you claimed earlier (or another thread) you had 12 years of trading experience. Then you started talking about fx options. Are you retarded or is it just your memory?
@Fundlord , I think most of what's getting you in trouble here is the OPM thing. I hate to be negative on here, but even if it's true, the very idea that you treat other people's money as a call option on yourself probably makes you unfit to manage others' money. Think if a potential investor saw that comment down the road. If you somehow got them to continue listening past your precipitous equity curve swings from earlier, I guarantee they'd be out the door after that. No one wants to eat your risk for you, investors aren't just your suckers like that, they know how to work the spreadsheet machine and will avoid risks like the one your current trading record poses. Frankly, the most profitable 3-5 futures traders on here (if they even venture to do so on index futures) are probably waiting silently on the sidelines of this thread hoping you get a bankroll to punt with because you're exactly the type of counter party they want as market makers. Reign in the risk and the OPM stuff or people will continue to dismiss you on here. Although this post was probably ruder than it had to be, I'd encourage you to consider what is said here, because managing other people's money is a big responsibility. I don't know why I'm even saying this. My parents always told me "if you don't have something nice to say..."
I'd say you provided very well thought out, reasoned advice that was no more harsh than it needed to be. Sometimes its nice to have someone like you who respectfully but firmly provides some well needed advice. I certainly have benefited from it in the past and expect to in the future as well. Plus the poster above you can hopefully learn from your great example!
If it's any consolation, anytime you get tired of the bickering on ET you can head on over to pprune for some more bickering!
Lot of news about commodities. Here's a long term chart of the crb index: One should keep in mind that it is a futures index. Rollovers subject to losses from contango. So here's what spot prices of commodities have really done over that time period: