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You are not alone. I use it on sierracharts

I trade futures solely for tax rules, but not the 60/40. I live in a country where there is a tobin tax on stocks, etf and bonds.

This is not true. In fact it is just the opposite. The more people get rich, the more people will have money. The money's comes from debt or an "I owe you" note in any kind of form. Some notes are regulated, like money, other are not regulated and are creatures of the imagination.

I know... But only you know if it is wrong or not. Just trying to let you see it in a different light what is happening to you. Does not mean I'm right about this.

Okay, I think to know where you are. You are trading not for the results in money but for some unresolved issue you have with yourself and how you see yourself. You need someone that can let you see how you react and make you self aware when this proces start in your trading. When you recognised...

After wich event do you get complacent? After amount of dollars or after a number of winnings in a row? Do you let your focus go after that event? Are you bored with executions?

Are you getting to much confidence, after a series of wins and become careless? Or are you seeing in retrospect that you make a mistake?

You can do this in Sierra charts.

Jumping the gun can come from many reasons: Not trusting your system Fear of missing out Not a clear entry signal or having an entry signal with to many parameters Not accepting that the next trade is random Revenge trading to get back even There is no real answer if you are not telling how you...

I think your comment about 'why would we trade' is more as how can you make a profit trading if it is unknown what will happen next? The anwser is: Probability. It makes trade by trade still random, but over many trades, you can know the results. Casino's, Professional poker players, blackjack...

You are looking at it from a perspective as if that one side of the equition is only made by one person. I only say it can be, most of the time it is more then one party on one side. If you look at sellers, or a sell off you see a start with some size that grows bigger and bigger the more the...

All the people you have sumed up here, act on their own decision making, maybe influenced by one or another. The reason it is random, is because you can not know in advance who will be your counter trader and what size he or she is willing to bring to the table. It takes one person, that decides...

OP has a valid point. Getting over the hurtle and understanding that it is random, is for many people a bridge to far. But it is. But even with random in your trading, you can still make money if you focus on the right things. And those things are not always indicators or a chart pattern. To...

Are their real life traders with years of experience that use Kelly to see what they are going to risk?

It would be interesting if Oil would go down from the beginning or after gap up...

That is real smart remark from a very smart person about an observation I have seen over the years...

High IQ people are great in knowledge and complex thinking but poor in knowing them selfs and how to implement a working strategy. If they are really smart, they figure out that the best trading strategies are kiss. Untill that they find that true, they will continue to try it with their mind to...

How did they build a piramid in Egypt? I mean the blocks are so heavy. How did they do it without a machine? They can not be that old, because if one you look at the age of the building there where no heavy duty equipment. So it must be not real, because no one build one today. I challenge to...

Shoot me a private message where you are at with trading so far. Maybe I can help you connect the dots.

can I still collect on your bet? ;-)