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I'm not going to sweat it either way. If this combine ends successfully for CL trading in funded fashion, great. If not, I know much better what needs be done one more time around. If things work out in this one, I know I can put cash in somebody's account(s) as a funded trader. I knew that...

ZS is splitting volume now between Nov 12 and Jan 13 contracts. I don't have time to figure out all the parameters there... I have NQ all figured out with nothing else to learn or be surprised by there. But first, I want to focus on CL alone and worry about what else somewhere down the road.

yes, my point. I can technically trade ZS well and pull it out, but that's neither here nor there for future reference. I won't be trading it at all if funded. So I'll work ZS if necessary to complete the combine parameters this round, and done with it past there regardless.

gotcha... still mathematically alive in all categories with or without ZS... not a deal-breaker at this moment in time.

I don't know how to look that up. I'd guess probably so, we'll see. I won't trade them any further so whatever it is, it will be edit: I figured it out, two different tabs for viewing on the profile. ZS would disqualify me now because win % is below 45 and the only way to raise that would be...

I didn't realize it was possible to run multiple combines for various symbols in the future. I figured funded once and done. That's on me, it was my responsibility to know ahead of time. If I miss the specs for this round I'll repeat with just CL alone and feel pretty confident about hitting...

Michael, I have a question. What I ask may or not be possible so whatever your answer is, ends the conversation here. Just so I'm not opening a potential can of worms :) When I began my combine eight days ago, I made the decision to attempt trading three (3) symbols at once: CL, ZS and NQ in...

It was a poor decision on my part, in hindsight. I was looking ahead, planning on working several different symbols in the future. I did not realize a person can take separate combines at different times for different symbols, etc. Overall, piss-poor decision on my part. I'm extremely...

Excellent day for day-trading. 1st day of new CL contract (Dec) delivered the 300+ cent range we predicted two days ago. Nice trend moves in CL and NQ... they both threw out free money like candy off floats at a holiday parade. But I managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory thru...

if that was pending before MFG and PFG, I'm guessing it'd be a lot tougher to pass now or in the future

You pried it out of me... but it's been there since minute one. Hence my veiled reference of "personal pride" in one of the very first posts :)

If the funding isn't one's driver, the combine is a waste of time because no one will succeed for any other reason Secondly, what's so hard to fathom about accepting free money? Here I sit in my home office, in a backwoods tiny town smaller than most big-city blocks. I ain't interested in...

regardless that it worked for years... still nothing more than a temporary edge. The term "temporary" being spatial relative. There is one, and only one lasting, never-changing behavior to all financial markets: they contract, and then they expand. That is the only constant in trading...

go back and read the umpteen posts about free money, extra money, on top of every personal dime one already has to their name extra money posts if all that I wrote earlier fails to reach your willing comprehension, insanity is not your biggest mental issue

show me one... and I certainly don't mean some inane market calls thread here in ET. That's less than worthless. I'm talking about visual proof of a mean-reversion futures trader. All that I've ever seen do real well for awhile, until one fine day when an extended trend period sets in and...

no, what they do is succeed for awhile, then blow out in spectacular fashion when they try to find the turn in that inevitable huge directional move only a matter of when, not if... and those who martingale = add to losers die the fastest fiscal deaths of all

This combine is damn hard because it mirrors real money in every way. Anyone who dicks around in sim and thinks this is similar will be sadly mistaken. It has rigid structure and 3rd party oversight. There are no do-overs if you lapse and screw up. In my case, I've got 1,000 - 1,300+ hits per...

no offense, eagle... I meant none either. no apology necessary :) I began trading OEX and SPX options in 1999. Went to ES futures in 2002, ER2 futures in 2004, good dose of FX along the way. Dabbled with bond futures, traded quite a bit of 6E and NQ as well. Started trading CL in 2010...

seems like forever now :) Long enough to know I can pass this combine if I focus real hard, or ace the next one if I work equally hard, disciplined and smart. The one session where I swung from +$3,100 to -$2,900 start to finish is the pivotal hinge to this round. I'd like to have that...

forever, is the answer for the life of me I cannot think of a futures symbol that sucks any worse for profitable trading than ES right now. it is hands down the worst short-term trading symbol with by far the largest percentage of losing traders wallowing in that mire