If I would post 23 losing trades in the ES, losing $77,000 and then say that I am down 0%, nobody would believe me. I have already been called all kind of names by ET trolls with even better numbers. ET becomes hilarious as nobody makes any remarks about the statement (without any proof), and ET loses all credibility as an "elite trader" website.
I mean where else you going to go? the 3rd world degen site (forexfactory)? the haunted house (futures.io)? the noobz center (babypips)? the has been? (trade2win)?
I've already stated that I have been buying BTC for a very long time. Ignoring that statement and assuming that the first BTC trade I ever made was in this journal is a critical error on your part.
Virtusa, It's ironic that the guy who makes all sorts of claims about his trading performance and provides no proof whatsoever of anything is the one guy who demands proof of someone else's claim. I have tried to be very patient with you and I have let you go on and on and make all sorts of derogatory statements about me. I've let you twist my statements around and make your point 1000 times over. In regards to your statement on multiple occasions about me providing no proof of trading before this journal, I would like to provide you with some interesting data. At first I was going to dig up some screenshots from various BTC purchases a few years before this journal started, but then I figured I might as well swing for the grand slam and go back to the beginning. Here's a screenshot of a 7 BTC purchase of mine from back in 2013: Here's another one a few weeks later for another 7 BTC: As you can see, these two purchases for roughly 14 BTC was a decade ago. But hey, let's go back further, shall we? Here are two wire confirmations from April of 2012 to Mt. Gox, the first Bitcoin exchange to purchase $3,000 worth of BTC. I could sit here and keep posting these all day long to fill in the time gap between then and now, but hopefully you get the point. I'll let you figure out how much Bitcoin that $3,000 purchased in April of 2012.
Okay, now you're just annoying. Nicely done, though. Have you been buying all along, or did you just start up again in 2021? And do you have an uncle point? Or are you prepared to ride them into the ground if, hypothetically, they go to zero?
Since 2012, there's never been a year that I didn't buy. It depends on if the fundamentals of BTC changed, like the security of the network was somehow compromised. But so far, the network has been rock solid and as we all know, the economics of Bitcoin has been hard-coded from the beginning to make BTC more scarce in supply over time. So it's looking pretty solid so far and I will hold for as long as the fundamentals stay that way.
This is the one thing that absolutely makes ET a shitty place to be sometimes. I have had to leave on many occasions because so called trading gurus want to ridicule new guys that are struggling but offer nothing but hindsight analysis. They make impressive claims and then hide behind a litany of excuses when asked to show some evidence of actual trading or that they were magically doing everything better. Now I realize that each member has to do his own due diligence and since nothing is being sold here there is no expectation or requirement of proof, but this means that the bullshit factor here is an order of magnitude higher than it should be. Imagine if your email service had no way to filter Spam. You would refuse to check your email. Going through the threads here and reading all about the incredible profits some are making, or the obscure technique they are using, and pumping, but having no way to verify this, and even worse, being told that each trader needs to do their own homework, actually turns users away. Imagine if drug companies offered drugs but told customers to do their own research on safety or side effects! LOL.... As I say, nothing is being sold and all the anonymous members here have a right to share as much or as little as they want, but I can't help but wonder how much better ET could be if this "spam" was eliminated or at least tagged. A blue checkmark for verified members that can in some way prove trading ability would be incredible. Some members do show the odd trade stats from their platform, and some members show charts with trades. Sometimes we also get a PnL for the day, of even a PnL broken down by each trade. Most don't come close to what either @destriero or @Dustin have shown, but it would be nice if there was some mechanism to differentiate between actuals traders with real accounts who put on real trades and the other 90% here who just make comments as if they were actually trading.
I still think it's a crazy "investment" and a wild speculative vehicle. But I can't argue with your numbers. So I will shut up (for now).