I said the same. Hes either broke or paper trading, and the later is much more likely. Volent is a paper trading troll living in his moms basement. He has no basis behind his actions. His "trades" are trying to guess the market tops Lol.
Nonsense...why would anyone bother to paper trade and post? I bet there aren't many. And he has been posting for 15 years.
What if he takes up the opposite of every call? I know a lot of my trades are profitable because I take up the other side of th trade I would have made in my younger days. Seriously, there's no better back test you can have than tripling your commissions in losses, and just taking the other side of a trade you see. So few strategies are consistent. Volente is nothing if not consistent.
I think you should set the stop to 9999, rather than constantly trying to short and time this thing. Come back in 6 months and claim victory.
The objective is to start a poll/thread in February, be wrong, rinse and repeat (on third thread and counting) - eventually be correct, then declare total and absolute victory.
Hope this targeting covers the losses from your other manifold short positions initiated and "covered" since February. Maybe 2448.5 would come close ?