NOT telling you what to do. But I seem to recall you admitting you were trading somewhat different due to the public journal. You may want to consider trading as normally as possible, otherwise you're not likely to achieve "normal" results.
It was inevitable since I started to trade publicly anyway and ET thread is just another step to more transparency. Yes it's a challenge but only way to really improve is overcome it and move ahead.
It is what it is. Real live trading which I guess nobody doubts is real. My deep respect to people who have a better public track record of trading on similar or larger size (middle two digits of SIF contracts). Would be very interesting to see their results by the way.
Don't pay attention to FoN's comment, cornix. Having 4-5 trades in a day would be extremely active for my methods, and much more on the level than as with ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT Trade now and wait 2 weeks for a BBBBBBIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGG PROFIT! Then during the trade as you announce the stupidly large percentage you might make, the trade moves against, then at breakeven, reverse and this might be a week later with the same proclamation of large profits looming ahead, ignoring the simpleton fact that at some point those trades will break the account to somewhere below an impossible level to ever return to anything remotely close to b/e. Fucking ridiculous. Cornix just trade on. Really, I've had it with some of these idiots not knowing that tricking the dom is just as stupid because the robots don't care if you've taken their cheddar, all they know is they're going to come after you and trade until they get their shares back and into the black and if they don't they'll go with you and send your position into profit. The people trading HFT are the hedge funds that want the rebates from the exchange or have to make volume so they do nice to their brokers by misrepresenting where their real profits come from.
Haha.... yeah sounds familiar. Thanks BW! No worries here, anyone who's so melting to care about a few critical comments should never trade IMO. I appreciate all criticism, as it may show something I missed myself. And trading will just keep going.
You can sound all noble if you wish, and I don't mean any disrespect, just keeping it real, but we proving Surf a point people. For someone that has a PA blog and defends TA adamantly the performance overall, so far, has been nothing short of crap-static. I mean we are give or take at break even levels and it has been quite a few trading days that have been recorded so where exactly is "your TA" helping you ? In other words the sample keeps getting larger, yet the performance is not improving. Let me know if I'm being unjust in any of the observations, cause frankly, Im just calling it as i see it. Keeping it real. Let's not forget 20% Annual returns were not impressive according to the OP.
Assuming I already beat 20% figure in less than 3 months of public trading this way on some accounts (it depends on risk tolerance), yes of course 20% annually is no biggie at all. As for this particular thread, the reality will show itself, positive or negative, it will become apparent. Since nobody doubts this is real trading I assume, this experiment will be an interesting demonstration of transparency for the whole ET. By the way, so far I get amazing results from psychological point of view, mostly in form of replies here, which are perfect samples of classic issues traders and wannabe traders face regularly.
One trade today. Wish all you people from the US a happy July 4 holiday! No trading for me tomorrow and Thursday, will be back on Friday.