ES Journal - 2014

[EON Kid]

nice short scalp setting up

made 1 point ...mission accomplished

 

[Aj2014]

moving stop to 76.50

 

[Aj2014]

Short 1975.25
stop at 1978

taking too long. Suspicious.
Out here at 1974.25 +1

 

[slowcheetah]

btw, i do hope your life ambition is not to make 1 point a day

nah, but it's my immediate goal. even 1 pt/ day avg with enough volume CONSISTENTLY would be great

 

[Visaria]

nah, but it's my immediate goal. even 1 pt/ day avg with enough volume CONSISTENTLY would be great

Ooooh, another one falling into the TRAP

(you're gonna regret it...)

 

[Visaria]

Originally Posted by slowcheetah View Post
Just out of curiosity, how many of you here can consistently net at least 1 pt/day on a monthly or even weekly basis by day trading the ES? How doable/reasonable is this?
its just as hard to do the opposite, just a matter of preference

Interesting, but I would say it's far easier to lose 1 point a day...you have spreads and commissions .... do twenty trades a day and that's probably 1 point right there in commiss.

 

[slowcheetah]

Ooooh, another one falling into the TRAP

(you're gonna regret it...)

Regret what exactly?

So you're saying it's isn't very doable?

at the risk of sounding childlike , I'm just trying to get a feel for the possibilities...

 

[slowcheetah]

Interesting, but I would say it's far easier to lose 1 point a day...you have spreads and commissions .... do twenty trades a day and that's probably 1 point right there in commiss.

Well by netting 1pt/day avg I meant net everything. Spreads, commissions, gross losses, occasional mistakes, whatever...

 

[Visaria]

Difficult to explain. Averaging 1 point a day is the preserve of bots and HFT and market makers and all that crap. A point a day pays their bills. But it has to come from somewhere i.e. you. But you want to turn the tables on them, and take it from them. That's the trap you're falling into. Are they really going to pay you that?

It's not your (retail) domain. Try it for a month and you'll see what i mean (your brokers will luv you, btw).

 

[johnny_utah]

Well by netting 1pt/day avg I meant everything. Spreads, commissions, gross losses, occasional mistakes, whatever...

Netting 1 ES point per day is definitely doable as long as you don't make it your daily goal.