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$14,520 net on 266,000 shrs. Good options expiration day to end a super week, almost $40k. Have a good weekend all.

Wow, they are robbing you outright on the arca fees. Half a cent to add liquidity? You know they are making a .002 rebate on those trades? So they make .007 when you route arca, while other traders are lowering their costs to close to zero with a competitive rate and earning the credit...

Do you want to trade in an office or remote? If you want to trade US securities remotely, there are prop firms that will accept you.

$12,481 net on 89,000 shares

You might not know much about trading outside your closed world, but you know how to make us laugh!

$656 net on 191,000 shrs. Stepped on an earnings landmine that hit me for $2k. Oops.

Have you ever traded 10 positions at the same time, 3 minutes after the open, all manually? Hmmm.... ? Scaling out is a valid way to manage risk, take advantage of statistical odds of certain price moves and capture price spikes you can't react to fast enough. It has nothing to do with...

$2139 net on 193k shrs

$9363 net on 163,000 shares

Umm.... that's not a strategy. That's a setup for trade entry, which is one (and not the most important) part of a trade strategy.

$2740 net on 135,000 shrs. Slept in today and as a result took a stupid $1400 hit.

No, nyse and nasdaq only. I posted late yesterday because I was out for the whole day after trading in the morning.

$356 net on 60,000 shares. Very very light morning, only around the first hour.

A lot of those market wizards were making big bets in very volatile commodity markets. So they lost big and won big. Way more info available today on how to trade, and with such liquid and easily accesible markets, if you are smart, it's pretty easy to limit the learning curve to just a slow...

If you are trading NQ and ES, why not look at trading QQQQ and SPY at a firm where your equivalent rates might actually be lower and you can have all the leverage you need? The etf's trade the same as the futures and the spreads are tighter. Since you are in Canada, there is no tax advantage...

$5,320 net on 106,000 shares

I probably pissed away $70K+ in 7 years of 'hobby trading' not knowing what I was doing. After getting serious and starting full time, I was down $13k from the learning curve before things turned around (4 months).

Lotsa cash and a huge tax liability

+ $484 net on 66,000 shares. Still have an erroneous trade showing, so only closed P/L is accurate

The biggest thing that's helped me be consistent is to trade multiple, non-correlated strategies. September is a perfect example. Two of my systems had rough drawdowns. One of them is my bread and butter, accounting for 60% of ytd p/l. Two other systems, one of which has been pretty...