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Mav: <i>Even our resident active TSTer Austin has made this comment time and time again. Now while it's true these traders also broke TST rules (usually violating the max intra-day drawdown) the fact that they couldn't even follow their own self imposed rules tells you a lot about the type of...

now stop that, sit patiently and trust you will eventually see what you need to see. More often than not, the market will reward you if your edge is real :) good luck!!!

Long 100.50+ and/or long 100.70+ were both buy signals off the "headfake" failed-down waggle just past the pit open. Then following top failure and v-turn lower from 101.30+ high, 100.80 zone was the breakdown sell out of key congestion. I'm not trading CL right now, but I am monitoring the...

No matter, I was just surprised to see what was long forgotten. Like I said, about a month ago I was adding a chart tool with similar name while multi-tasking and hit "floor pivots" by mistake. So I looked at them for awhile before moving on to the intended task at hand. Appears to me that...

Ya know, it was probably not long past that time when I dropped floor trader pivots from my charts. About a month ago I was looking at them on 5min charts, nothing much had changed. Trading key S/R zones out of contractions into expansions. Timeless concept. I still don't use floor trader...

Dude... you just ran across an article from May 2008... as in six years ago now? You definitely need to get out more! <lol>

Russell is not available in combines and I assume you are correct with the added fees, etc. CME and CBOT have numerous products, ICE only has one of real popularity. Makes sense to me :)

lull in volatility... in particular contracted ranges for CL intraday. Had two-three weeks of great volatility across the board, otherwise only NQ and TF offer consistent intraday expanded ranges so far.

That sounds plausible... except for the fact that no such parameters exist in funded status. You might make a huge gain in the combo, then take 50 days to make 5% return once funded status. Again, the different parameters here seem incongruous to me. But it's more a curiosity on my part than...

Mav, it's always a pleasure having a conversation about trading with you. We don't always agree on everything, but I enjoy the open-minded dialogs regardless :) The only reason I spent so much time on this topic is that I cannot figure out the logic of this one single issue. It seems to me...

So if a trader meets all parameters but only makes $1 profit in the combine, they get rolled over? I don't think I knew that at the time, and I didn't know that now. Which leads me to reiterate this: if you are still in contention for a funded status without making the minimum profit once or...

That'd be swell if the combines were free. Do you want to pay for 100 combines while trying to be profitable enough? Now remember, I was net profitable and if there was no time limit on profit goals I'd be net profitable every time. Every time... but most times would be a lot longer than ten...

Sure there is... a damn good reason. It's day eight, nine or ten and you are behind the mandated profit minimum. Fail to reach that and you lose. So what's the harm if you gun it and try to play catch-up? A time-limited profit mandate ENCOURAGES gambling behavior when deadlines arrive. Now...

THAT IS MY POINT!!!! an arbitrary 10-day or 20-day stretch with minimum profit mandates means nothing. So why add the minimum profit mandate as an artificial bar to reality? hell, Lescor would have failed many combines during his thread run, and he made $600+K that year.

A 50k combine requires +$350 averaged daily result. That's easy as sin in a volatile market and impossible in a dead market. Doesn't matter which symbol, true statement overall. This is why practically no funded traders have been announced by email lately. The popular markets are mostly flat...

You and others missed my point: the end result was net profitable. Very much so, on a yearly basis. The fact that it did not meet TST combine parameters is irrelevant to trading success in general. One can pass a combine and fail to be net profitable over time, one can be net profitable over...

Nasdaq 100 or Russell 2000 eminis for any individual futures trader are my suggestions. ES is the toughest and CL is a different league of frustrations for anyone but experienced veteran traders What the CL was from 2008 - 2011 to what it is today are two completely different, totally...

Yes, we agree. And whether that means day trading or swing trading is equally true. I am here in this conversation speaking from a perspective of statistics and math relative to combine parameters. You are here in this thread and all other threads speaking from a decided opinion that day-trading...

swing trading certain instruments has advantages over day-trading, and certain instruments have disadvantages. For example, you might guess correctly that the S&P 500 is going down soon, but get stopped out several times on ES shorts near highs before the inevitable drop begins overnight while...

here is the synopsis of combine I did that was profiled in here couple years ago via soybeans and crude oil. In those ten days the account balance grew from $100,000 to $103,340,000 which is roughly +$6,600 monthly (20 sessions) or a 75% annualized return ($6,600 x 12 months) with -2270 trough...