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the others I traded were in mid to late 2012 where CL transitioned from a 150 - 300 cent daily range and high volatility to +/- 100 cent range, more sideways and more congestive vehicle. That was right around the time all those futures prop shops in Chicago you spoke of where guys were flipping...

if TST still offers public promo combines like they did with yours and surfs, I'm good to go starting Monday. If they no longer offer that type of promotion, then my next combine will be never. So we'll see what the reply to my email proposal is and we'll go from there.

It sounds to me like those people all need to find themselves a real edge, instead of something based on temporary outliers. Based on price action itself, your edge can never die :cool:

I respectfully disagree, and if TST still offers courtesy combines in exchange for public exposure, we'll put some opinions to live fire. Everyone here makes it sound like not a single soul ever made one dime trading futures... not CTAs managing AUM, not the various individuals with...

nobody suckered me out of anything. I made a free-will choice, no different than spending more than $400 on a day out charter fishing for salmon where we caught three dinks and got seasick. In each case, I paid to play :)

well, due to the conversations in this thread alone, I sent an email to TST in request of a public combo demo. If they still offer those promos, I'll run a 10-day $50k program working ES alone, right in here. I'll also record each trading session live and post it to youtube daily, too. So each...

I have been on hunting & fishing message boards where the longest threads are always centered around "you didn't take that record book animal legally" or "you can't beat that guy in a bass tournament because..." I have been on body-building message boards where the longest threads are always...

well, some of us offered what we thought was sound advice. casting pearls can be a waste of time, at times. I do hope you find what you're seeking out there someday. There is no reason not to wish everyone well, no one individual is another's competition in this profession.

Don Miller is a long-time trader who specialized in the S&P 500 futures and later SPY shares. He wrote a book published by Wiley last year, has a website, sells info, does the trader show circuit, etc. I haven't read the book, probably won't but in any event he has documented something like...

"One thing I have said before though is if someone has an edge that makes money year after year...trust me, they will not detail it in any way..."

yes, might as well go with that. Nobody here has ever heard of them, nor have either documented multi-millions earned from trading. Forget I ever mentioned it at all.

no it doesn't... not to you, not here By your admission you aren't actively trading. So why are you spending all this time and energy inside a trader's message board? Either you are working hard at improving your lot as a trader, or you are trying real hard to validate you current state as a...

Yes I mind... because in my case I would be unfairly judged. There is no possible answer I could give that would be received positively. The next several posts would be "is that CPA certified?" etc and we ain't going to go there. Validating income makes zero difference in anything I say or do...

#1 = you interpreted wrong. Edge over time and lots of trades is the message #2 - if you choose to educate yourself as I instructed by dissecting the "grinding it out" thread trade results, you will see at the end of year one that Lescor booked $600,000+ net profits. Is that reward enough for...

yes they will... Don Miller and John Carter are two examples that come to mind. Both have published books, both have certifiably documented multi-million dollar trading profits recently, both offer full disclosure of their entire approaches for a price. as I have said countless times before...

#1: In general... I have no idea what you're doing in your life :) #2: I am not wrong, I simply know what I'm talking about based on years of experience thru first-person sources such as numerous futures brokers and numerous successful, professional traders...

I don't mind civil, mature, respectful debates... that's one reason why I'm here. We are all at different levels of experience and understanding in this profession. I figure I'm somewhere between knowing nothing and knowing too much. I also realize nobody wants to think about statistical...

You don't mentally accept the reality of statistics that I've explained over and over and over again. The market sure as hell tells you, me and everyone else who can measure a 5min chart exactly where price will trade to... more often than not. Get it? More often than not. What no one can...

If you have a true concept that works, it works on any timeframe or chart setting. For example, you can apply a so-called strat for the ES on a 1min chart, a 10,000 volume chart, a 5,000 volume chart, a 620-tick chart and the long-short entry signals will vary. Why? Because you take the...

If any market is churning sideways, you will churn your account with any size stop. When CL rolls thru a 30-cent or 40-cent sideways range for hours, even a -20 cent initial stop will be repeatedly hit unless you try playing mean-reversion games. Soon as price action breaks out, your mean...