On the contrary, it's a terrible post.
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Originally Posted by mrbaseball
Depends? But posting results is a fruitless endeavor and pretty meaningless.
It's the only way to provide objective proof of OP's results. It used to be a requirement to keep these kinds of threads open - which generally aren't allowed.
Since we've proven above that $100 -> $1000 is meaningless in forex, with the screenshots of losing traders on large heaters on samples much larger, we know that 10x is easily obtained by losing traders on a heater, We also know that BY FAR the most likely way to get from $100 - > $1000 in say six month timeframe is by a heater. OP's $100 -> $1000 challenge is therefore meaningless.
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Doing it because some internet troll demands it of you isn't worth it. You will run hot and you will run cold. You can trade well and lose and trade poorly and win. Not over the long term though.
Gee, this is the most pointless truism on this forum, ever.
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What you can do in the long term is continue to improve and learn. Post about the process and the emotion. Post about what works and why and what doesn't and why. Learn from the experience, learn from the differing situations. These would be meaningful and interesting discussions.
Would posting about the process of picking entries and exits by reading tea leaves, be interesting? Should I start a thread on that, without results in it? What about reading lotto patterns and picking numbers based on that? Just because someone types words on why they picked something, doesn't make it meaningful. Forex, if it is beatable at all, is probably not beatable for more than 5%/month in the long run. Which means that OP's challenge is dead in the water apart from a heater, and OP's trades are nearly entirely luck.
But if you want reasoning, you know the best time to provide it? As you enter the trade and
post it in real time, because otherwise you inevitably end up doing doing post-hoc reasoning or picking the good trades to show off where your thesis - perhaps by luck - worked out. So you should want real time trades also, baseball, if you and OP care about honestly learning what is winning (and losing) reasoning.
If you want to talk about strategy, do it as you enter the trade. Have your reasoning out there
before it plays out. It's an invaluable record. I do it myself in a spreadsheet for every trade I make. I like to think I'm rational and fairly good at understanding my theses and how they play out, but I've had some surprises from having objective detailed data on my reasoning for every trade.
That paragraph is a good post. Way better than the utter turd that baseball posted, that massaged your ego, and so you liked it.
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Posting results isn't interesting to anyone but you or those who want to try and tear you down.
Thread is meaningless without results.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 08-26-2017 at 04:01 AM.