You took $10K to $100K in a very short period of time (a month?) in your old journal. Was that discretionary trading? I see that you now seem to have abandoned your old methodology in favor of algorithmic trading.
Day trading is hard. You get the most leverage, but your own fear and greed will destroy you. By the time you figure out what's working, it stops working...
Yes, I agree with you that day trading is hard, as it involves actively buying and selling securities within the same day.
No Shit Sherlock. Pressing buttons is hard. Especially if you have real fat fingers. I bought weight fingers dumbbells, Now they’re getting skinnier and stronger. Maybe you should try some.
Absolutely, I’ve lost big on a few occasions just because I couldn’t figure out the right time to enter and exit the trades. That has been a big problem for me in the past. Now, it’s a tad better I would say
Good Morning schizo, Great post. I just want to say for me, something that is not talked about enough in trading is, Gratitude. For me, and I hope others, but it is an extreme blessing to be able to turn my computer on daily and compete in a fair game in the ES futures market to make large sums of money. I am very bless and thank God daily for this opportunity. Really a great feeling to compete amongst the best traders and algos in the world.
Your Thanksgiving turkey may have come from god, but your ES profits are man made. As retail day traders (trading CME futures) we don't need to send thanks to the CME either, even though they do a very good job for sure, we send them more enough $$$$$ in fees.