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The chart setup you refer to is from a generic 5min timeframe, with the open range and price-action measurements projected from that at precisely 9:35:01am est. If you, me and 6,004 other ES traders mark the chart like that at 9:35:01am est, we all see the exact-same thing... where price...

those are two of the parameters, yes. Now again, by no means am I complaining or suggesting TST is doing anything out of line or wrong. Just so we're all perfectly clear on that fact :) At 8am this morning with a booked "profit' of $3,000+ and account balance at $152,000+ my mindset was...

We are saying the same thing :) The only way I'm trading 10 - 15 lots is by scaling in over two - three staggered entries. That is why sideways chop days like this morning are brutal to this approach... by the time a scale is complete, price is whipsawed back the other way. I'm working it...

as I said before, by no means am I complaining or denigrating the program... not for a minute, no one bit. my real-time participation analogy is this: applicants sign up for a career driving school bus (risk control) and the driver's test is performed in a nascar style hot-rod with road test...

my one suggestion of a lesser minimum profit mandate takes into account anyone's style of trading able to consistently yield 160% annualized with tight downside restrictions relative to those upside swings. a -2% max downside risk (-3000) seeking +160% annualized upside gain (+12,000 in ten...

Well, it's entirely possible I'll finish this segment at $162,000+ ot $170,000+ and balance the win/loss ratio at >45% Merely two (2) CL trades for +100 cents on ten (10) contracts is +$20,000 gross. 100+ cent intraday trades happen all the time in CL... several or more per week on average...

fwiw, by 8am and third cup of coffee this morning, my combine account was at $152,500+ If that was real cash, it represents +$10,000 monthly on $150k or +80% annualized after four days of trading. That's not good enough to meet one combine minimum criteria. The current criteria includes...

there is a difference between trading for money... and trading for benchmark performance the combine qualification is based on benchmark performance which includes downside risk control AND upside minimum profits in limited segments of time. the funded trader is only benchmarked to...

I set my alarm for the European open at 4:00am. Traded CL short side for a peak equity high of $3,000+ closed out by 7:15:41am eastern. From there I traded further until past the pit-session open and ended the morning at personal shutoff drawdown. That begin to end process happened for two...

those are not "nice dollar swings" in my vernacular, nor do I mock other traders at all. Just because price action covers a range of 100 or 200 cents does not mean it was methodically tradeable. The same logic that May 6th 2010 emini selloff was not methodically tradeable.... even though ES...

CL tape had a bad hair day. Total range-chop, very spastic pops and drops, some slippage on more than half the turns. Usually when CL puts in a session like this, it precedes a strong trend day or days to follow. Will be prepared for that scenario if it unfolds tomorrow. Otherwise, chopped on...

aren't you tired of talking to the proberbial brick wall yet?

As market karma always has it: I laid off ZS trading today, and it in turn spilled straight lower from one sell signal to another. Where the hell was that deliberate trending yesterday when I held one 10-lot short after another? CL program spiked straight up early, backed off a tad from the...

I kept shorting and shorting ZS because I "knew" it was high-odds to drop. And it did... but in too raggedy fashion for catching a ride. All the stuff you listed above and everything else imaginable used to keep me up at night. After you do this long enough, everything just ceases to matter...

I missed answering that :) -855 total, including all The only real judgement mistake(s) I made today were two times near end-session in ZS, I had ten-lot shorts than went just barely past $2,000 each but were still several cents above price-action projected targets of 1548 to 44. Two...

I am treating this like it is real money, and there is $150,000 reward at the end of a ten-day effort. Anything other than that is merely a voluntary donation of entry fees, imo :)

I peaked at +$2070 CL first thing early on 5-lots, and wanted to establish ZS and NQ as part of the program too. Worked 5-5 for 10 lots ZS as largest, several of those thru the day. In retrospect, sticking with CL and quitting at $2,000 or trading the subsequent buy signals (there were plenty...

as noted in the blog link, more than 1/3 of that was reentry after booted orders. I'd be short five, want to add five and would close it out because app was on "S" instead of "T" long story short, I cannot manage multiple symbols on a new-to-me platform. I'm getting old, or maybe I was never...

What anyone else does or does not do is none of my concern. I for one am very serious about actual performance in this project, for a number of reasons starting with personal pride. In addition to that, there is the promise of capital funding with negotiable upside potential of size and...

my definition of a pro definitely does not include anyone who makes paper trade calls in the chit-chat section of an anonymous message board. can you agree that would be about the least probable place to find a serious, real-money trader in actual operation?