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...
Well its all over for me. I put in two years starting in 2005 full time. 'Tuition' money has run out. I'm kind of glad, feel a sense of relief...
What was the margin requirement when ES had 74 point ranges?
This has been the most brilliantly engineered sideways correction. Who woulld've thought we'd have 3 years of rising prices and falling...
I don't think we've seen excess yet. Valuations have been going down for 5 straight years. Only now do we see an uptick. Excess is PEs above 20...
Why I propose the economic solution? Because the war solution is off the table. Look at the humiliating defeat of the US in Iraq, look at...
According to Dow theory, a bull market goes thru 3 phases: Accumulation The Big Move Excess This is the Big Move, we haven't even seen...
Funniest post ever Tums, nice.
MMT - your response dissapoints me. I was going to name this thread "The Land of Perfect" in your honor. Now your quoting "inverted yeild...
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