Schizo Greybox Trading

romik said:
In which case one could also argue that if after years you are still finding it hard, then perhaps you need to look for other means of making speculative bets. Obviously you don't trust yourself nor your method.
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I did not say it was hard but it's definitely not easy. Why do you swing from an extreme to an extreme? There is a lot of room between those two.
It's not about trusting your methods, markets can and will change dramatically rendering at least some of your methods useless.
For the record, I've been profitable fairly consistently for quite a long time now but it's far from easy as things change and often changed rapidly.

i am nobody said:
Tell me where we will be in 15 seconds and also where will we be in 1 hour. The margin for error on 1 hour will be much bigger than the one on 15 seconds. So 15 seconds is easier.

The way somebody trades depends of a lot of things: personality, trading system, volume....
If you want to trade size you cannot trade very short periods. So I have to trade longer periods.
I trade what for me is the optimal timeframe in relation to my size.
Of course the best would be to trade 1 sec and take 20 points profit on 1000 contracts, but....

I gave comments here because Schizo is jumping around doing dozens of trades for almost no profit (if there is already profit). I went long short after the opening. 1 trade for almost 10 points and very relax trading, no jumping around, I even walk around in my house and don't have to be in front of my screens all the time.
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There are many contracts you can trade which have a lot of liquidity, unless your account is 8 figures and up. If it is, you're right and I'm wrong.
From my experience, 1 hour would be easier, less noise and patterns play out as they should.
I'm curious how much do you return percentage wise on average, just to make sure we are talking about the same level of returns.
If I could make 3-4 times as much trading short time-frames, I'd do it without a doubt. After some years I wouldn't need to be around the screen at all, makes perfect sense to me, obviously you don't agree.
 
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