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Wow, so you're the "I am nobody" guy. I'm impressed that you would reveal this. I do remember reading lots of your posts and liking them, but at the same time, I'm not sure if you ever said anything where I thought with certainty that you making a killing. This post you link to just shares...

I think this is a very important point you made here. I've come across smart people around here before as well, even got into arguments with them, and yes, they sound very smart, but whether they trade their own money is a completely different thing altogether. Work for big firms and all that...

I do agree that anything can be faked, but I just figured that if you said you did this once and it backfired, you would be able to show a link to the post where you said you did this. Its far too easy to say you already did all this stuff and use this as an excuse when in fact you never did do...

I see posts all the time from people who say they used to post statements, trades, etc. Can you link the post where you did this? I imagine the picture of your statement must have been removed, but do you actually have proof that you did at one point share this and it turned out badly for you?

I have never understood this "efficient" phrase. To me it means that the price is exactly what the price should, or that is get there very quickly, right right after a news release,etc. But since it takes many minutes to hours for a trend to get going, where is the efficiency? If it was truly...

Excellent of you to provide such interesting stats. Two things jump out. 1. From May 18 to today, you have made over $7000. Not bad for less than 2 months of work. 2. From about trade 150, you were going nowhere in terms of PnL until about trade 300. You obviously hit a drawdown, and yet you...

I'm not even sure if this is the correct way to calculate it. I watch NQ and ES very closely, and what I like about them is that for the most part, they move in lock step together. Today of course is a perfect example of when they don't because 2 mins after the open, ES put it in the low of...

Oh gosh, to be honest, I really don't care that much to try to match it up. Its just something to be aware of. The OP might even end up with charts that are different than both of ours.

My daily chart has years worth of days, I only showed what fit on one screen.

My settings are simply using daily data. There are actually two different data sets that the platform collects though. One is intraday data, and one is daily data. The daily data is a very small file of simply high, low, open, close and volume I believe. The intraday data is every tick. The...

Don't forget that SPY is an index of 500 companies, so I'm not sure how much this matters when earnings and dividends are all over the place on many different days. Granted, its not anything that I know anything about, but just thinking about it, I can't see how a dividend for just one stock...

Its interesting how we have some differences in our charts. Biggest one I see is the down spike in November on election night. Mine clearly has the low go right through the MA and yours doesn't have that. Perhaps your daily chart isn't using the overnight session? I also tried to combine the...

The futures are trading during this entire time. In fact, there are only 2 period when they aren't trading. That is between 16:15 ET and 16:30, and then 17:00 and 18:00 ET, Monday to Friday. Even here there can be gaps based on what happens during this time like company earnings and stuff...

It all depends on what the setting is based on the contract roll-over rule and the back-adjustment. First, the contract rollover can be on either a Thursday or Friday, depending how you set it up. Then, it can be back adjusted or not. Me personally, I rollover on the Friday, since the...

Your platform should be able to give you a continuous contract. Some platforms build it from each individual contract, others have a slightly different symbol for the continuous contract than from each forward month. But you should be able to easily get something like this. I put on the 150...

Sure, but what you describe is Utopian. Who actually trades without a single shred of feeling or emotion? Everyone knows they have a crutch and so its important to work within that framework. You can't be mad at a person with only one leg for not being able to run as fast as a person with 2.

As much as I agree with most of what you say here at ET @Scataphagos , I do believe that targets is a strategy that is just as viable as letting the market tell you, especially with either small stops and targets, or when trading an instrument like the NQ which tends to have lots of spikes. I...

Not sure why you are having problems. The macros message might have to do with security from Excell and I had to approve them before it let me make changes. Here is a screen capture putting in your parameters. I used $110 as the ave. win and -$76 as the ave. loss since it doesn't do...

Wow... you go from: 1. Asking about volume... which you should be able to easily find in your own broker platform https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/data-source-needed-for-volume.311111/ 2. Asking about what trading the NQ is like...

I have been using it for a while and never been asked to donate. Maybe download the current version on the website? It might be different than what you have.