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Hey Rigel,
You can just make or lose bigger when your account is bigger. A $400 loss can seem mighty small when your wins are much greater. Stay disciplined and write down rules to follow.
Robert
I can only talk about a few things I do as I've signed non disclosure documents with my firm and traders in my office I teach are required to sign the same forms.
We trade a black box system, heavily run with rules but it easily averages over $1000 per day
I play news constantly...
The returns are quite high for a system. How much data did you back test this over? A lot of systems that have high returns have a "marble...as my father puts it" in the system that produces a loss that is much more than all of the gains combined and than some. Make sure you don't...
I use futures but they stop trading 15 minutes before open while E mini continues. I keep an eye on e mini due to heavy arbitrage as it will usually be the same.
I think it is pretty obvious that there isn't much in new blood around. The above post was something I heard from the head office. I have yet to lose a trader at an office I manage. I do not see the stats on traders so that question would best be addressed by calling head office in...
I miss seeing these commercials on TV. They used to play in San Diego all the time on CNBC
http://www.princetondaytrading.com/PrinceDaytrading.html
click on the left hand side and see TV ads
Robert