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LOL... I'll give you that. Most on here aren't honest so the posting nature of an honest person would be quite foreign!

Don't get me wrong, I don't think you should either because it does take away from trading, but there is just something so fake about you, so fake about your posts, about all the threads that you start, about how innocent you seem to sound, about how you just discover things by chance that you...

Sorry dude, but I gotta continue to ride your ass. You're an absolute joke. Tomorrow you're gonna be switching to CL cause that's gonna lead to even more profits! Are you really telling everyone here that you had no idea how the NQ moves? You said you used to trade it, so what, all of a...

Help me understand here please. By being short ES and long VIX, isn't this the same position? If ES is dropping, which in you are short, then VIX is increasing, in which you are long. How is this a hedge? If ES starts to rally, you lose, and your long VIX should drop, so you lose again...

This is a 2 part point. It means that could you take it, but just don't hold it if you're wrong. Lets not forget that once again, every bull ends from a high point. Now tell me, how does price drop from this high point? Is it just retail guys who stop buying? No way, retail guys are the...

It sounds to me like there are too many factors going on here, and you want to change them all at once, and you think that once you change them all, then problems will be fixed. If you said your problem is not holding trades, then it would be fairly easy to just look back at your past 100...

All this talk about personal responsibility is a little much. There really aren't that many people who just sit around all day and say "let someone else take care of me". For the most part, many poor people try their best and work hard. They may not be as smart or conniving as the top 1% or...

Lets compare healthcare to police or firefighters. Imagine if you had to first pay up front before a cop ran after a bad guy for you, or pay the firefighters before they even put on their suits and started the truck even though your house was already on fire. This would seem crazy! Yet, its...

I guess its one of those things that depends on the circumstances. My stops are so tight that often, just after I get stopped out, price does at least come back to my entry. So instead of stopping out, I added another contract right there, it would be profitable. Of course, it doesn't always...

I guess the reason I ask is because of the posters who appeared to be highly profitable, they were trading stocks. Many say they didn't have an edge with futures. Others say they liked options for various reasons, but I didn't see many guys posting who talked about their trades. Was just...

Out of curiosity, what were they trading? Stocks? Futures? Options? Most of the older posters here from at least a decade ago were trading stocks from what I gather.

Very interesting take. There is something to be said though about a retail guy bailing too soon. I have seen in my years of research some traders who appear profitable by selectively adding to losing positions. Perhaps its not a losing position in their eyes, more so buying lower to make the...

Thanks for the feedback. I too would think that an 85 point ES stop is just silly, no matter how well capitalized any institution or individual is. I only used this because @propwarrior said that he was comfortable going long when the ES was 2435, and "A break below 2350 would cause (him) to...

Where did you exit this trade? If you kept your stop at 5741.00, it actually hit to the tick, but I imagine you took a profit higher up?

Well, yes, but, whereas you could be sitting on a trade that is down 50 points, the retail trader might be up over 100 points by having played many of the twists and turns, and in the direction of the immediate trend, not necessarily just the trend of the 8 year bull market. If all you ever do...

I never said I was short nor do I even know where we will be in an hour. And yes, I'm retail, so no way could an 85 point stop work for me. I have learned that a tight stop is absolutely the best. If I'm taken out, I can always re-enter. If I see that I keep getting taken out even though...

Wow... ok.. so you would use something like an 85 point stop given that we are at 2435. Lets be generous and call this at least a 1:1 trade, which means you would need to get to 2520 to hit a target. (but most people make their target more than their stop, ideally a 1:1.5 or 1:2 in terms of...

Oh I bet. Must have been filled with indicators, and then you're stuck not knowing what to cause all of them would be pointing in different directions.

Thanks for answering. A simple chart I do believe is key.

Interesting, thanks. Having the average loss a bit bigger than the win is certainly not the best, but you're obviously still net positive with a high win rate. (and who can argue with a positive equity curve!) How many trades are you taking per day? I assume these are trades that only last...