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I did fine with CL, did terrible in executions with ZS. Shorted it all the way from break off highs into the close... and failed to profit. Once again I fumbled keystroke orders when it mattered most, and ZS was not forgiving enough today for masking my execution errors...

I'll do that... and there will be trades every day. I'm going to work with CL and ZS in equal fashion, sometimes NQ added if conditions warrant. Next week 10/18 - 10/19 is monthly CL rollover, it often gets squirrely then. ZS sometimes makes a lock-limit move this time of the year. So NQ will be...

the attraction is mostly psychological: that's what everyone talks about and reads about, therefore the only way to "measure up" is play the same game. imo ES is the worst possible symbol for individual traders to try and profit from. But its popular allure trumps reality of price action and...

I tried splitting my focus between usual trading thru ninja and combine trading thru T4... did a poor job of execution in both. Tomorrow I'm set to begin a ten-day, $150k project and that will have my complete focus other than CL trading for myself. The -$3,000 / +$12,000 parameters are...

it's doable for damn few individual traders... and precisely none of whom frequently post in any message board

what you did was validate the fact that ES "scalping" is a futile fallacy perpetuated from failed trader to failed trader. in human-logic theory it appears to work... but in applied reality, it is a fool's folly

Why would it be any easier trading strictly and correctly in sim versus cash? Other than the mental aspect, which of course has nothing to do with a methodology or system on its own. Markets don't know and don't care if a trader pushes buttons in sim or cash. This program does not reward sim...

keep in mind the term "targeted market" was not quoted by the company... it was bandied by an alias here. And I fall into the "always open for more capital" group. If indeed I qualify to begin with $150,000 and over time increase that to something far greater, good. If not, I'm no better...

There is a chance that the offer is bogus, and it's all just a ruse to pocket those sign-up fees. Assuming that scenario is the case, it won't be long before credit-card chargebacks and paypal protests will shut down payment acceptance. Even if the disclaimer is air-tight and TST successfully...

the target market would be skilled traders who are open to more capital offers. traders who cannot really trade obviously know that, and won't try to participate. traders who can trade and truly have enough capital to meet their personal desires are not candidates message board posters...

Most viewers here are not the target audience of such an offer. The vast majority of posters here are not profitable, have never been and never will be profitable traders. They are too lazy, too undisciplined and too unmotivated to do what it takes for real success in this profession. So...

When currency markets open at 8:20am eastern and all day while price action is moving, the DOM action is illegible and untradable. Since CL is a quasi-currency symbol, it adheres well to measured pullbacks and contraction breakout sequences. Trading price action is where the easiest $$ is...

Now just imagine where your trading results would be if you spent every single minute of this same wasted time breaking down scenarios on charts, analyzing price-action performance, noting repeated patterns and happenstance, etc. In other words, honing your skills and perfecting this craft...

price-action pullbacks and/or breakouts... 500-volume chart or similar, 10-range setting, 500 tick or similar, etc CL intraday trading off key price action is like stealing. Only easier. And legal.

CL day-margin is $1,000 with my broker. So what's the point? I can trade all my money now, and trade whatever else I want with OPM. 6E, ZS, more CL... lots of active, moving markets out there with high volatility levels and big-range $$ movement intraday. More symbols with size available...

easy... you add side when the market is going in your direction. Not add, add, add, add = puke while struggling to catch a peak turn, martingale suicide style. Add size into directional swings in harmony with market direction.

It appears to be an excellent opportunity for ANYBODY with skills to enhance their career in trading. Damn few intraday futures traders use or even actually keep more than $150,000 in an account. Many who once did at MFG and PFG now wished to hell they didn't. Also, over time if one profits...

think I got it figured out... day late and -$5000 unrealized short <wince> I didn't know where the "close position" button was, and I kept erring between the T and S buttons for enablement. Now, after the fact, I got it set for OCO -15 / +100 ticks CL and -12 / +40 ticks ZS. So that...

Risk, instead of finishing up +$2,500 in CL and $2,500 in ZS, I ended in a draw. No fault of the software or the market, not a matter of market confusion. Just 90% T4 execution errors on my part. I've been using NinjaTrader since 2005, and that platform logic is now instinctive. Since...

As someone with more than a little experience in various sides of this topic, that's all sensible advice. Here's what I see from the outside looking in... An entity has set up some form of nil-risk screening process to discover individual traders suitable for working with OPM in whatever...