Use Neoxx's family of curves for about six levels of trading for a 10 day period. It's a semilog graph by necessity. Getting to 40 contracts is one of the points it makes. You make the point that the blotter was stale. It is stale; it was half way through 2008 whose annual chart I posted in December of 2007. Lets do the math on a hold from 03JUN08 until 700 points down which you also noted. Shall we just keep it at 40 contracts or should we run it up to market capacity during that inteval? How about we do more than one trade a day for each day? The deal for boot camp was to get in the market at open and do reversals during the day when the correct time arrives. Ohhh, and add contracts from profits only.. Get it? So 700 points later in just one direction? Your statement is simply bullshit. 40 contracts times 700 points times 50 bucks a point is only 1.4 million. I've posted a blotter larger than that for review for just one day AND in stocks........ We put up a five year series of posts about stocks and commodities and it was done in a step by step way. Who the heck would just have made a lousy 700 points going short since 03JUN08? Name one person who would have traded on that lousy level. Name one..... LOL.... Making 700 points per contract since 03JUN08 is bullshit........
Here is some humor. A guy posts a backtest. It shows 400,000 in losses for a mere 24,000 trades. I post a print for 146 minutes of trading and it made 43,500, Divide 43,500 into -400,000. 10 trades....lol... Have you ever heard the words "statistically insignificant" applied to a stock trading backtest? What is the smallest amount of money a person can lose on 24,000 trades? There are some really dumb people in this world. Count yourself lucky to to have never met anyone who could think.
You don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. People are getting 'it' and for those who are getting 'it' your creative writing is irrelevant. You're not the first to take a crack at Jack Hershey, and probably not the last. But your destiny is to fade away, just like others did before you.
"it" is the following: "it" is the development of a routine consisting of 4 parts (MADA). "it" gives a trader certainty though sufficiency to know that you know. "it" is developing a partnership with the market. "it" exists at varying levels of knowledge, skills, and experience. "it" is worthwhile for some by the choices they have made "it" is NOT the following: "it" is not emotional but mechanical "it" is not prediction but anticipation "it" is not competitive but a partnership "it" is not about embarrassing others but encouraging others "it" is not worthwhile for some by the choices they have made
Most of that I wouldn't disagree with. You have your way of seeing "it", describing 'it" and using "it" and I have mine. But there is one acid test that's missing on your list. One "it" that determines if "it" is an existentialist journey to mediocrity or proven x3 reality. Can you figure out what that missing 'it" is? It's the most important "it" and the first one you should ask to see.
Many have the answer to "it" by the choices they have made. You seek the answer to "it" by the choices you have made.
You're nothing but one month old alias of the same tired ... that you were before you changed your screen name. FYI, sufficient data exists to indicate that @1350 the sequence which started at 1310 was not completed and the time has not come to seek signal for change on the same fractal as 1200-1310 sequence.