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- bigblue replied Oct 9, 2014
I think many of the people selling the big dreams work for the brokers - now there's a way to make money. Don't listen to the BS - if you do 20% a year you are a rock star.
- bigblue replied Jul 26, 2012
Daily Charts Long — Trade daily/weekly charts - been long for 2 weeks - what a ride. Nice to see this move - long for now at least.
- bigblue replied Jul 22, 2012
I think some of these issues have been explained in the previous reply. A discretionary trader should have a record of trades - above 30 and he/she can start to make some estimate of what their expectancy is (ie the average money made per trade). If ...
- bigblue replied Jul 22, 2012
I take your point about the semantics - and it's the thing most people get heated about. My central point here has always been that positive expectation is almost everything - all the rest is math and management (which can be got from books). I've ...
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
It isn't a demo equity curve - I trade this as I've already stated.
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
I'm fairly immune to abusive/emotional rubbish you get on forums like this, but I have been surprised at the desperate need to map trading (which is one kind of activity) onto business (which is another kind of activity). Why people need to make ...
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
The Rich List - No Traders to be Found — Various rich lists are compiled every year and no matter which ones you look at traders are totally absent - even at the 50 mill mark. Of course the dream makers will insist that the wealthy traders ...
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
I suspect there may be broker representatives on this forum - not pointing any fingers though. It would of course not be in their interest for some realism to enter the discussion. Oh - and the personal abuse - I think that is probably part of the ...
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
Nice try
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
No - I've already found it.
- bigblue replied Jul 21, 2012
Looks like I've touched some raw nerves (again). Dream away.
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
OK I'm making up my mind - people who dream are asleep - and technology (being an ex physicist) definitiely does not come from dreaming - it just comes from research - the end result of which is unknown at the time. I think there is a difference ...
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
Hypothetically (for me at least) there are many instruments - if you happen to have a widely appicable method - and so you could (with some help) trade many (maybe thousands) of instruments. And why stop there - having amassed billions you could go ...
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
It's possible that my expectations are too low - but 50% on 10K is 5% on the 100K in a week - 1% a day. That is definitely outside my league - 5 to 10% a month is OK for me if I can avoid stress and spend the day walking the dog - or whatever.
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
People are so different. I actually have no interest in trading as such at all - my passion is for the systems. So I trade daily bars and a single trade might last three months - or 2 days depending when the exit signal is generated. 20 trades make ...
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
You've obviously been there. Thats why I need mechanical systems - call it a psychological weakness, but they are the boss unless I see them misbehaving. It's also why I need anywhere between 10 and 20 trades on at a time - it would be very ...
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
Expectations — Not all that different. I still think 30% a year is a decent turn (although this year I will probably do more than that - but year on year it remains to be seen). In fact I just read on the Really Useless Thread several claims ...
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
You must have read my mind — Brilliant idea - I was musing on doing just that. So here we go (I know someone will try to bend what I say into business lingo, just like Dr Strangelove couldn't help strangling himself with his own hand). As I’ve ...
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
... they must be MBAs - nothing personal.
- bigblue replied Jul 20, 2012
Business or gambling - it's a bit limited. Athletes don't have business plans but do achieve - same with 747 pilots, brain surgeons, holywood actors, pop stars etc etc. Don't really know why the business idea has made its way into trading apart from ...