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brucelevy said:
Would it be possible for you to post a video of how you are managing your risk with all these open positions?
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with two 100k account, the size of my open positions are not risk at all.

here they are, for one:
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for the other:
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yc47ib said:
...Trading is not about winning, it is about controlling one's risk and exposure to risk all the time. Winning is the by-product, that just happens to produce money, and pay the bills. When a trader truly thinks this way, money will flow.
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My thoughts, day trading vs longer term seem to have different approaches and perhaps opposites which work.
Day trading one needs to grab the money quickly before it evaporates, so it's more about snatching the winnings off the table while it's fleetingly there.
Longer term trading is more about patience and allowing the trend to run.
So my response is, your theory of "winning is the by product" is more to do with longer term trading than day trading?
Your thoughts?
 
day trading and swing are same thing, just different time frame. Swing just ignore some of the noise and thus heart pump during the process, it is the adrenaline rush that human is born to be weak in handling, skip the rushes is saving oneself from this genetic weakness. Thus I say, it is not when you look at the market, it is when you keep yourself away from looking at it that makes the difference in the trade of trading.
 
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So is there a reason you have two separate accounts? Do you hold your positions until they become profitable? Are you hedging by using gold ?
 
Makes no sense to trade futures from two different accounts unless you're running disparate systems. That being stated; there is nothing wrong with it as long as the fills are posted.
 
First you post this:

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NQU8 has not been above 7600 since last week so I assime this was a sell stop to get filled or an exit? WHich it never hit.

Then you post this:

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So first you are selling NQU8 7607 WORKING and then you go long NQU8 at 7486.

That NQ position is now in the hole for $1,820 since NQU8 is sitting right now at 7395.

I dont see any update on that big loss which I bet was magically closed before the big sell off.

RTYU8 is sitting at 1698 for loss of about $500.

YMZ8 right now is at 26005 for a loss of about $315

So for your first day on your supposed $100k account you are in the hole $2,635 or more when commissions are added in to this sim account or 2.63%.

Nasdaq was down less than 1.6% so you beat the Nasdaq by losing more money....

That is how you update a trading journal, not ignore the losses.
 
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