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I see it as exactly opposite. It is easier to short-term trade than long term. Plus it is less risky. But i admit...i am abit of a rebel to tradition. I question deeply most pundits advice.

Keeping only what you need in your account for your style of trading helps to force one to be disciplined and keeps one constantly be aware of how fast money can slip away. And how fast it can be made. Plus tends to cut down on revenge trading and trading too big.

Nothing is for certain but past performance can be somewhat indicative of future performance regardless of what the disclaimers say......ROFLMAO....OR backtesting is pigwash..and a waste of time. TA.....a waste of time. Fundamental analysis...a waste of time...ET a waste of time...algo...a...

not talking about 1 or 2 tick manual hft scalping. Talking about 1 to 8 points in Es. Don't need price ladder for that.

No one seems to get it. Transaction costs are peanuts compared to the compounding effect of short-term trading. If you are really good at it.

i guess it means you have a strategy that is somehow constrained by your capacity?? Why can't folks talk in colloquial terms???

I agree with you over the long haul....you reap what you sow..but in the short run some of the meanest..most narsisstic...arrogant..traders make the money. But they also tend to blow up LOL!

Totally understandable. One must employ methods that make sense to him and that work for him. Only when I traded stocks was I comforable holding days and weeks at a time. I have never held a single futures contract from one session to the next. Or one RTH session to the next. I make sure I am...

I just might do that...one day ROFLMAO. However, i will say I place hard stops but in about 40% to 50% of my trades (that is an estimate off the top of my noggin because I don't clutter myself up tracking it) I suffer no drawdowns. Period. That is, my actual risk (ACR) is 0.00. My initial risk...

As far as the other goes i don't need $10,000.00 to trade 1 contract of the eminis. Not the way I trade. That is some texbook BS that people read. Now if one is going to trade and hold from one session to the next and hold through draw downs (position trade) then yes. But if I scalp 1 to 8...

What a load of BS but I tend to agree with it.

For the sake of explanation I make this final post related to the expanding triangle pattern or megaphone. Why do I grab my 6 or 7 points on the first leg down? Why not hold through the PB and stay in? Why should I? The PB reached nearly back up to my entry. My argument is simply this. Best to...

Then are you and all the others jacking too? I see others posting stuff. Including you. Stuff that has nothing to do with surf or most just trolling him. At least i do take up for him ....sometimes. Most of you just mock him. Or post BS like "long 2387 Pt 2397 SL 2380). Then wait for the pat on...

Sorry, I not supposed too be posting here. I guess? But it can get boring waiting for the 1000 point plunge. In the meantime so many opportunities present themselves to make money. Maybe one day I will start a journal. Good luck surf. See you guys later. May pop in once in a while.

Did you see that megaphone pattern succeed? Surf maybe smiling. My previous post showed the pattern and I discussed what it indicated and it succeeding or failing to succeed before it did either. Fortunately, for surf it succeeded so he can breath a little freer. Just goes to show that PA...

Daily charts. In my post 1367, also a daily chart of the ES (ES and YM generally run together and I trade ES), I said we need to see a PB that holds outside the range. On the YM it is still holding. On the ES it is at bottom of range. Price tends to get sucked back in the range from any B.O...

Much more can be made riding the myriad of ups and downs as a larger move is made than taking a position at the begining of the move and holding till the end. Surf could have already made his thousand points. He best make haste and grab these 400 or so points, he has now. But he won't. Alas!

WHAT? How can we learn surf? You ain't tellings us your strategy. Your rationale, your tactics. We learn nothing from short XXXX PT XXXX STOP XXXX. DIVULGE YOUR SECRET..EH EH.. so we can learn.....there are a few on here that REALLY NEED TO LEARN...something...somehow..from somebody...

LOL ROFLMAO poor phone. Poor account. Somebody or something had to take the blame..can't be the magician. Trying to trade on momentum or speed of price movement is tough without factoring rate of change of the velocity. Is it increasing or is it decreasing over x amount of time. Cell phone can't...

To what? Entry xxxx ...pt xxx...exit xxx Monthly sub....xxxx Analysis/conclusion..i'm great!