Trading is easy

Training is easy. Just buy and sell. But trading profitably consistently is NOT.

 

Once I made a comment that even the 1-2% who actually make enough to live on would find it almost impossible to share anything because of all the noise.

Very easy for people to dismiss this... but think again - does the original post sound like a hind sight analysis? or a recall of how someone (yours truly in this case) actually did the analysis during the volatile period?

 

What are you doing now? Buying, Selling, Holding?

Nothing like making calls in real time to give you a little credibility.

 

The original post already gave the direction right?

 

Right but that doesn't answer the question, What are you doing?

 

I can tell you, but it will have no relevance... financial situation, investment goal, risk tolerance.... these things vary so vastly, that 1 person's buy becomes another's sell.

The purpose of the post was to shed some light on how profitable trading can be done... no surprise I saw much skepticism.. but those who are willing to try will likely see the light.

 

Making money is easy, just till you about ready to enter, then it is a matter of keeping it in your account and building it up, having patience to watch one tick bars for hours, yes it is summer and even harder to keep it rolling in.

New traders won't see the light, as it is not easy to sell highs and buy lows, I do this everyday and takes long time to learn. You missed about all the times where you selling highs and it keeps going higher, not easy then unless you are hedged, then it is easy so long as you did that correctly-ahhh more to learn for the inexperienced.

 

So tell me.

I'm not skeptical I'm curious.

 

I can see this topic going on and on ... but not get around the fact this is done through the rearview mirror.

 

In an earlier post I offered to provide links to my real time posts in a different site, but that portion was deleted lol.... so you will be disappointed for a while.... volatile periods come about once a year... 2015, 2016, 2018... maybe this year we'll get 2 as we didn't 2017... and the sentiment supports higher vola in 2018 anyways, and if we get another one I will do real time.

When there is no volatility, there is nothing to do... that's my style anyways... main goal (already achieved) was/is to accumulate enough shares to live on portfolio returns.