Sorry for coming across like a whining little bitch. But I hit the nail on the head as far as the discipline comment. Discipline in...
I actually average a 2.5k gain on my winners its just that every once in a while I have a massive loss. My average loss for the past 240 sessions...
Like I said, if you have 20 different not too correlated positions and one goes to zero that only a 5% hit. My plans for swing trading is to...
Discipline is the biggest myth in trading. Even if its attainable, its useless without a real edge. Discipline is like self actualization or...
Exactly if not for those three massive losses, I'd be up 75k for the year. But the fact this that such huge losses are Unavoidable. I can trade...
Expertise in trading intraday noise is not a scalable skill. If I had not bothered with daytrading and focused on swing trading the past 4 years...
Now when I say all daytraders, I'm talking about independent discretionary daytraders. I'm not talking about HFs running algo bots and doing...
Yeah Buffet did it with discretion but he invests for life (never sells). Yeah Soros did it with discretion but he apparently relies on back pain...
Don't respond to this thread, its a dumb question. I really don't want to know anymore. I tried to delete the thread but couldn't.
My question is when you bottomed in your learning curve, how fast was your money making: linear, exponential, or sideways (up and down).
The most important lesson I've learned about trading is use of the behavioral stop. Once you have a good plan that works, if you ever deviate...
I'll start looking for a job. When I say go into credit card debt what I really meant was take a cash advance of $300 to get the futures account...
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