Me too! My grandfather taught me to read at a very young age. He died when I was still in elementary school and left me his library: Balzac, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Tolstoy, and my favorite, Dostoevsky. A lifelong love of reading was his legacy ...

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I'm funded but still trading XFA's which are sim funded, not live funded. I have a friend who was called to live after banking $80K from his XFA's and then he blew the live account. He is back trading XFA's.

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I just got this book and I've been reading it this weekend. image What a story! I highly recommend it! I just reached page 143 and it is looking as though the most succesful hedge fund in history made billions for its owners by day trading based ...

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100% Anyone who self-reflexively refers to himself as a "real trader" on a trading forum is almost certainly not a consistently profitable trader. Consistently profitable traders, by and large, have been humbled by the process of becoming ...

10 Trade Challenge

I don't spend much time in the systems section of FF but its a Saturday and your thread was linked on the FF homepage so here I am. From reading the replies to your thread you seem to have a history here lol. I would have scrolled by without saying ...

10 EMA system very easy

1) Most FF members do not have a rule-based method. 2) If they do have a rule-based method, they only trade it a few times and then abandon it and the rules after 2 or more consecutive losing trades. 3) Most people who decide to try to become ...

10 Trade Challenge

I was listening to TopstepTV while I was on the road this afternoon, aand the "Shoulder Tap" segment had some interesting commentary on some of Topstep's Live traders. url

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That is how it should be done and something along those lines is what I am planning to do with the new funded account I got this week. I won't be trading today as I have to work off site today. Starting small, scaling up is the plan.

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What followss is not from me. I saw this post in a Facebook group dedicated to TRO's methods and approaches. I will posts a screengrab of the original post, with the author's identify edited out (I don't know what the rules are for sharing posts ...

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I know you don't focus on entries as much as I do, but I find that by doing so I am able to better manage risk by varying position size. I haven't been doing much of this lately as I have been trading small size for the most part (average 3 micros ...

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Yesterday I took this short on the YM (US30, DJIA futures). image The Highest Hourly Open occurred before the start of the NY session (8:00 AM) and the NYSE session (9:30 AM). I used the Highest Open of the NY session as the target level for new ...

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I am reposting this information from early in the thread. When I refer to the HOLO method I am referring to FF member TooSlow's HOLO method which you can find in his thread in the systems section here at FF. I am posting it because given the ...

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I will be starting my new journal any day now. I have added a new funded account to my stable of prop accounts this evening, and that is what I've been waiting for. The next journal will pick up where this one is: Exploring the roulette epiphany and ...

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image This is how the MES-ES is set up currently. Keep in mind that trade situations vary. When I place an entry order on MES-ES, it is either a limit order or a stop market order. Once filled, these brackets are placed by the platform ...

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Starts here: Williams%R, SAR X-over 15 minute candles | Page 112 | Forex Factory

rocky reboot: revisiting rockypoint's renko HA with ema method

That is a very, very good part of a trading plan. For 2025, I Have a max daily loss limit of $500 after which my account will auto liquidate and lock me out for the day. If I accumulate profits over time and increase trade size as a result, I will ...

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MNQ/NQ are really on the verge of becoming untradable for me as the intrabar ranges, even on 1 minute charts, has become so large that risk is difficult to manage appropriately. MES/ES and MYM/YM are possible alternatives. Also, might be looking ...

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YM HOLO style short. HOLO Template (60 minute): image And using a reproduction of Driven's template (five munute ohlc & Heiken Ashi combo) image

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Thank you. That's why I will be starting a new journal soon. This journal started a s a typiical charts and indicator journal (though it was never a systems thread). I want to start a fresh journal where the focus will be what I call my roulette ...

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I want to thank all those who have contributed thoughts and shared their experiences here in my journal. While we haven't all always agreed with one another, nonetheless each and every one of you has in some way contributed to my growth and ...

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