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Thanks for the welcome. After 30+ years of institutional trading I now actively trade from an island. I am looking forward to incorporating futures.io
into my daily trading routine.
I'm glad to have found this forum! I started trading Forex a few years ago and have traded everything (stocks, crypto, options) since. I've lost money to all of them. I began trading futures in early 2020 during the big Covid market crash and have been hooked trading them ever since.
I've found more success trading futures (ES, NQ) than with any other products. Although I am glad to have suffered those loses for those first few years. It's made me a better trader today.
Hello, I am fairly new at trading, so green I may easily camouflage in the jungle. I started paper trading trying to fight boredom during the lockdown and to learn new skills in the process. I am happy I have not blown my account yet to the point of weeping tears. I just hope to learn something and meet new people.
Hi Mike, I highly appreciate your setting up this forum and your apparently honest and humble introduction. I read a few comments in the discussion on blown accounts and found seemingly truth- and very helpful posts from fellow members there as well.
For my introduction: I am currently not trading. After depressing years of losses, most of my savings are gone and I arranged for my trading account to be suspended till April 2022.
I still believe there is money to be made in financial markets. I believe there are relatively clear principles, which if followed patiently and in a disciplined manner, will provide a high probability for modest success.
But I am simply not able to act accordingly - my mind is too messed up. I will take a year to try to find a solution for my issues - part of it may well be to never trade again.
Nevertheless, I will look out for alternative views in your forum, and hope I can contribute to a meaningful discussion. I look forward to that.
I have arrived to this forum while browsing for information about automatic trading systems. So far I have been trading very conservatively, medium to long term, for a few years, but results have not been brilliant, which I believe is due to excessive discretionary trades. I am spending more time studying and my objective is to learn and implement auto trading system(s) in different markets. Thus, I spend most of my time learning to code, backtesting, etc, while my trading activity is reduced.
I have wanted to do trading for a living for some time, and since my employer freed up all of my time last year I am now studying and practicing as much as I can. I am looking forward to learning from you and to get started with live trading futures.
Hello everyone, I've been on a journey of learning trading for a few years now. It's always been a dream of mine to understand the markets and be able to extract money from them like the modern day magicians in my head were doing. Little did I know the size of the mountains these magicians have summited and the complexity of ever changing terrain, and how few had made it to sit at the table.
I've been trying for a few years now and got more serious about it this past year. I really believe in the phrase "what one fool can do, another can". And in this space I know there are people out there making money, therefore it is possible to learn how to as well.
A really great example of such an attitude is Dr. Lisa Piccirillo, who recently solved a decades old mathematical problem called the Conway Knot.
She learned about the knot problem while attending a math conference, and said:
"That’s ridiculous, this is 2018. We should be able to do that."
A week later, she produced a proof that stunned the math world. - bc.edu
Personally I can remember many times when I was faced with a problem out of my scope, fixing a car issue myself, tackling a construction job, coding an indicator, and I brought my can do attitude and have always been met with success. I see making money off the financial markets no different. Easy? No. But possible.
So as the sun rises I've moved from 45-60 day option contracts on ETFs bought primarily on rate of change returning inside a standard deviation after a break, I coded on this indicator tradingview going in knowing nothing, to now I'm looking at futures - using custom footprint charts in Sierra Chart combined with a bunch of other stuff including a custom TICK indicator, trying to scalp and daytrade in the futures game, I've been following my personal messiah, Al Brooks who gives away a treasure trove of information with every sentence. I've spent 100s of hours looking at bar patterns, charts, how the move, their personality, how they interact with my indicators, how can I tune my indicators, I'm in it.
Of everything I've tried and learned I can feel how close I am with futures. I've been sim trading now for a few weeks trying to tune the footprints and data to the most consistent results. Seeking out this community was second nature because of how deep I have found myself into this game. I really find trading captivates me more than most things I've tried to do and it's made the journey rewarding in it's own right.
Happy to share my journey as I progress and hopefully I can learn something here too!
Around a month lurking, reading all I can, and learned a lot.
Started SIM trading futures at BM&F (DOLFUT), got my feet wet on a real account only to be reminded that is doable, but far from easy or accomplished.
Same story with the ES, but now back to SIM and carving my own view of the market (and of myself) out of the stone block. A few parts are visible, but there's much stone to chip away still.
Hope to contribute, surely I've taken more than I've given so far
Many thanks to Big Mike and all that have contributed do this fantastic community.
(I started to read the posts since page 1, took a bit to realize we're at page 950+, so I skipped 'a few pages' to post here )
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