There is a free 2 week practice acct. But it won't take you live. The promo. will take you live if you meet the requirements.
early finish to this session: stopped for max loss and done ZS side of trading failed. Final trade today was short 10 blended from 1545 stop 47 seeking 1540 or lower. Stop was hit on the spike high, turned and rolled down thru intended profit exit.
So ends this combine project of CL/ZS thru T4 platform. Wrapped up +$7,500 positive CL and net loss ZS thru nine sessions overall. After this week's presidential debate and two-day fomc market drama passes, will begin a new combine program Monday 10/20 with CL alone using NinjaTrader software by personal preference.
You're up $1757.50 through 9 days of relatively solid trading. Not a bad performance overall. I can see why you wanted to go all out on your last days... Tough break on your short getting stopped out. Nothing worse than getting stopped and then watching it hit take profit... It was a good solid effort and you ended up net positive despite not passing the Combine. Are you normally consistent like that...?
Pretty solid performance, if you ask me. I assume you pushed this last day thus you ended with a bigger than usual loss. Still, counting only your first 8 days including the ZS constant losses, it is about 3% in 2 weeks. Annualized that would be 75%... If I were a backer, I would hire you, with a few restrictions. Good job overall!!!
Regardless all else, I easily met the requirements to pass combine for CL had I been focused solely on CL. It was my decision ahead of time to try and manage two symbols... a decision that was made worse by Nov ZS contract stringing sideways in dead-chop fashion rather than trendy or swinging as it did for several weeks before. Yes I did push ZS solely for trying to make the necessary gains inside a continued dead-chop tape. I have no further interest in block-trading ZS or working more than one symbol at a time until it becomes necessary sometime in the future. So with that, I expect equal to greater performance from myself with CL in the next & last round of trial project.
I thought the objective was making 12K and you said you made 7.5K with CL. But that is exactly my point. That 7.5K on 150K is 5% in 2 weeks, an excellent performance by any standard. Why they are stretching the entry level at 8% is beyond me.... Somebody should start a website called, "TST rejects" and give them a chance. Maybe I will suggest the idea to Mark Cuban... Anyhow, Austin you should start your own journal, because this one has almost ended....
Collectively, I ran +$15,000 realized gains into the CL side of this account in the first eight sessions. If focused solely on CL alone, I'd have kept more than $12k of that parked inside. Today would have finished net-profitable in CL from the short side this afternoon as well. With today's results post, I have nothing further to add here in this thread myself. If invited by tst to profile my next attempt in ET I will, otherwise I'll see you on the other side of that finish line