Serious Question

Real Money said:
Oh. I'm not trying to call you out man.

….. I have been watching the market action and it is crazy lately. Up days, down days, chop, swings, reversals, and Trump jawboning the thing. You gotta be stressed out maintaining equity exposure in that mess.
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Markets have always been like that.AS far a billionaire that likes capital markets + wants to get re elected- that causes you stress????????????????????
ARE they dumb enough to do stupid Senator Smoot Hawly tarriff in pre-election/election year?? Probably not but it would show up on charts..... 1929-31 was a worldwide depression,90% stock financing, too much gov meddling, dark/dust storms in Chicago/US, 25% unemployment, huge uninsured bank failures, huge # of forclosed farms.That could cause stress for long only, or short only...…………………………………………………………………..
 
Real Money said:
What's an ATM? Or, maybe should say what is a "Ninja ATM."
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Ninja ATMs are just auto targets and stops which you can customize to do what you want to do. "Automated Trade Management." Trailing stops, tick entry adjustments...So once your entry goes in, the ATM gives you an instant bracket of target and stop. I developed so many during the salad days of the testing period. Each one was tailored to each instrument, based on their price action. I had separate ATMS for GC, TF (remember that one on the CME? Now it is RTY, but half tick value after they came back from ICE.), CL, NQ, etc...Because they used to be kinda' uncorrelated.
 
S&P 500 Futures Trader said:
How many points on average have you been able to net off the S&P 500 trading with "real money" on a daily basis, say over the last 30 days?
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Hi, like I said, I am working too much lately to trade. The only hours that I have free:

pre-market, open, go to work at 11:30 AM (work lasts 12 to 14 hours) Mon-Thurs
all day free Friday, Sat, Sun

so you can see that I have serious time conflicts with RTH. As a result have been reluctant to start trading 'real money'. I have been using the sim feature to memorize all the volatility adjustments and see the cross hedging in action. Also daytrading outrights and stuff on sim.
I figured that when I can double 100k accounts on sim easily then I am getting good enough to do this with 'real money' when I can get my time conflicts sorted out.

I have another thread where I show charts and stuff. I am still building analytics implementations with the DDE for TWS and ThinkScript.

I understand traders are just gonna say 'you suck' or 'you don't really have an edge' whatever.

This forum helped me out when I got stuck trying to find a real informational advantage and I'm just trying to help other would be traders that might be looking for alternatives to picking entry, take profit, and stop loss with technical analysis and other PA studies.

I made another thread about that stuff. I'd like to help people but don't really know how. I like to talk trading stuff about daytrading indices and index spreads. I have sim logs of trades and stuff but they are like 6 pages of trades for one cash session.
 
Real Money said:
...I'd like to help people but don't really know how. I like to talk trading stuff about daytrading indices and index spreads...
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The best way you can help people is to do exactly that. Trade live, and talk about your experiences with people who are interested. I so want to help people also, which was the major reason for my journal. The theme was, "Yes, you can make money trading". I truly want to show that it can be done. I'm in a bit of a waffle on it for the past 18 months, but it is a work in progress.

You will help people by trading real money, and posting in your journal the feelings you had behind each trade, the reasons you had for taking those trades, all that stuff.
 
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