Re: options (finance)
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I am not trying to be snide, and this thread is exciting and inspiring for me, but can you please give more details on why you are this confident. Do you feel that you can clearly look at your results and see that you are not running lucky and that it is actually your decision making that has led to your success? And since you dropped some numbers, what bankroll are currently using, and how much have you made thus far?
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You are completely incorrectly assuming that my recent results have anything to do with my attitude. As a matter of fact, I got my ass handed to me in the market every day for the past week or so, and today - sadly - was no exception. The thing is, I keep a log of all my trades, I am developing better systems and methods, and when I go back over my trades and "debrief" I can see that there's drastic improvements. It's a lot like poker, you can play it right and still lose, but you know you played the hand correctly. It's really tough to explain more than that.
Far as how I can be this confident... I don't know, do you wake up in the morning and just feel like you can't accomplish something? .. I don't. I simply go by Winston Churchill's "Never, never, never quit." It works. Plus I'm half-Jewish and to us it comes naturally [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
I started with 25k since it's what you need to be able to do pretty much anything in an individual trading account (if you have less you're not allowed to trade using certain strategies but I won't get into that here). Firm I trade with gives me 10:1 margin, hence the 250k room to maneuver that I have. It's a pretty good deal, especially since it's free unless I keep it overnight. It's also money that I could afford to lose and reload so I can learn without fear of going broke... which definitely doesn't mean that I intend to, far from it. I am aggressively-conservative with by capital [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Kirk
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