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The only test that counts is being able to trade your own account up. If a trader does not have enough capital than should not be trading. Paying somebody for their training and certification means only the seller of the training made money on that deal.

Swingtrade is the only advice I can give you no matter what instrument you want to touch ___________________________________________________________________________ The longer time zone of holding positions significantly improves your performance. The smallest chart I use is a 120 minutes. The...

I trade a wide array of contracts both domestic and over seas. I avoid the ES except for for night time stop gunning - meaning I am trying to follow the axe on their night time stop raids. With the ES you are already down $25 the moment you order is filled and your in the most side ways HFT...

People taking this new smart drug report its like viewing the world in HD, clarity to perfection feeling, many say it makes music feel intense & and blissful. I once traded for years full time on drug called GHB that works on the same GABA receptor as this 'smart' drug' Matzner is using. I...

"Many good traders on ET could get similar returns over 10 years with much smaller accounts" Topic was beating the Rogers/Soros Quantum fund - this was and still is the best performing fund over a 10 year span. __________________________________________________________________________ That...

Trading requires being able to tread water a lot - taking lots of small loses to be in the game when those big trades come by. Only about 10% of all the trades will be the big winners which is all you need to make a good profit each year. The idea of a linear uniform profit every day or week is...

i don't think so - Your not placing the upper TL on the highs throughout the entire pattern - that's putting your own spin on it. Both patterns are breaking rules of classical charting which voids this out. For example the larger pattern the second low is not lower - and it needs to be. The...

Warren Buffets average annual percentage with compounding is 21.6% over a 50 year span. The Quantum funds annual average annual percenage over its 30 year span was 33%. The Quantum was the fund to be in since during its span it was significantly outperforming the Berkshire Hathway. Comparing...

This thread is If your sure go find one! Any fund that did 1/10th of what the Quantum fund did would be a all over the news and on the cover of magazines with people taking out second mortgages and maxing out every credit card to partipate.

4,200% in 10 years is not 45% per year with componding LOL! Some traders have had a few big years but linking up an average 420% fot 10 years in a row is still the best performance of a managed fund on record by a long shot. To think it was no big deal or money just fell from trees in the 70s...

Jim Rogers and George Soros returned a mind boggling 4200% over the span of 10 years on thier 'Quantum' fund. I have never heard of anyone to have toped that.

The majority of day traders have a risk of ruin so high as to make eventual bankruptcy virtually inevitable. When you try to scalp the short term 1-5 min charts you are competing with the HFTs and hedge funds, only a few (4%ish) are able to carve out a living for a few years or more. When you...

Asking for someone to code for the possibility of a future pay day is odd. Especially when you add the part about how well your doing well - that raises flags as to why than are you trying to avoid paying for it now, that type of deal may work with a friend but not someone you don't already have...

For futures I use an auto-improve order so I will not cross the market and on equities I use discretionary orders, here again I don't have to worry about crossing the market. My order will not be sent until 2 NBBO ticks print and also I have a percentage alert that will warn me if the NBBO has...

Trading has never been my passion - trading to me is all about gaining more time to do the things I like. When my trading is over I race off to my favorite beach and hit the waves. It keeps my head in Zen mode - which helps me trade better and stay chilled out.

The US markets ETH are influenced by China, Germany, U.K., etc. The Nikkei is no more influenced by the global markets than our markets are - the NK chart looks a lot like our Russell or S&P400. The ETH accounts for a very large portion of the markets annual gains - see chart. It takes a good...

As a swing trader I hold over night - sometimes for weeks at a time -one time for over 2 months. I would not hold without having a decent profit and a stop loss. Its not that wild of a ride. The day I am afraid to hold overnight is the day I should quit trading. Gaps? There last one was June...

I have traded it for years- it has a lot more volatility at times than the ES. The NK is a break out market. It is great contract for technical trading! Noise free, patterns just like in the old books that actually seem to work out more often than expected. Always use a stop!! - a surprise...

Anybody declaring trend following is dead should get their eyes checked. Not sure what charts you are looking at but mine show trends still going strong for over 7 years now!

Please disregard this comment: i had thought the question was why is the SPY still the larger market over the futures ES contracts. I see now the question was about options and that is not something i have a clue on as some of you have figured out.