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Following your posts, it makes me wonder a few things: First of all, your best feature is the consistency. We saw people made huge yet erratic gains over a short period of time, only to lost all of them and even more sooner than normal. You keep a very cool head adjusting your gains and risks...

Well, market is the same to everybody. It was a bull market, but how many people can make this kind of return? No body, probably. I bet you beat the best hedge funds, at least for this period of time. And more importantly, the option strategy and plan you trade, you can easily scale up to...

People keep asking: how much capital you need to trade for a living? You provide them with the answer: If you are really good enough, $2000 is what you need to start with, after 6 months, then you can start make a living by trading. I think lots of people are going to be very mad at you...

Ego is fine if he/she has the capacity to match it.

20% is for ordinary good trader, 200% to 1000% for Extraordinary, more than 1000% for Super-Extraordinary. Look at Optionsinvestor's tread, in less than half year, his return is about 3500%, from 2000 to 70000, and his trend is continuing.

So you have been trading for about 5 years? Your cautiousness and prudence are probably one of the reasons that you are doing well in your trading besides your experience and working strategy.

If ES opened 26 points (=104 ticks) higher than the previous session ($1300 for once contract), do you call it a gap? Of course it is not so often.

Of course there is GAP in future trading.When it hits Sunday evening 6:00pm, whatever news happened in the weekend, the index future (ES etc) price can be dramatically up or down from the close on previous Friday.

$2000 to $67000, double capital every month (compound), awesome! From $2000 to 1 million, only 9 months are needed in your rate of return. Since you don't day trade, it is good you can keep your regular job and all other social activities. More significantly, you show that retail trader can...

The journey to trade consistently profitable is quite different from other schemes like getting a degree from college that once you complete certain amount of credits/courses you are good to go. Some can devote for ten years learning/doing it and still fare miserably.

Work really really hard and smart, with some luck, to develop systems that were done tons of back tested and real time tested and can handle any chop, spike, and boring period of time and win handsomely and surely, then you have a chance to make money consistently. I believe you can stack up to...

gambling: you are given random chances to win Trading: you filter out random chance to win

You see, how people treat money/wealth can lead to quite different outcome/mentality. If you treat money as a goal, when you have much like 20 million or 50 millions, while you feel you have financial security and the boredom gets to you; while you feel abundant compared to the common crowd, but...

You need to look at the IQ thing more objectively. It is a rather stable factor, not heavily influenced by political regime. Look at that the top 5: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and China. Then you look around to see some other similar Asian countries like Malaysia, Thailand...

It is the people that count, not the government.

You must have been traveling and reading a LOT! It is fun to read!

You will reach more than 1 million from a pocket money of $2000 before the end of the year if compound it in this rate. If you do, you show those people that capital is NOT the critical factor, a solid strategy and sound execution are the key! Remarkable!

It is something very cool and fun!

I trade those regular eMini, ES, NQ and YM. You made a very good suggestion about future option. I might give a try. Thanks.