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Scalping! Can it really be profitable in the long term? 56 replies
How long did it take to become consistently profitable? 117 replies
How long the learning time to breakeven/be profitable? 8 replies
How long do you hold a trade and are you profitable? 22 replies
Trend Smasher - Profitable Mechanical Long Term Position Trading 109 replies
DislikedWho are those can be consistently profitable after less than 6 months of working? Perhaps, most of these people receiving good and close mentorship from someone successful and they know very well.Ignored
DislikedA more interesting question would be: How long can you stay profitable once you have reach this stage? If you are starting out with around 10,000 USD it will still take you quite a few years to compound this to a sizeable sum.
Almost nobody thinks about this .Ignored
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Assuming that you can consistently rake in 100% annually, it will take you quite a few years to compound 10,000 USD into anything serious.Ignored
DislikedAnd in addition, how do you even know you are profitable trader, when all you do is taking signals from someone else.Ignored
DislikedAs long as he's making profit, should he really care how it gets it?
As your signature says...can't beat them, join them. And no I haven't joined whatever service he's signed up to.Ignored
DislikedI must be one of the lucky ones here. I went into profit straight away....Ignored
DislikedWhat you have posted in terms of your trades means absolutely nothing in this business. You have made claims, that's all. Not that I care personally - but if you really want to be taken serious, you have to substantiate your claims by putting up some verified account statements of your broker for scrutiny.
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DislikedThis is an interesting read, but it is getting aggressive and personal. The thread is titled is How long to be profitable. A poster says that he is profitable. That sounds reasonable to me. The alternative is that everyone here is a loser trader.
But you immediately ask him to publish his account statements. Now I am not a friend or foe, but that seems to be over the top. Why are you assuming that every trader here is a loser?Ignored
DislikedWhat does it mean to be 'profitable'? Just because you have made money up to this point, or are currently yielding positive results from your trading does not mean you will continue to do so in the future. The term 'being profitable' suggests some sort of arrival at a nirvanic state at which you just log on each day and pick up what is owed to you from the market. If you hold this sort of attitude or this is your goal, then you will likely become complacent and fail to constantly evolve as you must to succeed in this business. It is my opinion that...Ignored
DislikedThis is an interesting read, but it is getting aggressive and personal. The thread is titled is How long to be profitable. A poster says that he is profitable. That sounds reasonable to me. The alternative is that everyone here is a loser trader.
But you immediately ask him to publish his account statements. Now I am not a friend or foe, but that seems to be over the top. Why are you assuming that every trader here is a loser?Ignored
DislikedThis poll is about "consistently" profitable, although to keep it short the thread title has not included the term "consistently". I haven't discussed how to statistically classify a trader to be consistently profitable, since this may be out of the scope of this thread.Ignored
DislikedA consistently profitable trader would be one who has been profitable each year. I doubt that there are many traders that are profitable every month or every weekIgnored
DislikedThis is an interesting read, but it is getting aggressive and personal. The thread is titled is How long to be profitable. A poster says that he is profitable. That sounds reasonable to me. The alternative is that everyone here is a loser trader.
But you immediately ask him to publish his account statements. Now I am not a friend or foe, but that seems to be over the top. Why are you assuming that every trader here is a loser?Ignored