I was having a chat with the enterprise team regarding certain doubts that i had and the representative pointed out few obvious flaws in our mindset. I did counter him with some of my findings but fact is, we have some mental blockages.
an extract of the chat i had with them....!
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linkon chowdhury: if a guy is comfortable making 4-5 K per month
linkon chowdhury: on a 40 K capital, you dont anything to offer him. Guys who trade single lot of mini cant afford your system.
The Enterprise Team: if they are so low cap guys they shuldn't be trading in first place without accurate data and low brokerage, in fact we dont encourage them to trade with us.
The Enterprise Team:Trading is a serious business. a guy with 40 K capital has no reason to be day trading nifty. 4 bad trades in a row and he will never be able to place the 5th trade.
linkon chowdhury: How about if he trades 15 min tf.
The Enterprise Team: Higher the tf higher the time and volatility exposure and if a stop hits it will be by huge margin compared to 5 misn
The Enterprise Team: we had tried all kinds of trading and that was the gist of our findings, another factor also is it doesnt matter whether we make money by trading a, b, or c, the gist is we must make money, so we been advising everybody to concentrate only on trading screen of current month nifty futures and not to bother about any news and views expressed by experts in TV / forums. As a trader, our job is to make money. We are not analyst who will be bothered about what market will do tomorrow. We trade the current bar as it is forming and as soon as we are out of the trade, we look at the screen for our next entry.
Fact is nifty futures is not the easiest scrip to day trade off late simply because most of the movements happen with a gap and then the first 15 minutes ends the final phase of morning movements. By the time our conventional charts get used to the gap, the movement becomes bracketed with a few wide bars that dont see follow ups in the same direction.
Swing trading in the last few weeks have been hellish as EOD bars appear scattered all over the place. The sentiment in the last 30 min of the day hardly co relates with the 30 min opening of the next day.
Options traders are not doing so well either.
Only scalpers have some sort of edge left and primary requirement of being a scalper is low cost of transaction and very reliable data source so that they can have fast entry - exit. Hardware setup should be a dual screen setup, so that they can see the chart on one screen and trade terminal on the other.
I was asking them to reduce the cost of subscription as people will need to pay for data source as well as subscription which add up to roughly 3K per month.
They said that Dhavin or anyone of the paid systems that have any proven track record charges anything from 7K to 30 K per month for subscription alone. Here they have kept the cost low so that people can afford to data source plus subscription and still end up paying less than half of any good system in the market.
I personally make about 150-200 points per month and if i can increase the income by 150% or more, with lesser amount of real time analysis (read stress), then my ego should not create mental blockage. I might have a lot of knowledge, but if that knowledge does not translate to money, then whats the point of spending so much time and energy preparing trading plans before the day starts when a guy (like INDER) who is following the motion without much thought and making more money than i am.
market dont care which system i follow. End of the day, all my family and friend want to know how much i made. They dont care what i did to make that gains. Traders have huge ego and its time i did some soul searching.