Is this a joke? 4K round trips/day???? That a round trip every 500 milliseconds assuming you trade around the clock!
I think a lot of 1000 contracts in and out counts as 1000 rt's ...There is this guy in his early thirties that does over 100k rt a day and he made 50 million in ten years scalping. From germany , I forgot his name
You guys are right of course. That's clearly what was meant. I think of that as trading in size. I guess the word "active" threw me off.
The thing that was off was your math. 4000 rt a day would be 1 r/t more in the range of a trade every 20 something seconds. There's a bid difference between 500 miliseconds and over 20 seconds.
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wow yall are just really getting it all wrong. just wanted to see if anyone is out there similar to me to talk about shit. simple
my impression is that people here just kinda trade off of their charts and sit positions... is anyone highly active and trades a lot all day?