Recently the Dow hit an all-time record high.

The poll question is -- what about you? Are you at an all-time high in your life? I left the question open ended so everyone can decide for themselves what that means.

Vote on the forum homepage, discuss here.

Mike

I am at all time low in trading and came here at this forum. I am very hopeful that slowly but surely things should turn around.

Samm 

I am at all time low in trading and came here at this forum. I am very hopeful that slowly but surely things should turn around.

Sorry to hear that. I recommend reading this thread front-to-back:

Ask any Trading Question I'm creating this thread with the purpose of a 'catch all' for any trading related question that futures.io (formerly BMT) members want to ask, but don't want to create a new thread for -- or find an existing thread to reply to. I've …

And also start watching webinars on nexusfi.com (formerly BMT), there are something like 100 of them.

Mike

All time low, not much action lately.

artemiso 

All time low, not much action lately.

Sorry to hear that Art. I thought you were an HFT quant and therefore automatically profitable?

Sent from my Nexus 4

... always good to remember that markets top out on euphoria, and bottom out on despair.

Big Mike 

Sorry to hear that Art. I thought you were an HFT quant and therefore automatically profitable? Sent from my Nexus 4

It's not as bad as it sounds, the daily drawdowns are actually shallower, it's just more difficult to buy high and sell low in this environment. (: It's more profitable to be structuring toxic waste and selling them as diversification products at this time...

Life has never been better! 1 year and 8 months into trading full time and things are falling into place i just bought my first house and am expecting a healthy baby boy in 2 weeks.

daytrader07 

Life has never been better! 1 year and 8 months into trading full time and things are falling into place i just bought my first house and am expecting a healthy baby boy in 2 weeks.

Congrats!!

The personal situation is very correlated with trading results / AND/OR / risk management indeed.
If life is on the sunny side - trading results are easier positive.
On the other hand with a dense situation the trades are many times on the bad side.

GFIs1