ES Journal - 2019/2020

[maximumpossiblesuffering]

@mbondy, @Laissez Faire, @RRY16 and anyone else whose manhood is threatened by my presence on ET will have their chance to have me gone forever in June. All any one of them has to do is come up with the scratch for the micro to mini trading contest and out trade me ... better yet ... come within just 50% of my closing balance as of the close of trading on Friday June 28th, and I'll have @Baron ban my nic and NQurious will leave ET.

I'll even lower the minimum starting equity from $100 to the $40 or $50 some brokers require as minimum micro day trade margin to make it easier for them to fund their accounts (heck, if they need to pool their funds to start an account they can joint trade one as a partnership to bring me down). The $200 max starting equity stands so that everyone is limited to at least starting with the micros.

Can't be a sim position history - doesn't have to show the opens and closes, but has to show the NFA's, Exchange, and commissions, as well as P/L and net equity change from the prior day. Also must maintain equity continuity with the changes in prior posted equity.

Very simple: We each start with no more than $200. At the end of the month, if one of them has half or more of what I have, I'll leave ET. They don't even have to beat me - they just have to do half as well or better. Should be very easy for any of these trading titans to topple me and send me packing.

Futures only, directional spec only, must post at least 5 trades between Monday June 3rd and Friday June 28th. No public calls required - just trade and post your daily equity run.



Just in case any of them missed this ... they seem to miss a lot of things.

Looks like us trolls be challenged by a real trader. He sounds like he is feeling cocky. Perhaps he won “patron of the year” at a local gay bar.

To preserve our troll dignity, we have to put a stop to these taunts. The question is, how are we going to come up with $200 each on such short notice? I say $200 because any less and chances of a blowup will be too high. I say each because we have better odds of taking NQurious down with more accounts competing against him.

Although hard work and self sacrifice will be required on our part, the results would be well worth it. Think of the glory we would have by showing NQurious the door. I offer the following suggestions to raise money:

1. Reduce spending of our disability checks on “pain relievers”.
2. Collect aluminum cans for recycling and deposit bottles for refunds. Hint: Get up real early in morning (Tough, I know) and raid recycling bins before the truck arrives. Make sure the wheels on our shopping carts are in good condition before starting.
3. Offer “special services” to homeless people for quarters.

Where there is a will, there is a way. This may be our one and only chance to keep real traders from making us look bad here on ET.

 

[NQurious]

Perhaps he won “patron of the year” at a local gay bar.

I thought that was you ... Thanks for your support - your vote put me over the top

 

[maximumpossiblesuffering]

I thought that was you ... Thanks for your support - your vote put me over the top

The real value in a trading challenge for me, and others I would imagine, would be in the posting of trades and post mortem review of selected significant trades. Not so much for showing one’s edge, rather to cut down on those “What was I thinking trades” and identifying trading leaks.

 

[NQurious]

The real value in a trading challenge for me, and others I would imagine, would be in the posting of trades and post mortem review of selected significant trades. Not so much for showing one’s edge, rather to cut down on those “What was I thinking trades” and identifying trading leaks.

I gotcha ... and certainly there is no need nor reason to debate the basis on which you'd find value in such an exercise.

But I assume the guru's who are so good at this game that they can't be bothered discussing trading in a trading journal on a trading forum but have all the time in the world to hurl insults must be the cream of the crop, and therefore the value of this challenge to me is to see whether I can keep up with their concealed and yet to be revealed trading skills.

I only hope I am not embarrassed too badly when @mbondy posts his fabulous ES gains. He is likely the real ringer in this whole thing. He'll probably run his $200 to $200k in June alone

 

[tenny1886]

is there any other instrument besides ES that has lots of momentum moves daily. I am finding ES moves too slow for my scalping needs especially when a trend is set. Even though green i am starting to lose interest scalping the ES due to the slow moves. Need more excitement. Or is it gonna pick up soon the pace. I like the huge momentum moves that we had back on the night when our President got elected.

 

[Overnight]

is there any other instrument besides ES that has lots of momentum moves daily. I am finding ES moves too slow for my scalping needs especially when a trend is set. Even though green i am starting to lose interest scalping the ES due to the slow moves. Need more excitement. Or is it gonna pick up soon the pace. I like the huge momentum moves that we had back on the night when our President got elected.

NQ, RB. Good luck.

 

[vanzandt]

I think he’s running book out of Mar Lago.

Or parking cars.

 

[Buy1Sell2]

I remain short for now.

 

[themickey]

I remain short for now.

Broken clock may be right this time.

 

[Overnight]

I remain short for now.

I'm remaining long for now. Who will break first?