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Out of curiosity, will you be posting the exit to this trade as having been on the low at 2086 once price climbs all the way back up to your entry and claim you got out more than an hour ago on the low? It just seems to me that there is nothing special about posting an entry for a trade for 100...

I'm not sure that long term trading will work as well for the next 30 years as it did the last 30 years. But this gentleman's journal certainly isn't the place to get into it. But on the commissions point, I just don't think that commissions is the reason why most people aren't profitable...

Agree completely. I also agree here. A 5k account will be gone in no time if someone is starting out. Yes, I have seen this myself, painfully so when looking at statements. But I think on the other side of the coin was the metric that you need to make 122% per year just to break even...

I saw you reply in a similar fashion to another thread Handle, in terms of the % necessary to breakeven, and I'm not sure if its the best way to look at trading futures. Simply put, it doesn't matter what percentage you can make on the capital in an account, mostly because I think that it comes...

I've read many of your posts, and I think you're too smart to assume everyone is honest at ET. A simple search pulls up this chart. http://www.barrons.com/articles/best-100-hedge-funds-for-2015-1431743869 His 3 year return puts him in the top 30 of this top 100 list. Its a fair comparison...

What an absolutely ridiculous post. People... please keep in mind this poster just signed up today. For someone to be trading for 3 years and have not come across any articles about long term performance is absolutely ridiculous. Everyone knows that even 10% per year beats most money...

I have actually heard the opposite. When it comes to trading, they say women are better at it because they don't get emotional about the losses and keep focusing on the next trade.

Its already been confirmed with proof by Baron... http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?threads/true-value-on-elite.298916/#post-4266252

So is it your expectation that you will have people just blindly follow you? You have been around only a year, under your current name of course, and other than just sounding sure of yourself, I see no other reason to believe you. In fact, by even encouraging all your conversations to be...

I guess there was no secret sauce by @J_Smith ? In his defense, he did say he was never going to give it to you. But perhaps you figured out that with him talking in circles and never quite being direct enough with any answer, you saw that you were going around in circles? Last time he tried...

So what you're saying is that you have no desire to state publicly why anyone should believe you, and that if anyone questions you, they should mind their own business? And on top of this, we are idiots for asking you to show why you are qualified to give help? Simply incredible.

@J_Smith Going through your message history, perhaps it would be nice if the former guys you tried to help can vouch for you. You don't want to share anything about your own trades, or how you trade, or your P&L, essentially nothing to give you some credibility, but I see you tried helping...

I tend to agree. @carrer , do you have any proof that @J_Smith is an accomplished trader? Having just discovered this thread, and being familiar now with the poetry that J_S likes to recite instead of just making his points clear, I am suspicious of what exactly he is trying to do. So far, he...

I don't know anything about the world of professional trading, so all I can do is comment based on what I think, which of course is fairly useless in the whole grand scheme of things. What you describe doesn't sound like a trader anymore. If the firm just hires a guy to read a chart and...

I'm not sure that this is what he is saying. He isn't trying to prove that technical analysis is superior, or even necessary. All that he is saying is that if you are a quant and you make money trading, it means you know how to trade profitably. If a quant was to look at a chart, he would no...

What is being argued here is not that a quant is using a chart, but that if he is a profitable quant, he couldn't also look at a chart and make a series of trades that turn out to be profitable. He might not have enough information from looking at a chart, he might need the raw data to...

For what its worth, I do agree with you even though you seem to have some passionate opposition here. Trading is all about balancing risk vs. reward. If you fail at this, it doesn't matter how well you read a chart or how comfortable you are with looking at spreadsheets full of data, you will...

If you were human, you'd actually understand that your methodology of throwing out useless scraps is not all that helpful. If you were foolish and gullible at first, then you'd also understand how terrible it is to be in this place, and if you wanted to help the next guy, you would get him past...

Are you needing to use the touchpad? On my notebook, I turn it off, and most will have this option, usually accessed through the use of the FN key plus one of the F1-12 keys. I of course have to use to mouse to move the pointed, but since this is what I prefer, turning off the touchpad is...

You can also say that there is an upside down pennant with the horizontal line being resistance and the upslopping trendline breaking. Likewise, I also see a sort of pennant within your big pennant. Both I've drawn here in white. I think there is nothing wrong with trading patterns, but...