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Done for the day. Up $117. I met my target and stopped. Isn't this mostly about discipline???? I caught the short after the open. After so many days of UP, UP, UP I knew the chances were rising for a significant move down. Of course there are no guarantees. But it worked today.

Here is my starting balance after the wire to AMP yesterday.

I am back. The world is still in chaos it seems. I hope you are all surviving. Things are improving slowly in my real estate business. I decided I couldn't wait any longer to get back on the "2% per day" train and have funded my account again. I am starting with about $5,000. So this is...

@tiddlywinks @RubberBand @7out @old coot You are all trying to get me back to the futures platform. Thanks for your encouragement. I love trading, and am seriously considering your words. But I have to set a few things straight: 1) Mr. Winks, I don't want to argue again about the position...

@Bobiz Thanks for the thought-provoking post. If this mess had happened when I was over $15k in the account, I might have actually done what you said, and not worried about the real estate. But I really need about $6k per month to live between the many mouths to feed and the house to pay for...

I made it from $2k to just over $6k at about 2% per day average before pulling my funds due to significant financial hardship. I want to be that rockstar. LOL. But it will have to wait a bit.

@hilmy83 Nope. It's all legit. I even had to get a 3-month home mortgage forbearance. And you are right; the way things are looking in real estate, it may take 6 months or 12 or 18 before I have funds to seriously try again. "Seriously" meaning $2k to $4k. Perhaps I will "dabble" with...

@trading_jean And it gave me a lot of pleasure to take the time to write knowing somebody besides me was reading it! And you guys kept me on my toes, that is for sure.

Thanks so much @Axon. It means a lot to me. Good trading.

ANOTHER COVID CASUALTY I decided to withdraw all the funds from my live AMP account. I am a real estate broker, and I have had a very long string of cancellations. Because of the market uncertainty because of the virus fallout, the investor buyers are nervous and they back out. In 8 years I...

Thanks @keroppi. I am still on hold. I have had many more real estate deals cancel in the last 4 weeks. I have not closed a deal in 6 weeks now. Time for another great recession? I hope not. There is some PTSD in my household. Unfortunately, I think it will get worse before it gets...

I don't have a crystal ball. However... I think the market will have significant regional differences, but none of them good. Lenders are having PTSD from the 2009 to 2012 recession and they are tightening their requirements. This will have a falling domino impact on some, if not many...

Announcement: Things are still on track with my live AMP account, but I am now taking a mandatory 4 week break from trading. My MAIN source of income just took a major hit because of the coronavirus. I am a real estate broker who works mainly with investors, and my 5 best clients are all...

Thanks. I actually use limit orders for entries and exits most of the time. I would say about 40% of the time I use market orders for exits when I really want out NOW. And I use market orders for entries about 20% of the time.

Wednesday I finished down $85. The overnight the Tuesday overnight session was way down, but the Wednesday RTH (regular trading hours) session was a brutal tight range with a pop later in the session. I did not trade it well. Such is life. Today is a new day. The 3 day average ATR is now...

Thanks for the heads up on normal MES/ES movement. That is helpful to know for my scalps. I still like the lower spread of the MES in the current volatility. I do still watch the MYM and MNQ and they still don't look tradeable with market orders. I miss the finer granularity of the $.50...

This is what yesterday felt like World dodge ball championships And here we are going into today: It is time to slay the beast.

Yesterday I ended at $-32. It was a big challenge for me as the market went higher and higher. It should have been no surprise to me as the true market is completely dead because the Fed is now directly purchasing assets, and has done so to the tune of "$1.6 Trillion in the past four weeks" -...

I am happy to report that I had a great day, clearing $200. I will know the final number tonight, but I have cleared $6,750 now on my live AMP account. It felt like the market was waiting for something today that never came, although we did have a 50+ point range on the MES (200 ticks), so...

2020 Update. According www.similarweb.com, here are some updated stats for trading communities. For the month of March 2020, the number of total visits to each site are as follows NT 747k ET 631k FIO 271k T2W 114k Here is ET vs FIO--