Making Money In The Stock Market: Jan 2012 Results Are In!

I want to make sure that everyone understands how these results are calculated.  When I publish results like these that are “potential results” I prefer to be conservative and assume the worst possible results because everyone is different.

The bare minimum that I put my record on is 2 pts a day, you can see via my own personal market recaps and the income statements of traders on this site that the potential is much higher.   With a minimum of 2 pts a day, anyone can make a living in the futures market.  Let me talk a little bit about how I calculated results.

The focus when trading should be on winning everyday not on how much money you can make.

• The market either hits target or 5 tick stop (no in-between)

There are times when we use a smaller target but I am assuming 2 points since that is a conservative estimate for everyone.  You can see that the actual average is 3.09 pts a day.  If you don’t know what that means see the bottom of this post to know what points mean in terms of dollars.

• No Risk Management

We always take high probability trades but there is always a chance to minimize our risk and and maximize reward.  An example would be a very strong area of support and resistance, for the results I did zero risk management

• No If Ands Or Buts

In the market there is always grey areas.  The trades selected are the all the valid trades that I share with the members of the Day Trading Academy via daily market recaps.  If a trade may or may not have been filled then I exclude it from the trade set.  If anything for that matter “may or may not” have certain results, I exclude it.  For the exercise I only wanted concrete evidence that is 100% tangible with no subjectivity.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with eminis then I’ll share a small note about what the possibilities are here.  The market that I teach on is the Emini S&P 500 (ES) because its a great market that is very fluid and easy to trade.  I trade both crude and the ES as well.  1 point on the ES equals $50.  So you multiply the number of points by $50 and you have your dollar amount.

We can also trade a very high number of contracts which you can compare to shares of stock, one contract is basically a share of stock on the ES.  Below are some possibilities with the average of January and the absolute minimum of 2pts a day.

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