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It's just an example showcasing the tremendous gap in difficulty between AUM size.

Hm, I can make 30% a year on $10,000 guaranteed. on 10 million ? I don't think so. Face it, it's just a lot easier finding edge in the capacity constrained areas which are to small for the big boys to play in. That's why retail traders with puny account size can survive.

So are you trading profitably so far or not ? Why the hate ?

broadcasting the entry after the fact won't hurt, but if everybody knows the signal before the entry you wouldn't be able to get in at a good price. Your previous post were stating that the market is too big to be constrained by a retail punter. I just showed you otherwise how it could be...

Well I'm gonna bite and answer this. Due to the fact that i feel I owe the community here for helping me along the path, albeit with a lot of misinformation and trolling but hey i guess that's the beauty of ET. Lets take the NQ for example. The average bid size on each tick during normal...

well its not stocks or index futures or GC or CL. can you think of anything yet ? ;)

a lot of alpha that succesfull retail trader employs are capacity constrained, hence all the secrecy.

Handle123 is making $MM money, does he qualify as a diy trader if he has employees and lease seats ?

I'm making money daytrading @home, though have some professional success in my day job previously. I noticed a lot fo sucessfull daytraders are borderline antisocial, which is quite contrary to the business world where you usually need a strong networking capability so these type of...

for me rather then reinventing the wheel i just use ninja and multicharts, so i focus my energy on building and modelling custom machine learning algo. i sfore tick data in myisam tables, which is really just a flat file, works pretty well. i have a spare oracle license from work, after trying...

for me i cant sleep well if a position is open especially if its futures, what if tommorrow is the black swan and my stop loss couldnt get executed in a market panic. so i prefer daytrading automated. unless its optionspreads combos since the losses are usually very controllable.

another technical thread with posters developing arcane software mish mash solutions without any idea how itll help them generate alpha.

im a quantitative and mostly automated trader. listening to h123 advice on commodities have made me money and saved my ass.

Seems to be working so far, up +

I'm sorry, this is very unrealistic. such a simplistic approach won't work well on the very efficient ES. don't propogate the pipe dream even more.

After trading automated, noticed all the cool kids here at ET trade options. So here's my attempt at that. ES 22Nov Fly @ 2010/2035/2060 L 1 2060 C : 2.35 S 2 2035 C : 11.4 L 1 2010 C : 28.9 Net Credit : 8.7 Delta : -6.89 Gamma : - 1.52 Theta + 22.8

aren't most of you guys over 40 ? this stuff sounds very juvenile.

well i believe randomness and luck is a factor. aside from hard work and having a trading plan.

that havent worked out towell lately, look what the es did vs spy on the correction 2 weeks ago. and now we have to calculate the significance of market breaks especially during downturn.