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    Characteristics of a Successful Trader

    <i>"A successful trader doesn't give a fuck about these psychological BS."</i> So we cleared up the fact about your swearing in this thread before. Hope your pattern recognition skills are stronger in the charts than that. Serious traders who reach the stage of this thread have long ago...
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    Characteristics of a Successful Trader

    <i>"What did I miss?"</i> Here's what you missed. This entire forum is for the most part a toxic waste dump... polluted by losers and posers who feel the need (insecurity) to trash threads whenever possible. Every now & then a legitimate trader musters the energy to create an interesting...
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    Characteristics of a Successful Trader

    <i>"While you're at it, do you mind clicking on the "Trades" tab and share the actual trades made throughout the day?"</i> If you were asking that of me, my post was a shut-up offer. I was pretty sure the alias it was addressed to didn't have anything to retort besides more blustery rhetoric...
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    Characteristics of a Successful Trader

    <i>"Being humble and no joke, I doubt it. I've made more than "most" of the guys in ET. But do we really have to get into a bragging session? I really don't think so."</i> Well son, I really do. It's ok to be young & stupid, we've all been thru that part of the calendar before you. Most of us...
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    Who at ET trades for a living?

    <i>"...did u feel the squeeze comin this avo ? 3 years screen time qualified me"</i> Indeed. Took some losses on the long side early until it finally popped, but was pretty sure it would happen. Short side paid the bills. Screen time helps :D
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    Revealed! The PERSONAL FINANCES of a Real Trading Guru

    <i>"Jeez you can't post anything on this site anymore without some people thinking your the friggin devil."</i> Just two perennial losers there, Brandon. No worries, everyone has them on ignore from long ago. Carry on, and best wishes always
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    Characteristics of a Successful Trader

    <i>"I guess you just can't look past the nuance of my poor English. Well, that make 2 shallow people, you (who judges something by the impression, not the content) and me (who's a worthless, immature and insulting kid)...."</i> Actually, we just consider the source. Fact that EricP made more...
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    Firearm Wanted

    <i>"Although at very close range, it almost doesn't matter; like you said, pretty much anything coming out of a 12-ga inside of a room or apartment is going to blow off whatever it hits."</i> I'd venture to guess that I've fired more collective 12ga rounds in my life than about 90% of this...
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    Firearm Wanted

    <i>"you'll want to buy 3" magnum OO buckshot rounds, NOT slugs or birdshot. "</i> not to be nit-picky, but big shot = small buckshot like T's to #5 buck generate much more damage at point-blank range that 00 buckshot. 00 buckshot is designed for use out to 50 yards or so... larger but...
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    Firearm Wanted

    <i>"unlicensed pistol in NYC = mandatory minimum 3 1/2 year prison sentence"</i> correct... any NYS resident must have a pistol permit to even purchase a handgun from someone else. If the OP bought a handgun from another NYS resident, that person would be committing an equal crime of handgun...
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    Smart money in NQ

    <i>"When institutions are hedging their positions and buying/selling thousands and thousands of contracts, do you seriously think they can fragment their orders so much that it wont show on my >50 filter??? please........."</i> It doesn't work that way. #contracts reflected in blocks on your...
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    Incredible 77 Full ES points Call/Prediction in less than 12 hours!

    <i>"What is very sad, is the fact that a trader just needs 1 lousy tick a day to make 2% per day with a $500 margin! Yet we could safely say 99% of all traders can't ever get there to make 1 tick a day. I mean, people that was 77 points in one day! 51 Points the day before that! A couple of...
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    IN THIS THREAD: IronFist learns (the elusive) PRICE ACTION

    Suri Diddella's (apology if sic) book is a must-read for new price pattern traders. That's big-picture pattern recognition coverage. If you don't have it, buy it now. fwiw, he doesn't even know I'm alive let alone we have no affiliation whatsoever. Before anyone even almost asks. For inner...
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    Trader P/L 2008

    <i>"have a question for ES/YM traders.....was today a relatively tough day to make money?"</i> Overall, yes. Today was akin to trading an FOMC afternoon on steriods, bell to bell. If you are skilled and aggressive, and have good fortune to enjoy stops holding into a big price swing, it was...
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    IN THIS THREAD: IronFist learns (the elusive) PRICE ACTION

    <i>To summarize... the words, "I don't know" dominate my post</i> Based on where you are at right now, I'd honestly opine you are about two years' away from a solid understanding of trading price action. Be patient, give yourself until roughly Dec 2010 and your self-education should get...
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    Equity traders have proven themseleves on ET, futures traders remain a mystery

    <i>"Even one of the best daytraders I know ...a consistant 7 figure guy tried trading futures for 2 months, and gave up saying they are too fast and confusing"</i> emini index futures trading is based on the stock market, but is very different from trading individual stocks. A few of the key...
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    AHG method = complete bS price action

    <i>"You could also set you're targets based on the particular set up. Certain patterns have specified targets, if you're running multiple contracts then you can peel them off at different levels."</i> Most traders never realize that secret of price action behavior. Every signal setup has...
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    Trader P/L 2008

    The expected short squeeze sure took forever to light fire. Do they always have to wait for the final hour to write our checks? Covered longs TF at 395 / ES at 762.50 and thought those were lofty levels. Riding out the gut-wrenching whipsaws that followed would have tripled this take. So...
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    How did Anek make a 100 grand today?

    <i>"It would be nice austin, Unfortunately people like anek know that the CFTC would laugh at me. Imagine if I called them and say look CFTC I got these emails from anek, a member of my trading room a year ago. He praised me, and did recommend about 7 of his friends to my web site. Now...
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    How did Anek make a 100 grand today?

    <i>"I swear on my children, I did not write that shit. Man, you are done here, your reputation has hit bottom low. Putting this (blanked) on ignore. Anek</i> Well, if that's indeed the case, Alex handed his head to you on a silver platter there. Simply report all of this to the CFTC where he...
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