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I offered to teach him how to trade CL futures for a percentage of profits on account we'd work together, his control and my POA. No cash up front, nothing to purchase, no risk on his part because we can trade sim together until he sees sufficient real-time performance of mine with his own eyes...

I wish you well too, even though you ain't trading 400-lot ES contracts flipping scalps. Me and a lot of other real traders here watch live Time & Sales domes during the day. Most of the time when you post your paper ES trade calls in & out, not even a fraction of 400 contracts volume clears in...

... which leads us to OK, I'll bite on this for the sake of literally hundreds of other readers here who don't dare ask the same question. So you proclaim over and over and over again how you are a big-swinging "trader" that throws around massive size in the ES, has all the risk hedged off...

most likely assumption, along with many other common posters in this forum...

Did I read the OP initial post right? Did he indeed say he's interested in learning how to trade from someone who can demonstrate or prove successful trading to his satisfaction? Not investing. Not blindly following some inane blackbox system. Learning how to trade in a "partnership" fashion...

#1 = agreed #2 = agreed #3 - "summer doldrums" usually describe stock markets mid-August thru September. Go back and look at the specific month of July past decade... it is often one of the most ranging and volatile months in all the calendar year. Earnings warnings and season period...

thank you, and all the very best to your (and everyone's) success, too :D I think we can all agree that trading anything, any market and any symbol is damn hard. The failure rate has always been high, always will be high. Nobody disputes that fact. Same as any other individual...

I didn't lose money... go back and tally up the totals there. Do you see where it reads $5,2501 there? The starting balance was $50,000 even. Now let's lay out some actual facts. The trading world is in a multi-year contraction. Far fewer active traders in the market now than before. Trading...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you just the random commentator who stepped in here and proclaimed how awesome some traders must be who can kick ass in dead chop ES markets without "excuses"? Are you one of those, or were you merely spouting the usual message board regurgitated...

How do you know what day is "suitable" until you are committed to it? Day nine started out +$212.50 and appeared perfectly fine. Then the ES commenced to wedging up inside a 3pt chop range for several hours. Only then is it apparent to be not suitable... but too late, 10-day limit mandates...

thank you, and all the best to you as well. I'd like to see everyone succeed... why not? None of us are each other's competition in the least. CL is the epitome` of breakout momentum trading, with others like Russell 2000 and Nat Gas similar but far less liquidity. The key to CL trading...

I definitely will, yes. CL only this time. Should have done that last time, 10-day was more than enough without ES but we'll take advantage of the open-end next time.

... with two sessions left to go, it was a pass or fail situation for me. I needed both sessions profitable to hit 60% daily win rate and I needed +$499 (or greater) net gains to finish, of which about all of that had to be from ES in order to take that symbol positive. Further CL gains were of...

Now let's revisit this specific conversation here. I agree 1,000% that anyone without an edge cannot succeed. No question about it. Tuesday night was day eight of a ten-day combine effort. My stats are posted for review with blotter on that evening. The math is... CL: four sessions P&L =...

I'd opine the majority of aliases who joined this board in 2014 are exactly that, too.

When five or six of ten ES sessions are INSIDE of 10pts, i.e. less than 10 pts, such as six or seven points of straight chop... and you have just those ten days there to make a lofty profit objective, you will fail. What prop traders pay 50-cents per turn do during 6pt chop range sessions is...

#1: adapt on the fly = change, do something else, go somewhere else. No retail traders paying $3+ or more per turn make any money in the ES when ranges are <10 dead. Only the message-board paper traders pretend to. In real life a trader can either wait out the crud times for opportune times, or...

For years on end, traders made money in stocks and stock index futures. CTAs made millions and tens of millions yearly trading ES in the past. But now the ranges have dried to <10pt intraday due to direct governments manipulation. Nobody foresaw the government making stock markets a...

you are wrong... the success rate will improve. Any time you remove a barrier from anything at all in life, entry becomes easier.

... and three months later, so it has come to fruition. The new combine choices include unlimited timelines for meeting objectives https://www.topsteptrader.com/learnmore#learnmore-combine-signup sure could have benefitted from this had it come out just a week or two earlier... but better...