Well there was this one instance where he did not hide the position column. At that time he was long 4 contracts and he had some realized profits too. I do not think he is trading on a simulator. I am with IB and their simulator has a big SIMULATED TRADING on the screen. It is hard to miss.
prob is that u can get rid of that simulated trading or better, make it go lower in the screen by doin' guess what... hee hee, addin' row after row of orders ready to go. u also cant completely discount that it could be the demo.
the guy could be really pullin' off those numbers day in day out for what we know but he sure is doin' his best to fuel all this speculation by not providin' a freakin' screenshot of trades confirmations...c'mon how hard can it be. u want to show your pnl, u better be ready to prove it as well, innit.
the edge is in when and how many cars to average in each time, thus posting the time stamp of each trade could be construed as giving away the edge.
I've stated this many times. White-out the time stamp as well as the execution price. It's telling that all of his screen images show these unarmed buys on YM. It's serves no purpose other than what Bitstream alluded to. Anyway, the mystery is solved and it wasn't terribly compelling anyway.
I suspected as much when he mentioned "the turtles", and their trading method. What do you think the algo is? If it's the same as the turtles, he probably puts on 1/3 at the initial trade, the next 2/3 at about 2 ATR (15 to 20 pts, YM), and the last 3/3 after another 15 to 20 pts, or so.
I was thinking if MyMini did post an execution report from TWS that did show he was trading for real it would probably end the "mystery" of his thread and no one would read it anymore. I don't think he wants that. I think he likes being the "mystery" trader...