Scaleout.Scalper
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Way to promote underleverage OP.
Without leverage you lack scalability, good luck beating the SP500 like that.
Without leverage you lack scalability, good luck beating the SP500 like that.
Mate, 1 car equals 1 contract![]()

Even when the market is slow, placing stop loss will eat you alive!
More than 90% of small traders lose! They just lose!
I really know nothing about trading, but from what I heard 1 car is equal to 100 contracts ES.
If the ES goes 20 points against you, your account is wiped out. 20 points for 100 contracts at 50$ equals a loss of 100K. It means the market is your stop. (So you do use a stop!)
What is your strategy if you go short ES at 495 around end of 1994?
For your information: I saw somebody do this trade for 200 contracts. He did not want to put a stop too. He added on every margin call to his position till he lost 10 mio $.
1 contract equal $100K. or $100K per contract. This is something small traders cannot afford because too poor. ES leverage is $12.50 per tick which result to $100K per contract. Minimum to open a futures account should be $500K and not $5000.
Placing a stop loss is for loser! Those place stop because $100K per contract is unaffordable.
U don't have to believe me "small traders". just keep getting stopped out and reload your account for the next 2yrs until u are bust.
placing stop loss with $500 per contract result to bust.
Yes, but! The car originally referred to the spoos pit traded contract, SP, that trades in 0.10 increment and where each point is $250. So one car is technically equivalent to 5 ES. Or at least that's how I think of it...Mate, 1 car equals 1 contract![]()