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I do not trade S&P.

I´m just curious how this bozo is going to reply about his idea for a stop-loss. In my mind trading is all about having a low risk idea. This also mean you either use a tight stop or you make your position so small that it can go to zero. There is no wonder solutions until maybe this OP is going...

Btw it is a line chart Why don´t you use your own chart for it?

Btw it is a line chart

I believe many 'want to be' traders focus entirely on the wrong things and are not open to working on what would make them successful. And that is ok. My experience of successful trading has nothing to do with systems, indicators, charts, or whatever. It is all imagination, low-risk ideas, and...

It doesn't have to take years.. If you find a mentor or someone you can trust, that has the fruits on the trees, you can do it in 6 months to a year.

It is wrongly stated 'compound'. It should be per year average return.

I know some of them personally on that list and that is way I asked the question of that he knows anyone that makes 25% consistently a month, year in year out. Even 25% a year for more then 20 years is very rare in this field.

1. Traders do not predict. They have an understanding of probability and understand that al though the next trade is random, over a series of trades, you have a predictable outcome 2. Then they use money management to overcome the worst possible outcome in the short term, so they can profit of...

The shortest route to richness in trading is working on yourself. Learn how you react on events. And then learning some skills: how do you handle discipline, how do you prioritize information and time, how do you handle money and people. If you are successful in those areas, you will also be...

Do you know any money manager that makes 25% consistently a month? Or even per year?

We trade what we believe, so there is no right or wrong in this. For me, it is first the idea that has to make sense. Data is only that, data. At best, it still only represents a fraction of what is really happening with the subject.

I used them from 2011 until 2017 besides IB, and never had a problem or issue. Got hooked up with them through infinity futures.

That is only 10 percent of the problem. The biggest problem is that people think the data they are using represents the market. Like a daily chart or any time frame with an open, high, low, close and bid/ask volume represent the market. That is mistake nr 1 in the whole industrie of backtesting...

I agree completely, You start with an idea that makes sense and then look in the market, in the past if it would make money. But 99% of the people that do backtesting, just look at the data and then try to find a system that would work on that data. That is already over fitting...

Every backtest is an over-fit.

I read once: Mastering the S&P futures gives the same results as sitting 15 years in Tibet as a monk. Either way will give enlightenment...

Good! You deserve it.

I'm a discretionary trader and in my daily preparation routine there is a question that stops every trade that day: I'm I experiencing stress, excitement, or anxiety in any way? If you do, stop trading, you are not thinking clearly. This is also for hunger or being tired. Also in your numbers 1...