There are traders asking me privately to list my trades...but I cannot give the quotes/price of entry and exit as there are some traders in here that can reverse engineer my trades. Seriously...they can do it...if they get little bits of info to add to the entries and exits they can put it all together and figure out what I do. Not that it's worth it! ES
You are not so important in the universe that if you list your current positions in the market, someone will be able to "counter-trade" you. YOUR trades are not marked with a gold star with your initials on the exchange. Especially in the ZB, where the orderbook is really really deep. You are way too high on yourself, man.
I make all my money in the morning. I think I need to stop trading earlier. I am looking at my journal now to evaluate the best times. ES
Traders I trade defensively and use my journal a lot. Please read this below: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/howard-marks-memo.325368/#post-4734841
I suppose that would be true if you were highly profitable. In light of your current circumstances, it would unlikely - that would be more paranoid type of thinking. This is not meant as disparagement in any way, nor a means to cajole you in doing something you do not want to do but if you had limited time and resources whom would you attempt to reverse engineer ? You're doing better than can be expected given your current paradigm. Preserving capital is a skill in and of itself. There is a fine line to walk between the two rivers of fear and greed. Most lose sight of the path and find themselves in one of the two rivers and dashed upon the rocks. You could have ended the day in the hole, so good job in coming up positive. Enjoy your wins and keep stacking them up!
It's the system I am protecting not how I trade it!...But if all they have to reverse engineer is my trades...well they will be real confused and be far from the discretion that I should be using within the freedom of this system. My timing is off that's all as I am so spoiled to frame in the direction clearly. To get 10,000 hours of screentime is all that it will take. Meanwhile I want to pass this Gauntlet. Thank you Sprout for your kind words and thanks for being delicate and respectable as I am quite sensitive just now. This day was like a losing day. ES P.S. You see I need to show my trading partner success as this is how I get a reasonable satisfaction from the hundreds of hours trading along side him. .
Yeah, that is all you need to suddenly become profitable. That magical 10,000 hour screen-time mark. You are quite sensitive now? Hmm. Why not feed that into your charts tomorrow, see how they adapt to your sensitivity. Maybe they will go your way then.
I hit the wrong reply button and do not know how to undo it, but this is for ES: If someone did reverse engineer your entries to the point that they followed your trades or could figure out when you were entering and enter at approximately the same time with enough volume to push the market would that not help propel the market in the direction you need it to go and thus benefit you? I was hoping you would get some benefit from the 20 tick move straight up when the dust settled after the report today.
I was made to promise that I would never share this system. It is not my system. It's sorta like the traders code. You do not share a system if it is given to you in confidence. ES