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Totally agree. My worst days since August almost always began with some kind of European-driven headline in the morning. Friends trading similar strats have made the same comment.

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2011 Recap Grossed $287,000. Traded 24 million shares, 500 futures contracts, 112 options contracts. Net after all commissions, fees and expenses was $211,000. This was my worst year since my first year trading full time in 2002. The few days after the Japanese earthquake in March and...

Sorry guys but I've been sick for the last two weeks and haven't finished compiling all my stats for the year yet. Hope to be feeling better soon then I'll sit down and get it all put together

Ha ha, funny guys. Still here, pecking away. The back half of the year has sucked. Will provide an update at the end of the month.

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First of all, a treadmill is nothing like running outdoors. Treadmills have built in shock absorption, which is a lot easier on the legs. If you think there's no wind resistance running on an indoor track, you might want to re-visit elementary school math. Secondly, if you you think a 6 min...

I consider volume for most of my strategies. I need to make sure there is enough liquidity that my orders don't distort the market too much, and that I will be able to exit without too much slippage. That's something a lot of newer traders don't consider closely enough, how much it costs you...

I can't write code at all either. Trade Ideas has some backtesting capability. My backtesting is pretty crude, like just looking at past charts or something. I will usually take a new idea and trade it live with small size.

As I've mentioned before, I think that there is more opportunity to make money trading stocks than futures for a few reasons. First of all, how many futures markets are there to trade? I don't know, but let's say 100. How many stock symbols are there to trade? Ummm.... like 5000? 50x as...

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Some do, but not all. Some are just pure old school day traders looking for anything that's moving, and there's always something moving. But their experience is key there. All these guys have been pros for 8-12 years and know how to reign things in and when to hit hard depending on the...

That's definitely been key for me and has always been my goal of how I want to operate. I'm not saying it's necessary for long term survival in this business, but I'd rather be diversified and consistently make decent money than yo-yo between home runs and losses or periods of making nothing.

Ok, time for an update on the year after the first quarter. Basically the year sucks for me. I'm out of the hole and up a little over $100k, but putting this in context, things aren't great. I'm running below my historical average and the bad days are more numerous than I'd like. This market...

Their back office reporting of your account activity sucks and the shortable list of stocks is weak.

Nitro, you seem like a pretty scientifically minded guy who seeks fact over marketing hype. I think you'd appreciate the way Crossfit is structured and the reasoning behind it. Here's an article from the founder of CrossFit and an excerpt from it. Since you're searching and asking...

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I've done P90X and it's a good program that will deliver results if you follow it. But any program that has you doing an hour a day, 5 days a week of high intensity training will get results. The problem is that it's repetitive and after 90 days you either do it again or find something new...

Logmein from your phone to your desktop pc.

My exits vary widely according the strategy and the set up.