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I voted for 100% Futures as well since this is my 'bread and butter business', but I'm also interested in learning about Options trading and strategies, starting from scratch....
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
Seriously, though, I am 100% futures. I do have equity positions in other accounts, but those are long term and I don't really trade those accounts.
I do have some systems I am developing and hope to deploy in the next few months for forex and stocks/equities. So that 100% number is bound to change in the....wait for it..... future.
I would say for me it would be more like 95% Stocks/ETFs/Mutual-Funds, and 5% Futures, BUT I spend 95% of my time working on Futures and 5% on Stocks/ETFs/Mutual-Funds
I guess for clarity's sake I should specify that I don't "trade" Stocks/ETFs/Mutual-Funds, they are investments, most of which are held many years or indefinitely.
Over the last 2 years I had dedicated 100% of my trading activities to learning to trade, and to trading, futures. I really went for it too. I had dedicated about ~80% of my free time to study and I was waking up at about 430 - 500 AM PT to trade gold (mostly the micros) before heading off to work. I'm married to a supportive lady and we have no kids so I was able to dedicate a lot of time to learning how to trade and I didn't feel like I was missing out on too much other stuff. I also felt like I learned a lot in a short amount of time and that I was on the right path in my 'trading career'. I worked myself up to a pretty solid break-even trader. Which is better than being a losing trader, but is a bit of a curse also. Being a break-even trader can be wildly frustrating. It's one of those deals where you feel like you are so close to Shangri-La you can almost touch it...but then the ground falls out from under you. And to mix metaphors...it's then time to start over pushing the big rock, back up the giant hill.
I was pretty happy going hard after my goal of becoming a professional trader...until recently. I recently realized that by dedicating so much of my free time to learning how to trade I was probably missing out on more stuff than I wanted to admit. I was also fairly sleep deprived often. I don't think my sleep deprivation impacted my performance at my job, but I started to become afraid that it had.
So...I needed a break. I stopped trading futures recently which allowed me to get a few extra hours of sleep per night. Which has been nice! Over the past couple of weeks I have started to become more engaged in some of my relationships with my wife, family, friends, loved ones. Which feels pretty good! I have allowed myself a little extra time to stop and smell the roses I guess.
I still love trading and I have still been studying, but only a few times a week. And I still have the itch to master intraday trading. I will get back to trading the micro emini, which is a little more sleep schedule friendly, but only if I have the time. I also plan to use my newly acquired skills to swing trading stocks more often with hold times greater than a few days. Swing trading stocks dovetails nicely with how I'd like to prioritize my life. I will still pursue my futures journey but I will 'extend my time horizon for mastery' ( sorry that was cheesy...I wasn't sure how else to express that!).
I hit a wall day trading futures and wanted a break from it all, and I wanted to put that money that would've just been sitting in my futures account somewhere else.
Given it was money I was already willing to lose, and because of my interest in all things cryptocurrency already- it wasn't a hard decision for me to invest in some coins.
Ever since that day, I've been researching, investing and trading cryptocurrencies. My plan is to profit off of the next parabolic alt-season, then come back and trade futures.. Maybe the e-mini's instead of the micros?
I still think about futures trading all the time. I really miss it and can't wait to be back at it. Future futures priority = at least 75%.
I have been trading only futures since 2018, and I am starting to question whether it was the good choice.
Don't misinterpret me, I love futures and I enjoy its complexity but I start to believe that trading stocks is a lot easier.
I have watched videos of some stock traders (Ross Cameron of trading warriors and some others) and stock trading looks a lot easier. I might be wrong but the traders I have followed all have the same "strategy", they basically look for stocks with some strong upside momentum and they follow the momentum.
They don't have many setups and many complicated thought process, the stock either rallies or it doesn't.... the setup is always the same, but they work on selecting the stock with the highest probability of rallying.
I have never tried to to actually trade stocks, but from outside it looks much easier. I have decided not to trade stock however, because when something looks easy, it normally means that I am so naive that I cannot even see where the difficulty is hidden.
I guess slippage, and lack of liquidity might be the big issue.
sorry that was cheesy...I wasn't sure how else to express that!).
