No, I dont think there is one way to trade. I just have some time on my hands and thought I would respond to you two guys who are always trolling around on here under different aliases.
I have been around Elitetrader and my experience is that you two are the typical guys that:
1) Never have a losing day, are always up for the year and make more money in one day then most people in a year.
2) Enjoy their newly found "freedom".
3) Have all these friends, supermodel wife, jog 6 miles a day and volunteer for all these charities.
4) Never blown an account. See#1
5) Drive around in Ferraris and Maseratis.
6) Scoff at everyone who reports to an office whether they like to or not. They enjoy trading in their McMansion and have a private room set aside for them.
I guess I could go on, but anyone who has been on this forum can relate.
I wondered aloud to myself how there could be all these super successful guys on Elitetrader, but you never truly meet them in real life. All the guys I know have a few stories about tanking a major account or some other story about hardships.
One day I spent some time hacking into Landis's webcam and even Maklodas. This is what I found:
This is Landis:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jfr66UnTzfE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jfr66UnTzfE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
This one is either Makloda or Mandelbrotset.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2wPEPNibVzI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2wPEPNibVzI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Here is either Tums, Rennick or one of the mods. By this time I had a little wine and couldnt think anymore.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IoOmGd086PE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IoOmGd086PE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Finally, I found Baron's picture. This picture isnt available on the web so you know I actually hacked into the computers of the mods and the real elitetraders: