Spunky, how do you feel about landlords who rent space to businesses? What about a place that sells tools to contractors, or people who sell advertising? Do you find it upsetting that these people are making profits off the back of other business people?
Professional traders are running a business. They need the services of many other businesses to function, not the least of which is somewhere to place their trades. I know the firms that I do business with make a profit off me. I know that the more I trade, the more they make. I know that it's in their best interest for me to trade a lot.
However, I have a business plan that addresses the overhead I pay, the strategies I use and how to best optimize them. If a prop firm didn't work best for me, I'd go somewhere else.
Now tell me, if I were a contractor who bought my supplies and tools at Home Depot, why would it make one iota of difference to know what their profit margins were or how they ran their business? If I find a better deal elsewhere, I go there. If I don't make any money is it their fault?
And you won't find Don posting many losing days, so I have no clue how you figure he has lost money with this strategy. Have you read the threads at all?
Professional traders are running a business. They need the services of many other businesses to function, not the least of which is somewhere to place their trades. I know the firms that I do business with make a profit off me. I know that the more I trade, the more they make. I know that it's in their best interest for me to trade a lot.
However, I have a business plan that addresses the overhead I pay, the strategies I use and how to best optimize them. If a prop firm didn't work best for me, I'd go somewhere else.
Now tell me, if I were a contractor who bought my supplies and tools at Home Depot, why would it make one iota of difference to know what their profit margins were or how they ran their business? If I find a better deal elsewhere, I go there. If I don't make any money is it their fault?
And you won't find Don posting many losing days, so I have no clue how you figure he has lost money with this strategy. Have you read the threads at all?
