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Let me rephrase that... a 7pt or 8pt or 9pt ES total range like those days truly were is not enough opportunity to meet the TST combine minimum profit objective. Secondly, not many ES traders make consistent money in such micro ranges... and not many traders in the world make money in the ES...

That would be a true state IF and only IF TST combines had no time limits. When you place a 10 or 20-day limit with small loss to outsize profit ratio as a mandate for success, you now introduce market variance as a major factor. $50k balance and 5 contracts can lose -$999 any given day or...

I advise to start out trading ES in real-time and don't even consider CL as a new trader. The speed at which it moves with your real money = real emotions on the line will cause you to break down discipline in a hurry. That, and CL can be a real chop monster in violent fashion for a day or...

whoever stated finding bigfoot would be easily accomplished? now what does either of those questions have to do with this conversation? I'm curious as all hell what the psychological driving force is behind the persistent posters of failure and doom. That is the question, nothing else. Why do...

What the hell does that have to do with this conversation? If one success out of countless failures exists in this profession, why do those who are convinced success is impossible keep wasting life's precious time preaching the negative to complete, random strangers here?

I agree with that too. Now for the segment of former market participants here who have since come to believe that successful trading is impossible, what compels them to return here and post that same message incessantly? If you & I believed it was impossible to catch a 30 pound largemouth...

You believe wrong. I couldn't care less what anyone in this site thinks or believes. I am simply taking the other side of this endless, and by that I mean years' long unending conversation. What I believe is irrelevant, we are discussing the nonstop array of threads that hammer on the points...

I don't disagree with that at all... but where is the line of believability drawn? We've all read numerous threads where short-term trading ain't worth it, nobody has an edge, markets are perfectly efficient over time, everybody loses eventually, etc. You even imply that Dan Zanger may not have...

OK, we all give up. After reading endless threads here about how trading is impossible, nobody has ever succeeded and nobody ever can, we all capitulate and agree that's the truth. Now what? Why should anyone on either side of the conversation ever log in here again? We all agree that...

According to all these similar threads, that is a stupid question. Nobody has what it takes. Nobody succeeds at trading. Everyone is a failure or a fraud or both. That's it, end of story according to all the doomsayers. Now what?

... to which I'll add, why is everyone who believes that even here? If trading is impossible and nobody can do it, why do the same people = different aliases continue to waste their time in trader message boards to begin with? Furthermore, why does this website here still exist? Should Baron...

CL used to be the automatic answer... prior to late 2012 when average daily ranges were $1,500 to $3,000+ per contract. Since the fundamental change in 2012, average daily ranges are now $600 to $1,000 and that is spiky-choppy thru it all. A look at yesterday's $600 chop range shows the new CL...

today has been rather quiet compared to last week and the week before of greater volatility. During many of those spiked moves, 10-lot stop-market waiting to fill on pullbacks and/or open trade exit were commonly partial fills in and slipped fills out, or both. when volatility ramps up, TF...

yes, we know this. Now the question is, how far to one side does the balance tip before the entire ship rolls over? if anyone here is gullible enough to think true market liquidity cannot be cut in half or worse as time goes on, they are deluded. Nothing at all stops markets from losing more...

first time in years with TF... I was under the illusion that bid/ask size actually mean you could fill bricks there. have you tried lately, yourself?

It's not irrelevant because the parasitic HFT siphoning trickles down thru all markets... stocks and futures alike. Order-flooding and bid-lifting prevents guys from filling 100 shares, 1000 shares, 5000 shares at their targeted prices. Some of those orders never fill because price moves away...

Big difference... HFTs are liquidity-sucking leaches that can only exist by front-running orders thru various tactics used. They create no liquidity, they contribute nothing. Just parasitic drains on the markets. The "liquidity" HFTs supposedly create is an illusion and outright sham. Any HFT...

First of all, that was my trading for the day. See the blotter right side? That's the end. One & done. Secondly: official 2014 PnL "blotter" thread. same rules as previous years trader PnL threads The rules for this thread state no conversation or chit-chat. Post a blotter or stay out, and...

When I posted the prior blotters, a number of emails thru this site said the account # was invalid, that it was photoshopped, etc. Obviously I'm held to a different standard, which is fine. From Monday onward the posts will look much like attached except for a partial account # will be left...

Seriously? If you know that much about me, you can easily find today's ES trading sequences on youtube where the gameplan was called ahead of time... before 9:30am bell even rang. Then you can see the entry levels called ahead of time, see the trade taken in real time, see the results unfold in...