No day trader on this planet can make yearly profits

Discussion in 'Trading' started by teewoods, Nov 13, 2019.

  1. 2FT

    2FT

    To paraphrase...
     
    #261     Nov 22, 2019
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  2. speedo

    speedo

    I do what I do as I don't like to sit through pullbacks and draw downs. It keeps things simple and I like that. You can test a trailing strategy and see. Sometimes you will get your multiple points and sometimes little or nothing. We are all different and we all have different trade plans....test it out.
     
    #262     Nov 22, 2019
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  3. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Great video...thanks. I thought I've seen all the floor videos but I've never seen this one before.

    These old floor traders got left behind...they just couldn't adjust to the new way of trading...its sad but reality of any profession.

    wrbtrader
     
    #263     Nov 22, 2019
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  4. trader1974

    trader1974

    I will prove it, however there are days that the price is not going anywhere and those days are dangerous.
     
    #264     Nov 22, 2019
  5. speedo

    speedo

    Even the cleanest setups can fail or offer little or nothing but you have to have the patience to wait for the good ones and the skill to recognize them. You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
     
    #265     Nov 22, 2019
  6. speedo

    speedo

    We currently have a good example of chicken shit in the ES.
     
    #266     Nov 22, 2019
  7. trader1974

    trader1974

    :D:D:D If a good chicken shit right now, a fight of bulls and bears, until the market is defined where you want to go, it is complicated. Are there days that you simply do not operate?
     
    #267     Nov 22, 2019
  8. speedo

    speedo

    I have no idea how the day will unfold but currently there is nothing to do for me.
     
    #268     Nov 22, 2019
  9. trader1974

    trader1974

    How do you know there is nothing to do?
     
    #269     Nov 22, 2019
  10. speedo

    speedo

    Overlapping price bars accompanied by intertwining MA's. I trade momentum impulses and that requires range and structure...currently we have neither. It's a pretty day I'm going for a run. That may open things up, if it does you can thank me later :D
     
    #270     Nov 22, 2019
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