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What are you trading that can't handle 100K?

Why is that? Not making enough per trade? Not making enough trades? Not having enough capital? Not having a defined edge?

When do you start to care and get exited?

Reward yourself for following your trading plan. If you followed the plan and lost money, it’s a good trade with a bad outcome. Concentrate on making good trades. If you have a sound plan the money will follow.

If you are a capable teacher, why are the traders failing? In any venture you are more likely to fail if: You don’t know what you are doing. You don’t have a well thought out business plan You are undercapitalized You don’t have the discipline to follow your plan.

Trading is a business, treat it like one if you want to succeed.

The ultimate test: Lock you dog and your girlfriend in the trunk for 2 hours and then see who's really happy to see you when you let them out.

What you have to realize is that the Poker Pro wins because he has honed his skills. The million dollars doesn't make a difference. Trading the ES or playing poker the skilled players will take money from the unskilled. If the unskilled has a big bankroll it will just take a little longer...

They don't always win. Put 10 professionals at a table and you only have one winner.

Of course a stop works. You enter a stop , the market hits it, the stop is executed. How is it that it doesn't work?

Years ago I read a narrative of Tony Oz’s trading. He was Day/Swing trading stocks with a $50,000 account. Each Friday he took the account back to 50K. During his write up he didn’t have a losing week so I don’t know how he would have handled that. It’s one of the things I have...

Darvas also had several fundamental criteria that he used.

Google $$Mr Market$$ He's still around and still seems to be picking winners in real time

Or it could be a late print.:)

PFG Canada; Comes with this warning: http://www.forexjustice.com/Review_Section/Forex_Broker_Reviews/PFG_BEST.html

If you have your heart set on trading e-minis there are some US brokers that will take Canadian Clients. I would contact Mirus, Infinity and Global futures to see. The other thing you can do is trade the ETFs with a Canadian broker. I have found that QID and QLD pretty well mimic the NQ...

Really if you don't have the minimum you shouldn't be trading E-minis.

IB Canada

You have the ultimate responsibility for the outcome of your trades. The only thing you can control in the market is yourself.

Now you're getting it. You can execute your plan flawlessly and still have a losing day. If your system has a positive expectancy you will come out ahead in the long run.