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So once you start losing money net net, you will stop?

You'd also have to consider the following fact: you would see the least delta in account value the better you actually trade, while the more you lose the greater leverage you are allowed to use. Now think of this in light of one's trading career, over the long haul -- what are you rewarding...

If preservation of capital is your priority, where would you draw the line and stop trading a certain method?

Did you consider the fact that doing so may turn positive expectancy into a negative one -- especially with the added limit of 2% max loss?

Is that really how you consider what kinds of systems to employ and how you explore for edges? What I mean is, that's not a trick question? :)

That's a pretty big assumption. So you believe money management and position sizing can directly provide an edge over the long run? To others who have tried this method -- do you really, actually, without exception, stop yourself out at 2%? Also, if 2% is max loss for a method that can go...

I guess we differ on our interpretation of "discretionary". To me, someone using charts, indicators, especially tape or price action, can also be considered discretionary, as there is quite a bit of subjectivity involved. I do not imply discretionary = hunch or pure intuition, as you seem to...

I understand. However, any dollar amount posted means very little if you cannot know how many contracts it may have taken to achieve that return -- especially if we are talking about pyramiding SAR's. Can you at least reveal the ratio between the largest and smallest position size? Is it, say...

Did you actually segregate funds into a separate account to execute these trades, or did you have access to your entire position trading BP? What was the largest position size taken over the course of the experiment, if you don't mind revealing? Don't mean to be a pest, just questions...

You know this after experimenting (your word) with a small fraction of your total funds for less than a year, and having the ability to offset decisions/results against your bread-and-butter position trading? Would you put your entire trading account into this method, and recommend other...

Dude, didn't you start a whole thread dismissing the idea of intraday trading as an unworthy (yet somehow profitable) endeavor? It seems like what is getting in the way here is systemized preservation of ego. Instead trade to win, don't trade not to lose. No offense, I'm just saying, by...

Avoid intraday quotes.

One might question whether one wants to be on the "right side of the market", all the time -- the market ensures that those who have been right will be "wrong" eventually, relatively speaking, on all time frames. Graphically and in hindsight the shifts are somewhat easy to point to; in real...

They just had their chance to hike -- when was the last time a central bank raised rates inbetween meetings that didn't involve defending a falling currency? :)

I think currencies are no more/no less difficult than any other widely traded futures market in terms of efficiency, as for liquidity it's definitely not as deep as treasuries or sif's but for smaller players that's not a problem and the volatility would be an added plus. It's just a...

Ah thx. Makes GC/SI come in handy.

I've been listening lately (for the first time really) to Aimee Mann, saw her on conan and somehow got hooked. Last I checked they're still hanging (if not as low). :D

Oh and one more thought: Being humble as a trader has nothing to do with how much you are prepared to make from the markets. I think that when the struggle takes years to overcome, the natural instinct for this trader, when he does figure out something for himself, is to want to "take less, not...

Where and how do you see in my post as belittling another trader? The worst words I used were directed at the "brokers". I think it's a pretty obvious fact that many are drawn to fx trading because they can open an account and trade with a couple K or less, if you can find a more common reason...

Came back from a nap -- what made the $3 intraday gap in ZGG7?