a drawdown even close to 50%. And I do use stops, just not all the time, and it varies how they are implemented and managed.