Good Morning Concinnity,Because you're using small size relative to your account size, but it has nothing necessarily related to intra-day trading a smaller account with actual trading related edge or skill.
Here's an extreme example:
Imagine Warren Buffet makes a user name here and he trades 10-12 Mini future contracts and over the years shows amazing profits and everyone thinks he is great. Ok but Warren Buffet can hold 12 Mini's to literally 0 and it wouldn't even effect him at all, yet people on these boards would be thinking he is great and begging for him to teach them. When in reality what they really need is his ability to take unlimited draw down, with also zero fear on taking that drawdown.
Are you starting to understand now? Sure people on these boards don't do that to that extreme of a level and not all of them are doing this. But this is literally the biggest edge some of these people are using and they pass it off as trading skill.
Exactly, capital availability and mental perspective and personal outcome is apart of the trading game/success as well.
That is why I say trading the ES futures market is very simple for "Me". But my mental and the way I think of life is VERY different from other traders. VERY different actually.
