the math is so much better with a larger account. I could take my (current) account balance of $6,700 to about $150k in 5 years with current stats...or $100k to over $2m. I get that as money increases...so do the challenges, and I also know for a fact that I am being naive in the assumption that growth will be the same on $100k as $6k. However, with the markets I am trading liquidity would not be an issue at all on that amount...I would basically just increase micro contract size organically until I reached full size contracts. It is possible. And another thing is I am constantly getting better, I am putting the work in waking at 4:30 each day and really devoting the time to this. It's serious to me. p.s. fu** ES lol...I just really struggle with the rhythm and avoid it. I do much better with crude and gold.
the honest answer is because I never learned how to trade options...and still don't know how. I was lazy and avoided the hard stuff. I tried to apply strategies better suited to equities or futures to options thinking the convexity would shoot me to the moon when in reality IV+theta smacked me into poverty lol.
Not willing to put my wife and kids through selling the house. Appreciate the reply I'll take the rest of it into consideration.
How long is your track record? Which means it's not more than 4 years, but your foray into futures is only recent by your own admission. Unless you can absolutely prove that you're profitable, it would be a hard sell IMO. Other than going back to work, your next best course of action is taking out a home equity loan.
op - have you ever had the opportunity to set with someone who is successful at trading. i was lucky enough to have some mentors that showed me how they trade their style in real time. though i don't use any of their methods it gave me a good grounding of what professionals really do to earn. you might be well off to intern somewhere the action is.
all true, I admit that this thread my be putting the cart in front of the horse a bit but started it anyway just to satisfy my curiosity. trading since June 2019.
Props for the brutal honesty.. As you have learned, always better to trade OPM when starting out.... You need to hook up with a prop shop or work for a successful trader...
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