Post your P&L

This is a thread for traders to post their daily P&L.

Aim of the thread

There are several benefits to the thread:

- It will, over time, seperate those that can make money consistently from those that can't and put a stop to endless arguments concerning whether money can be made and who is making it. If you have a system or strategy that you want to prove works, then here is the place to do it.

- Being judged by your peers may increase your performance.

- It gives you a general benchmark by which to judge your efforts.

Rules of the thread

The rules for taking part are as follows. You must:

- Give a brief description of your trading style. How you trade is not important but it would be good to categorise traders in terms of those that are shorter term and those that are longer term. Please also indicate what you trade (futures, options etc) including the markets (fx, indices etc) If you like you can add who you are and what your situation is although this is not necessary.

- You must post a live screen dump of your account and it must be done either at the end of each day, or each week or each month. That is to say, don't post just your winning days. Your posts should show your P&L over a continous period including losing trades.

- All traded accounts must be REAL money and not simulated accounts.

- You can blank out personal details including name, account numbers etc

Let's try and keep the thread clean. Please, if you think this is a cr*p idea can you just go somewhere else as wading through five pages of "why's and what fors" to get to the thread matter is rather annoying. If you don't want to step up to the plate, don't

Yep, good idea if its organised well and layed out correctly.

I posted a thread looking for something similar about 4 months ago here

I think a monthly P&L would be best.


Kind regards,

Trader Dante,

Great idea, I already do this as displayed on my blog, if applicable I dont mind posting a weekly review here in more detail for all to see and with daily scripts to explain my movements and discoveries during the day.

Take a look at the blog on my profile page and let me know if any amendments would be necessary to post on this thread.

No takers? I didn't think any traders really made money ha!

I scalp Eurostoxx Futures.

I will add my P&L's on here, will put todays P&l on 2morrow. This should be some good motivation to prevent me doing my ****.
There is the same thread on elite trader, its pretty good, i hope this one can be better...

Could how many ticks + or - be told so as guys like me with large D---- and smalls accounts dont look as bad?

Is this is a screenshot format embedded?

doberman said:

Could how many ticks + or - be told so as guys like me with large D---- and smalls accounts dont look as bad?

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I think a currency is best because then it can be standardized results. Don't worry about small P&L's most of us have tiny accounts, plus hopefully we can all see one another develop as traders.

Thats what I'm talking about!

Guess will have to start my live account sooner than planned

Tom,

Are you talent-scouting for Futex?

You wouldn't believe my record (the bailiffs didn't).

Grant.

grantx said:

Tom,

Are you talent-scouting for Futex?

You wouldn't believe my record (the bailiffs didn't).

Grant.

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Grant, I am indeed. They told me yesterday: "Dante, take a break from doing your ars* on a daily basis and go and find us someone that can actually trade!!"

trader_dante said:

Grant, I am indeed. They told me yesterday: "Dante, take a break from doing your ars* on a daily basis and go and find us someone that can actually trade!!"

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Dante - obviously there are many styles of trading and instruments to trade. What style/instruments are you looking for?

Tom,

That rules me out.

Grant.

jeeezz not one person, i will get the ball rolling, will post all screen shots 2morrow, all is in euros..gross

Monday= 210
Tuesday= 720
Wed= 450
Today= -470


I only have screen shots for the last 2 days, since this is when the post was started

If anyone wants to believe that I don't make any money, that's up to them. I think that posting one's account details on here is catering to the nosey.

TD, let's face it. You have nothing to write about and are trying to drum up a new thread! :cheesy:

Split

Splitlink said:

If anyone wants to believe that I don't make any money, that's up to them. I think that posting one's account details on here is catering to the nosey.

TD, let's face it. You have nothing to write about and are trying to drum up a new thread! :cheesy:

Split

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I dont think it is catering to the nosey
It lets newbes like me know exportation

There is a lot of bullsh*t statements made on this board.

I see some members claiming that no one can make any money using technical analysis.

I see some members claiming other members strategies are worthless.

I even see some members claiming that no one can make any money full stop.

I see a lot of members making calls that are, on balance, good but giving no evidence they actually traded their own call or managed it in the way they called.

So perhaps it would be a good time to resurrect this old thread I started.

As I stated in the first post,

The benefits of the thread are:

- It will, over time, seperate (at least among those that post) those that can make money consistently from those that can't and put a stop to endless arguments concerning whether money can be made and who is making it.

- If you want to prove that your system or strategy works then you can do so by showing the performance of the account that trades it. This would be particularly good for vendors.

- It gives others a chance to benchmark their performance.

So roll up and don't be scared.

I'll start tomorrow with a screendump of all positions and P&L at the end of each and every day.

Bloody 'ell Tom, why have you woken this one up after nearly two years, and why didn't it go anywhere before?

Still not sure if it's a good idea, but ... intriguing.

montmorencyt2w said:

Bloody 'ell Tom, why have you woken this one up after nearly two years...

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Just been trawling the boards for the first time in ages and thought this would seperate a lot of wheat from the chaff rather than endless arguing with stubborn individuals.

Obviously no one will post so it's a bit of a waste of time but it only took me 2 minutes to resurrect it!

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and why didn't it go anywhere before?

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Because funnily enough all the people that are making calls and posting strategies seemed to disappear when the chance to post their P&L came round and I wasn't allowed to post mine at the time.

There's an established P/L thread over at T******s La**r***ry

Jack Hughes said:

There's an established P/L thread over at T******s La**r***ry

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Yes I know and it's so good I thought I would start one over here