Quote from jack hershey:
This thread is about protecting newbies from the pitfalls of trading and in particular the pitfalls a person can run into using the principles of pool extraction and some very common tools of trading.
here is what it is like to only make onepoint a day forever and add contracts from profits for 135 days. The result at the end of 135 days is a profit of 100,000 dollars. As was pointed out 100,000 dollars is not much. the table is: contracts, days, profits
1, 40, 2,000
2, 20, 2,000
4, 10, 2,000
8, 5, 2,000
16, 3, 2,400
32, 2, 3,200
Repeat @ 32 for 27 1/2 days to make the remaining 88,000 dollars.
Total days 135, total profits 100,000 dollars profit per day per comtract 1 point throughout.
As has been by some, 100,000 days do occur in each quarter where a nominal 20 to 30 contracts are traded. It is common for those who do this to remember and joke about those days. Perhaps you have not had this experience for some reasons. were I you I would check out those reasons and why you are so steadfast in keeping your orientation.