Trading Experience
- Thread starter TDMA
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I think you could be right. Its just that we're dawdling a long time before we get to the close.
Plus, I can admit without boasting to having had more attractive solicitations.....
Well apart from the small insignificant detail that given the returns everyone makes here, only professionals, funds and institutions can afford the access rates meaning it's a non-discussion, but I do appreciate the margin of error narrative to take away from the core topic. So perhaps, just maybe, there could be, as one member put it, a more altruistic approach.
I could also say, I make so much as shown by the logs, and that most members returns are so pathetic at 1:1 they won't show them, that their capital is not on my radar except purely in the capacity of it flowing through the markets via trading losses in to, let's call it, stronger hands such as myself and anyone following the path of least resistance.
You don't know my returns, you don't know my market access, fees or costs or how I trade.
Seems you've come to do the telling, not to do any asking.
So, I'd like to ask again, have you posted how you trade?
I do believe you have taken a wrong turn, if a new trader, let's say a grad, decided they want to put Xela, or Tomorton or Speedo at the back of the queue, then it's all theirs for absolutely nothing to show what can be done. No one makes any money from it, but I would have one of those smirks that those funds, your funds, are flowing to some of the most inexperienced traders in the world. You see, the markets are about stripping the next person of their capital in the most efficient way possible, right, you thought financial markets are a country club.
But I do like the margin of error narrative to shift away from the core topic, retail returns truly are pathetic compared to the amount of effort needed to generate them, the path of least resistance avoids that dilemma.
I don't understand what you're talking about. It might be me.
Anyway, in the hopes I will understand the next answer, what are you looking to achieve here?
Let me put it in a direct way that can be more easily digested, the path of least resistance using the rules outlined will allow any grad to take on the best in this site at the retail level using nothing but their own skills. If, like me, they come across a, let's say, questionable narrative to trading, facilities are available to allow them to reinforce a more honest, and sophisticated, level of communication, altruistic as opposed to business style.
As I have politely shown myself, I make enough in the markets to have a more drama free lifestyle without the need to worry about day to day income, people request if they can take my details seeing my lifestyle as more relaxed, they want to try and leave the daily grind. From time to time they ask me questions, and I provide them advice, often on WhatsApp or in person, almost always myself picking up the bill because I'm in the a situation of least resistance.
The problem with trading forums is very simple, the majority of the narrative attempts to drown out anything but to work yourself in to the ground, because that is the approach they took and they don't want to see anyone else fast track it, the process is built in to psychology. I've done that myself, but only in short bursts, there is a better way if you want out of the daily income approach, the whole trading architecture was designed to bring hedge funds back to parity within one year who are 30%-50% underwater, I just get to use it for my own trading. My trading returns have been consistent over the development time because I followed the path of least resistance rules, only my knowledge "why" has increased.
The end result is very simple, give people, grads with limited knowledge told to work more for less, traders cast aside from institutions, the older generation where time is precious, the ability to find parity without spending a generation, defined as 20yrs, working themselves in to oblivion, and preferably using purely their own skills without paying for services. I know this because I have been put in that position by people very similar to those on this site, my Brother being one, the narrative is generate income and start from zero even though it was their stupidity, greed, lack of humanity that caused any issue. Starting from zero is built in to society, your taxes, go and try using some of the services you've paid for, legal, medical, they exist only superficially unless you are in the core of the normal distribution, and that core today is narrower and more heavily filled than any time in history.
The problem everyone has with me, my approach, and the people I work with, we take the path of least resistance, which means if they make a mistake, which they always try to cover up, everything is designed in layers to slowly strip them of time, capital, energy until they capitulate. Don't make the mistake, I have better things to do with my time, cover it up and I will take the shirt from your back, be it family, friends or forum members, if there is any profit from the outcome it goes to charity. Plus I really don't spend much time doing it, we run at the same levels of institutions, 1:1,000, and why not give that skill to other people, it's quite handy these days, after all, I need to do something with my time.
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DUDE...please STOP!
You're right, even if something can be proved beyond doubt and with visible confirmation, it still does not hold water for the majority, time to switch modes to the rentec model. The problem was income trading is public, but HFT trading must be behind closed doors due to the compounding available, but HFT is income trading, the question was which one took precedence, with the secondary question can you capital trade publicly.
I just had to prove the path of least resistance was the rentec approach rather than the public model, took some effort to fight through the noise but we got there in the end, thanks for confirming. The conclusion, HFT always needs to be behind closed doors, income trading outside of HFT is always public, and capital trading always needs to be behind closed doors. That is a level of clarity I did not expect to come out of this discussion, excellent.