LAST 12 MONTHS – TRADING PLAN / VIDEO RESULTS (Ticks)*
| January - 331 | February - 337 | March - 483 | April - 319 |
| May - 364 | June - 540 | July - 230 | August - 857 |
| September - 654 | October - 668 | November - 587 | December - 338** |
** Last Trading Day 12.21.11 (6 market days less due to 2 week holiday break)
Eric R.
Missy W.
Brent P.
Kevin R.
Tom E.
EJ:
I’ve been a member of your trading room for just over a month, and have missed only one or two days since I joined.
I just wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation and respect for your expertise and guidance as I continue to learn everyday how to improve my trading and expand my knowledge of this market.
I teach piano and guitar in the south bay area of San Francisco(Silicon Valley area). Many times my students will express frustration when they have a problem playing a piece of music, and they get even more frustrated when somebody else makes it look so easy. I tell them the same thing my teachers told me years ago…if it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
So it is with trading, not unlike learning a sport or a musical instrument, the requirements are all the same; discipline, patience, attention to detail, and most of all, a belief in oneself.
These are all attributes that you address daily and I’m grateful to be a part of your room.
Fred K.
Your program is fantastic. I have been looking for a way to supplement my husbands income for a while. My husband is a teacher and also holds 3 part time jobs just to support the family. I have been looking for a way to relieve the pressure and make it possible for him to spend more time with the family. I have been interested in trading and I have been studying training programs for some time but I knew that in order to bridge the gap and become a successful trader I needed a mentor to walk me through it every day. I am so glad that EJ has taken the time to become a teacher. His style of trading is just what I have been looking for. Money management is important to me and his program does that very well. He has really helped me to achieve what I could not possibly do on my own. Thank you EJ for becoming a teacher!!!
Kathy K.
Hi Matt:
I have neglected to tell you how being in the Trading Room and being a “junkie” has made trading so much damn fun (and profitable)!! Prior to joining the “gang” I spent 7 frustrating months & many thousands of dollars trying to find my path to becoming a “Trader”.
I have been self-employed for over 30 years. I have supported my family very comfortably as a commercial/industrial real estate broker for over 20 years. The recession has really put a hurting on my income. At 58 years old, I have not the stomach, nor desire, to become someone’s employee again – especially for a salary well below what I have been accustomed to earning. I no longer have the capital to start another business- nor is there a business I had any passion for other than real estate.I had been trading option spreads, in my once-fat SEPIRA account, with thinkorswim for 5 years with some degree of success. I had decided last summer that Trading would be a career path that I would enjoy pursuing which would also permit me to do real estate deals as the opportunities would arise.
I forget how I came across your website. After all of the money I had spent on DVDs, webinars, etc., trying to master e-mini trading, I was sceptical that a program costing only $67 would be of much value. Other low-cost programs that I bought were worthless. I was considering joining one of two other emini mentoring programs that each cost over $5k!!! However, there was something about your website & your low-key presentation that made me want to give your program a shot. Needless to say, I am thrilled that I found your program before I shelled outover $5k for one of those others.
Even with the benefit of all of your training & encouragement I still have days where I’ll play “off of the reservation” & get hurt – losing money for no good reason. I see that there are others struggling like me from the chats in the trading room. To help me keep on the right path I have taped 2 quotes on one of my monitors. One them is yours – “ya gotta see something decent”. This quote reminds me that if I see a setup that isn’t looking very solid- to not chase the trade – to let it go……… this has saved me a lot of money!
The other quote I took from the final chapter in the first Market Wizards book wherein Dr. Van K. Tharp, a “Trading Psychologist”, compares two trading strategies derived from a trading system that gives specific visual signals from chart patterns (your system is a perfect example). Dr Tharp asks the author which of the two following strategies does he think would be the more effective:
Strategy One:
- see the signal
- recognize that it is familiar
- tell yourself what might go wrong if you take it
- feel bad about it
Strategy Two:
- see the signal
- recognize the pattern
- feel good about it
What I have noticed is that when I employ the 2nd strategy your system makes me money. When I employ the 1st strategy, due to my not trusting the system – I will not take the “signal” trades, then I’ll get angry at myself when the trades hit T2. Then, I’ll go & trade off of some imaginary support or resistance level I project onto the screen or, jump into a trade because there is some very fast-moving price action going in one direction – more times than not, get I’ll stopped out before I even know what hit me.
So, every day I remind myself that when I see the signal - to feel good about it. This helps me pull the trigger & get good results. And, when I don’t see “something decent”, when the filters are not supporting the price action, I sit on my hands. Or, if I am seeing the signal, the filters are lining up & I don’t feel good about it, I force myself not to trade because I know my state of mind is not right for trading.
I am also so grateful for the help & support I receive from the other traders in the room. You have attracted some very fine, generous people into your program which, really helps make trading a daily source of pleasure. I am the last person in the world to join a “group” or to feel comfortable being part of one. The emini junkies are different. They appear to be a polymorphous group of characters with lots of intelligence & good humor- folks who can really dish it out & then take it right back on the chin & laugh about it. I am proud to be a part of this “gang”.
Keep up the great work. I look forward to trading with the gang and you very day!
Donald Brandt