I don't blame you for believing this, as I would think the exact same if someone random on the internet, new to the forum would be posting this. But, I don't see another way.
I don't know if you believe in God, or in something higher. I swear it by God, by all its Holy, by my family's health and my own health that I am not trying to sell something. It goes against my deeper inner values, I prefer failing than selling a system.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on futures io?
I think you deeply misunderstood what I meant when I wrote this:
To be clear, my surprise was not that you would be willing to share your profits. My surprise was that you thought you had a reason to think there would be any profits, when all you had was an annotated chart and no actual trading. or trading that you had cut short and never allowed to go to completion. Anyone and everyone has charts they have marked trades on. If they didn't take the trades, they don't realize how extremely different actual trading is from theorizing about a trade you "would have" taken.
What people find out when they really trade is basically what you have found: trading will scare the hell out of you. Everyone finds that, right away. But if you don't confront it, you don't know trading. Your theoretical "would have worked" trades simply are not real. Yes, I know you have said you take them and then close them after a few ticks. That's my point. This is not real trading. You can say, after the fact, that they "would have" been great, profitable trades. But it matters that you never held them. You never had the high profitability percentage you think you did, because you didn't trade them to a real completion.
So, my surprise is that you think you are a good trader, good enough for someone to take your charts as your evidence of your ability and knowledge and be willing to trade at your direction.
I'm sorry, but you aren't willing to trade at your direction. I don't think anyone else would be, or should be, either. I would strongly advise anyone not to.
I am not unsympathetic to the fact that traders can freeze when they have to make, or hold onto, a position. There is no trader who doesn't know that fear, or hasn't at one time. Trading, again and again, facing the risk and if necessary taking the loss, is the way to get over it. For that, you need to have the resources to withstand a loss, again and again, which gets things back to the solution: don't put all your eggs in the trading basket, and secure a reliable source of income first.
Then, you have to face it and trade, or find another thing to do.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
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I wanted to write the previous post I made before addressing this, on the assumption that things could be on the up and up, which of course they could be. I hope they are.
But now I'm going to respond to this whole thread as a representative of the forum.
When someone talks about how someone can get hold of some profits and suggests people message them for details, alarms go off.
I strongly hope that no member of this forum takes you up on the offer. I just explained in my last post why I think it would be a bad idea, and the reasons do not require there being anything wrong with your offer, other than the fact, as it seems to me, that you have no case for being a profitable trader and you should solve that problem, not continue with the idea that you in fact are. Your evidence, and all your posts, are enough to show that you simply are not, and that no one should want to follow your direction. And there's nothing wrong with that, either. Everyone starts somewhere, and everyone has their issues.
So no one should take you up on it, basically.
But if any do, I hope they notify the mods if you make any offer to them where they would put up anything at all, in any way, for any reason, in order to get into this profit opportunity. That would be selling, and you would not be allowed to stay here.
I'm not accusing you, I'm simply pointing out that an alarm has gone off. If this is mistaken, I'm sorry to have made the mistake, but it is necessary to issue the warning, to protect others who are struggling and who might be tempted, just in case it's not a mistake.
I read your post denying any such intention. That's fine, but doesn't prove anything. Your subsequent actions may. We'll have to see.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Ok, let's see the trading stats. They will tell a lot about your execution ability.
Trading stats are the most important thing you can have right now.
Otherwise, no one can really help you.
I have been working on 20 trade samples, done SEVERAL of them. The trades annotated on the excel files are trades which were taken. They are not written after the fact.
older sample
older sample 2021
I have more, but this gives you an idea hopefully.
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I understand you Bob, I am not sure if you can check my PMs but for what its worth if you can and someone messages me I wont be talking outside the forum (No discord, no email) so you can check I am not willing to sell anything, not even teaching people. I believe money is to be made from trading not in selling how to learn to trade or a system or any of the sort. I have taught several people just because my mentor did the same thing with me and it also helps me polish my technical analysis skills and maybe I can finally solve my psychological issues by giving my ideas more order.
I understand about the "selling" part, so I withdraw the offer on the execution. After all, I need to be the one executing not someone else to call myself a trader.
Thank you Bob, right now I can only call myself an analyst. Not a trader. I am working and giving it all on the path to conquer myself and be able to trade my own ideas.
Thanks for the advice, again.
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Here's one live execution from yesterday. Same damn mistake as you can see. I only traded the AM session. Short waas based off bear impulse and flag, LHMTR. Target was much lower at 3878, I only took 1.5 pts when 11 pts where available. You can see "shit like an elephant eat like a bird" isnt sustainable.
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