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it's not really important as futures and spot get continueasly arbed by those in the know and that have the tiniest commissions costs. It most likely doens't even come close to being possible to get arbed like 99% of the time ....

Surf, maybe you might wanna tone it down a bit after the last few months ...

I have lots of losers, and quite a few of breakevens, only about 38% winners in my current setup ...

stop: I got my spreadsheet that shows me where my optimal stop is (I did some 3D modeling for that; it took me ages to get that one ... lol) and also look at the number of consecutive losers I expect ... from there one I try to "guesstimate" my maximum drawdown and adjust my leverage to that ...

well any 'wisdom' I gathered was mostly gained by hitting my head against a brick wall over a few times. Not everything I 'know' can be put down in just a few lines. One thing you don't want to do: write naked options without being decently hedged somehow. Don't touch options if you don't...

not fulltime professional, more as a hobby at this moment due to health problems ... but this hobby takes mostly 8 hours a day ....

I have been a trader for years, I was a futures local on the options floor in Amsterdam, an options market maker for a bank, I have been a broker too for almost 8 years, been trading options for my own, I know quite a few fundmanagers and plenty of professional traders ...

the only people I know being able to trade multiple instruments managed their trades also on a portfolio level. I don't think it can be done any otherwise, esp. if you go overnight.

Well, you can think what you want: I know way more people with great equity curves that stick to one or two products. People humping from one thing to the next are typical retail 'investors' that sooner or later fuck up in a big way ...

Trrading the same instrument every day that's where you start to apply the math ... since you will have meaningfull figures. If you jump from pruduct to product ... well most likely you are just gambling on hunches ...

I couldn't agree more ...

Oh, and in fact I lied: my income wasn't 100% from options during that time ... I wrote a few articles about investing around that time ... for which I got paid off course ... each article was worth like half a day trading income like every two months (yup, I got paid well). Antoher nice...

Surf, you know you can make money if acting as a market maker. In fact I saw you state that's it's one of the only real edges you know. When I stated that I was making a nice consistant income with that like 8 years ago on ET people where all over me saying that is it was impossible and that it...

Nobody in their sane mind is going to post their real account statements here. What good would come out of that ... And if they did the first thing someone would say if they were profitable is that they were photoshopped. Next thing they need some kinda notary or accountant. The whole discussion...

I am with Dukascopy since a week, that's a real ECN, pretty deep for most players out there ... The real thing is even better than the demo ...

been over eight years with oanda and left them a week ago thanks to their 'new improved dynamic spreads' ... Went to Dukascopy and quite satisfied so far ...

Everyone that didn't use a stop I knew blew up eventually, and one had a 20 million account ... the only way to survive in the LONG run is by using stops ...

And for god's sake, throw math at your spreadsheet ... or you might go in circles for another few years ...

just to know we are not all aliasses here. I learned a lot from cornix (on your linkedin list too) and Xspurt (not on our linkedin). But I learned too from other traders that are neither on ET or on my linkedin. I believe good trading is adapted to ones personality. I took a bit of info of...

yes, you do ...