10 Days With TopStepTrader

Discussion in 'Journals' started by austinp, Jul 8, 2013.

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  1. Impossible due to the VIG that is paid both win or lose. Chop-- even if you are expert at cutting losses the VIG will get you in the end.

    surf
     
    #201     Aug 14, 2013
  2. his website appears down..maybe even deleted :D

    and now.... the walk of shame
     
    #202     Aug 14, 2013
  3. He refuses to take it. Every wonder why? its very obvious. Just like the other claimed great price action traders on elite

    surf
     
    #203     Aug 14, 2013
  4. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    I think he meant one can string a lot of small short runs together over one's trading life. Call it a cycle if you will.

    And it's laughable you think the only way to make money is market making. Speaking as someone who traded on the floor, all those guys down there are long gone and selling used cars now or running a bar on the north side of Chicago. And all those guys with those algos who use to get paid for pushing buttons, they are gone too. Turns it the computer can do just fine without them. Front running you say? Anyone can do that. The Fed has given you a free trade for 4 years now letting you front one them. Arbitrage? LOL. Dude, I can list all the big arbitrage funds for you if you want. Most have been decimated by the S&P 500 the last 4 years. What else do you got in your bag of tricks? Inside information? LOL.
     
    #204     Aug 14, 2013
  5. I won't even speculate on what happened but I have a very good idea.


     
    #205     Aug 14, 2013

  6. Any edges left in the US markets?
     
    #206     Aug 14, 2013
  7. you inferred in the post i quoted that no one earns in the long run. that is clear.

    i am saying essentially that is far from the reality. i guess my humor calling 20-30 yrs the short run did not connect.

    i'm not going to get in to how you guys can earn..but i will say running binary scalp type trades imo will not produce long term earnings. you need to swing, spread...etc.. ammo style is something that should be studied by guys struggling imo also.
     
    #207     Aug 14, 2013
  8. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    I found hard work still works. After all these years, that edge never seems to dissipate. Then you have the old "experience". That one had also stood the test of time.
     
    #208     Aug 14, 2013
  9. you must be kidding.

    the answer was given by me many times in the past and just above by mav.

    try it sometime..see what happens when you literally put 18 hrs a day in an idea.
     
    #209     Aug 14, 2013
  10. Markets still oscillate, don't they?
     
    #210     Aug 14, 2013
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