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The real reason most traders fail is simply because they haven't made enough posts about why most traders fail or about what the real problem is. The thing is, they don't even need statistics on what most traders actually do. They can just post some trite platitudes masquerading as contrarian insight written by chat gpt. It's easy.

I wanted to go long NQ yesterday, thought the previous day's sell off was a buy-the-dip opportunity, since the earnings were good and I expected more good earnings, especially from AMZN. I was very patient and got in on a retest of the low of the PM at 17275, 2 contracts on 2 accounts (=4). I got stopped out on a spike down to 17264, my SL was 17264.25 (for some reason), losing $832.40. But I was confident enough in the trade as a whole, so I put another order to get a better price at 17265 and had to go to work. Obviously it never came. In retrospect, I should have just hit the ask, but getting run over on a dip buy makes you cautious. Missed out on a month-making trade (28kish to current

Got this nice surprise email at 10pm on New Year's Eve saying that all live accounts will be migrated to simulation on Jan 1. Allegedly, this is in order to make a smoother transition from the simulation where the auditions take place to the (formerly live) payout account. Sure.

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When our business model was originally developed, traders who passed an assessment conducted by SurgeTrader LLC in a simulated trading environment were allocated capital to trade a live account under terms of an agreement with a third party. Different companies were used to help separate the assessment phase, which occurred under simulated trading conditions, from the live tra

I'm interested in cases where a phenomenon or system has been modelled, but it still remains unclear whether that model actually explains what's going on. For example, Ptolemy had a remarkably accurate model of the solar system (Earth system, whatever), but we know now that this doesn't actually explain planetary motion. I'm sure history is full of such examples, but I'm interested in more contemporary ones.

I know there are unsolved problems in physics (like the coronal heating problem), but when I look into these, it seems that the problem is that there is still no sufficiently accurate model, which is a different problem. I think there is a distinction between a system that has been math