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I have two key trading methodologies that do not involve the usual drivers: The first one is based on emg posting the price at which he's planning to go long or short while he's hanging out at Volente's Bar and Grille. If he's planning to go short at a price, I immediately buy at the market...

Original words: Firstly, the only "demands" are coming from you as you continue to demand proof of something in 10 days that even months of proof have been insufficient for you. Secondly, interrupting my live trading for no purpose of value to me is an opportunity cost I've no interest in...

If I managed a fund I'd never be able to generate the returns I generate because the way I trade is conducive to trading small size and staying under the radar. Why do you guys insist on comparing the methods and results of a small retail trader to a big managed fund? I scalp 15-30 times a...

Let's examine this for accuracy: "None of the metrics for trader evaluation are reasonable." That's your opinion. If I were looking for top trading talent, I'd have very similar metrics. Why screen for mediocrity? "I say this as I can provide a track record trading futures (YM, ES...

No, when I mentor traders I guide them to discovering exactly what I discovered so it's their very own. At one time I tried teaching the rules to people without the understanding behind it and they either didn't understand what I was doing or if they did were afraid to trade this way because it...

I don't need funding, so sharing a portion of my profits is NOT zero upside. My trading plan has fixed rules, which makes it easy to apply. There's no price driver, fundamental, news-based, too high/too low decisions to make. If price does X, place an order at Y, and a stop at Z. Stay with...

Add? Exit? We'll have to just trust you on your response since you didn't call anything in real time.

Ammo has called his trades live here for years and he uses TA (market profile). TA works beautifully for me, ammo, cornixforex (also a live call trader), geez (called his trades well in advance of entry trigger, no less), and PABuster (these are all traders I've been able to observe trading...

My student? Excuse me? The reason I connected with Ammo was to ask questions about the inner workings of the markets. He was a professional market maker before I even knew what a trade was. He is in no way my student. I told him a bit about how I traded, and he explained MP to me. The...

If you have a system with an edge, you won't be selling it. If you're selling a system, it has no viable edge. Yes, they do. A daily ATM machine, in fact. :)

A stop loss is a stop loss, whether it's in your head or with your broker. Everyone uses one, by the way, whether they know it or not: "Hoffman blew up today. He had Martingaled short about 852 TF contracts and was down about $250K when the system (He uses Infinity) locked the account and...

Can you be a bit more specific on your live trade calls...entry price, stop loss and minimum profit target? That's how I posted my live calls here, for example:

By spending even a single day in a simulated trading environment in an attempt to prove something to someone, I lose. Good trading to you guys this week!

ammo and I were telling each other how to trade each other's methods a while back and I'm sure his eyes were as glazed over when I was describing precision scalping as mine were when he was describing scaling into positions using market profile. My brain was too hard wired in my time frame to...

There's a form of golf called extreme golf in which the speed of course completion is a factor in determining the winner. If Tiger Woods competed against the top extreme golf players and lost several matches, does that mean there's something wrong with the techniques and strategies Woods used to...

That is truly a gem. There, now anyone surfing ET for a gem can do a search for the word "gem" and read Steve's commentary. This is what it's all about, the core concept behind profitable trading, it's the Holy Grail. BTW, I'm now using pullback limit orders more often than stop entries. I...

Can you please provide the links to your real-time calls for these trades? More importantly, in the spirit of Brother Surf who is demonstrating the superiority of his price driver approach to trading by posting trade calls in his journal, would it be possible to post your next week's trades...

This article sums up the author's opinion of why day trading is difficult. It's full of opinion and void of facts, starting with the title "The Only Way To Day Trade". There are many ways to day trade successfully; there's no only way to do it. Think about that statement logically: If...

I have CR on Ignore and only saw his post because you quoted it. I won't go into details about the PMs leading to Ignore, but suffice it to say that anyone with a big ego is not ready to begin to learn to trade. We would be wasting each other's time. My mentoring involves first ensuring the...

On average, I'm "right" (meaning my trades hit my minimum profit target) about half the time. Geez, who worked a regular job while trading and day traded equities using only a laptop, returned well over 100% the year I observed him trading (all calls in advance, so no fudging was possible)...