Recent content by LP2

I would respectfully disagree. The market doesn't care about your personality & it won't adjust to your style of trading - you have to adjust to it. Just a bit curious... are you a profitable trader yourself? If so, how long have you been trading for?

I'll carry on trading to see if I get the same results. I already had a strong gut feeling that the results would turn out the way they would before I even started. I'm thinking of pushing myself even further by trying to trade in a way that would cause as much psychological pain as...

I have around 12k in my real trading account.

It was around twenty grand in total (10k real & 10k paper). I've been trying out different strategies for about a year with small accounts to see which one suits my personality the most & to get a feel of different markets @ different time frames.

I switched between trading with real money & using paper every month for 8 months to see if "emotion" had any impact on my results. It turns out I actually made more money when I used real money than when I was trading with a paper account. Of course this could have just been a total fluke, but...

I'm exaggerating about the 300% returns lol. But even if you account for inaccurate fills, my point still stands.

How has this got to do with anything I said?

It's just as easy trading with real money as it is with paper, the reason people don't make money is because the patterns don't work not because they're not following their plan properly. If you can make 100%+ P/A paper trading you should be able to easily at least make a quarter of that with...

I know this may be hard for some of you to believe but I can execute any plan I set (as long as it's mechanical & doesn't involve too much discretion). I don't think emotions play that big of a role to the point where someone who makes 100%+ P/A on a paper account can go to averaging 5% P/A (if...