Like I said, "The plan's there. The rules are there. The trades are there. All you have to do is track them."
Both parties would agree upon a common individual to act as auditor. This would mean that I give up my anonymity to the auditor - and I am fine with that. But I see that LF isn't willing to take this trade.
Since this is directed at me I'll try to answer. I have no idea how rich or busted DBP is nor do I care. I suspect he views himself more as a "keeper of the flame" than an "altruistic market wizard". I'm certain he isn't a deity. He studied an approach to the market (Wyckoff) that has been changed/distorted over the years. Again - complete conjecture on my part and not important at all to me what his reasons are. I'm not sure what his e-book has to do with anything. I doubt he is living off of those $30 checks and I have no idea what his personal e-mail has to do with anything. I think he could easily position himself to make a lot more than this but he doesn't - making this line of thinking a pretty big fail. It could definitely be that he savors people hanging on his every word and has been posting here for that sole purpose. Of course generally when I see this in real life the person who wants their ego stroked takes credit for all their ideas as being original and a sign of their genius. I haven't read everything DBP has written but I see a lot of quoting of other people's ideas and not much claimed as original. (Unless he claimed to be Wyckoff or the inventor of AMT somewhere?) More importantly - I don't care. What I do care for is making my own decisions based on my own work. I have been lurking for a few weeks and posting for a few more but haven't started to put what DBP teaches to practice until recently. I've been sim trading this last week and guess what - I haven't had a losing day. (I know - big deal - sample size - blah blah). But for me this is a big deal. First of all - I haven't strung together 5 winning days in the last year of sim trading. I also made quite a few mistakes this week. I got out of some trades too early, stayed in others too late etc. but the room for error was larger than I was used to and I ended each day up and averaged over $350 a day trading 1 contract. I'm not saying this to impress anyone. I know its not impressive results wise but I've been studying this stuff for less than a month seriously and have yet to have any reason to doubt the methodology. You can either take the plunge, dive into something and try it out and see if it works for you or you can sit on the sidelines complaining and waiting for someone to prove their methodology works. This won't, however, prove that it works for you. What have a lost by doing this? Money? Time I would have spent in the markets simming with less of a clue? You've spent more time in this thread trying to prove you are right (that day trading isn't worth it - something you decided even before you made this thread) than it would have taken to test drive a real-life approach to trading. You made a bunch of money splashing around in the markets without any kind of clue, lost whatever you didn't withdrawal, claim to have worked tirelessly on a day trading methodology that you can't expand on and are now wasting your energy with this nonsense. Maybe you should decide who you want to be as a trader, pull up your pants and get to work and leave the gurus out of it. I don't see how what you are doing here is helping you at all?
Why don't you enter the competition? Nothing to hide, right? You earn 10x risk at an 80% hit-rate, remember? I'll be glad to throw my hat into the ring as well. We (me included) can all post our perf. to this thread. I have an account (account ending in 1615) all ready to go.
No cash will change hands, unless you would like to. I'll even let you login to see that there is a 7-figure balance in that account. The graphic is ironic to say the least. So I take it your answer is no to the wager? Mods: Please do not delete this. The last 5 pages have been a discussion surrounding a wager so I think this is relevant to DBP's BS and propaganda.
Already done that. Over and over again. Why would I want to do it again, much less compete with a bunch of anonymous strangers, not one of whom has yet to post a trading plan? If you don't want to take the time and effort to verify my results, don't. What is it to me?