Given the animosity towards scalping in this forum I propose that scalpers list some info to show the degree of their success. Inform the rest of the forum of: - Instruments traded (stocks/futures/currency) - Trades per day (RT) - Average time per position - Average points earned - Average Success rate - Approx capital - Average return per day/month/year - Years of experience using this daytrading strategy - % of commission & spread paid in relation to revenues Please refrain from posting if you are not a scalper and willing to contribute to this questionnaire. If you still have the urge to comment, start a new thread linking it to this one
Given the overwhelming tendency of "traders" on ET to lie, exaggerate, misprepresent themselvesw, how is this going to have any validity??? On ET, "traders" confuse sim/paper trading with "real money", confuse reading "Trading for Dummies" with being a 7 year guru, and confuse a 4-week lucky string as "I am a successful trader." In fact, a lot of failed traders fancy themselves as teachers. And every now and then when a fake comes along with an opportunity like "trade my money", these ET paper traders throw themselves all over it with the desperation and intensity of an escaped convict at a brothel.