Care to share what is your day trading strategy so that we can find out if something is wrong given that the strategy would be abandoned anyway by you? but it looks you made some profit.
Sim account, much easier to make a profit on Sim because emotions don't get in the way of discipline. If I did a sim account I would buy intra day selloffs in the SIFs, mid day, looking for those V recoveries, bloody scary to do with real money.. But in a sim account no fear.
I think in most cases, noise overwhelms signal, especially for us scalpers trading tick by tick or short time frame PA.
It's breaking out ! Looks like there is a little something to me. But it's up to you. I mean 1year of forward backtesting, You know deep inside if you should trade for real or trash it.
**** this post is for entertainment purposes only and not financial advice **** On another thread, I mentioned to you that I "choose my battle", this dude below is right on target Lost too much $ playing low probability trades and targeting profit potential of less than 200% return on risk capital The market makers, the market movers, the insiders, the hft's, have enormous edge in the short term, but over a longer timeframe, retail has a big enough edge over them I don't know where I read it I think it was in one of the Market Wizards books or maybe even here on ET, something along the line that market makers trade dozens of stocks and cannot know everything about the stock that you pick with your trade idea I've been trading mstr call options for 4 years, first one was a loss of $50k, but I believe there is information asymmetry, bitcoin cycles primarily and mstr financial exploits/methodologies on the simplest level All your hard work in finding an active-trading strategy could probably have been spent towards finding your own high-probability trade-idea that plays out over a longer timeframe similar to the ones mentioned in the Market Wizards books I promised to show $500k profits m2m on my current mstr call leaps position before eoy (2 months to go), but there is significance to the current m2m profits as it's more than my yearly salary on the last year of my employment Market makers are offering it to me for just sitting on the position less than 6 months and taking some painful emotional beatings at times, nature of the market ups and downs aka volatility https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...metric-risk-reward.379915/page-4#post-6001127 https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...metric-risk-reward.379915/page-7#post-6018732
Not the end, but the end of the beginning. I did 3 years on ES,NQ ,YM and TN. Broke even after comms. Take a break and now you know what not to do. You are way ahead of those newbies thinking they have or have to have the "holy grail". Never mind the posers that are 10x more lost. Good work to measure and track. Now refine, correct, manage risk better and you are on your way. The path is long for a retail person.... Congrats you survived.
I simply do not like the trend. I may be close but no cigar IMHO. If I continue, I need to make adjustments.