dest's vol-arb and modeling journal

Should dest have mod-privileges on his own journal?

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NoahA said:
Not really. I mean think about it from the perspective of free speech. Everyone has the right to say what they want. If you don't want to listen to them, you ignore/block them. When you look at your thread, you see a bunch of posts skipped, but you don't have to read it now.

What you guys are suggesting is a silencing of any dissent so to speak, and that is very dangerous.

If Dest had any self control, he would just ignore who he doesn't like, and then doesn't have to read their posts. I for example have Overnight and Maxinger ignored, and I don't see what they are saying, although I've seen some posts here suggesting they are here replying. But I have no idea what they are saying nor do I care.

Why Dest doesn't just put the guys on ignore who he doesn't like and just read the posts of the people left, I have no idea.
(Edit... of course I know why... he enjoys engaging them)
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Bingo. He is one sick puppy. It’s like that m night shyamalan movie unbreakable with me playing Bruce Willis and Todd playing Samuel l Jackson. I’m the ying and Todd is the Yang. He can’t live without me. I complete him:
 
taowave said:
Silly question..

A blocked person can still post on the blockers thread???

If so,that's some weak ass blocking

P.s. Hilmy^^^ beat me to it
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From what I know, there are two different types: ignore and block.
  • "Ignore" will hide any contents from those who are on your ignore list, but they can still read your post.
  • With "block", neither of you can read each other's posts.
Hence, a blocked person can post on the blocker's thread. But since they can't technically see the post, they won't be able to directly interact with the blocker. However, they can still make replies to everyone else on the thread. For example, I can't see any of Dest's posts here since I blocked him, but I'm still able to make replies to Hilmy and others.
 
GutterSlut said:
My god I feel like I'm back in 3rd grade....

The OP of ANY thread should immediately be made mod of his own thread. 33 pages and almost zero trading value in this thread. What does that tell you about the people contributing here?

All of you people need to get a life. If you're not currently profitable you need to close your mouth until you are (unless you are asking questions to make you profitable). IOW, shut up and learn.

I've been at this a year and a half and I made it while doing this completely alone. No prop desk, no mentors, no good books (I've read books, but most of them suck), no forums. It can be done. Almost every reddit, quora, futures.io. or other bullshit website was filled with the same people that fill this website: non thinking, crowd following, trolls. It is ultimately a waste of time and detrimental to one's health and capital to be a member of any of these sites. Most profitable traders do not waste their time here for that reason, and the few that do, you end up chasing away.

I have news for you: most successful traders are either stoic as fuck or completely abrasive/aggressive. Trading makes you realize how full of shit the rest of humanity is, and it changes you how you interact with other people. Des seems to be one of those people and I applaud him for it (it means that he's still human and not some unthinking, unfeeling robot).

To those who are currently struggling and actually want to learn, and not troll:

Who am I? I only trade futures. I only trade intraday (no overnight holding). I trade mostly price action in response to obvious levels that everyone in the world can see. Price action any other time is a losing man's game.

I trade a few times a day on a few products. There are, in my opinion, only a few good trades to be had each day on futures. These are the large intraday swings where you can bank 60-200 on NQ, 10-30 on ES, 1.00 on Crude, etc. My edge is asymmetrical upside potential based on the limited risk I put on. Sometimes that is 4:1, sometimes that is 10:1. My philosophy is that you can always define your risk, but never your upside. You keep trying to lose small, win small, or breakeven until that trade comes along that you can't ever plan for, that ends up being the start of a new trend, in which you bank large.

I might try to put on a position 4 times at an area, churning small P/L for maybe 10-20 minutes, and then finally get my position on at the 5th attempt and then bank large. I count that as 1 trade because there was really only 1 trade there, and that trade was what I was trying to capture.

I also add to winning positions and move my stop to BE once I feel a possible retracement is no longer on the table. My initial 3-5 probe lot might become a 15-20 lot, and when I hit my profit target I hit with size. I increase my return on risk that way while decreasing potential losses to zero. My 4:1 might become 7:0 since I'm adding size and not allowing myself to lose money on a trade that is now at breakeven, far away from current price. I'm currently making close to $10k a day, which for me is great, considering I've been at this less than 2 years and taught myself everything, and am still scaling up aggressively. I plan to have my first $100k day sometime next year.

Proof? No person in their right mind would ever show their account # or name on a thread like this. They may get stalked or shot. The mental insanity here cannot be taken lightly.

I tried mentoring a fellow trader - unsuccessfully, as he ended up being a gambler - but here are some pics I took over the last few months. I have many but here are a couple, just to illustrate a point.

One of these is my own account, another is an Apex funded account - to show him you could run one of these accounts up and use them as seed capital for your own account -, and another is an account I threw $1,000 in to show him you could build it up with micros and then begin trading larger after only a week or so. The idea was that anything is possible, even with a small account, but ultimately it fell on deaf ears.

If the images look doctored it's because they are. Sierra Chart shows your account # and other identifying information after each trade, so that was naturally cut out. On Apex I left "Apex" there so show which Apex account I was referring to.

Main:
https://ibb.co/F52790d

Small:
https://ibb.co/8MHbzTm

Apex1:
https://ibb.co/m9X7Kdc

Apex2:
https://ibb.co/L6RWRwV

Moral of the story: If your goal here is to waste everyone's time then job well done. You will never be successful. 95% of this thread and website are the exact reason I rarely come to places like this. I have better things to do.

Best of luck to you all.
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That was a lot of random, weird and confusing informations shared in someone else journal.
 
Why hasn't Vinnie been banned from this thread yet?

I got banned from the Chinaman's thread after voicing my concerns about the CCP. Vinnie is deliberately trying to antagonize OP with EVERY post.
 
Laissez Faire said:
With a new user called GutterSlut shilling for Apex / Darrell Martin this thread just hit a new rock bottom.

A self taught trading savant crushing it as a futures trader that suddenly decided to come to ET to learn options. LOL.
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I was looking though his pics, and I admire the guy's first pic especially. I remember when I could trade CL like that and make really decent scratch. But I made the fateful decision to switch to equity futures because I convinced myself I was losing my understanding of the CL patterns.

As far as the blocking shit goes? I had mentioned the best idea for it in the past but @Baron poopoo-ed it. When you want to totally block someone with that little checkbox, it should pop up a box that says "This blocking is irrevocable for 30 (60,90 whatever) days. Are you sure?

That would have allowed dest to keep his ability to block, because he (and everybody else) would not have been able to do what he did.

Simple. But Baron gave me some reason why that would not work, I forgot what it was. So there we are. STILL stuck with the most complained-about feature on the forum.
 
SunTrader said:
I'm confused. Which one?
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I think Gutter writes in a style I have seen before here on ET.
The math is a bit off, and that is an alert in anyone story lol... and it's not the first time on et.
Earning 10k average at day and planning to have his first 100k for later NEXT year? mmm

Taking dest side while shouting command on people to shut up and listen, and then starting with the "I have been at this 1.5yrs..." and posting some 1k prop story...
I must wonder if he is for real or doing premeditated piss taking.

We know that destriero has a good percentage of trolls following him post by post.
 
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