What kind of intraday size are you going to trade with that 62K?
I don't know what market you are trading but if you are trading a thicker product like ZN/ZB, try your hand at some commodities like CL, ZC, NG...
When it's stuck in a tiny range, buy the 02s and sell the 05s...easy.
It is a holiday week, I would assume many traders are out today through Friday. Yesterday was a big run up.
I highly doubt being a trader is the hardest job out there.
That's a good idea...Sometimes on my blowups, I widen my stop but what often happens is too many trades trying to pick tops and bottoms and...
I've thought about these things: 1. Posting my live results every day for accountability. 2. Taping my stop rules to my monitor 3. Getting a...
Most days my discretionary approach is small gains per contract but I don't have to take big draw down risk to get it. Most days I pull out 1-2...
I had a trader once tell me that as he made more and more consistent money he cared less and less about what anyone thought. :D
I'm not sure what short convexity means, please elaborate.
As a live futures trader for more than 2 years I have come to understand my biggest demon, my kryptonite....large down days. Something takes...
Good liquidity and enough range for a scalper to take a few pieces overnight? How about around 5am-8am CET? That would be equivalent to 10-1...
How many years ago did you hit your stop?
The notional value is getting higher though, and volatility can return in a flash.
The market in general makes money by faking you out. You are simply taking all the fake outs like the rest of the herd. I bet as soon you get out...
Don't worry about making back the 80%...it's gone. The most important thing you can do is make sure you don't completely blow out and run out of...
Just from most of your negative posts that I've run across.
Eurex products, 6E, 6J
You seem really bitter and negative on all your posts, why?
Great advice Handle, thank you.
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