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Thanks Kiwi, To structure my thoughts, i have used your list and made it mine by reordering, refining it and adding a point 5. I call the first 4 processsteps back-office and the last 4 front-office. Point 5 is the strategical roadmap for the statistical edge. Point 6,7,8 are crucial drivingskills. Peace A overall process as reliable, streamlined, accurate and profitable as I, the process and the environment will support and allow: physical environment: quiet, computing power, software, and reliable and swift communications. emotional regulation: when sensitive buttons are hit, bring myself under emotional control to the point where i know I can execute the overall process regardless of runs of losers or winners. risk planning and control: to mitigate downside within planned appetite in bad and in good runs and/or in case of process or system failure. good record keeping and planning process: to adapt/capitalize anticipated market (enviroment) changes and to mitigate systematic errors, fill process-gaps and minimize brian fry. segment, value and prioritize forward scenario's. in the context of the prioritized forward scenario's, timely recognize predefined setups. set entry levels/launch and manage entry orders. tactical protection of realized advances.

Thanks for the question! but even if this figure is somewhat exact, i will never know all the reasons. Speaking for myself, these are roughly the area's that I am refining to improve: a=niche (pertinent monitors) b=planning and appetite/risk control c=segment and value eminent market potential d=position launch timing and pertinent initial protection e=secure market advances with tactical trails c is the creative part. The challenge is to think of systematic and economic ways to better segment what is good potential and what isnt. I believe c is to be regarded the soul of any of my approaches. Peace

to become a butterfly, you must want to fly so bad that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trading- versus buying a lottery ticket- gives more degrees in freedom to design, organize, standardize and refine your own process in terms of: 1] selectivity; niche,tollerance, bu-hours 2] control: monitors, setups 3] precision: timing entry and risk adustment, ordertypes, trail plan 4] training: specific, realistic with zero$cost simulators

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Since my main intrest is also CL, i have been following your evolution. I see that you are more selective: number and the quality of trades. How do you filter? Nice progression.

Thanks, On entries I use stoplimits. On my exits however, stops are the only logical choice

What are you guys paying for an roundturn of 1 CL oil contract Ib, my current broker asks 4.62 for a roundturn.

What is your experience on slippage on stop loss orders for real $ oiltrades? Im currently getting to know oil a little bid better on a simulator and Im experiencing an average slippage of about 1,3 cent. On the simulator, I havent experienced a big olispike against me yet. So for the time beeing I have set my long term expectation for slippage on stoporders to 1,5cents. I this in your view a reasonable estimate for real $ trades?

Hello Lately i have been analysing the slippage I have on CME Emini trades, since it has come to my attention that the actual execution of my Emini CME Futures orders is kind of slow. Since the slippage on my stopmarket entry and exits is more than the commission I pay, im wondering are there alternatives brokers that are as relaible and cheap, but are substantial faster in executing orders than IB. Or is there something I can do, latency or something, to get quicker order fills?

A substantial piece of meat for the serious PV trader can be found in chapter 11 "order anticipators" Thank you to.

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My desktop needs replacement.Its getting slow. I want to be ready to travel the world, so Im looking at laptops to. Could anyone name me a laptop brand/type that is sold ready to handle 2 external monitors. So besides the laptop's monitor I need it to effectively handle 2 external monitors. I dont want external devices like matrox. Just a laptop that is build according to my requirements in this respect Thanks

According to van Tharp these are the three core qualities that are essential to being a great trader i.e.: 1-you have the ability to see the big picture, new possibilities and connections between things 2-you make decisions based on logic and analysis 3-you are decisive, orderly and do things sequentially The only one I miss is dedication. I wonder what you strategic traders have answered on this question: I said the definite(I like my stoplosses live) = Do you put more value on: the definite? the open-ended? =

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