Discord chat for ES EMini futures

Aren't you concerned that interacting with other traders during a trading day might interfere with your own trading?

You seem to be doing extremely well, I do not really understand how it might be worth jeopardizeing those kinds of results.
I traded with a group of traders for several years in a ventrilo room. We became and remain good friends but yes, we broke it up because we would get caught up in conversations and technical observations and would miss signals...or second guess them. The company was great, it's up to each to decide if the trade off is worth it.
 
It's very sad that someone cannot start something good without being criticized for it. I also trade full-time and I agree that it would be nice to have other full-time traders to chat with ... not teach ... just to discuss the day's activities.
STOP WITH THE FAULTY-FINDING.
 
He could be doing well because of that interaction but it depends upon the type of interaction and whom he's interacting with.

Some people trade better when they're alone and not interacting with others. In contrast, there are others that trade well because of the interaction.

Yet, I would think it would be a distraction if those you're interacting with are only talking about topics not related to trading. For example, you're in there talking about things that could impact your trades whereas others are in there talking about the Kim Kardashian latest episode that was on TV last night.

In contrast, I think the real obvious distraction would be "chatting" about trades / trading at a Gaming site or any other location that has another audience not related to trading. That's the reason why I asked him an earlier question...is he chatting on Discord or only live streaming on Discord or maybe both.

Yet, it would seem odd to live stream your trades if you can not see your audience those that say they are trading do the same ?

The few people I know that are chatting / live streaming on Discord or Twitch are into Gaming. They're using multiple monitors...gaming on one monitor while trading on the other monitor...

They don't do well in trading and it makes me wonder if the real reason for the poor performance in trading is the Gaming.

wrbtrader

This is pretty much why I want to do it. This definitely isn't a place where I would "teach" someone, so much as give opinions and advice. Maybe there is an ES futures dedicated trading room that I'm not aware of. From the looks of it, there really doesn't seem to be.

The only ones that exist are ones where people pay someone, presumably to get advice from an "expert trader". That isn't the focus of the room.

As far as my personal trading, yeah, 40 contracts at one time. But I don't churn my account and may not make a trade for days. This week, even with the volatility, I have traded 2 times, 40 contracts each, and promptly got stopped out for a gain of a few bucks. But the size of what I trade isn't relevant except insofar as it gives you an understanding of one guy's trading style. I have my long term investment accounts and my trading account. Like I wrote earlier, I spend 60 hours a week, researching, and waiting for a right setup. That might result in one trade or several.

Livestreaming my account, except for the voyeur factor of watching the position go up or down a few k in a minute isn't particular fun to watch. It's mostly order flow watching.

Come on by, if you like it, hopefully you'd contribute. It's kind of the groucho marx thing right now, any club that wants to have me as a member, I don't want to belong to.
 
I was in a group of capable futures traders and would regularly find that the other especially talented trader was nearly always long when I was short etc.

Of course we were usually both right but just in different TFs etc. but it was distracting some days. I left up due to one guy who could not keep his politics and faith stuff out of chats. Made more money but it was good for a year to have a little competition burn.
 
Hopefully right forum, and this post conforms to posting guidelines.

This is not a commercial/business post. No memberships, fees, mentorships, or any of that stuff.

This is a discord chat server that is geared towards the serious ES futures trader.

First, the why.

Before I get there, let me tell you a bit about myself. I've traded futures for a decade. Currently, I open positions with 40-120 contracts. I don't work for a hedge fund, a prop firm, or any firm for that matter. I trade my own capital. I have done well, especially the last couple of years. It is a full time job, even though I am degreed in a professional field. I made my money there, and found out I had a knack for trading my own money.

It appears that most chat rooms fall into the "guru" catergory. That is, people spend money per month to have someone tell them what to buy and why. I make (or lose) more in a couple of handles than some of the fees these "gurus" are generating. Given the time and expense (did I mention time?), that it takes to fleece gullible members, why would anyone who is a serious trader do that? "Let me collect $100 from 100 people per month, for a whopping $10,000 per month while I engage in constant marketing and administrative time, whereas I could have devoted that time to improving my trading for the month and made 10x that? The second are prop firms chat rooms. Nothing against prop firms, but chat rooms should not be an adjunct to a money-making scheme, otherwise it becomes subservient to the success of the prop firm.

Whether you trade by technical analysis, sentiment, order flow, a dart board in your office or a monkey in your closet, we all have one goal- buy (or sell) high, and sell (or buy) low.

I spend about 60 hours a week trading in which time time I might make no trades or a whole bunch.

I am looking for fellow traders in the same situation as I am. I am a big believer in the efficiently rigged market theory; having more information is always better than having too little information.

I would join a chat room if a) it existed and b) it wasn't run by low net worth scam artists looking to derive their primary income from pretending to have an edge on the market. So far in my search, I have yet to find one. That is not say there isn't an ES trading room that is out there that meets my needs, just that I haven't found one. So the next step is to hope one is conjured up, or just do something a bit more likely, albeit a bit more work, and start one.

The discord chat invite is linked below. It is public (for now at least), will never charge or engage in anything like that, and may not be much for now, but hopefully through the ES trading community, plus a bit of luck, pluck and persistence, it becomes a worthwhile tool for all its members.

I am going to post this same wall of words in a few other sites. Hopefully, we will see you in the channel.

https://discord.gg/np89pUG

Hey, you still on discord?...have been trading ES for over a year and looking to connect with fellow traders.
 
Depends on what you are looking for... I look for new trading ideas... I'm usually there around oil and natty reporting times
 
Depends on what you are looking for... I look for new trading ideas... I'm usually there around oil and natty reporting times


Fair enough, there's just endless amount of rooms regarding stocks and trading where people text back and forth all day, sitting in a room full of bots. I've found servers like that, where also few to no people participate in voice conversations are generally low quality.

Unfortunately, that's just how most servers are. Very difficult to find people that are actually actively trading, can discuss market action real time at a high level and have any kind of stamina in trading.
 
Fair enough, there's just endless amount of rooms regarding stocks and trading where people text back and forth all day, sitting in a room full of bots. I've found servers like that, where also few to no people participate in voice conversations are generally low quality.

Unfortunately, that's just how most servers are. Very difficult to find people that are actually actively trading, can discuss market action real time at a high level and have any kind of stamina in trading.

i agree.... most people tend to talk a good game, but are not trading. When i am trading, i am totally focused on daytrading and tend to keep to myself. When i'm not trading, i like to discuss trading strategies rather than current market action. I don't like voice channels because I have verbal alerts going off during the day and when i am in trades, my trademanager verbally notifies me when it changes stop levels.

good luck
toucan
 
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