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with this much RTs you should lease a nymex seat which would cost usd 2000 a month. I dont know about exact commission savings but others here can help you out with the calculation

You are a true POS!!! With 2 dead wrong calls already you have the courage to go again and negate all your previous calls as 'paper trades' or 'mental trades' Admit it that your strategy does not works in trendy markets. It only works in choppy markets and the choppiness period in crude is over.

I cant beleive that sucker! He shorted at what 58 or 59? and then when the market jumped to 65+ he claims it was a 'paper trade'. Then he says he would short oil at 68 if had any real money. ROFL Spanner would you have been wiped out by now with 72+ oil? With a lucky streak using sub $2000...

@jack hershey I feel I need to make it clear here that this is NOT an automated strategy. I do have certain rules but my discretion plays a vital role in my trading. Simply put the system can be automated but I lack the technical know how. You are spot on about one thing that I am not...

@Oddtrader thanks but you need to do the calculations again. As far as discrepancy in number of days is concerned, there were some holidays and some days I took off @ASusilovic With 2nd account generating 150% with minimal stand. dev of return on a monthly basis (signifying consistent...

I didn't quite get what you mean by these. Can you explain please?

@atticus Already using stops and as can be seen from the equity curve, no significant DDs have occured apart from the 'one' No its not a mean reversion strategy. @ASusilovic First account of $15k was wiped out. Second account of 40k generated 150% return in 2008 with a sharpe ratio...

Its almost impossible for a daytrader to summarize each individual trades. I had a bias (long one) and everyone has. Approximately I would say that 70% of trades were long while 30% being short. However if you check the chart of crude from Jan 09 onwards it isnt going up. While daytrading in...

@MODS Please delete this topic as there were some mistakes in Sharpe ratio calculation in this one and I cant seem to edit this one

Its been 100 days since I started my new account and I decided its now time to revisit and evaluate the performance. The purpose of posting here is to see what the experts have to say. I would appreciate honest and critical comments to improve my performance and minimize risk at the same...

Its been 100 days since I started my new account and I decided its now time to revisit and evaluate the performance. The purpose of posting here is to see what the experts have to say. I would appreciate honest and critical comments to improve my performance and minimize risk at the same...