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my point is simple: why not have the combine trial, the funded trial and the funded forward operation parameters all the same? why have one set of strict risk => minimum performance parameters for the combine, and a completely different set of risk parameters for the funded trial...

Well, if winning a combine is the ultimate final prize, then it's equal to playing a SuperBowl or Masters tournament up north in cold weather. Maybe you'll get nice weather conditions, maybe the weather will be brutal. But if you're trying to find consistent traders who will make you money...

$3500 target, $2000 max DD, say over 20 days. Aside from making it by luck, that translates into the ability to make $35,000 per year (20 days * 10) while staying inside a $2,000 drawdown max.... I can either meet the P&L target, but need a larger DD to have a good statistical chance of...

And that right there is the simple secret, the absolute holy grail of our profession. Statistical application of a defined edge thru long periods of varying market action. The vast majority of failed traders try to make this profession some kind of contest or game or battle where the need to...

I use both platforms, have used NT since around 2005 and continue to now. I do like GZT very much, it has some nice features such as running P&L on each strike (potential gain or loss) of open trades which is especially helpful for trade management when blending multiple entries. Both are...

well anyways, here is one of the component accounts in that block from today. First two digits of account are visible in four places (red boxes) and the resulting dollar gains after all costs. I am preparing for a project which involves taking a very modest account gradually larger thru a...

I took that as a serious question only. It'd be easy enough for me to show the account balance if I chose. Secondly, to my knowledge you cannot rename a demo or a cash account at all... the only account "names" you can designate are block-trade setups once permissioned to do so by the clearing...

it is a "block" designation for two of my accounts. one can create a number of different block-trade accounts according to size and risk parameters, link them together, trade them apart from one another, etc. very flexible platform when it comes to managing various accounts

OEC platform, and I don't know how the demo version works... only tried it for one day before going live to learn the functionality. To be honest, I've had a couple of grayed-out events during heavy volatility in late Jan - early Feb but the same was true before with zenfire and CQG at...

09:20:06 {austinp1} this week I'll attempt to trade all five morning sessions until 11am or so 09:20:55 {austinp1} Wednesday and Friday, most likely wrapped early due to fundamental (fomc and option expiry) price pins past the first hour or so 09:21:27 {austinp1} remaining days, will trade the...

x2... no educated person would ever make such an ignorant statement. Many more places than not in the U.S. (and around the world) a person making $10,000 per month can live royally well. Furthermore, any trader making +$2,500 per week = $10,000 per month is within the top <5% of this entire...

I traded an equal number of pullbacks and breakout, long and short in TF and ES alike. Net result was max loss capped for the day and done. Only one sequence all session covered any distance. Late morning I was short 8 ES contract total from 1837.00 > stop 36.75 and price was down to 1835ish...

short multiple times near session highs... stopped every time for no gain. rollover Thursdays are always tough trading, volume is split between contracts, price action tends to be erratic. Tomorrow is a new day :cool:

After the first 4 contracts TF and ES short, net result was +$2,011 booked. The rest of those contracts were multiple attempts to enter AND hold stops in the obligatory spike-chop upwards following any attempts to sell off. I guess that's enough brain damage for me today in trying to find...

-1pt TF short +6pts TF short +1 tick ES short someone(s) has their big boot on the neck of S&P 500 index right now... cannot go higher, but will not go lower without instant buy programs kicking in to hammer it right back up. If the ES could get out of its own way this morning, the 4-lot...

ok... let's do that :) yesterday, TF trades. Another choppy wedge-session, moderate drawdown early on the short/long/short side until the lone morning dip finally caught wind. Shutdown and done before noon, because market action was dead. imo we will see a large-range trend session soon, this...

I traded at times for years from a 1GB notebook, no problems with NT flow in that regard. Wired connections from the modem or router were solid enough for retail use... but wireless connections lag badly. Not a real problem for me, my entries are either prestaged pullbacks or breakouts, or both...

I've been doing this a long time now... and let me tell you something, current stock market action is every bit as challenging and difficult as I have ever seen at any time in my career. The important thing is to maintain discipline, muster every ounce of patience you possibly can, and know that...

intraday only, or longer holds? ES trading included? what's the compensation for traders?

In directional swing moves, if there are two separate trades, I consider that two separate events. Short or long 2 and price moves in favor, stop to par and short or long 2 more = two different trades with one trade risk, going the same direction. Sometimes the second one stops for loss and then...