Why do 5% of Traders Win?
- Thread starter oldtime
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Stop quoting this asshole; I'm trying to ignore him!
I always believe that paying higher commisison to your broker, which I' am, for getting the best service will help u trade successful. Unfortunately, I notice many small traders in ET haggle lower commission which i think ridiculous
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/odean/papers/Day Traders/Day Trading Skill 110523.pdf
Finally, day traders incur
substantial trading costs and receive quick feedback about their trading ability. It is
among this group that we are most likely to identify persistently good traders.
another quote from the article:
Two points are worth emphasizing in these results. First, the spread in returns
between the top and bottom performing investors at 67 bps per day is enormous when
compared to most other studies of cross-sectional ability in investor performance. For
example, using data from Finland, Grinblatt, Keloharju, and Linnainmaa (2010)
document that the buys of high IQ investors outperform those of low IQ investors by 4.4
bps per day in the days immediately following the purchase. Using data from a large U.S.
discount broker,
HIGHER EDUCATION is the key to become a successful trader.
Higher Education
CL is $10/.01 move. The contract offers at least 10 tradable price swings a day on a 5-min chart, significantly more on a 1-min chart of you're a 10-tick scalper.
I watched a micro scalper trade it several days in a row, simply extracting money from it like an ATM machine every few minutes.
My friend and I developed the particular price action trading plan that I currently use as my core plan. He and I both extract at least $400/contract a day out of it. This is a super duper conservative profit. There are days (like today) when CL basically spits money at anyone who can stay on the right side of the intraday trending move and who takes the time to draw trend lines and parallel channels or calculate measured moves.
I've been working with a couple other CL traders, one puts away her $500/day loot regularly, the other has been able to do the same in a sim account and is about to go live.
So here are five small retail traders demonstrating the viability of averaging $400 daily day trading a single futures contract, which requires less than $10,000 to do.
There are big crude oil speculators and hedgers out there and when they get a notion to trade, price MOVES. Study the price footprints that precede wide price swings, look for entry signals you're comfortable with (I use stop orders), and learn to go with the flow. You'll become one of the 5% winners.
I watched a micro scalper trade it several days in a row, simply extracting money from it like an ATM machine every few minutes.
My friend and I developed the particular price action trading plan that I currently use as my core plan. He and I both extract at least $400/contract a day out of it. This is a super duper conservative profit. There are days (like today) when CL basically spits money at anyone who can stay on the right side of the intraday trending move and who takes the time to draw trend lines and parallel channels or calculate measured moves.
I've been working with a couple other CL traders, one puts away her $500/day loot regularly, the other has been able to do the same in a sim account and is about to go live.
So here are five small retail traders demonstrating the viability of averaging $400 daily day trading a single futures contract, which requires less than $10,000 to do.
There are big crude oil speculators and hedgers out there and when they get a notion to trade, price MOVES. Study the price footprints that precede wide price swings, look for entry signals you're comfortable with (I use stop orders), and learn to go with the flow. You'll become one of the 5% winners.
Here's some proof for you Lucias. This is what I can do in a day starting with a very small balance of $156. Now scale that up to a starting balance of $10,000. Even if I blew out a few $10,000 accounts over a period of one year, I'd still be WAY ahead.
I should qualify that I had two gold contract left over from the day before that had me at -$4.04 as of market close at 5pm EST. That's why you see the rollover fee.
Trouble is that the ignore list doesn't really work. I still get email alerts. ET needs to create an "asshole" list so that the emails are tagged with "asshole". In this way, I can filter the email alerts into the junk box.
Clicking on the email alert and finding nothing is more annoying than simply not reading your message. ET, please fix this.