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Thank you Surf. I prefer to rely on the numbers though, not luck. :)

Let's see in the process. :)

Thank you RN!

I'll post blotters with P&L in points per contracts, because as I said it's the most objective measure of performance provided risk per trade in points is also known. Dollar figure is none of anybody's business (I live in Russia, don't forget it :) ) and can greatly vary without slightest...

CTS is a platform, Cunningham Trading Systems, pretty popular among futures and future options traders, I am surprised you don't know about it.

I don't know who does and what's their style. Also I don't want to post sporadic calls, want to show actual performance record of certain signals. Sometimes I know the entry and place an order minutes before entry and sometimes less than a second or real-time. You certainly have a point that...

Blotter will include CTS T4 instrument symbol to make sure it's live trades. More serious due diligence is possible in future but certainly not going to throw pearls to the pigs, so only for serious people who are constructively interested in the matter. :)

I won't do it in advance, because it's a distraction. Trading is a priority over posting and styles differ, my style assumes sometimes milliseconds between signal appearance and order placement. But will post blotters without any doubts. No charts are planned so far at all, this thread is...

Why not. :)

After multiple arguments on the matter I decided to bring a bit of objectivity to the field of continuous holy war and demonstrate some of the actual performance achieved with use of a couple simple TA signals. Will I prove TA has some value or the opposite, time will show. :) Brief...

Yes. Specialization. Our brain needs to build proper connections between cells to really learn something to an automatic level. That's how the fact we can never "unlearn" to ride a bike works. Same in trading. One big mistake newbies do is they search and search and change methods looking for...

One speaks about how emotions are easy part who obviously has never even traded seriously, when years of hard work are sublimated to the fact if your edge works or not in the "now". It's much the same in most professions associated with responsible decision making. There's a widely known...

Don't know what exactly "big money" uses, but TA and particularly breakouts still work very well. It's just a little bit more nuanced than "buy the break and cash in later".

No I don't speak about cheating the nature here. Cheating never works, you're absolutely correct. Rather about changing your system of beliefs. It doesn't happen overnight. Good pilot knows self-control and proper actions are the only way to survive, so does trader. If you ask me...

Entry is the most important part of successful trading, so yes it is. :)

I would even say, one signal.

Speaking of self-control, it probably can be taught as well. That's what happens with boys in the army. Problem with trading is IMO that there's no "sergeant" nearby most wannabe retail traders to shout in their ear when they do something wrong (and right too :) ). So self-taught...

It depends. Live and especially no limit holdem yes, is much psychological game. But if we speak about online (where bots are possible to be used) and especially fixed limit games, then it's much pure odds with very little psychological pressure component. Just like trading: you have several...

Black jack or poker. They say poker bots exist, but still are way inferior to humans. There's a reason for that.

I agree that price is by far more important than volume. I have it on charts but more for general considerations/context of what's happening. All actual entries/exits are purely price based.