Quote from RCG Trader:
1) Umm, nope, you left a paper trail for that one, son.
2)You suck more than just dicks, 3,4,5)you suck at trading too.
1) Have I made mistakes this year, absolutely.
What I left was a detailed description of how employment placed me in a situation that made trading impossible (temporarily relocating me in an area without reliable internet access) during the most critical 2 weeks of the trading year for me as a position trader.
With the benefit of hindsight bias, sure it's obvious that I should have broken one of my trading rules and chased the market a bit .
I'm just of the opinion that I'm in it for the long haul and going around willy nilly breaking your trading rules is not the way to success in this business despite the occasional opportunity loss.
2) hmm I don't ever recall mentioning the subject.
3) Perhaps I do, but could you be so kind as to quantify "suck at trading" for me?
4) If I suck so bad at trading shouldn't you be willing to continue the contest until the end of 2013 with multiple periodic comparison's of returns. I mean that way you can boast of beating me 6-7 possibly eight times?
I mean surely you are not going to stop your journal after only 30 days are you?
5) You do know that in just over 2 weeks ,I suck at trading so bad as to go into early semi-retirement so that I can focus on trading.
Of course in my traditional job I probably make in 2 days what takes you almost 4.