Do full-time forex traders exist or is it just make believe?

Quote from sheda:

Unlimited amount of money hey? I take it you would be trading thousands upon thousands of contracts a day then? As we all know the average FX broker can execute a 500,000 lot trade with no sliappage intra day to provide us with this unlimited amount of money you speak of once we have worked out how to trade right?

The point is that 40 pips consistently every day in a market with superb liquidity and superb leverage amounts to billions within the scope of one lifetime.

And all possible from a guy that cannot call a trade in advance without being ambiguous ?

BULLSHIT
 
it's not that people think trading cant be done

hey I want to believe some of these TA guys, and some I think are real and legitimately profitable.

but these xspurt claims just get so absurd-- beyond Hersheytalk levels even!!

a 10k account to start,
in week 2 it's down to 7.5k
By week 5 he's making 10k a day
That should put the acct from 10k to 100k+ in 6 weeks and via daytrading forex, and on pace to reach 1 million by year end
This all by a total newb trader

And if thats not enough--- he adds in a story of a guy who 6 yrs ago had a small account and now is one of the biggest ES traders in the world and uses a max size of 20,000 ES contracts per trade.

this is crazy talk-- I dont see how anyone can believe those stories.
 
Quote from FreakofNature:


Trading consistently and bagging in excess of 40pips a day without a losing day, is a feat that would take you above Bill Gates level in a reasonable amount of time.

40 points a day at $500 a point takes us 13958 years to accumulate the current net worth of Bill Gates.

Who's the retard now, retard?

Evidently...its you.
 
Quote from Xspurt:

1) About 10/day

2) Yes, he was the slowest learner I have had but then something just clicked and he because both very visually aware and fast at connecting all the dots for convergence factors in a trade. Not having any TA that I had to correct was a big help and also not having a limiting expectancy is a big thing. There is a lot of cries of "impossible" here. If you start out with that imprisoning complex it's real hard to win beyond your expectations.

3) Re. the daily MAP before trading, I look at the strength/weakness of all the time frames and then look for the TF that is most likely to boss the trade. I don't mark it on a chart, I just keep it in a notebook in front of me. Cycles trend and then afterwards they conflict against each other causing congestion and that is when it is hardest to tell what comes next because cycles morph so you have to let time do it's thing.

4)This is 2 questions. 4a) Using the time frame cycles you see when a time frame is maturing and when it is bigger than the one you are in you reverse if it is against you and hold if it is for you. It's not unusual to get into a move in a small TF and then it speeds up causing a larger cycle to become clear as a hold in that bigger TF.

4b) You can predict chop in advance most times because of two strong cycles coming into conflict. Then check the scope for scalping in that zone. Time charts are a limiting factor for scalping. As I alluded to, cycles have to self destruct after they have run a trend because the trend was due to different frequencies coming together burt the natural thing is for the different frequency lengths to pull apart and the exact opposite to the trend develops and then it all repeats.

Thank you.
How do you visualize or construct the cycles?
 
Quote from sheda:

40 points a day at $500 a point takes us 13958 years to accumulate the current net worth of Bill Gates.

How do you figure that? I guess you aren't compounding and instead are withdrawing the 40X$500 = $20,000 every day.

Which brings me back to this. Wasn't the starting point $10,000? At 50 to 1 leverage, maximum allowed in USA, you're restricted to a starting point of only about 2.5 standard lots ($25/pip), fully in. So, if you're withdrawing profits daily, how do you get to $1 million in a year?

So, which is it, buddy: are we compounding or not???
 
Quote from sheda:

40 points a day at $500 a point takes us 13958 years to accumulate the current net worth of Bill Gates.



Evidently...its you.

Holy shit, this guy cannot be for real.

Why stop at $500 a point, when the forex realm can handle much more ?

You use the magic of compounding SheMaleGenius!
 
Quote from macattack:

Thank you.
How do you visualize or construct the cycles?

Check this guy out, it looks like at least one fish has been caught.

Next thing you know he becomes the latest "rookie", for a nice fee of course. lol
 
if you are truly scalping I guess you can go up to 3.5 million at best at IB or Dukascopy in one go ... anything above that and you will start to see slippage. The more beyond the bigger slippage. You might try to do multiple trades but than scalping will become hard.
 
Quote from SimpleTrades:

How do you figure that? I guess you aren't compounding and instead are withdrawing the 40X$500 = $20,000 every day.

Which brings me back to this. Wasn't the starting point $10,000? At 50 to 1 leverage, maximum allowed in USA, you're restricted to a starting point of only about 2.5 standard lots ($25/pip), fully in. So, if you're withdrawing profits daily, how do you get to $1 million in a year?

So, which is, buddy: are we compounding or not???

How did I figure that? Exactly as it was stated "consistently bagging in excess of 40pips a day without a losing day, is a feat that would take you above Bill Gates level in a reasonable amount of time"...

As per usual people who know little of the market hear "3 trillion a day" and think "woooza! I could start with 1 lot and before I know it be trading 10,000,000 lots a day! On the 1 min chart!"
 
Quote from sheda:

How did I figure that? Exactly as it was stated "consistently bagging in excess of 40pips a day without a losing day, is a feat that would take you above Bill Gates level in a reasonable amount of time"...

As per usual people who know little of the market hear "3 trillion a day" and think "woooza! I could start with 1 lot and before I know it be trading 10,000,000 lots a day! On the 1 min chart!"

Sheda,

I was about to say something, but deleted the post. I'll say this instead. I think 40 pips average is what is intended, but its important to realize that you can average 40 pips a day and still lose all of your money.
 
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