Why, Please is that of any importance. How would the OP benefit from being a devious, conniving, dirty poster?
Zela is, in my opinion, a sincere and thoughtful contributor as well as there are about 5 others whose posts are helpful. Without those this forum is really egocentric folks who for whatever reason consider bashing a team sport for playing with ET. (Just maybe, Those are the Trolls?)
Hope, Baron, and the Mods, take note -- it is those that Bash and Hash everyone with the idea that they are evil and have an ulterior motive to snag a fool here. Those individuals are what eventually Ruins a forum like E.T. It ends up as a war of bashers and worthless comments. I have never used the "report" function on ET but maybe it should be used; particularly by those who wish to notify the police of wrong doers. Congrats to all of the ET vigilantes.
Just use the "report" rather than the need to toss slings and arrows. For those who may be unaware of the "report" find it right below the posts on the left-hand margin. Peace and goodwill only intended. Not trying to start a flame war... Note also, that you can always stop following this thread. Or for that matter start one of your own. Perhaps, "Let's Clean and Purge all the Unwelcomed Evil and Dangerous" posters.
What ever happened to a very active thread that was posted here: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/members/smallcapgrowth.498244/ By Smallcapgrowth. You see this is what causes skepticism. But how do you know who is Real or a Troll? Smallcapgrowth started several very active threads. Then vanished. ? Here are some of his threads. Introduction and backround. I think I have a good backround to have success I want to take a course on how to trade es I post this only to point out that there are people who post on ET and are indeed strange if not dishonest. I get that -- the problem is taking that and painting everyone with a broad brush. Also, there is a myriad of courses, gurus, software, and tools for sale to make one a profitable trader with "Red Light Green Lights and/or Arrows that when followed will make one rich. So agreed there is a need for caveat emptor. "Danger Danger Will Robinson" But I don't find it necessary to do Baron's or Mods job to be the ET police. The example above of smallcapgrowth is just a question -- would you vote that he was for real or? Thanks ...
I am still trading as I trade overnight as well -- but enough posting for today. Hopefully, I have not offended anyone and -- if I have) I certainly apologize. Peace Out
%% I like Buy1Sell2; i like his ES journal much more than his counterTrend comments on CL/TX TEA+ i 've told him that. I cant really blame him for taking 20 or 50 days to reply to a post- been there done that,2 LOL. OIL tends to trend better than ES; ES was designed for traders. Oil + oil related stocks+ oil related stuff was created for use-so its a complete different trend-friend market
Hi SteveA, If you're looking for a liquid futures instrument that isn't traded by "algos," I don't think you're gonna find one. The "algos" trade everything, especially futures like CL that are regularly in the top 5 traded futures by volume. With that said, IMO CL is probably as good an instrument to trade as any. It has a lot more vol than ES and plenty of liquidity unless you're trying to push 50 contracts after hours.