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It takes a lot of time and effort before you can see the trees within the forest.

There are many ways to hold a technical edge in trading , prudent risk management is how that edge is preserved.

option coach is correct, identify an area that speaks to you and go after it with all you've got. If at some point you develop a high level of proficiency at that, you can expand your skill set if you like. It took me years to become consistently profitable as a day trader and there is nothing...

Have to use what works for you. Many scoff at oscillators, I use divergances to define trend resumption entries on my lower TF.

Get a bit part in a Michael Lewis book and work yourself up.

Signals are often ambiguous. There are no certainties, just edges. We define those edges within our trade plans and preserve those edges with our rules and disciplines.

Not a bad concept to pick the pocket of the noob.

I would think most of the "men" already have funded accounts and no longer have any motivation to paper trade.

Exactly, the terms require context to make sense.

Yes, we agree.

Without a time frame reference, "pullback or reversal" are irrelevant. My arena is the 3000/10000 tick ES charts, I could care less what the PA is on the hourly, daily, weekly etc. says.

Thanks Bob, that's basically how I remember the qualification.

....and many entities are still holding, thus nothing realized yet.

In futures for someone to gain, someone has to lose and vice versa. Some firms could wash their trading profits against their money management vehicles.

Interesting, I don't recall paying pro fees in TS but when I signed up with Mirus, they offered to eat some fees...maybe that was it.

Futures are a zero sum game...not so in stocks.

Bob, I thought you were only a "professional" if you traded for a firm (not your own entity)or managed others money.

Depends if you have a trading entity or are trading as an individual.

Typically you have to set up an account under the entity.

Yeah, Gartman's had egg on his face lately but he is a smart guy. He described the latest bull market as "melting upward".