Insane risks taken? what are you talking about? His entire risk was only $2000! Actually he took $2000 to $248,000 in about 9 month, and I recalled he reached $300,000 before he stopped posting.
Well, I was too stupid at the time to know he was faking it. Not real trades, all after the fact trades so guaranteed winners. Was exposed by @destriero and barred from ET. When it is too good to be true, it is not true.
OI would wait for a move and go over the time and sales and approriate a trade after the move occurred. It worked for a long time but he got sloppy. On occasion he would take an order amounting to a few lots and then say he was up 8-$10K... on a trade that made a few hundred. IOW he'd take a one lot hitting the tape and state he was long 20-50 lots. 100% fraud. It's one thing to make a call on paper... quite another level to appropriate a quick move of say 10 points higher in the SPX by hunting in the time and sales and picking a winning call that traded--by another trader. He simply ignored the posts until Baron stepped in and asked for some minimal validation. None came and *poof*. @smallfil was caught pulling the same scam on this thread as well.
10 percent compounding per month for 5 years is good i think you are too harsh on yourself. amazed you have no spare cash tbh at that rate.
It took a lot of work to create 9 months' worth of fake trades and fake profits. I still don't understand why.