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Yep. 1 point a day - no problem! Start with $2000, trade at a broker that requires $500/contract margin and costs $4.80/rt commish. Start trading 1 contract (es) and increase your size for every $500 profit - stop at 100 contracts max. On day 61, you are trading 100 contracts and have...

Well, see - that's not how I read it... I wonder if there is some overall average points per day statistics available? Hell, I'll even change my compounding to weekly or monthly. That won't really change much.

You wouldn't have to maximize your margin size - even if you only used 1/2 of your available margin and made "only" 12.5% per day - again - Warren Buffet would be knocking on your door asking for your help. Even if you used only 1/4 of your available margin and made "only" 6.75% per day...

Hmm. No one can help answer my question?

So, 5 points is basically 5 points per contract. See, and this is where I begin to misunderstand - if you trade with a broker that requires $1000 per contract intraday margin - those 5 points become a 25% return. If you trade with a broker that only requires $500 intraday margin, which many...

When you say 5 points - are you talking about 5 points per contract or 5 points total for the day? If 5 points total, can you tell me the largest position size held during the day?

That's interesting - can you shed any light on this post which was made on this http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36782 thread last year?

Is that DOM and subsequent trading (and P&L) running against a real money account or a simulated account? Last year, when he was still "MarketShaman", one of Bill's partners posted here that the DOM you see in the room is in fact a simulator.

-11.45465%, of course!

Well, I have to admit I didn't take any of the trades today - I'm just now getting out of bed. The Brinks truck arrived late yesterday with my daily cash delivery. Not only that - the normal guy was on vacation, and the substitute guy brought my $9 million in twenties instead of hundreds...

You let somone on a chat board influence your trading. Are you sure that you are ready to post a journal like this and not have it influence your trading? I''m sure that posting a journal is not part of your "system" - or is it?

Well, be careful, take it easy and slow, and use plenty of lubrication.

Are you probing or are you getting probed? :)

Amateur.

Actually, I made over $12 million today just trading the 60 minute system. I could have actually made $14 million, but I needed to take a shower before the Brinks truck arrived with my daily cash delivery - so I only traded for 58 minutes instead of 60.

I bought it a few years ago - along with a few of the add-on indicators (clustering, etc.) I spent many many hours using it, optimizing, building NN's, etc., etc. Months and months of ideas and CPU usage. It is an amazing product in all it can do. You can make things so very complex. I...

Why would you put your money in a broker that you don't even know their published availability? THAT'S infuriating!

....and the original poster is no where to be found and doesn't bother to come back and say his "problem" wasn't really a problem. Exactly my problem with these types of threads.

It's a shitty strategy. There is no need to post anything about this here until the final resolution - in fact, it seems the thread was posted BEFORE any resolution was even sought after from the broker - insane! If money is missing from my account, sure thing - ET is the first place I go...

Leverage.