Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

[Maverick74]

Quote from baggerlord:

3. Think they have an edge but are afraid to be tested against an objective standard because they would rather keep on pretending.

Bagger, I honestly think the best reason for someone to do the combine is to see that they should not be trading futures. I mean this sincerely. I know it goes against the grain of what everyone is saying here. But let's face it, most people are not going to make money. At my old prop firm we had guys come in with 100k to 250k accounts who went through every single penny trying to trade them. And to think, for $200, they could have found out they had no edge and should not be doing this and could have moved on. I think a lot of people are forgetting that here. Let's face it, anyone who nails the combine doesn't need capital because they can just as easily fund their own accounts right? I mean shit, why wouldn't you?

Let me try another analogy for you, it's like going to college and thinking you "might" want to go into medicine. You take one biology course and one chemistry course, get D's in them and realize that maybe you should try something else. That is what college is for. And that, in my opinion, is what this combine is for.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from ammo:

tried it and failed miserably, i cant scalp

I appreciate your honesty, but the Combine is hardly scalping! You have 10 to 20 full days not millisecond scalping. If you can't trade on a DOM, that's different--- but I don't understand. surf

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from marketsurfer:

I appreciate your honesty, but the Combine is hardly scalping! You have 10 to 20 full days not millisecond scalping. If you can't trade on a DOM, that's different--- but I don't understand. surf

Surf, I think he is saying he tried to pass the combine using a scalping method and didn't get anywhere.

 

[bigarrow]

Quote from marketsurfer:

I appreciate your honesty, but the Combine is hardly scalping! You have 10 to 20 full days not millisecond scalping. If you can't trade on a DOM, that's different--- but I don't understand. surf

There is more to trading than daytrading surf, but you know that already.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from Maverick74:

Surf, I think he is saying he tried to pass the combine using a scalping method and didn't get anywhere.

Ok thanks for the clarification. He should have used TA, it never fails, just ask Ammo.

surf

 

[ammo]

Quote from marketsurfer:

I appreciate your honesty, but the Combine is hardly scalping! You have 10 to 20 full days not millisecond scalping. If you can't trade on a DOM, that's different--- but I don't understand. surf

am a swing trader, so if it was a swing trading combine ,believe i would have nailed it, there are a lot of things i am not skilled at, i doubt lance briggs would be a good qb, but he plays professional football

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from ammo:

am a swing trader, so if it was a swing trading combine ,believe i would have nailed it, there are a lot of things i am not skilled at, i doubt lance briggs would be a good qb, but he plays professional football

Yeah, I hear you. But doesn't TA teach the markets are fractal? Therefore, every timeframe can be boiled down to work the same with TA? IF this is the case, I would venture this is more of a failure of TA than a time frame issue. surf

 

[ammo]

Quote from marketsurfer:

Yeah, I hear you. But doesn't TA teach the markets are fractal? Therefore, every timeframe can be boiled down to work the same with TA? IF this is the case, I would venture this is more of a failure of TA than a time frame issue. surf

from most of your ramblings , i got the impression you didn't have a clue what TA was, thus rejected it,just like the football analogy , there are a lot of ways to look at the market ,ta being one of those, there are a lot of different ways to use that also, i am just better at the large picture, it is very hard to trade the small pic while the big one is in your head,it goes against the grain about half the time

 

[NoDoji]

Quote from marketsurfer:

Yeah, I hear you. But doesn't TA teach the markets are fractal? Therefore, every timeframe can be boiled down to work the same with TA? IF this is the case, I would venture this is more of a failure of TA than a time frame issue. surf

There's a form of golf called extreme golf in which the speed of course completion is a factor in determining the winner. If Tiger Woods competed against the top extreme golf players and lost several matches, does that mean there's something wrong with the techniques and strategies Woods used to place himself as number one in the world for ten full years?

 

[NoDoji]

Quote from ammo:

from most of your ramblings , i got the impression you didn't have a clue what TA was, thus rejected it,just like the football analogy , there are a lot of ways to look at the market ,ta being one of those, there are a lot of different ways to use that also, i am just better at the large picture, it is very hard to trade the small pic while the big one is in your head,it goes against the grain about half the time

ammo and I were telling each other how to trade each other's methods a while back and I'm sure his eyes were as glazed over when I was describing precision scalping as mine were when he was describing scaling into positions using market profile. My brain was too hard wired in my time frame to deal with the bigger picture and vice versa. That aside, we both trade technically and profitably.