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The way I see it, if you see your stop on the chart after you place the trade and you don't like where it is, then sure, move it. Sometimes you end up entering a trade not exactly where you wanted to and then you see where the standard stop falls and its clearly wrong. But the guy had 30...

Oh.. and one more thing. You criticize my retail rules, and yet you suggested anything from an 85 point ES stop, for prop trading or insitutions, to just this 30 tick stop in YM which hit in 30 minutes, and a stop that you couldn't even honor and claimed to move AFTER it was hit. It seems like...

Exactly right. You never even hinted initially that you would move your stop. In fact, I was already typing a reply to say how ironic that for such a bullish trader your stop was hit in 30 mins, but I didn't get around to finishing before your stop was hit. No, I would say you did a good job...

Moving a stop as price is coming down to take it is something you consider good trading? If you didn't like where your initial 30 tick stop was, you either don't take the trade, or put the stop in an area where the market shouldn't go if you're still right about a trade. Moving a stop that is...

Hahaha.... omg... come on dude! You just said 30 tick stop.. it hit 3 ticks below your stop, and now you're saying it was just a "mental" stop??? Of course your stop was silly given that it wasn't below the low of day at least, but if you really want to stick with your stop movement, how is...

liking simply for the live call! :D Edit: Mind you though, ATH is not that far away at all. In fact, the ATH is just from this past Friday, and would be 21629. :D

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but for some reason, this video did surprise me. It comes from those body cam videos. What was supposed to be a routine video of a police officer discovering a stash of drugs and using this as evidence against the suspect is nothing but this. Because the...

I do agree and it would be silly for me to argue as well. I did find it interesting that most of the old timers here who are successful trade stocks, at least that's my feeling when I go through the old time threads. There really aren't that many cases of profitable futures traders who post...

Its funny because right when you switch to the NQ, @speedo switched to the ES. Of course you're using different strategies I'm sure, but its just interesting. With regards to widening stops, this gets very tricky. If you widen your stop just 1 point, imagine how much more you need to make...

I don't agree. There is no magical instrument out there which is super easy to trade and they give away free money, and let you get into a move very late, and never try to stop you out, etc. All trading is simply a matter of stats and risk and reward. The ES moves slow enough that its easy to...

I keep wanting to see stats from these fractal guys and nobody seems to be calling trading or providing any info. A while back one member did say he was still working on it, this was Illheroic I believe, but I can't recall if he was profitable yet or not. My point is that with such intense...

Sure there will be some who says all of this can be faked, which is true, but I suspect more will be impressed. If your entries were called in real time, that would of course be that much better. The thing though is that if you have all sorts of fills, it takes away from your "bull market to...

I do agree with this as well, but only he knows his trading plan. I know from my own that often when I stop after a losses, the winners come, and I'm not in them. I too "feel" as if this market is over-extended, and what should have brought it down, the inability for Trump to do anything about...

Listen, only @volente_00 knows how much he is losing on his bad trades, and how much he made on those few he got right. But so far, you only showed the profit from a tiny up move, a small slice, so even though you're been all into this bull run, you don't have much to show for it. Do you want...

@propwarrior For someone who is so keen on calling this nothing but a bull market, you sure seemed to have gotten in very late, and also took just a small little slice of the move. You talk as if you're a god that has been around forever, yet your current alias is less than a year old, and...

I laugh at these posts because its exactly what the classic wisdom says to do, and yet, they also say you have to do what most aren't doing. Shorting at a confirmed down trend? Come on... that is garbage. Anytime something is confirmed, your stop is large, everyone has seen the move, and only...

Nice results, and thanks for sharing the graphs. I wonder if you could make a comment about your stats. I realize that since you trade different instruments this might vary, but generally speaking, can you comment about your win rate and average win and loss? There have been so many...

It doesn't seem to have this number, so we have to just do it visually by looking at the various plotted curves and trying to see where the worst drop from a high peak is and how roughly big this is. None of them of course look all that bad, but of course, there is just as much chance that you...

Nice of you to verify both accounts, but seriously, I'm not saying anything that is factually wrong. You said you shared your statement once and this caused you trouble. You haven't shown this post though, but just another mention of the same story.

After seeing @volpri 's post and being reminded that you are still in SIM, I kind of have to take back what I said about nice job with regards to the equity curve. Don't get me wrong, its great that you're in SIM, but this equity curve and going to 3 contracts is now quite deceiving. Every...