success rate trading S&p's

Discussion in 'Index Futures' started by silk, May 13, 2003.

  1. A very long streak indeed, it certainly has a nice smooth equity curve, but I am not sure it makes great profits. Very often these things are mutually exclusive.
     
    #11     May 15, 2003
  2. hmap1

    hmap1

    It makes about 4k a day net. The only reason it lost money ever was netwrok issues. It's streak before that losing day was 40 days. I'm not kidding.
     
    #12     May 15, 2003
  3. Instead of talking win-loss %, we should be talking expectancy. Because in this game, it's the money that matters.
    :cool:
     
    #13     May 15, 2003

  4. The oher good thing about these 2 is the almost unlimited liquidity. It doesn't do you any good to master trading in something that is too illiquid to make huge trades in if you get really good at it. Maybe you can make a profit almost every time trading tiny amounts, but that's useless if you can't plow all those profits back into trading larger and larger amounts of the same instrument.

    There's lots of stuff to trade, that's for sure, but liquidity is crucial if you ever have plans of trading huge amounts of $$ in whatever you are trading.
     
    #14     May 16, 2003
  5. I think you are limited to 250 contracts per click of the mouse in ES.

    Michael B.
     
    #15     May 17, 2003