Maverick74 and marketsurfer's TopstepTrader Combine (daily trade reports and journal)

Dude.....you get up 3 ticks on a YM trade and scream "I NAILED IT !!!". Lol....You also are VERY critical of the TA guys. Ergo....you bark a lot. Usually the guys who do all the talking...........well....you know where I'm going.

But yes...you are the first to also admit when wrong after a trade goes south. Gives you credibility.

I post here primarily for entertainment/shoot the shit.

 

I'm waiting for someone to actually knock it out of the park. Why is it so difficult to earn money on a simulator?

 

i tried it over the summer ,tried scalping, hit limit down most days,can't scalp,or mentally respect stop,on principle,the combine is in it's early stages,they have modified the rules and made it harder(hit limit down, they keep your entry fee,have to make money 50% of total trading days) and raised the entry price,they are fine tuning the nitch they found, imo ,to keep more entry fees, they have also lowered the entry bar, now anyone can try it,fair dues to patak,he found an easier way to make money than taking the gamble of trading,mike i would still like you to come out and say if you won't say who your backer is, that it is not najarian .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAhCMI1cjXM

 

I seriously doubt it's Najarian. He made $50MM from the sale of Mercury and I doubt he does more than trade his personal account. He would likely be backing vol-traders if that were the case and on a much larger scale.

 

I'm considering giving it a shot. I'd like to sim ES on my own for a couple weeks before jumping in.

 

Maybe because those who really trade realize what this scheme is really about

 

What's it about?

 

Why would it be any easier trading strictly and correctly in sim versus cash? Other than the mental aspect, which of course has nothing to do with a methodology or system on its own.

Markets don't know and don't care if a trader pushes buttons in sim or cash. This program does not reward sim traders who dick around with martingales, plunging or faking it. Therefore, the degree of difficulty is very parallel between sim and cash... as always, when accountability is the same

 

Selling picks and axes to the miners.

And it only takes one miner to strike gold - or to say he has - to keep fools lined up paying for those picks and axes.

Hope springs eternal.

That's what it's about.

 

what you did was validate the fact that ES "scalping" is a futile fallacy perpetuated from failed trader to failed trader.

in human-logic theory it appears to work... but in applied reality, it is a fool's folly