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One of the main truths I have learnt is there is literally no "proprietary" stuff in discretionary trading. All is in front of eyes, everything needed is just some help from someone to push you to deliberately practice and keep doing it until you succeed. :) Real proprietary stuff, such as...

LOL... No, really my goal is not being a guru or feel "cool"... Some people helped me a lot in past... for free. So I have to "pass what you have learnt" (c) Yoda. :D

Yeah, planning to throw in some s/w to produce automated track record so that people could follow it...

Ha, just template designer, it's fair to give him credit. Advertising pays just for hosting, no intention to make it serious source of income, rather to have a place to discuss trading under my own rules, not being obligated to obey someone else's.

LOL... Would be against ET rules to post it... But can be easily found, being equal to my username. :p

It is interesting, because I don't see how currency markets are any different from other markets (set aside typical "market character" of course). All just a matter of getting used to a certain market. dv4632, who posted in this thread said today on my site, that it's got easier for him...

I don't know if brokers often bet against their clients, but I have seen many, many trades going in a hair from stop-loss to yield a decent profit after. Probably the factor of brokers betting against clients is much exaggerated, which looks perfectly logical, hence it switches responsibility...

Yep. Sample size should be large enough to be a legit proof.

You spent $60K on Jack Hershey? :eek:

Absolutely agree, DV... But you know, I am a shrink, so am very interested about real roots of ssss's disbelief in trading and willing to help him to find those reasons and maybe fix them. :)

I am asking you. If someone showed you a credible track record of many trades with average win rate over 60% (after all fees and spread) with at least 1:1 risk/reward, would you admit retail trading is possible?

Can you simply answer "yes" or "no"? If someone posts a verified statement of thousands of trades, which clearly show presence of an edge (say 66% profitable trades with 1:1 R/R) would you consider it luck or something else?

Even win as a result of say 1000 of trades is just fortune, not professionalism?

And if someone showed you statements audited by serious organization such as CFTC you would conclude that retail trading is possible?

So anyone can request SEC to audit his/her performance and give official conclusion?

How can SEC or CFTC make you a proof of some retail trader's activity? I wonder what else could make you believe it's possible. What about live calls? Would you believe your own eyes if trades were called to you in advance? :)

What if statement is made by 3rd party and is clearly not fake? What about live calls? Would you consider someone just lucky if he/she made you say 100 live calls in a row which would yield decent profit overall?

I am not trying to prove you anything here, just asking: what IF you met such a trader, saw 3rd party verified track record or witnessed many trades called live? Would you say he/she just got lucky to have a streak of thousands of trades making him/her decent profit overall?

What if some retail "operator" is consistently profitable for years and thousands of trades? Is it pure luck?

Do you state that retail trading is impossible?