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Naked Futures Trading With Me

This excerpt from Linda Raschke's Street Smarts book and ktharpp's earlier post are worthy of thoughtful discussion. I will have some comments to make when I have time. image image

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Driven, you aren't even pretending to do a humble brag. You're all brag lol. You're welcome to participate here in my journal, but you should be more discriminating about how to do it. My suggestion from the other day remains valid: Perhaps you ...

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

Again, not here to discuss methods, yours or mine.

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

I can honestly say that what I am sharing here through the roulette epiphany and my sincere honesty about how difficult it has been for me to achieve consistent success is far more valuable than showing my trades or discussing the nuts and bolts of ...

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

There is a lot to unpack here and I have no time to do so now, but I'll respond when I can. Good to see you here, kthrapp!

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

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Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

Just a reminder that if you see I disliked one of your posts it is not because I dislike you nor should it be used to infer that I don't appreciate your participation in this journal. I dislike the posts that I feel are sufficiently at odds with my ...

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

I've struggled with it for years as well. I'd be willing to wager my net worth on a bet that nearly every single one of us reading this journal has struggled and many still struggle. What the roulette epiphany showed me was that the reason I ...

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ONE market, ONE strategy, ONE week is all it takes to turn your trading journey into a lifestyle. Choose your favorite futures contract, choose your favorite strategy, and trade just that instrument and that strategy for one week. ES (US500) or NQ ...

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

I got served this ad for some trading Furu on a social media site. I removed the identifying information. I also blocked out the salesy and scammy marketing language. If you take all of that away, this makes perfect sense to me given what I am ...

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Whatever Minervini might say about confidence, he never says one should not be humble. Quite the opposite. You are correct in your reading of Minervini. Going forward, I'd ask anyone posting to this thread who wishes to attribute an idea to someone ...

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If you can find this quote and attribute it to Minervini, please link the source. I suspect Minervini never said anything like this and in fact I believe he himself, if he was here, would disavow it. I know Minervini is a proponent of the work of ...

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image -Mark Minervini, Think and Trade Like a Champion, page 20 image - Mark Minervini, Think and Trade Like a Champion, page 104 The words you quote Rick do not appear in any form in either of the two Minervini books. Interviews I've seen with ...

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You're starting to miss the mark of what this journal is about. Maybe you should start a journal to focus on your views?

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

The original quote from Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo to his family as they were about to comence deploying a positive expectancy edge to their playing of roulette. image A version inspired by the above to fit more closely with the activity of trading the ...

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Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures

I agree. The drama of giving up the comforts of home to risk it all mining in Alaska was drama enough. No need to manufacture the lowest form of drama, i.e. melodrama, for a bunch of blue collar dudes who aren't actors. They took too much of the ...

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I posted this to the journal some time ago. Trading gold is probably a much better way for individual prospectors to make consistent profits from the yellow metal than going out into the Yukon and panning for it. At one time, Gold Rush was a ...

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This shows how the universe sometimes does seem to conspire to treat us well. After I fell off my discipline and took time off from trading to regroup, I came back with a plan. That plan is I will only trade gold for the next 20 trades minimum. Here ...

Call me Vidvad - I day trade futures