really? i can hardly believe this. i would think he is the kind of guy that flattens out, but does not have to leave the table. though my feeling with nitro was for a year or so that he seemed less confident. and right, nosense was always topnotch. btw in my original list was spike500 and i am not sure he is really mechanic. ... actually the same accounts for acrary; alan had the systems in place but if i recall correctly he traded against them ...
Really, I am just another amateur stumbling around in the dark who seems to have the semblance of know-how only because he has a background in Computer Science. Other than that, I am clueless!
They weren't bragging nor being loud. They only showed their statements because it was in the same image as the software they were running their mechanical program involving a conversation about the mechanical system (not a conversation about their profits). Simply, they weren't talking about how much money they were making...they were talking about their mechanical system and you can see the trade execution platform, profit/loss screen, realtime charts and everything else in the images. However, I do understand what you are talking about because I see many at ET yelling how much money they make. Mark
"Blowing out your account" is neither an inevitable part of the learning curve, not is it a right of passage. It's understandable when experience is short and the money is small, but once a trader gets up to significant size blowing out means some important lesson has not yet been learned.
additional comment: a mechanic trader is usually not takin' too big risk at any one time. i think the most important lesson i kept from the early reads you do when entering the game was: stay at the fuc*ing table.