Recent Content by daystructure

  1. My Life as a Trader...

    +1.00 I maintained my trading plan today and performed slightly better. I am still using a reduced number of contracts (2cts), so the actual...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 3, 2009 in forum: Journals

  2. The Emini Mastro taking a $1,500 side account to $1M in 14 months

    I do not understand what is everyone's obsession on this board with photoshop and posting false performance. Why in the world would anyone do...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 3, 2009 in forum: Journals

  3. The Emini Mastro taking a $1,500 side account to $1M in 14 months

    Cheers to that my fellow trader!
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 3, 2009 in forum: Journals

  4. My Life as a Trader...

    BM, Trading has been an incredibly pleasurable experience as well as a painful one. Painful in that it is full of self-discovery and...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 3, 2009 in forum: Journals

  5. Odds Czar: Simple Biases In the Futures Market: 2009

    Hi Art, I just noticed this thread. Thanks for taking your time all of this year to put together the odds czar for ET. :) Have you kept a...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 2, 2009 in forum: Journals

  6. My Life as a Trader...

    A tad bit better today, but I really need to breakout in terms of profit. +1.00 on 6cts, but I traded partial contracts due to my performance...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 2, 2009 in forum: Journals

  7. My Life as a Trader...

    From October 2007 to December 2007 was a period of large drawdowns for me. What happened is that I was employing a strategy of adding to losing...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 2, 2009 in forum: Journals

  8. My Life as a Trader...

    My original capitalization in 2001 that I grew in the past was $6,000. I had just graduated high school and went straight into trading the NQ....
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 2, 2009 in forum: Journals

  9. My Life as a Trader...

    1. My current stake is just under $10,000. 2. -4.50 points today. I keep a trading journal which I track every single one of my trades and...
    Post by: daystructure, Dec 2, 2009 in forum: Journals

  10. double ETF requirements change tommorrow

    "Prior to the change, the maintenance margin for any long ETF was 25% of its market value and the margin for any short ETF was 30% of its market...
    Post by: daystructure, Nov 30, 2009 in forum: ETFs

  11. My Life as a Trader...

    Also, it's called get rich quick because life is too short to get rich slow. :) I'll post more after I review later this afternoon. Hope...
    Post by: daystructure, Nov 30, 2009 in forum: Journals

  12. My Life as a Trader...

    WOW I did not expect the response I received from the initial post. This thread will quickly become 100+ pages if 1post per 4 pages is the...
    Post by: daystructure, Nov 30, 2009 in forum: Journals

  13. My Life as a Trader...

    Hello EliteTrader, I have been a long time user and contributor and am writing this under the alias, DayStructure. I hope this story...
    Thread by: daystructure, Nov 30, 2009, 58 replies, in forum: Journals