I am interested to hear what kind of traders you know that are trading and making some good money. What markets, what time frames, how much return, what kind of trading strategy?
One I will mention trades across a bunch of different futures markets. He doesn't use charts but rather trades from watching correlating markets and watching the DOM. He is most active in grains, but also trades in gold, equity futures...pretty much where there is movement. He is one of the few people that I know that make consistent money.
At a prop firm I was at in 2007 we had a guy who was making 5 or 6 figures a day. He may have had a couple of 7 figure days. As far as I know he was trading discretionary on a relatively short-time frame. So not necessarily day trading. I can't tell you much more than that.
I know plenty of stories from the trading pits but those aren't really relevant to today. That edge is gone and most of those guys have difficulty trading on the screen.
One I will mention trades across a bunch of different futures markets. He doesn't use charts but rather trades from watching correlating markets and watching the DOM. He is most active in grains, but also trades in gold, equity futures...pretty much where there is movement. He is one of the few people that I know that make consistent money.
At a prop firm I was at in 2007 we had a guy who was making 5 or 6 figures a day. He may have had a couple of 7 figure days. As far as I know he was trading discretionary on a relatively short-time frame. So not necessarily day trading. I can't tell you much more than that.
I know plenty of stories from the trading pits but those aren't really relevant to today. That edge is gone and most of those guys have difficulty trading on the screen.