Hilmy83 is
not going around and bragging that he has an edge (small, big, sometimes) nor does he guarantee whatever it is he's doing today...he'll be able to do the same thing next year or even long term.
In contrast, a few seem to be bother by whatever it is that he's doing. Those calling him a con / fraud just because he doesn't want to share some performance metrics / risk metrics that he has already discussed his
poor risk management a few times here earlier in this thread and in the thread at the other forum while showing live trade sessions, redacted screenshots of broker trade execution platform and broker statements that all do correlate with each other.
- I saw the live videos. There's a problem in the trading plan. I don't need to see pinpointed risk metrics to know that. I also see that hilmy83 knows that and is something he's trying to fix.
Simply, he's not hiding anything and has openly discussed those
huge losing trading days although there were a few recording problems in those live videos involving the huge losing trading days. Understandable, having a huge losing day...psychologically is tough to let the video continue all the way to the end of the trading session.
- I wouldn't be surprise if he threw some free weights at the computer. Simply, you can not psychologically share everything...everybody has their sharing limits.
You share what's important to you...not what's important to others.
Irony, the same people stating its a con / fraud are using other trade journals here at ET where the OPs has
no verification of trade performance...they do
not call those OPs out as a con / fraud. Even worst, they're not showing their own verification of trade performance while calling someone a con / fraud.
Just the same, the same folks that talk about photoshop are not able to take hilmy83 screenshots, broker statements, live trade videos and show how it was photoshop / faked and correlated...nothing from them.
- In my opinion...that's the real fraud.
The good thing is that hilmy83 finally understood the importance of
diversification to prevent
risk of ruin. For example, he has gotten into dividends to generate a small constant income and I believe he's exploring options trading on the side. Also, he has a job although I'm not sure if he still does during this Pandemic.
Heck, he may already had understood risk of ruin and was slowly quietly putting a puzzle together to prevent
risk of ruin considering typically I've seen others doing the same via thinking the answer was in getting a CME seat on the exchange.
I believe (I could be wrong) he has a fat home in Texas from conversations I saw when he and
@destriero seem to iron out some disagreements. Actually, it made me wonder about the commonalities of profitable trading, working out strenuously and a few other commonalities I won't mention that I've noticed that many others that bitch a lot don't seem to have.
Thus, he doesn't seem to be some
fat tard sitting at the computer all day via his recent videos / images with him working out...he may be a little into
bodybuilding or something like that to stay in shape. Together, all of that helps ensure or minimizes that
risk of ruin although one of my favourites is investing in real estate as a source of income to offset in disastrous trading outcomes.
Too many traders throw 100% everything into to trading and staring at the charts all day. If they have a blow-up...they usually can
not bounce back.
Performance metrics / risk metrics are variables to look at but there's another variable going on
outside of the trading that has equally importance and I think that's what hilmy83 has been focusing on. In fact, Hilmy83 has given a peek view into that other variable unlike many here at ET.
Heck, most of the a-holes here at ET can will not even reveal their city / country they live in no matter how many times you ask them. Thus, do
not assume just because someone can speak / write in English here at ET...its a person that's located somewhere in the USA.
...You must be in a high saturated emotional orbit, lead a diverse and multifaceted real life - a good main job, built your own house, family, friends, sports are required for the correct chemical balance...
Exactly...balance people and you can use that to stay in this trading game a very long time. If he can consistently flush out his profits each month or quarterly and not wait to tally it all up at the end of the year...he'll then figure out how to make this trading a career even though it will minimize his compounding ability.
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