Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Dow Jones Futures -- A free paper trading service -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fut_trade who wrote (155)	2/15/2000 3:27:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 797

Those should be actual trades. <the trade results shown were not from actual trades?> It would seem ridiculous to post ficticious trades. I watched many of them as he did them, viewing them on his website, so I have to reason to think they aren't real trades. What he does is posit a roadmap and an alternate roadmap each day and attempts to trade it. You can "watch" him as he trades, because he posts his thoughts as he goes. I don't trade his style, so for the most part I just glance at the roadmap in the morning to see if it's anything like mine. Having several computers, I keep his site up on one and refer to it occasionally but I don't mirror his trades. Often he trades counter to me anyway. I would guess many people would have a hard time trying to mirror his trades if they wanted to. I could not say what the expected or acceptable % win rate would be for a scalper. His site is the only one I know of that posts the trade record. One funny thing I have noticed about his trades from time to time. When he takes a Position Trade he takes his worst losses, it appears. I can only recall one or two, I think one was in June or July of 1998. Some people do one better than the other, I suppose.