Quote from txuk:
"..." I'm going to start trading ES on Monday...
Lets make all the mistakes possible in the shortest possible time. -Grob109
cheers,
txuk
Yo txuk et al... Yup, learning trading is definitely trial by error and paper trading is next to worthless since the raw deep pyschological emotions don't surface while paper trading but you might consider trading the Spyders - 25 shares a pop at the start if you have an account larger than $25,000 so you can avoid the pattern day trader rule...
The SPY is 99% correlated with the sp500 and ES market so if you can do your trial and error with that market with only a very few shares to start and finally get to a place where you are making consistent profit on 25 spy shares then you can up it to 100 shares, then 250 shares - then 1 es contract - then 3es, 6es, 10es etc...
Since the SPY shares are 99% correlated to the ES and arbed to stay that way - if you want to learn and prove stuff to your self why not be frugal and wise about it...
a graduated road is the best route to trade mastery...
a bad day in the ES and you can easily lose $300 dollars or more... at 25 spys you would lose $12 dollars since it is a 20 to 1 ratio... (1/20 of one es contract at that many shares)... and it would be the exact same loss but quite a bit less hit to your account...
the exact same trend and pattern structures are there in the spy just like in the ES and you can draw the exact same Grobby channels in the same places exactly the same way...
cj...
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