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I started trading 10 years ago, loved futures and forex. I have a full time job as a programmer and trading is my part time hobby. I did program and back testing on tradstation, and I am moving to ninja right now. If I can trade well, may move my career to this area.
I started trading with Bright Trading in Fall of 2007. I was mentored by my dad who was a floor trader in the OEX pit on the CBOE for 20 years or so. After retiring from the pit, he did some at-home trading with Bright for quite a while, and I joined in after getting divorced and wanting a way to live a flexible life so I could raise my daughter.
I've had many ups and downs and have lived through and experienced a lot of different markets. I was basically a full time stock trader for about 6 years, but eventually started having problems and giving it all back. Basically, if I was consistent with my discipline, I would do ok. But as I had other personal problems in my life, I would try to trade through them which of course is never good.
I took a couple years off but was always mad that I never did get my system automated and allow the discipline to help my success. I turned to the futures about a year ago and have been trying to develop the code for my system. First I was on Ninja, with Apex Futures, and I was able to get it dialed in the way I wanted. But then I switched over to their ApexTrader platform, and I have had problems translating the code over to Easy Language. It's relatively close, but not quite what I want. So I'm glad to start the process of trying to find help through this forum. It's my goal to be able to go back to full-time trading, but mostly just monitor my system while I watch and do research on other trading ideas and markets. I currently trade the ES minis, and that's it. But I think I'd like to trade the NQ minis and WTI crude as well, at some point.
I've been trading on and off for almost 4 years. Traded options for last 2 years and now trading only futures.
/ES /CL / GC are my most traded futures. Currently not working since I'm making much more trading.
My account is relatively small, started with 9.4k only. Make around 400-600 on good days. On bad days losing 1.5k (usually after 3-4 days of straight gains). Need to become more disciplined and cut loses faster. Little bit lagging on the psychological part. But profitable so far, for last 2 years at least.
Currently trying to get into algorithmic trading. Hope we will support each other to grow more.
welcome all !!...and especially if you are Elite...you have some amazing stuff to follow. All threads are great.....but depending on your style...there are awesome Tape threads...Scalper threads. Also a thread on the Spoos. There are some awesome prep threads to get the am trading off such as DTs
If asked with a sincere and learning and humble mind...you will see an overwhelming response to your questions.
Been trading full time, sometimes successful, since 2008. Found this site again, for a friend about to buy an indicator, and found a good set of reviews here. Figured time to chime in. I was an IT guy, so lots of code experience, and have been chasing the elusive 'system' since first catching the bug. Have written lots of indis and strategies, mostly inn EasyLanguage on TradeStation, but mostly learned 'what DOESNT work'
Heard of Mike, went to Ecuador last year, but failed to find him and buy him a cerveza! Figured I'd better get in here and say Hi. B-Day of forum was the bottom of the 08-09 crash, which, while managed by 'Professionals' lost 84% of my net worth. I knew nothing, just a buy & hold citizen, and did THE Cardinal mistake. Flatted in NOV 08, hardening the losses.
If I had done nothing, would be Eire now, but until ya know, "Ya dont even know, what ya dont know..." (thx Dad)
So, I look forward to reading here, seeing what I can add... I paid for some classes, never made back those tuitions, but been keeping the bills paid, almost every day the market has been open, scalping the ES.
Thanks for this great forum.
I started off trading my own fx account and now work for a prop shop trading most of the Aussie curve, as well as the back end of the US curve. I also dabble in fx and will throw the occasional emini trade on when I feel like losing money.
and thank you for maintaining this lively cooperative community. It's time to introduce myself after beeing a long time in mostly read-only mode.
I'm a software engineer working full-time for the food industry, I enjoy my job and it pays well, too. I'd need to be a fairly good and well funded trader to match this income. I'm not going to leave this safe harbour completely by my own will. I'm all about hard skills like process control, business intelligence, computer science, DSP, statistics, machine learning. The "softest" ones are writing clean code and maybe gathering user requirements.
Trading attracts me as a source of freedom. I never had any get-rich-quickly illusions. I'm used to diligent learning and hope for, as a reward, some profits from trading to boost my ego during what might be an off-the-shelf midlife-crisis. Further purposes are diversifying my income sources, gaining some soft skills and curing my often too complicated thinking and overly strong loss aversion thwarting me in different aspects.
I spent lot of time exercising in programming my own and others' indicators and systems and I currently believe that it is out of my reach to program something that would generate a non-neglectable income from a relatively small account without my constant supervision. I just see no opportunity for time saving there. At most, smart alerts and exits (e.g. for leaving my desk for a snack) are feasible candidates for automating.
I enjoy reading good books written by subject matter experts, like those by Bob Volman, Ernest P. Chan, Jaekle and Tomasini, Ralph Vince, John F. Ehlers. Or Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman if I'm on vacation.
So given are: GMT+1 time-zone, a job not allowing part-time or having a "weekend" midweek, an account size currently below 10k and a belief that paper trading cannot give me more necessary skills than e.g. books could. I'm seeking instrument(s)+timeframe+time of day for a sensible trader career start. Couple of hours time daily and a few trades a week would be perfect. No doubt, one could trade some micro contracts on weekly bars - my concern is that the learning phase would take ages then. Correct me if I'm talking nonsense...
